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Cumulus Up on Flinders Lane would be another option...

City Wine Shop on Spring Street ticks the boxes.

Congratulations Moira and all the best.

A humorous story!!!

And to really throw a cat among the pigeons, at the inaugural Shiraz Alliance Charlie Melton showed a Shiraz / Riesling. His point was that one of his old growers gives him everything in one hit (from memory) so that is what gets crushed. Interestingly that this also fits this topic - He also cracke...

You are correct - I think the point is that you can't say a wine is a Cab Merlot if there is less than 5% Merlot in the blend. You could only call it a straight Cab. The point being that often the Viognier component is tiny (less than 5%) but some producers would still want to call their wine a Shir...

There was a pretty handy winemaker next to me who thought the zin was corked also...

I've pm'd you Brian,

Sorry - not trying to question Davo's nose - an interesting series of coincidences though... taking into account Minotaur's experience also...

Davo, This is interesting to hear. I had a similar experience with three 'corked' bottles of Zin in a row. To make matters worse it was at a restaurant. Slightly embarrassing for all concerned. The winemaker was able to check out the bottles the next day and said they were fine. I wonder if we have ...