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The 2022 Giaconda Estate Vineyard Chardonnay from Beechworth, Victoria, has secured the number two position in Vinous’ Top 100 Wines of 2024. Vinous is a US-based publication, founded in 2013 by Antonio Galloni, a former critic for Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate. Awarded a perfect 100 points by V...

After reading that I'd love to try it.
Best Pinot outside of Burgundy - huge praise.

Has anyone in Aus found where to buy this wine?

Exactly the same as Andrew Jordan

x3 2023 Setiono Shiraz Lowke
x3 2023 Setiono Syrah Flaxman

Interestingly I ran into Samantha (the winemaker) while I was in the Barossa.
Lovely person and had a good chat about the wines.

phillisc wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 8:46 pm May I please ask you a favour and of course if you don't mind, would you amend the title of your post to include 2024.

All good and done.
I just checked and didn't even realise you had posts of the same title. Maybe subconsciously I called it that.
No idea.

I've just come back from a trip to Coonawarra with a short stop in the Barossa and thought I'd put some of my thoughts down. Special thanks to phillisc for his pre trip advice. Fantastic tips. October is Coonawarra month and definitely a good time to go. This is because the wineries all have back vi...

Terrible news - always enjoyed reading his posts and contributions.

Just thought I'd round out this for future reference. Only visited 4 wineries Logan Estate - Excellent tasting, a lot of fruit from Orange, overall good quality and the entry level was well made and decent value. Gilbert - Bad experience. Put us outside and forgot about us. Eventually got a tasting ...

I'm off to Mudgee for the long weekend and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for cellar doors to visit. Haven't had any Mudgee wine for a long time and wasn't the biggest fan but that was 25 years ago - I'm sure things have changed. Maybe after something a bit different rather than com...

As always seems the case - Red crayon, return the form ASAP and never get what I ordered.
No hit yet on the CC

just to close this out - we (Brett and I) came to the conclusion that the 6 pack must have been heat affected. Each bottle in the 6 had the same problem. No one else has experienced it so seems the most likely outcome. I have never had this happen before Was the heat at your end or his, or in trans...

just to close this out - we (Brett and I) came to the conclusion that the 6 pack must have been heat affected.
Each bottle in the 6 had the same problem.
No one else has experienced it so seems the most likely outcome.

I have never had this happen before

so I also have bottle numbers and they are all very close - 1909 (not corked), 1864 and 1753 (both corked). I'm assuming the labels are all put on in sequence but my 6 pack contained 1864 and 1753 numbers. This makes sense as I'd say they are wouldn't go into 6 packs in the same order they are label...

So I gave a bottle to a friend to try and he said it was absolutely corked. He had one of the same wines/vintages from his collection and it was fantastic. So being corked is much more likely I'd say. I'm not sure how correct this is and would like to hear others. Brett would be a whole of wine for ...

Hacker wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 12:18 am

mjs wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 3:18 pm Sorry, I'm chuckling a little here

There's Brett in Brett's wines

I may be wrong but isn’t Croquet King’s real name Brett? But never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Absolutely correct Hacker.

Brett is commenting about Brett in Brett's wines.

Has anyone had one of the Penfolds Grandfather port from 1945?

I think it was the second vintage made.

Mine arrived this week.
Picked up 8 bottles. 3 each of the Relic and Standish, 1 each of the others.

Just wondering if anyone has had this wine? I just opened a 6 pack and tried a bottle. Just such a strong smell of band aid and not pleasant at all. I messaged Eperosa 3 years ago about the same issue (on the same wine) but they said no one else has brought it up. Given how it works unlikely be due ...

Got an email from the Wine Companion and they had this as the headline. "Sami-Odi has become a cult wine label. Perhaps it's because of the small quantities produced, but more likely it's because the wines are damn good. For context, Tasting Team member Dave Brookes rated the wines from the las...

I read as much as I can and stick to a few basic rules about region, grape, winemaker, vintage. I do listen to comments from people who I think understand wine - wine friends, good merchants, people on forums etc. As an example - I bought DC Shaw wine from the comments made by Felix on this forum. W...

You can still buy it on their website for $220. Auction price would be lower is my guess. Petersons seem ok to me but haven't had any of their wines for 30 plus years, so maybe things have changed. To me they are a family winery doing reasonable but not spectacular wines. 15.8% is very high for a HV...

I got the offer today, used to be on his list. Might take a pack of the little wine just for fun, got a mate who loves the stuff. As good as any if you are into Barossa shiraz that doesn't taste like a blueberry milkshake. Sad its becoming a cult wine, nothing good ever comes from those transformat...

Think the jury is out for me at least re Setiono. A bottle from last years release had a distinctly bitter note and the level of acid was overpowering. I had somebody who works in the BV have a look at it, and their comment was around ripeness and picking at the right time, getting things right in ...

I’m a Rua. Been ordering since 2014 (2012 was the first vintage I received). I ordered 6 Dallwitz, 3 Little wine and 3 Our Hill. Along with Standish, probably the mailer I look forward to the most. Absolutely incredible wines and the fact that Fraser is such a nice guy probably helps a bit too. Fra...

email just sent out - so no one misses it on here.

no OH for me with the small quantity.

I'm Toru and the 2015 is my first vintage I have so this is vintage 8 for me.
Looking back it seems I bought first in Jan 2017.

Order placed got 9 DH and 3 Little #13

What Sami Odi ordering level is everyone?

I know they have 6 levels

1 - tahi
2 - rua
3 - toru
4 - whā
5 - rima
6 - ono

I'm guessing 1 is the top. If anyone is a 1, when did you first start ordering?

They are numbers in Maori.

Very interesting thread - Happy New Year all. I do need to do another CT update but these numbers should be close Rockford Shiraz Basket Press 4.5% Rockford Black Shiraz 3.6% Penfolds Shiraz St. Henri 3.3% Sami-Odi Shiraz Hoffmann Dallwitz 2.6% Pewsey Vale Vineyard Eden Valley Riesling 2.6% Marius W...

Hi Allan, I too used to drink a lot of this but stopped when they did put a % of SB in the blend in 2010. I haven't bought a bottle since. I had so much of the 92-94 vintages all at about $9 - ah the good old days. I have maybe 12 left of various vintages that I'll have to try. My tastes have gone a...

Card got hit yesterday for about half the price. Will see what I get.

TravisW wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:18 am Still seen no action on the credit card. Red Crayon for the last 10 years. Usually get 90% of what we order. Fingers crossed.

Same here Travis. I might have a 2 year gap in the cellar now.

A few months ago I completed the WSET lvl 2 course. I did it at Ryde TAFE over 7 or 8 Saturdays from 10am to 3pm A big part of the course is the structured tasting and assessment of wines. It really helped to work through and think about each wine. We tasted about 12 wines each day. The course was m...