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We've been having a look at quite a few an a Friday arvo with the lawyer down the hall who has a Russian bridge. Anyways.. Billy Button's came up pretty well - cooler climate with a lighter touch that some which seems to suit the varietal and retain some of the prettier characters. Jo's doing some f...

A bit of kudos for those struggling with perception. At a Penfolds Recorking Clinic about 10 years ago a Penfolds 1990 Bin 90A. It stank and everyone in the room could smell it including N4sir. They tried to replace it with a Grange but finally replaced from their stash a few days later. Sparky loo...

I've not tried this producer before, and not all that many Beechworth wines overall. Very pale for a chardonnay (I acknowledge it's a very young wine). Intense grapefruit nose, with underlying mealy, cashew aromas. There's a couple more fruit options (soft peach, nectarine) almost totally hidden un...

Ruckus Estate in Wrattonbully are pretty focused on Merlot, newer clones in particular.

I haven't had any of their wines as yet but the reviews look promising.

JamieBahrain wrote:Geez the corporate world sux. I just shake my head when I go to work and I wonder how the rank and file go with Treasury?

My TWE funded redun-ovation is going very nicely thank you

From what I've seen so far, there's some 2017 Tassie pinot that might give it a good nudge.

So what's the definition of legendary anyway?

Hi Moira, good to see you on the forum again...knowing you Grampians is probably an overnighter on the deadly treadly Am going through this part of the world shortly and will get to Bests, Seppelts and Langi...can't wait. Cheers Craig Haha Craig A little far for a day trip on the bike, but I do adm...

I've just come back from a couple of days around the Grampians and there are a couple more I'd add to the list if you've got a couple of days in the area (which I'd highly recommend). Ararat is a great little town and if you get sick of wineries, there are haunted asylums, great nature trails and pa...

Continuing my wine drinking homework, I cracked a 15 Santolin Heathcote Nero D'Avola which worked pretty well with the couch pizza in front of the telly. By no means a heavy weight, but far more attractive than what I was seeing in front of me on the box. Danced as lightly on the palate as the ABC's...

When is Gavin going to bring on a post 'like' button?

An episode of Columbo many years ago suggested that for wine to "go off" it needed to reached a temp of 42 degrees centigrade for 20 minutes (that is the wine temp inside the bottle). I'm not sure whether that is accurate (no doubt there are a few wine scientists on the forum who could el...

phillisc wrote:Or he has not moved on from the 70s when some winery IIRC made such as beast.
Used to rival Brandivino I think.

Cheers
Craig

Nah, no comparison... Brandivino was for getting pissed. Black Tower was for sophisticated types and hot dates.

the dispute of the leaking wine(s). Dispute? There is no dispute. I get what they're doing and to be honest I possibly would have said something very similar - they're (the messenger who responded to your email) not admitting liability or confirming what the problem is until it's gone to someone wh...

Sparky I have read ACCC but does it apply to auction? Reading this page I would have thought so: m But keep in mind that I'm an unemployed wine geek, not a Consumer Law beak:-) Worth telling them specifically what you want them to do to fix it and escalate (by phone) until you get someone high enou...

Include @acccgovau on your tweets and you should get a response. Lifted directly from the ACCC website: m. Well worth being familiar with the details of that page or book marking it. Businesses must guarantee products and services they sell, hire or lease for: under $40 000 over $40 000 that are nor...

I'd be pinging them where it's publicly visible on Facebook and Twitter.

Then if you don't get a response I'd be checking the details of Consumer Law and reminding them. Possibly also via twitter where they can't moderate your posts.

Had. A. Ball. See #winepeloton and #touroftassie on all the usual channels for last week's adventure. More cycling than wine except for the smashing BBQ at Joseph Chromy to finish. I'd be putting that on anyone's must see winery in Tassie, particularly if you can swing the winery tour. Actually Tass...

via collins wrote:Notice anything?

Er, it coincided with your departure?

Not quite where I was going with it but I have to say I'm quite happy to be out on my bike knocking out the training for the Wine Peloton Tour of Tassie and not discussing that decision

This notion that you can flog off all the physical assets because the value is in the brand name must be some fashionable dogma being flogged at marketing school. There may be some wine brands where this has worked, but there's a long list - Tollana, Seaview , Leasingham, Lindemans, Rouge Homme - p...

Luckily enough I've tasted this year's releases and for what it's worth here are my thoughts.. Unfortunately I don't have my tasting notes at hand today but here's what I remember. The winemaker's comments at the time were that the 2013 wines were a lot like some of the Penfolds wines from yesteryea...

This Friday I'll be stepping off the TWE bus to embark on my next adventure in life, but bear with me a moment while I reminisce.. Late last century I decided I really liked wine and started work with the family sized Mildara Blass before seeing the life and death of both the renegade Southern Cross...

These ones always make me wince a bit.. I tend to agree that there are not many Chardys that would consistently go that distance and even fewer people who would appreciate them when they do - they probably all hang out here anyway! You're also going to find significantly increased bottle variation, ...

No surprises that these are all from the funship playlist so make of that what you will but these are my go-tos that don't usually make it from cartons in the hall way to the 'cellar' Abel's Tempest Chardonnay Seppelt Chalambar Shiraz Seppelt Jaluka Chardonnay Metala White Label Mildara Cabernet Wyn...

Another shoutout for ongoing great service from Moira (sparky) and the TWE/Penfolds team. Had a corked bottle of St Henri 1998 back in June at an offline. After contacting them, TWE sent out a prepaid cardboard return bottle shipper and following testing, (which I assume confirmed TCA) I received a...

You could do with a 'go to' Chardy

And a rizza...

phillisc wrote:Another case of 2012 Metala, can't help myself

Cheers
Craig

Shhhh!! Stop telling everyone or it'll run out!

Just remember folks, if you think you have stumbled across the bargain of the century, even the year, and want to shout it out to everyone, do yourself a favour and please PM Gavin Trott first just to make sure it's okay. Just the politeness of doing so will be much appreciated by all, and shows yo...

I'm onto it.

Stand by....

Not far off! Tisdall was in the Mildara Blass portfolio many moons ago with Mt Ida Shiraz and the Mount Helen Chardonnay and Cab Merlot as the flagship wines. Toni Stockhausen was the winemaker before she re-located to the US during the Foster's years. The Mt Helen wines were from Strathbogie from m...

Interestingly enough it was a white wine that tripled my spend threshold from about $50 to $150 in one mouthful. Unfortunately it only keeps going up from there.. I agree that the 'cellarability' is a factor for a lot of people as the perception seems to be that the longer you can cellar a wine for,...