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2023 Bowen Cabernet
Nice plush palate plenty of blue fruits. Medium weight carrying through to gentle tannins. No harsh acid that others are critical of. Needs time to fill out. Good example from a tricky vintage, first of many that I will look at no doubt.
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Malcolm, I am perfectly OK with it, have actually had a bottle...nice pizza pasta red.
Much better than a pet Nat.
The 2021 Redman Cabernet Merlot is a very good value for money wine...matter of fact having one right now.

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2 2021 Yalumba Signature, will have a look at one and may get more. Cheers Craig Looking fwd to your review. I normally buy it in the good vintages 2021 Yalumba Signature...in a word or two, wonderful wine. Bursting from the glass, blackberry blueberry so smooth and balanced. Medium to full bodied ...

2023 Redman Limestone Coast Sangiovese, yep, that's right Sangiovese! A travesty I hear you say! nice red fruits bouquet, a little savoury, nice tannins and red dark fruits on the mouth, medium bodied, really quite enjoyed it Coonawarra Chianti? :lol: :lol: Wow that is quite something :shock: Indee...

2021 Redman Cabernet Merlot. Lovely wine, very balanced, plush palate, great finish. For $10 or so that I paid for it...bargain
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Thanks
Have a few from a recent purchase. Will have a look at one shortly.
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6 2024 Pikes Merle

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2022 Setiono Flaxman Shiraz, Third vintage of these wines that I have purchased and will be the last. Perhaps i simply don't enjoy them, or that the wines just don't do it for me. Opened with a barnyard stink, which eventually blew off. Acid seems to dominate the profile, with fruit pushing through,...

hmmm, was 2020 really a "disastrous" vintage in the Barossa?. I thought yields were low, but quality ok. I'm genuinely asking, not that I have tried any 2020 Barossa wines. I’m no winemaker and very far from an expert, but like any vintage in any region, there were some great wines made a...

Ian, will be very interested in your impressions.
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Indeed Malcolm, Adrian Hoffman I think is the major partner, along with another 7 winemakers. Yes the cellar room is a cracker. Stockwell wine co is the house label, we had a 2015 Shiraz made by Adrian Hoffman , for just $30... fantastic wine for the money. We always drop into the Greenock Tavern, w...

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Between 2-4,000 left of each wine...so definitely no rush.
Perhaps the challenging vintage has put people off, but still miles ahead of the disastrous 2017 and 2020.

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12 x Stonehaven Limited Release 2021 Wrattonbully Shiraz. Another mid week quaffer (actually more than that IMO) from 2021 vintage. Needs a few years to settle down and come together. Chuck there's an absolute lake of this Stonehaven, plantings in Padthaway, Wrattonbully, Robe and Coonawarra. I'm t...

Mailer/email arrived at 6:30 am... nothing like an early start
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Yes Malcolm, where will we both turn up next :wink: :wink: If not for a fantastic 4 hour lunch at Ferment Asian with 10 wines from Riesling Freak, I would never had been in the BV this last weekend. Can certainly recommend the Stockwell Pub too...fabulously priced quality wines by the glass and grea...

I went to Eperosa next, Brett Grocke has done very good things with the 2022 vintage, a mixed dozen to put away, thankfully a lot cheaper than the previous purchase :wink: Cheers Craig What were you able to get from Brett? Could you get the 1896 and LRC directly as sold out on website? LRC and 1896...

Probably needs it own thread Great experience on Friday tasting the Standish new releases with Dan and Nicole...lovely people. Relic, Standish, Theorem and Lamella in that order. Can certainly detect the Viognier (1.5%) in the Relic, very slippery wine on the palate. Standish is a brute, fruit/acid/...

6 x 2022 Eisenstone Dallwitz x11 3 x 2022 Eisenstone Richardson Goldfield x12 1 x 2022 Eisenstone d’Or x10 3 X 2022 Eisenstone Hoffman X11 Cheers Ed Guys please tell me about Eisenstone. Are they like Standish or Sami Odi? Closer to Standish than Sami Odi, both all Shiraz (apart from 2% viognier, b...

A few bottles each of 2022 Lindemans Pyrus and Limestone Ridge

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What is it lately with the direction of this forum that no wine is any good unless it costs a lot or is insanely expensive

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Hi Chuck, in short a few issues, with significant frosts in the previous September (2019), wiping out a lot of vineyards in a number of areas in SA. In the new year less than ideal temperatures (cold snaps), and then fires in the Adelaide hills. In short reduced yields, but some claiming what was pi...

2 2021 Yalumba Signature, will have a look at one and may get more.

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What has always puzzled me is the ability to buy (say) 20 year old Grange from great vintages, with provenance, at prices lower than current release. Substantially lower. Yes the price is more than on release but...Go figure. Chuck, same as Hill of Grace, I was happy to take $400 a bottle profit, o...

Second hand market for HoG is dead, most wines in the last 20 years and $5-700. Of course if you purchased The 1990 like I did for $27, then there was money to be made. I reckon in 2045-50 current HoG vintages might fetch 2 grand. Money in super or shares much better options. Reinforces the fact for...

You did well there.
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6 2021 Jim Brand The Pursuit Cabernet.
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Pulled out a 2008 Wynns Coonawarra White Label Shiraz last night to share with the kids, for which I paid the princely sum of $12 in 2010. Still dark ruby coloured and very smooth. Can't beat the value for money on this old quaffer, but sadly I don't think they still make it. Still make it, or stil...

2021 Leconfield Cabernet
Lovely dusky overtones, blue fruits a bit of charry oak. Really plush, long finish, powdery tannins. One of the picks from the vintage.
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Had a look at that yesterday Matt...absolutely laughable list.
Should be renamed fools and their money list.
Is there anything that is any good under $125!!

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2021 Yalumba Sanctum Coonawarra Cabernet. Seems to be settling down a bit now from all the hype over the last 2 years...much less of a fruit bomb. Bright core of blackberry a whiff of cigar box and oak. Palate runs long with firm tannins. I will look at another in 6-12 months. Very pleasant for the ...