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Well, it is that time of the year, just wondering what everyone has planned to drink over the xmas season?

A random mix 6 for Xmas: 2020 Savigny-lès-Beaune, Cuvée Reine Joly, Domaine Camus-Bruchon & Fils, Burgundy 2013 Château Suduiraut, Sauternes, Bordeaux 2017 Pommard, Camille Giroud, Burgundy 2017 Château Batailley, Pauillac, Bordeaux Berry Bros. & Rudd Amontillado by Bodegas Emilio Lustau 202...

3x 2016 Château La Gaffelière, St Emilion, Bordeaux

marmi01 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:09 am Long time reader, 1st time poster!

Welcome to the party!

www.wineanorak.com/2024/11/26/cork-versus-screwcap-a-major-tasting-including-older-wines-with-some-interesting-results/

That is very sad news indeed to hear, like many others I always appreciated his contributions on the forum. My deepest condolences to his family and friends. R.I.P Cameron.

kenzo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 12:17 pm 3 x Bodegas y Vinedos Pintia 2007
2 x Bodegas y Vinedos Alion 2007
1 x Montevertine 2007
1 x Ch Carignan Prima 2001
1 x Conde Cabernet Sauvignon 2004
1 x Vidigal Brutalis 2008

4 x Martierra Spanish White Guerilla Gewurtztraminer 2012

This looks like a really interesting mix of wine!!

Probably still Rockford, Grosset, Tyrrell's, Wendouree and Marius for me, probably now matched by assorted Bordeaux but without any one producer matching that same level of concentration.

An assorted box of largely Beaujolais and some Burgundy from BBRs summer clear out

2020 Cave de Tain Crozes-Hermitage Les Nobles Rives Funnily enough I thought I had done a note on this wine at some point: 12/2/2022 - I wrote: 88 points (Edit) As always with this marque this is a super clean, super typical example of the region. Plenty of lightly glossy red to dark fruits. Nice b...

mychurch wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 11:55 pm
Wine of the day was the ‘12 Petite Arvine.

Thanks for flagging this mychurch, on the strength of your note I picked up a bottle of the 2022 and it was really impressive albeit not cheap around £35 over here. Always fun to try something totally new, so cheers for that!

I love the annual Wendouree thread ... I just had a look and its been over 20 years now on the forum that people have been debating letters and crayon marks and the eternal wait to see what gets delivered

I went to Lakes Folly many years ago and it was good.

They only have the two wines (Chardonnay and Cabernet, and sometimes a third wine). Have really enjoyed them in the past. Worth checking in advance if they may be sold out.

Ian S wrote: ↑Fri Jun 14, 2024 5:06 am 1975 Monte Real Rioja Gran Riserva.

For any one taken by Ian's note who wants to grab one, it also looks to be available at Harrods for a fiver... a fiver, plus 64 other fivers.. so wait £325 actually.

I rather liked putchases ... I pictured as where one pays for a putch .. although I did wonder why the humble auswine forum was planning such radical activity

6x 2023 Château Meyney, St Estèphe, Bordeaux
6x 2023 Château du Domaine de l'Eglise, Pomerol, Bordeaux
6x 2023 Château Moulin Riche, St Julien, Bordeaux
6x 2023 Château Batailley, Pauillac, Bordeaux

I finally gave in and got 2x Lamella and 1x The Standish

WineRick wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 3:33 pm
It's already on the map! Why get the Bogong moths to push a $25-30 bottle to $75 just so they can brag about it. Get on the mailing lists of a number of LC winemakers and just keep mum about it.

I love the specificity of not just moths to a flame but Bogong moths !

VinoEd wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:46 pm 6x 2023 Erin Eyes Emerald Isle Riesling

Purchased unknown, and never had a wine from this label before. Anyone across it?

Cheers Ed

Never heard of it.. for a second I genuinely thought it was an Irish riesling based on the name and I nearly fell off my chair

6x Rockford BP 2020... just remembered I hadn't bought it yet this vintage

ticklenow1 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:31 pm

12 x 2008 Seppelts Show Reserve Sparkling Shiraz - Hard to say no to at $20 a bottle. Brownie points from the wife for this purchase

Cheers
Ian

Where on earth did you find that at $20??? What a bargain

Share away Craig

A good value producer I really like from the Rhone on offer from BBR 6x 2022 Crozes-Hermitage, Les Trois Chênes, Emmanuel Darnaud, Rhône 6x 2022 Crozes-Hermitage, Mise en Bouche, Emmanuel Darnaud, Rhône and a few randoms Duckhorn 'Decoy' Merlot 2019/21, North Coast Cambria ‘Katherine's Vineyard’ Cha...

6x Sidewood Estate Mappinga Fume Blanc 2019
6x Cape Mentelle "MR range" Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
6x Tim Adams Clare Valley Riesling

Spotted some interesting buys on a UK website

Shiraz Viognier. Oh my yes, I recall a few years, maybe circa 2010-12 when every man and his dog was chucking Viognier into their Shiraz as if that alone made it a premium product! There were some absolute shockers out there. Funnily enough I opened a Pierre Gaillard Côte-Rôtie 2020 last night with...

They are contravening labelling laws I don't think so... the labelling laws allow you to call a wine a single variety if that variety is more than 85% of the blend (850ml per litre), and also requires that if you do refer to the components of the blend you list the components in descending order of...

They do quite well in the secondary market...

www.langtons.com.au/priceguide?searchPrice=sami%20odi

I concur with Ian and tarija

Comprehensive! Thanks for the notes Sean

Hi there, It doesn't look like Francois de Nicolay make any wine just labelled Cote de Beaune... if you have the one called "La Grand Chatelaine" then it is worth about $40 US it would seem. I would note that selling wine directly in Australia is not legal unless you possess a liquor licen...