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tarija wrote:
Other than this, there is always another wine, and there are always other vintages available. Don't really care if I get "struck off the mailing list" as Mount Mary loses the chance to promote their products for sale to me.

+1
well said.

they should sell screwcap versions of grange.

Interesting to see how Head Wine's 2013 vintages of the Ancestor and Old Vines Grenache's compared in cellaring despite their advertised cellaring/drinking windows.

I really enjoyed the '13 Old Vines recently, brilliant. Makes me wonder if should be drank youngish ...or leave it longer ...

Peter Gago is a lot about promotion of the Penfolds brand, but in his defines, he made it quite clear at the launch of the Bin range earlier in the year in front of literally hundreds of industry folk that he was not entirely happy with the (high) prices of recent years. But he would be happy with ...

Was in Helsinki, Finland couple years ago, spotted a Bar selling Coopers Pale Ale Stubbies for 12 Euros for 375ml Stubby....while average price for pint of local beer was roughly 7-9 Euros. Following night went to a local restaurant, they had Jacob's Creek Shiraz for 32 Euros, while the bottleshop d...

which state/city you live?

So do restaurants get offended if you turn up with your own glassware? Depends what kind of place it is, and how understanding Management/Front of the House staff are which is rare these days as they are mostly students or people doing second jobs, more likely they'll think you are a f__king wanker...

tunetown wrote:
I have only recently started my barrel and very happy with it and also the keg blend from Liebich. http://liebichwein.com.au/ Lovely lady.

This is a long term investment. Buy once, buy right.

Cheers

some good information there in the link on home barrel advice

you can buy pre-seasoned barrels directly from some fortified wineries.

Cesar wrote:
Try Bar Lourinha, not too far from Movida next door.

One of the chefs there @ Lourinha and me go back over 20 years... old friends.

Great tucker and place. Wine menu is mostly Italian/Spanish.

I've not been to either of them, but I suspect that you could do worse than the Albert park and Middle park hotels for food and wine they are part of Melbourne Pub Group, run by Paul Wilson, former Head Chef of well known "The Botanical"... m Can't comment about the wines from memory but ...

The best surprise is it remains untouched!

^^ I like the Mesh Riesling, the 2013 vintage is pretty good too. Picked up good deal for long sleep: 2 x 2011 Cullen Diana Madeline 2 x 2012 Cullen Diana Madeline 2 x 2010 Mount Langi Ghiran For now drinking: 6 x 2010 Gomersal Reserve Shiraz...this is very good decent drop, it's my 4th case purchas...

griff wrote:Did the same a year ago. Didn't have receipts and trusted in customs to assess. Resulted in paying the inspection fee along with an estimate of $20/bottle resulting in about $10/bottle to pay. We accepted the estimate.

So how many bottles/total tax/duty bill?

If you don't mind me asking

Rossco wrote:
It's a bitsa mix in there. Some tahbilk grand tawny, some romante cardinal Pedro, some new Zealand coffee
Liquor, a dash of brandy and then topped up with some galway pipe tawny. That was about 18 months
Ago and wow is it really starting to impress.

Sounds like just like my type of fortified.

limkeith wrote:Noon's Shiraz 2010.... Just because...

how was that?

Got a six pack in the cellar been thinking about opening the first bottle soon.

Thank you for posting your comments on recent wines.

Always a pain when comes to last bottles....

G'day I searched on this forum, seems to be not much information, some comments from back 2005, 2007 and 2011. I'm in the market looking for Temperature/Humidity Data Loggers to place one in my off site cellar storage. Any recommendations from anyone here? I visit my off site cellar 3-6 times a year...

Nice work

1 x 2002 Stanton & Killen Vintage Fortified 1.5 litre Magnum (God-daughter's birth year)
2 x 2013 Brockenchack Mackenzie William 1896 Riesling
2 x 2011 Meerea Park Hell Hole - Hunter Valley Shiraz

2 x 2005 Stanton & Killeen Fortified

A dozen 2010 Metala...see the 2012 got a top gold at the Queensland show...not that that means much, I buy every year regardless. A couple of mixed cases of Wynns cheapies from the chains...silly prices, but then I am silly enough to keep buying them. Cheers Craig Nothing wrong with Metala's ...goo...

Speaking of Wendouree's ...couple weeks ago I was in Melbourne, went to a friend's local DM's to grab some beers had a quick look in the wine section, couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the 2010 Wendouree Shiraz displayed in poor conditions selling for $229.99 a pop. WTF? Someone is making a mint i...

with napkins covering their pot bellies

looks like will have ago with The Durand... had couple of old vintage bottles where the Ah-So just pushed the cork down a little bit further, maybe I handled it little rough or wrong, but I managed to get the cork out unharmed. Hope the extra $$ worth it. Had a chuckle at some of the blokes facial e...

I'm facing the same dilemma. Problem in my case.... I move around and travel a lot due my job and I'm currently working in the mines at outback Queensland. I hardly drink much for 2 weeks but when I have my week off, I drink a fair bit, go through quite bit of "tastings". I have 24 dozen w...

One thing miss about UK is each area in country pubs sometimes have their own special ciders and ales if you know where to look. One pub might have this particular ale/cider, but few kilometres down the road, they will have something different from other local brewer. Looking forward going back to t...

Croquet King wrote:That gives me about 5l of muscat to drink each year - a challenge I'm up for.

Hope you like cheeses, too easy to drink fortified wines along with strong robust cheeses. I love the combination.

2003 Petaluma Coonawarra Cabernet Merlot OK, average. Not as good as the '98 and '99 vintages. Pity the lovely bouquet aromas didn't match the taste, little flat after 2 hours decant, the cork was in mint condition, bugger all staining. Surprised to discover later on after drinking it with french c...

So looking at the tasting notes, forget about my few bottles of '06 Noon Cab Sav for other 5-10 years? Try one in 5 years and see how it goes and taste again in decade?

Last time opened one of my Noon's was 2003 Reserve Shiraz.