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My sister moved from Syd to Canberra a few months ago, so all her wine from my dad’s cellar (about 3 cases of quaffers plus a few “special” bottles kept on a shelf in a vintec) went down to Canberra too. She sent a pic this week of a wine opened mid-week to go with a random dinner, they picked this ...

I’m in lockdown 12km from my cellar :( Luckily a few bottles in the small vintec at home, but otherwise buying for immediate drinking at the moment! My missus is off the red, so enjoying half bottles for flexible mid-week drinking… 36 x Faith Shiraz half bottles 24 x Blackwell Shiraz half bottles 4 ...

I’m a bit late to the party, but ordered Stalin’s Wine Cellar last week - it arrived on Sat morning & I finished it that night (with some help from a Teusner Shiraz). It’s a great read, and there’s enough photos in the book & online to show that most of it actually happened... but I’d love t...

Great idea, and it “triggers” when the capsule is broken (opened), so it can’t be reused

A bottle of 2005 Bin389 early this week for my birthday... a glass for the missus and the rest for me (over 2 nights)

unfortunately couldn’t share it with my folks or sister... but that’s payback for the pic they sent me of the cake they baked & then ate!

JamieBahrain wrote:I want a retirement drinking Piedmont wine amongst local favourites

Let me know where you’re planning to retire to, I’ll buy the house next door

I’m in Perth for a few days & heading out for pizza tonight, so picked up a local Margs bottle - 2016 Cape Mentelle Shiraz - not tried it before, hopefully a nice drop!

Great deal via the Mike Press wine club:
24 x Mike Press Shiraz
12 x Mike Press Cab Sav
12 x Mike Press Pinot Rose

Well that’s a bunch of cheap Xmas presents sorted!

All good, I found a nice wooden crate for $10 - it held the full 12 bottles plus a boxed decanter

Bloody heavy once full though!

Thanks for the offer, but sounds like a hassle.

I’ve also realised the recipient may not want to keep the wooden boxes, I’ll just leave it...

I’ve got plenty of single boxes, but the 6/12 pack crates are harder to come by..:

Does anyone have any 6/12 bottle wodden crates/boxes they care to offload?

I’m giving a mixed case to a mate for a 40th present, but I’ve not been able to find any decent boxes...

What restaurant is that? Good? Tetsuya's $30 corkage for 1st bottle, $45 pb after that. Overall was a really good experience, Seafood based dishes were excellent, Duck dish was good, Wagyu dish was OK. They gave us a tour of the kitchen and cellars, had a chat with the head chef and one of the somm...

$12 for current vintage Black label???

I openend a 2009 Zepplin Big Bertha Shiraz last night - it tasted a bit odd & had a very slight fizz to it. I gave it a few hours, and it wasn’t any better so went down the sink..

Anyone had experience with fizz in a screwcap red?

Opened a Mike Press 2011 Cab Sav instead, nice bargain quaffer..

I bought 21 bottles of Clonakilla shiraz - drinking 1 every year

For the 21st there’s also a magnum of Clonakilla SV

I’m not buying any more wine for a while...
I’m not buying any more wine for a while...
I’m not buying any more wine for a while...

Hey, the new Blue Poles Allouran is out - order form sent


Damnit!

Great to see the update after so long, and amazing that it wasn’t totally stuffed!

An expensive way to achieve simple results... maybe worth it if you’re cracking Barolo every night, but for the rest of us...

For good bottles, I decant via a vinturi to a decanter, then vinturi back into the bottle for serving.

Popped a bottle of Piper NV at 6:00pm AEDT

#marriageequality

I picked up another 2 bottles in the 2-for-50 from VC

Is this a well known show?

There were 45 wines given Gold, and the Aldi wine didn’t win a trophy.

I’m happy to spend $7 to try it just in case, but I’d say it’s not the amazing super bargain that the results suggest...

Nothing specific planned yet, but stocked up on the weekend with 8 mixed bottles of bubbly - 4 x NV champagne, 2 x prosecco, a seppelt Salinger and a bests sparkling Shiraz.

Plus 2 mixed cases of red for presents!

Quick update: the meal was excellent, but the Brunello was amazing!

Double decanted late afternoon, had half a glass after an hour and it was still pretty tight, then back in the bottle for the trip to dinner & decanted again. Opened up nicely, maybe some alcohol evap helped too

I can’t see why a restaurant would just set a high corkage charge (30-50) for BYO - they still make a decent profit without the storage costs.

It's at Freshwater, which makes it a very short list of 1...

I've found a lot of places will do BYO if you ask nicely, and they'll charge $$$ corkage too...

This one actually - https://www.cellartracker.com/m/wines/783783

But yes, was thinking of the Italian but I've not tried this one before - both the others have been great

I'll still buy the good releases at the right price - $25ish for Bin28/128, $50 for 389, etc

Not too likely to see these sorts of prices again though I'd expect.

Kicking myself for not buying more $60 RWT when I had the chance too!

I've got an anniversary dinner this sat - Italian degustation, good wine list but has agreed on a BYO bottle with steep corkage- just need to decide what to take.

Here's my shortlist - any tips on these:
2009 RWT
2002 Elderton Command
2004 Podere La Vigna Brunello Riserva

I'm now hanging out for this to get back to the ~$25 mark...