The Auswine Forum

Agree with Cam and Michel. Mouton is over-rated. Can be hard and ungenerous. I'm not a Bordeaux guy but I've had found mature Mouton pretty good. Maybe it needs time? I don't take notes on my Bordeaux dinners so it may just be a take it or leave it attitude to that makes the wines welcoming. Felix?...

Leeuwin Cabernet can be absolutely superb, but it genuinely needs 20 years to show it's stuff. Incredibly age-worthy wine, which in itself is a rarity amongst Australian wines. However, not in the same post code as Mouton. (no Australian cabernet-based wines are anywhere near that level, but apart f...

2005 La Croix de Gay
brilliant wine from this minor Chateau in Pomerol. Loads of blackberry fruit, violets and mint, with anise in the background. Great length, full of interest. A remarkable success for this house this year. Probably will still improve in the short term. 93+

hmm, might also be that Grosset rieslings are some-what over-rated.
Nice article in Winefront, covering a heap of rieslings from two excellent vintages... as is often the case, the Grossets were in the middle or towards the bottom of the pack.

last had the 96 in January.... fantastic wine and certainly no hurry to drink!!!

hmm, this thread brought back memories of John McEnroe
"you can not be serious!!!!!"
restaurant suggestion: the Pancake Parlour

you make some good points Michael, and I fully agree. why be nasty? well, to be brutally honest, I reckon said author did so deliberately knowing such a melodramatic critique would garner a lot more interest (and, therefore, eventually a lot more $$$$) than a "kind" one. I don't think Gord...

jesus, no wonder he got pneumonia!!!! hells bells, you'd need a stomach pump if you only finished 2/3 of that lot!!!!

1989 Chateau Canon
yet another case of this right bank classic. I burn thru these too quickly!!!

a truck load over the past few weeks, up in the air, on the ski slopes and for CNY. highlights: Dom Perignon Rose 2003 not a huge Rose fan, but at 40,000ft this was spectacular!!! 96pts Chateau Montrose 2003 ditto, amazing wine at 40,000ft, much more forward than at sea level 94+pts Hermitage la Cha...

sitting in the lounge at HKIA waiting to fly to Geneva, off to ski in Val d'sere, and more importantly, escape the final 10 days of CNY lol. With my three bros, we have made a conscious decision to try many different varieties at night, and one bro has lugged up Jura, Cahors, Bergerac and many other...

thanks Chris, but unfortunately I am unable to make it. Have a great night!!!!

thanks Chris, but unfortunately I am unable to make it. Have a great night!!!!

yea, I last had that wine on my 40th birthday in 1998. Was past it then.
I guess the value reflects it's rarity these days, it would be pretty ordinary to drink imo.
also had the 58 Grange that night, also well past it.

thanks Allan.
I discovered an Imperial of the Lime Cave 2002 in the cellar a couple of months ago. Nice to hear a positive report, I will keep it for a wedding in 2017.

Wendouree just might be the Aussie version of d'Angerville in Burgundy. Lots of lovers, lots of haters. Guess that makes it interesting.

yea, if there are 4 guys on the "reserve" list who do not get a gig, it is no problem.... we can just book a table for four!! Can't see a problem with that.

my bro got a dozen thru the same deal, was so excited that he purchased it at 25% of retail price!!! we cracked a bottle on Xmas afternoon.... pretty much undrinkable. Sweeter than a can of coke. God awful. The half bottle left was chucked down the sink. As he said, when a deal seems too good to be...

just discovered I will be in Aus on the 25th!!!
Please put me down on the reserve list, would love to finally meet you guys.

my bro got a dozen thru the same deal, was so excited that he purchased it at 25% of retail price!!! we cracked a bottle on Xmas afternoon.... pretty much undrinkable. Sweeter than a can of coke. God awful. The half bottle left was chucked down the sink. As he said, when a deal seems too good to be ...

Christmas on the 24th mainly, as two of my sons fly out to NY and Toronto on Xmas day midday to be with their GF's for Xmas dinner. Lots of cold seafoods, then beef and turkey. All starts mid-afternoon after golf. Luckily, despite drought (they tell me) Royal Melbourne in top condition for my return...

Milavuolo Aglianico 2011
Organic, and a beautifully balanced, fruit-coward red from Campania. Nuances of ash, dirt, red cherries, smoke and chocolate, this is an amazingly complex wine gunning way above it's price point. Drink: now-2025 90pts

mse, you can buy "Bordeaux" wines for as little as 1-2 euro. China is the largest importer of Bordeaux, with 95% of their imports being non-cru Classe. So I get exposed to an enormous amount of the cheap stuff at the obligatory work dinners over here. Most of it is pretty much undrinkable,...

Great post Hacker! 2015 has been an amazing yr, had some amazing wines and even better times sharing them So hard to narrow it down, but i would say my top 3 most memorable wines were 04 astralis, 04 taittinger cdc and 91 mt ed. These 3 stood out as my favs but theres so many good wines ive tried t...

Felix. I'm no expert, but I only see scores of around 87-89 for most wines from JCL then they jump to 95+ for Parker wines*.I'd be surprised if any of those wines pared with many Chinese dishes. Oh, I forgot, Bordeaux is the bed wine for Chinese food. Red for prosperity and health-giving properties...

haha, yea, be careful Jamie!!!! Pretty easy to raise angst here!!! well, you should know her by far the best, what do you think, another Parker clone? love the way she does less well-travelled regions, and has a superb palate IMO. Jamie, my three sons just sat the WSET level 2 exams this week..... y...

too many good wines to nominate three. however, my three most surprising wine "happenings" this year were: 1. 2005 Bordeaux Over multiple horizontals this year (10 years on) I was surprised, actually amazed, just how good the right bank wines are showing, and equally amazed at just how poo...

haha, yea, MSE, that is one crap wine show, destined for the bin after one season for sure. Interesting to see people think that Bordeaux doesn't match with the majority of Chinese cuisine, IMO, it doesn't match with 50% of Chinese cuisine. The other 50% (let's call that 700 million meals a night) g...

Felix. I'm no expert, but I only see scores of around 87-89 for most wines from JCL then they jump to 95+ for Parker wines*.I'd be surprised if any of those wines pared with many Chinese dishes. Oh, I forgot, Bordeaux is the bed wine for Chinese food. Red for prosperity and health-giving properties...

mse, Cho Lee is a really good critic, her palate is very much aligned with mine (easy on the eye too!!). You will generally see much lower scores than you see from the local Australian critics.... if she rates a wine 95, then is will be an earth-shattering experience. 90 from her would be, IMO, abou...