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Complete disaster Takes forever to compile a watchlist, then once you go to your watchlist you cant even click on the bottle to get details and a decent sized photo. Half bottles only show as half bottles when you click on the wine when your browsing but show as just "bottle" once its in y...

I have a bottle of the 1990 GA i picked up at a bottle shop a couple of years ago. The guy was so disheartened that no on else would buy them!

I hope this is how its meant to be as I have a magnum of it i was planning to open soon!

I'm no great shakes as a cook, but I hate hot food on cold plates. When I do bacon and eggs for the wife and kids on these cold winter Sunday mornings I don't just heat the plates, I heat the cutlery as well. Also, there's one best way to pack a dishwasher. Cutlery especially. Learn it! man I get y...

Hi Allan, was this under cork or screwcap?
When was the changeover for this wine?

had the 09 recently, was gobsmacked at how oaky it was
cant imagine it would have settled down with another 10 yrs, but never know
the fruit was nice and juicy, but seemed like the oak was already knocking it down.
There is no way that was 50yr old casks unless they added chips to it.

Coming from someone also in Adelaide, it's extremely unusual for an Adelaide passive cellar to be humid enough to result in cellar mould, we just don't have the continuous humidity for it compared to the eastern states. I am specifically referring to passive cellars here, not commercial wine storag...

Yes sediment is fine. But I will say this...mini soapbox... Where are you based? I reckon attending a few offlines will do you a world of good. It is the absolute best way to learn about wines, understand wines and get experience with older wines. (and different styles). A 98 389 would have been a ...

dave vino wrote:I reckon you could get by with 3 types.

1 for Whites/Rieslings/Chard/Viognier/Sem etc
1 for Bordeaux Blends/Shiraz
1 for Pinot

If you can only stretch for 2 types, the first two would do.

If only one, a Zalto Universal.

The zalto Bordeaux is my universal these days

Polymer wrote:There's always another bottle...It'll come up again..

Particularly with that wine
As the old saying goes, all roads lead,.....
Hence there is always a lot of those big reds coming up
Hopefully you buy and enjoy then before you head down that road!

Also, you might put in your max bid on a lot that goes way higher than another lot for a lesser price
This is not a rare occurrence and the only way to play this is to be bidding in the final minutes

Also, you might put in your max bid on a lot that goes way higher than another lot for a lesser price
This is not a rare occurrence and the only way to play this is to be bidding in the final minutes

Got say that the couple of times I've Selosse it's been just ok, it's not style I like. Good to hear the Voyager's traveling well, got a couple of these in the cellar somewhere. Cheers Con. Hi Con, I have a number of Selosse, and on the whole I love his style, so distinct to the other producers, an...

Great notes, thanks
I am a real fan of this winemaker and am always on the lookout for the single block releases which are excellent and unique wines, to me.

Nice pun there!

Family Christmas is actually early December this year, as it's an "off" year and my (grown-up) sons will be with their better halves in Boston, Montreal, and Barcelona respectively with their in-laws or soon to be in-laws hehe So, the big do, that starts around noon and finishes around mi...

My dad was so upset when I very gently asked him to stop getting me a grange for special birthday occasions. He gets the St Henri on the less special ones and I don’t mind that, I actually think it’s the best value wine they have and the only one that is in some ways the style I like, at least for t...

Cleanskinlover turned out alright so I guess saving for grange might take the same way, hope so!

I purchased 1999 for $180 in Australia Beautiful tremendous exciting wine Had my last bottle this year with 3 other people and they were thrilled by it! There's place in Melbourne that's got two bottles of the 1999 Rousseau Chambertin for $5499 each. Cheers Con. I can’t sell them Once in a lifetime...

I just trying to work out how many nights are r nights first

Mark, we eat fish a lot too and Pinot goes very well with Salmon when cooked in an Asian style.

I opened a Georgian saperavi on Friday, pheasants tears 2015 Both me and my neighbour tasting partner decided it needed to be left until Sunday to breathe It was well worth it as the massive tannins had settled nicely and it had soften and integrated very nicely and let some lovely fruit show its st...

It really shits me what these massive companies get away with when it comes to warranty.
And not because I want to do it too, quite the opposite, I fixed things out of warranty x2 or more just because of how long it SHOULD last

(Poor builder rant over!)

fantastic post sean
i read twice it was so good
thank you

I think if you could do a scientific experiment of this situation with a placebo wine, no one would ever tell any difference. If anything, get a roll of regupol or other equivalent sound insulation covering and lay it down on the floor from wall to wall. If you want to go the whole hog then tack it ...

2003 Petaluma Hamlin Hill Riesling - probably the best of all the Hamlin Hills I’ve had to date. The lime fruit is just delicious, it’s had some development with age but retains a beautiful purity, with really good concentration but the acid keeping it in check and not allowing it to become overdone...

Great notes and looks like you would have had a great time.
Thanks for the effort put in, really helpful and interesting to see things like the euro pricing put in for each wine with the note.

Just out of curiosity, all that wine in a garden shed?
Any concern for the security of it from theft?

2015 - pheasants tears - Tsolikauri if i've ever tasted this grape before, i never knew. I sampled quite a few of these Georgian wines a couple of months back at Vinosphere and they were my most memorable wines of the night so i sought out to find some, and enjoyed this thoroughly tonight dried herb...

I had this recently but didn’t manage to post any notes
But agree with you it was very good, not too young, will go on for yonks but showing really well now
Which I was surprised at given the age and screwcap
The 1927 vines screwcaps are still way way too young even with 5 years more age on them

Just looking at the OP, assuming SAS is vin?
Anyone got his contacts and able to check he is still coming?
He hasn’t posted since