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I'll be brief: 1. Firstly, thanks, Gavin, for a fantastic forum that has entertained and informed me for so very long 2. Everything has an end, and with each passing year I am increasingly aware that that applies to people to. It was my birthday this week and already this year I've lost a father, a ...

Dear winemakers/retailers that I have bought from,

if you use Couriers Please for deliveries I will no longer buy your products.

Just sayin'

I returned my 2018 Black Shiraz to Rockford, and they replaced it with the 2019 model. Its a better wine. What I should have done. Might risk ordering the 2020 disgorgement Any hint of it in the 2019? (Just wondering if it was still there but not as obvious - hopefully pointing to a diminution in t...

Thanks A_Steady - all six of mine had it to greater or lesser extents. Musty, even dirty in some cases, and very disappointing. I normally hold some to drink over the years but in this case decided to drink them all up over about 4-6 months before they got worse as there was still some (diminished) ...

I would regularly order the BS in the past. Unfortunately, the 2018 disgorgement had a noticeable musty character that put me off ordering the 2019 disgorgement. Given that production of BS involves a solera base, the likelihood of that undesirable trait continuing has made me wary of ordering it ag...

It says it all about critics points that 89 and 90 are seen as being a dreadful result and a sign that something went horribly wrong :lol: Or rather, it says it all about the consumers of those critics' output. 89-90 is effectively 18/20. Since when is an 18/20 wine a dud? Since the Holy Grail chas...

OK I normally stay out of Pinot debates since it is not my thing and I think everyone knows my views on whether all roads end in Burgundy but my observations: 1) How many times do people say "this is the best Aussie Pinot... its almost like Burgundy / like an old world wine / etc" ... ser...

Seems like a box a day here atm, I can hear the van pull up from my study (while ostensibly working from home), box gets dropped, he rings the wifi doorbell and buggers off and I race through the front door to try to get the box before my wife wakes up to the fact that the doorbell app on her phone...

Tapanappa 2008 Whalebone Vineyard Wrattonbully Cabernet Shiraz . After finding the 2005 model surprisingly developed and past its best we opened this one. Better quality and more full bodied with lots of oak that perhaps dominated the fruit. Nice without being great as was expected. Perhaps just a ...

Mould? Or metal oxidation (I can't recall the correct term, someone on this forum will know - essentially the tin foil capsule breaking down where it is 'raw' at the cut holes and exposed to the elements)? if the later, no problem at all. If mould, not uncommon, but depends where the moisture came f...

Ozzie W wrote:Things would be so much better (for the consumer) if Halliday just scored wines either 100 points or 89 points

Gavin, A distracting topic and a bit of fun. Timely for me as I have just spent a small shedload upgrading my sound system, I have had one (or more) since making amplifiers and speakers as a teenager in Adl in the 70's. Anyway, stuff that gets played a bit here includes a range of jazz, some blues ...

Decided to open this one up after some Auswine forum discussion of this wine earlier in the year. The colour in the pic is actually paler than what it was in real life... [url=https://ibb.co/na6XOy][img]https://preview.ibb.co/k2Wz3y/IMG_20180510_204520.jpg[/img][/url] 2016 Sorrenberg Chardonnay Cle...

I can't remember a faulty cork from Rockford, and have been drinking their wines since the 1986 vintage. However I would love them to consider diam corks. I have had corked wines from Rockford, and they replaced them without hesitation. I agree that if they are going to persist with seals other tha...

Oh no. Basket Press in screw cap. I can taste a "mature" one now- unevolved, dreary, dark fruits, firey red fruits and fresh leather on the palate with a warmth exaggerated by tannin resolution and still primary fruit. In 5 years time there will be a massive return to cork by those less s...

Blue Poles Reserve Cabernet Franc (Margaret River, WA)

I think the idea of a Top 100 of just about anything in any given year is a nonsense if, by 'top', you mean the best. The cream of the crop. The 'Top' should mean 'The Top' and be worthy of high praise and benchmarks in their own right by which all the rest are measured (and by definition found 'wan...

Coffee filter papers. No impact on the taste of the wine, inexpensive, disposable (no need to rinse or clean), easily replaceable if one gets overly clogged during the process.

Seriously, if you're worrying about them altering the taste of the wine, they won't.

Did I mention inexpensive?

Hi folks, I will be in Bordeaux town for a day or two in late April and wondered if anyone could suggest any cellar doors or wine shops worth a visit. I know there is a newish, modern wine tourist complex there, but what I've read suggests it is a place to avoid. So, leaving aside the great estates ...

Although the better glasses, like Zalto and Riedels, helps the drinker to better swirl and appreciate the bouquet, a straw is ideally suited to deliver the wine in a stream directly to the roof of the mouth, rolling off it onto all areas of the mouth simultaneously, flushing the wine across the ton...

I have noticed the corks Farr uses to be exactly what Jamie mentioned, several times. We were discussing it on Friday night at the Pinot night as we watched Vinh struggle to get the ahso into a 2012 Farrside Pinot He gave up and used a corkscrew The cork was perfect, and noticeably longer and fatte...

Opened a cork and screw capped Aussie. Both professionally cellared. Shiraz by Farr 2008- Geez. It was the tightest cork I've ever tried to pull. Unbelievable. Did it's job thankfully. This is wonderful wine. I drink Northern Rhone most weeks and what I loved about this wine was its technical corre...

Because the expansion of the liquid can force it up the sides of the cork, breaking the 'air-tight' seal as it retreats when cooling. The air that gets in contributes to the accelerated ageing and darker colouring. This doesn't/shouldn't happen under screwcap because it is better able to resist the...

If you want to see how beautifully/gracefully red wine also ages under screw cap, get your hands on a bottle of Marius 2002 shiraz under screw cap ... if you do, If I were you I would organise a tasting with it to shut up screw cap haters. Maybe I've missed something here but I don't recall reading...

Not seeing it. Not a problem as far as I'm concerned.

Cam, agreed, but could be time for a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down. I had to ask my Antediluvian partner about "Bex". She said "that's old", that it was a headache powder but she hasn't seen it since she was a kid. I learn something new every day. Mahmoud. I think you me...

No worries. BTW, in case anyone reading my comment wants to point out that the Diana Madeline line doesn't go back to the early 80s, I was referring to Cullen reds overall, not just the DMs. Sláinte

I had a 2001 recently which was a 'wow' moment. Having drunk these wines since the early 80s vintages, I wouldn't have gone anywhere near my 2009 until AT LEAST 2019.

Be patient, and try one again sometime around 2020.

Update: I took the vinum extreme glasses with me to a restaurant this evening, and on the way home, managed to smash one. Grr I'm such an idiot Hop onto the Riedel site now. They've been running a sale throughout January which may still be on. You might be able to pick up replacements cheaper than ...

Just to throw spanner in the works, the Riedel Vinum Montrachets are different to the Riedel Vinum Extreme Oaked Chardonnay glass I have the Vinum Extreme Oaked Chardonnay glasses and they feel very clunky compared to the Gabriel Glas Gold Editions. The Riedels are good (I picked up 4 for $10) but ...