The Auswine Forum

thanks again, Allan, great notes. for me, now much too pricey for what they deliver. Very, very different wine from those glorious Reserve Bin Cabernets that Tahbilk made in the 60's and 70's, the good vintages of which are still drinking beautifully. Eric was a master, not sure he'd be all that hap...

thanks Allan, very intertesting. all-round, I'd say Moss Wood is my favourite Aussie winery, if you consider both red and white wines. the chardonnay is a very smart wine, always underrated by wine critics on release because its one of the very few Aussie wines left that still requires a decade to e...

I'm not a huge Barossa Shiraz fan, but we had a magnum of the 96 Basket Press over the Christmas break last year and it was fabulous. Not a life-changer, but a wonderful example of the variety.

lols, poor old Blues. Keep getting in A-graders and going nowhere. Plain dumb to trade Kennedy out, the one type of player they lack in numbers are serious hard nuts. Poor old Paddy will find it even harder next year, he's carried that team solo for the last decade.

goodness!!!! that is shocking news, I actually noticed the poor fellow posted here on Saturday night!!
condolences to his friends and family, his contributions here will be sadly missed.

I have been drinking Grange for decades. When at uni, I purchased the 1976 at release for $12.50 a bottle, my first full dozen purchase. In those days, Wolf Blass Black label was more expensive, as was Leeuwin estate chardy when first released. Drinking a bottle of Grange on weekends in the 70's was...

Fourrier? Bunch of Korean bandits. Now, of course, absorbed the emperor's new clothes (Bass Phillip) into the consortium. JM has lived on reputation for many years now, last excellent vintage across the board was 2010. His Maison stuff is bog average, and to make things worse, plenty of merchants in...

1. Chateau La Conseillante 2. Domaine Fourrier 3. Vieux Chateau Certan 4. Domaine Denis Mortet 5. Chateau Montrose I'd be confident there are lots of Cullens, Wynns and Wendouree there too, but I'm too lazy to dig them out. Will eventually send them off to auction when I can get off my bum and rescu...

was a fan of Rockford many years ago, in my vinous youth. Love what Rocky brings to the table, good honest no-frills Barossa shiraz, at a good and fair price. Resisted the Parker-driven price surge of the mid and late nineties, almost unique in that respect, and deserves huge respect for the charact...

still have about a dozen of the 95 Houghton's, back in the days I used to buy Aussie wine. Next time I'm out at the storage, I'll try to hunt them down. Means moving lots and lots of boxes, I think :x How annoying is it when you end up with the older wines at the bottom of the heap :D have spent two...

sad to see Lindemann's go. They had such classic Hunter wines. I'd say that in my many decades of drinking wine from all over the World, Lindemann's Nyrang Hermitage from multiple vintages in the 60's was my greatest ever wine. No, not the best wine, but a truly fabulous and never-to-be repeated win...

thanks Graeme, nice tasting!! HR shiraz is probably the only Aussie shiraz I drink these days, fabulous stuff, but I just don't drink enough of it!! too bad with the Rosehill, used to be ok, but all the good grapes are now stuck into the special bottlings. A little bit like Wynns BL. The 2014 1965 R...

2018 Yarra Yering Pinot Noir purchased a six pack of this about four years ago (I would assume) based on critics reviews, at the end of the day, it proved good value as upon tasting I immediately ceased my subscription to said critic. So, I paid around $600 for the six pack, but I have saved $500 o...

Erin Larkin reviews Aussie stuff for ERP site, she gave the Lamella 100 points. If you are intending to flip, then clearly that's the one to buy. If you are intending to actually cellar and drink, go for a spread across the board.... IMO she is, at best, very hit and miss.

Rossco, KS like Tollana, Seaview, Rouge Homme and others were largely obliterated by Southcorp and made extinct by TWE. These labels I drank by the bucket load in my teens and twenties...a lifetime ago. Cheers Craig still got about half a dozen of the 1990 Seaview Cabernet Sauvignon, as of about 3 ...

almost made this a new thread, but I guess I'm like a broken record. the utter madness in Burgundy continues, it is now beyond bizarre. I just received an offer from a premier Melbourne retailer for the 2021 wines (ordinary vintage) for several "rock star" producers. (in reality, all are m...

Cosi and Da Noi have both become BYO's on ex-weekend night (and days) Corkage $15 at Cosi and $35 at Da Noi. Food B- at Cosi and B/B+ at Da Noi. If you are drinking good booze, Paris Go would be my favourite, particularly for an Autumn lunch. Matteo's close second, maybe equal for dinner. France Soi...

2010 Leeuwin Estate Art Series Chardonnay An old favourite, the first bottle of a second case. Decanted and stuck into the fridge in the decanter for 12 hours. Lesson learned for previous bottles under early screwcap, any wine under this closure before about 2015 needs a long long time out of bottl...

the gamay is one of my favourite Australian red wines, but you need to cellar it for a minimum of 10 years in good vintages, 6-7 in lesser years. the 2013 is currently stupendous. depending on the vintage, it contains a fair whack of pinot noir, which really gives it complexity and takes away the &q...

People complaining about the stratospheric prices of Burgundy day after day. Yet, like Bordeaux, it continues to deliver some of the greatest wines values on Earth. 2019 Hudelot-Noellat Bourgogne purchase in Australia for $54. (via direct importer) grapes sourced from around Chambolle, a commune tha...

Trust me Chuck, it is. Very, very awake.
Ol' uncle Xi is crapping himself for the first time since he took power. Sadly, I think we are not too far away from another Tiananmen Square

my 200,000,000 is the upper middle class, not those doing it tough.
I'd reckon 1.4 billion are doing it tough at the moment lol.

selling lots of wine to the Chinese at the moment is going to be tough!!

China's economy is far far worse than the West think and Beijing will admit to. Horrendous. The Chinese GDP and growth rates are, at best, a loose approximation, as it is still very much a cash society, or better described as a red packet society. The plumber will charge you $30 for his services, bu...

vintage variation is minimal in margaret river, but I'd say the 2018 is the best of those three, with many proclaiming it the best-ever vintage in MR.

Jimmy Watson Trophy.
believe it or not, it was HUGE 30 years ago. And I mean HUGE. Now pretty much irrelevant.

FWIW, the 2005 vintage of this wine is drinking well, although I wouldn't say that 2016 will necessarily follow suit. However, I'm sure you would be safe for at least the next five years.

Clever marketing up at Beechworth. We have an annual LEAS v Giaconda tasting after Christmas each year, same vintages side-by-side, and LEAS wins about 75% of the time. After the recent event, we have now compared every vintage that was made from 1994 onwards. . Both fabulous wines, but LEAS is cons...

2015 Tolpuddle Chardonnay gee, Aussie chardonnay is getting really really good. Amazing strides over the past two decades. This is a Puligny doppelganger, in every way. Gorgeous green/gold, river pebbles, orchard fruits, amazing complexity and very good length. A premier cru Puligny for 1/3 the pri...

sounds terrible, but to be honest, not unexpected with Ponsot. many causes of pyrazine, obviously ladybug taint being one. Many other causes, 09 being a very hot vintage, maybe he didn't de-leaf in fear of burning the fruit. Over-shaded vines are highly prone to pyrazine production. Might have been ...

Jamie, I have never seen or heard of ladybug taint in the 2009 vintage in Burgundy. Whilst very prevalent in 2004 (a vintage I avoid/avoided like the plague) I'm not sure anyone has recorded ladybug taint in 2009. It is almost always confined to cooler vintages, the opposite to 2009. Ponsot does, ho...