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Doubling-down on not buying the wines, as the forums lit up with wine lovers all buying them. I’ll drink yours!

phillisc wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 1:38 am 6 2021 Katnook Odyssey Cabernet
Cheers Craig

Was that the $300 for six offer?

I got the Standish email at 0430 Hong Kong time and was about to depart. As much as I was keen to pull the trigger I didn’t. I had a suitcase full of Italian Barolo bought for cheaper. Being back on the international buying game makes Australian purchases heavily scrutinised and I figured I have ple...

quote="Ian S" post_id=171041 time=1714300314 user_id=159] Jamie has strong knowledge of the region and is going to be more up to date on recent vintages than me (I've very much slowed buying in recent years). [/quote] Thanks Ian I’ve been out of the game sadly, since COVID. Cost me amazing...

I’ve been seriously impressed with my 02’s. For the price ( sale ) they blow most boutique wineries in the region out of the water. Interesting comment on aged reds Allan. Making me feel so old fashioned as someone who ages wine. It does seem the reality these days though! Many immediate styles and ...

Preference noted with the Wendouree Shiraz Malbec. Gotta make comment on the first of a 2001 I had the other day from a box of 12. Opened in the morning, a whiff from the neck and you can tell it will need air. Decanter two hours re-poured back into filter rinsed bottle, presto! A world class wine d...

Wasn’t a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine was it? Could have been a bloke I went to school with - Jim Whalley- in his Boomerang. His Dad an ex-WW2 RAAF Boomerang pilot and former Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Jim made his fortune out of Nova systems, he’s an ex-RAAF test pilot, and the company is a defenc...

Still moving the cellar from Hong Kong. I count these as new buys as I’ve not yet added them to cellar-tracker. Nice to have unlimited luggage on a freighter jet so I keep the pretty wooden coffins the magnums come in. I also found another box of wine I don’t know I had. Mascarello Monprivato from 1...

Cafe Sydney for lunch yesterday and thankfully I was drinking soda water only. Over $800 for a bottle of Wendouree from last decade! I tend to do my fine dining over lunch these days to avoid the horrendous wine mark-ups. There you go...just a lazy 300-600% mark up, and contrary to popular opinion,...

Cafe Sydney for lunch yesterday and thankfully I was drinking soda water only. Over $800 for a bottle of Wendouree from last decade!

I tend to do my fine dining over lunch these days to avoid the horrendous wine mark-ups.

platinum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:21 am 12 Giaconda Chardonnay 2022

Surely you’ll flip sone of them? 12 x of any wine is a little crazy. Yeah crazy me I know, my record is 24 x of Mt Edelstone and Capellano Barolo. It’s a bit tiresome drinking them knowing they’ll all be roughly the same at a certain period in their maturation.

There’s a significant aeration! Does Margaret River require this ?

Radical mate! Love it. But doesn’t the wine absorb the strong fridge smells?

Kistler gives me a headache.

Hi Rossco. Is it built in a style to age? I have yet to try any gamay that should be cellared long term (which includes Beaujolais cru) My preferred style of gamay is red fruits, fresh and drinks perfectly now. It's a bbq / food wine to be enjoyed now with friends and family. Just my .02c I’ve a nu...

I guess not a purchase, but found a case of mixed Barolo and Barbaresco in my cellar I’d brought home from Hong Kong that was unaccounted for. Bonus! Barolos from 04 and including Cavallotto Bricco Boschis 2008 and Azelia Crus. A recent trip to Hong Kong also turned up a case of Mascarello Monprivat...

I think screw-cap is delivering incredible results for white Aussies. When I visited Penfold’s Magill Estate to get the magnum for a Grange dinner, 2 x 05’s in screw-cap cheaper than the magnum in cork. Wish I’d gone the 2 x 750ml in sc!

Interesting comments on the Yattarna Rosscoe. Had a magnum of 2006 recently and the nose world class but the palate wasn’t. It was in cork. Lacks the oomph and tension of Grand Cru Burgundy/ top 1er Cru Burgundy. Would have preferred it in screwcap!

The quality can be high. Certainly as high as some of our exports.

Australia also has an unexpected competitor in China now. China! More and more I’m seeing Chinese wines lighting up the Hong Kong scene and marketing aggressive and patriotic. This patriotism can also quickly roll toward another embargo. A US/ Australian regional military exercise to flex muscle in ...

I suspect LVMH will throw eye watering amounts of money at Wendouree. Seeking to produce a luxury, easily marketable and internationally in-demand, series of Australian wines, at $1000 a bottle.

Lita’s staying put. Not selling up.

I recall a podcast a few years ago saying Turkey’s wine industry under Erdogen is being driven toward an exporter dominat market. Local consumption shunned under Erdogen’s policies to sate Islamic conservatives.

Been building the Hunter part of the cellar. Got some Tyrrells Old Patch 2017 & 8 Acre 2021. A case of Vat 8 2013 too.

Trouble I have with their portfolio is the illusion of the Label. Old Block isn’t Old Block anymore. St Henri another that comes to mind. IDK. Just hard to get excited about their wines which are so heavily marketed. Eating out again in Southern California not an Aussie to be seen on the wine list. ...

That’s my typo, if it matters, but the extra C could be used savagely and vulgarly to describe the thugs they are.

I still think there is plenty of options in the domestic market...if only wineries here want to play. Or that the recent mistake, where a few of us picked up Seppelts Sparking Shiraz for 80% off…. Aren’t you dooming the industry if you think domestic options involve your recent discounts? Now grant...

You’d be a mug building your business in China not believing the tap won’t be turned off again. Australia will always face confrontation with the CCCP. It’s not a market to ignore obviously. Just needs a more opportunistic approach and a mature realisation you can’t bleat when geo-politics has the b...

I’d buy those Aussies at that price Craig. Subject to vintage due diligence and perhaps comment from regular drinkers of the labels. I’m going around the world in the next 80 hours. I’ll pop into wine shops on three continents and it makes it hard not to be very discerning with Aussie buying. Althou...

Accomasso was a bit of a secret and I started sourcing them secretly before COVID ruined everything. I’ve had a mixed run with variation and glad you’ve a great bottle. Your Chave Blanc is too young now! Needs a decade IMO to bring out the weight and tertiary nuance. Best drunk young if wanting prim...

Thanks Sean,

I think I’m getting old and living in the past on pricing like Craig.

Inflation and marketing has seen prices soar beyond what I’d expect for Aussie wine considering the lake of it!

I can still buy Barolo overseas for $60 AuD -up from $50 pre-COVID. Something is amiss here!