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Rather than repair or buy a new wine fridge I got the room air conditioned for $2,500 and the broken fridge is being used as shelving with the door wide open. So now there is much more cool space and - with Mrs. Hackers approval - I can fill up more room with wine. I'm a genius! What temperature ar...

Rayas is a freak ethereal wine
I Universally double blind guess it as Burgundy
Terribly expensive now

I third

Heaps Normal
It’s brilliant

It’s actually illegal for them to mislead you of your Warranty rights
You don’t want to exceed your Warranty rights
The same year would be perfect but current vintage is fine

It’s exhausting & insulting to experience this
You will need to write a letter of demand
There is a template on the Consumer website
If they don’t respond in 7 days then approach the local Sheriff in the court and lodge a claim.
Twice I have done this
It works
Good luck
Don’t let it go Jamie

Mahmoud Ali wrote:

michel wrote:

Mahmoud Ali wrote: Regardless of it being apt or not, kudos for remembering that, or even being able to dig that out.

Pretty famous quote from a significant book...

Non-Australian here and did not immediately realize, though it really shouldn't be an excuse.

No problems
It’s a local cultural thing

Mahmoud Ali wrote:

GraemeG wrote:Donald Horne was right in 1964, and still is today: "Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.

Regardless of it being apt or not, kudos for remembering that, or even being able to dig that out.

Mahmoud.

Pretty famous quote from a significant book...

At least you had a decent corkscrew....
94s can be kind

phillisc wrote:Yeah Michael and I can buy it...only 1.2M each

Cheers Craig

In our current groovy world
Cab shiraz is doomed

Shame as VH had some of our greatest wines...

Just sayin.....

BHCC1 wrote:I see that the Virgin Hills property has recently been listed for sale $2.3 million.

Can you post a link...
TIA

Have drunk 90, 94, 97, 98, 00, 02 in the last 2-3 years, no issues re low sulphur, bacterial spoilage or whatever. All graceful old cab blends some in their twilight, some with years to go. Interestingly, just looked at the website which has finally been updated, but $80+ for the 2010, 12 and 13 is...

Was it true that Virgin Hills did not add any Sulphur to their wines ? Remember reading something about it. It true, then I would be very wary of any aged bottle. Have drunk 90, 94, 97, 98, 00, 02 in the last 2-3 years, no issues re low sulphur, bacterial spoilage or whatever. All graceful old cab ...

IMG_2009.JPG A couple of wines with reputations to live up to that I took to a friend's place for a footy night watching the Raiders and Brumbies games (both positive results for a Canberra resident). The 2015 Raveneau Montee de Tonnerre as expected - lemon blossom nose, plenty of lemon again on th...

1990 Penfolds bin 90A Cabernet Shiraz Incredible provenance From cellar door Wonderful fruit just a tad too much oak for me Bailey’s Muscat purchased in the mid 1960s Rich young weighty & perfumed 2013 Soldera pale perfumed with an incredible thumb print WOTD 2001 latour fresh young 2001 Pegau r...

Scp Smart & Old Mcdonald
The most recent Parellian
Ary my pick Linc

Magnums would work

If storage is sound
Bordeaux
D’yquem
Vogue

No problems

I am seriously impressed
It takes work
But you will not regret

On the subject of Grenache. It can, like Gamay, be absurdly variable in its iterations to label what is varietaly correct. There is the wildly bretty versions like Ch Rayas, over ripe and jammy like in Australia, juicy and gluggable from Spain, and spicy dark fruit from Sardinia in the form of Cann...

Brown and rustic from a 2014 nebbiolo does not sound right. The only time it happened to me, with the cap and sleeve moving together, was with a Stock 'Lionel' red vermouth from Italy. In this case brown, rustic, and herbal was quite okay. Mahmoud. Graham from cellar door said it sounds like a fail...

15 years ago Pétris ‘81. All these years on still yet to pay more, despite purchasing a Vega Sicilia ‘60, fairly recently. And one that got away: Romanée-Conti ‘90 for £500, on release. Our children needed feeding & clothing. You made me approach the confessional 2007 DRC Romanee Conti I held i...

While I'm at it, here's another one I'm throwing into the Hornet's nest: Double Decanting is an over-rated, antiquated practice that in almost all circumstances should be avoided (especially for old wines) . I hate it when so-called wine experts automatically double decant old wines without a secon...

Interesting
Never heard of this grignolino before

I have more than I thought - 99 Houghton Jack Mann We had a standard size bottle at an offline last year and it was so fresh & youthful, we all thought it was 2012. So providing providence & storage (and cork holds up) is exceptional, I dare say this wine will live forever. Thanks Rossco, c...

Mahmoud Ali wrote:I continue to be impressed with the level of observation here. I think you are right about the slits at the bottom of the label, well done Rick.

Plus 1

This indicates a failure during the bottling process. The cap and sleeve are originally one part which is put over the neck of the bottle. Force is then delivered to the top of the cap which compresses the disc inside the cap against the glass lip, which is the part that creates the seal. The sides...

I have a New World nebbiolo from Lethbridge 2014 The cap and sleeve both move and it is difficult to get the screwcap off Is this a failure? I will email Lethbridge and ask but what do you think :i :?: I have never tried the wine before It brown broad & rustic But maybe that is what it should be...

no problem

I have more than I thought - 99 Houghton Jack Mann We had a standard size bottle at an offline last year and it was so fresh & youthful, we all thought it was 2012. So providing providence & storage (and cork holds up) is exceptional, I dare say this wine will live forever. is it oaky? I fi...

I have more than I thought - 99 Houghton Jack Mann 99 St henri 96 Yalumba Menzies 09 JJ Prum Goldkapsel 09 Schloss Lieser Goldkapsel 17 MacForbes Woori Yallock 17 Pooley (1 of each of the pinots) Thought there were Wynns Johns Riddochs as well, must have gone to Auction and I have a pile of Auburn ...