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This is a newish version called Guide, the full version is called Wine Anual but haven't seen it around so could now be defunct

2004 Seppelt St Peters & Chalambar
Don't think they got this right.
Heavy oak handling, quite acidic and very dry.
Not sure if it will ever come around

2015 Derwent Estate Rose. Made from Pinot Noir, nice balance savoury and some residual sweetness.

Seppelt
Penfolds
Derwent Estate
Voyager Estate
Petaluma

Not much in it really fairly broad Riesling Pinot Cabernet Shiraz then Italian & Spanish varietals

2014 Home Hill Pinot Noir deep dark purple colour crystalline , elegant nose of blackberry and dark cherries. On the palate this wine is very refined, it does not have the alcohol heat of some vintages and has nicely judged acids. Drinking very nicely now and expected to improve. Persistent length

2013 Seppelt Chalambar Shiraz x 12
2013 Glatzer Dixon Shiraz x 6
2013 Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier x 2
2015 Clonakilla Riesling x 4

2009 Bay of Fires Pinot Noir
Crystal garnet colour
Deep musk aromas funky and complex .
Good length
Deep cherry balanced oak and acidity on the palate, great drinking

Tough one this. The Delivery instructions leave behind gate means you are taking responsibility, if you say do not deliver, then it's different. Having said thT winery could put pressure on courier company. Ultimately someone could have seen the delivery and hooked it. So in that case not winery's f...

My 2cents worth...Penfolds do Cab Shiraz well at the Bin level, straight Cab 407 is not VFM in my view. For $50 and under you can get some snorting WA Cabs Voyager, Woodlands and many others. I suppose there is less competition on the Cab Shiraz market but straight Shiraz provides some good buying s...

Seppelt-St Peters, Chalambar, Drumborg Riesling,
Penfolds- 389,28, St Henri
Derwent Estate - Pinot , riesling, chardonnay
Petaluma - Coonawarra
Voyager Estate, Woodlands, Bay of Fires, Clemens Hill roughly the same

The Richmond Wine Centre has just changed hands and is now the Clemens Hill Cellar Door. Excellent lunch here, ham hock terrine, duck pastries, cheese, mussels,and some slightly more substantial food. Best place for lunch in Richmond. Full range of Clemens hill wines and a selection of Tas wines. Tr...

2003 Seppelt Chalambar
Opened 3 nights ago , initially very tannic and a little bitter. Settled down and quite smooth. Beautiful blueberry nose throughout

not ideal, but as long as it is fairly constant temp should be ok. Presume it is under cork (less of an issue with screw caps), daily fluctuations in temp will expand and contract the cork which can allow more air into the bottle and can cause premature oxidisation over the long term. I had a friend...

Big Month... 2011 Vietti Perbacco x 4 2010 Remondo Placido La Montessa x 6 2013 St Hallett Sonntag x 6 2013 Castle Rock Estate Riesling 2012 Jim Barry Riesling The Florita X 3 2012 Heemskirk Riesling x 3 2013 Pikes Riesling x 6 2011 Howard Park Riesling x 3 2012 Derwent Estate Riesling x 6 2010 Clem...

old wines can move quickly in the glass, as GraemeG said you can wait for the wine but the wine can't wait for you. If it were my wine I would open around 30 mins before service, gently double decant and see how it goes. Always good to set aside a glass if people are likely to drink it up soon....ju...

Recent tastings the 98 is better than the 96, but agree probably good time to drink. Personally I like more fruit than tertiary characters in the balance

As an up front statement , I collect Penfolds wines and have done so for decades. I collect a lot of wines but I particularly enjoy Bin 389 and St Henri and have verticals of these wines. I believe they are good examples of the genre, they age extremely well and drink extremely well when they are re...

I would have expected a description along the lines of stained label. This is not cellar damage IMO, that is perhaps minor splattering, little rips, tears, dirt and grazes etc. However looks like it is in good condition and no evidence of leakage from around the top of cork is an excellent sign. If ...

As a general rule probably not a good idea to advertise wine for sale as you need a liquor licence to advertise and sell wine. Gavin obviously has a LL but he is not selling the wine. End result is that it could unintentionally create problems for Gavin. Other sites have had issues with this in the ...

My initial reaction to the 2012 Aust Rieslings was that they were quite ripe and lacked the depth of better vintages. I find that ripe vintages quickly develop overt kero flavour profiles and then go down hill. They may turn out to be very good but they didn't grab me with that must buy feeling. The...

Grange 2010 screw cap drink to 2150
no issues with sideways storage for mine

Jansz
Bay of Fires but may be more than $20

I had a bottle of the 2003 on New Year's Eve. Even though 2003 wasn't noted as a great vintage I was disappointed. It was fairly muted on the nose with plums on the palate. Would describe it as muddy. No to very little complexity displayed. Could have been heat affected. Glad to hear that the 12 sh...

Nice cellar. a little too accessible to the games room from my perspective. You need to at least make it hard to get those late night mistaken consumptions

well, wine will turn into vinegar; so probablly exposed to air and heat. It is probablly on the way to vinegar. some bigger wines like shiraz would probablly hide this better that a lighter variety. some restaurants are very reluctant to open new bottles they see a 3/4 full bottle of a $50 wine and ...

1986 Lindemans Limestone Ridge Cabernet Shiraz This was a blast from the past. Opened and drunk immediately, only decanted to eliminate sediment. Cork was sodden and had shrunk resulting in an easy extraction, but probablly means this wine was not at its best. anyway to the wine , colour was browni...

2010 Mitchell Pepertree Shiraz now had two bottles of this and by far and away this was the better of the two. Medium bodied, fragrant good mouth feel. This bottle was nicely balanced previouse bottle seemed a bit angular. It may have helped that this was consumed with food. St Hallett Eden Valley ...

yep i bought a Chianti circa $150 for $30 that had been sitting in a remainders bin outside for months in the sun. The wine was excellent. It is a lottery and probably gets worse if your going to keep the wine for any length of time. The end result is that it is likely that the wine won't be at its ...

great wines in the early 2000's, distinct personality and character all different 00,01,02,03 liked them all