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I got in this morning-wow, it was an amazing site-there must have been 60 burly workers all collecting, washing, packing damaged wine. A good, slightly surreal atmosphere. Little room to move. Huge skips filled with sodden wooden crates that once housed bollinger or Greenock creek. Piles of crumbly ...

The main thing that matters to me is temperature control. The cleanup can take as long as needed, provided the temp of the cellar is maintained below twenty, preferably 15, degrees. My wine was not flood affected, but will be temperature damaged if left in the heat, which would be a shame. I've been...

Damn-just enough to wreck the vinyl!
majority of wine would have been untouched though.

Alas my wine was also at Kennards-it was at the very top of the cellar there-along with my prized vinyl lp's. Even if the water had got that high, the heat will be doing far more damage now. The wine would have been perfectly drinkable on Monday, but after yesterday's (and todays) heat, we are looki...

Gregoire
The 01 pinot is going nowhere fast-drink or get rid of it.
The 00 pinot is way better, and drinking well now. I'd get stuck in.

Cheers

The Last Chance 02 is a good pinot I've had a few times. It is in the big fruited, generous Otago style. The first paddock I've had once and I was uderwhelmed. Haven't tried any others.

Giaconda give you the choice in 04 en primeur.

I don't know about others, but if I drank a single bottle of wine at a sitting I'd be rorted! Really...just one bottle?? 2 is easy, 3 doable... I concur... Snap Oh dear-half is good, one is a stretch, two is bad, three is IV drip and stomach suction time..... Go for four fifty buck wines-and a cart...