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Hi All. Been off the grid for while, drinking very little. Offloaded about 30 dozen bottles. Cheers Con. Glad to hear your ok Con. We have missed you. We had Tom and Jerrem to dinner last night and cooked a chicory Tarte tatatin and a couple of Tomohawks. Have enough leftovers to keep us fed for at...

Bought a bottle of Jacky Blot Chenin tonight. Vin De France of course and forgot to ask the actual price…Boudignon Savennieres level…ooch.

After missing out on the Giaconda Chardonnay, I instead went for 3 x 2022 Savaterre Chardonnay Other purchases this month: 3 x 2022 Mount Pleasant Mountain D Dry Red 3 x 2017 Mount Pleasant Maurice O’Shea Shiraz 2 x 2020 Masseria Li Veli Susumaniello Need to save the pennies for Standish next month...

I flipped some wine I was never going to drink and ended up with

1 * 2001 Sparkling, Granite Hills
1 * 2020 Les Quarts, Belargus
1 * 2018 La Charoenteie, Domaine De Collier
1 * 2021 Les Coqueries, Stéphane Bernaudeau
1 * 2019 Munta Le Ruma Timorasso, Giacommo

I noticed the Bress offer as well. No real room for another 6 bottles though. Just finished the end of the bottle tonight and it was still drinking well

There is actually a reserved mailing list for some customers, which I only found out about on Sat. I don’t know how the pricing went, but at the same discussion I was told that the quantity of wine available on the secondary market caused the price to crash last year. May still have been above the r...

Don’t remember ever drink the Basket Press before. I thought it was meant to be an old school Parker style wine with a lot of oak and extract, but it was actually reasonabley elegant. Good fruit and acidity, this was the first bottle to be finished on the day, which tells its own story. The Koomila ...

With the benefit of hindsight I served the reds in the wrong order. They were sorted by region, starting with Vic, and then moving onto South Australia. That meant the more modern wines - Agricola, Setiono and (to a lesser extent) Sami Odi - came after some more traditional wines. These in vogue new...

7DD3E3FB-CE32-4EEA-BFE9-AA0D2A626587.jpeg We also had a nice selection of sweet wines at the end. Missing from the photo is the 2014 Suduiraut, which was a fantastic wine. Proper Sauternes with a lushness and a weigh of fruit that made it very different to the others. Glorious and one of the best w...

0684D2B8-EF5E-4FA8-994B-7F7BE48204ED.jpeg What a great tasting. More notes to follow of course, but there was much more variety to the wines than I was expecting. NV Sepplt Sparkling Shiraz 3* 2020 Finestra Shiraz 3* 2017 Melissa’s Paddock, Levantine Hill 2* 2020 Le Grand Cock, Bress 4* 2021 Pyrett...

Con and I had a dinner at the Recreation a few months ago. That was on a Wed night. Corkage was $30 a bottle with a limit of 1 bottle pp we actually drank 5 though. Note that they don’t allow corkage on Friday or Sat.

Opened up a 2016 Block 95 Cabernet from Parker Estate last night. Too young, but its one of those hard to store bottles and I need to make some room before the May Sami Odi delivery, Pretty bad wine. Its gloopy and syrupy and missing freshness. Lots of fruit, but its dominated by a lot of charcoal -...

Travis

It was the ‘23 vintage. They also had the 22 Chardonnay ($129), 22 Gamay ($89)and 21 Cabernet ($71) as part of the offer. Sent out on 16/02. I picked the wine up a week later along with an auction purchase.

Just incase there are some lurkers out there, the next get together for the Melbourne group will be current vintage Shiraz ( well current or the previous).

Please send a pm of you are interested in coming along.

I picked up a few bottle of the SBS a few months ago at MW - it was release mid Feb for $59. Wierd if mailing list members have just received it

How much is the SSB now on the list ?

Lovely Tawny. It does not have the silkiness and glycerin of a top Fortified, but there is a lovely pepperiness on the finish. Not sweet, just red fruits and some dark sugar. Lovely wine

Are there more mineral wines than Greek Assyrtiko ? Really seems to soak up the sea and the stone.

I think I have lamented before that one of my favourite wines - a fantastic Assyrtico/Semillon blend - is not imported into Greeces 3rd city. Shame.

Where it was stored and level are more important than the original case. Given that it’s not cost you anything, just open and drink it - stand it up for a day and then pop and pour.

There are definitely bargains out there - price for Sami-Odi at MW tonight seemed a lot softer than a year ago. Still plenty of bidders though - a couple of wines I flagged went for more than double the reserve. I picked up a couple of bottles of 93 St George Cabernet, Lindemans, 6 bottles of 2006 B...

Cant see an Admin thread, so I'll post this here

Under Private Messages I can see a number of messages in my outbox that dont appear in the Sent folder. Have these messages actually been sent ?

3 bottles of 75 Steinberger Spatlese from Staatsweingüter Eltville.

Not a name that rolls off the tongue, but when you see the white labels and the big eagle they are pretty recognisable.

7261FDD0-01F4-4694-BD90-C4A154C5E9F2.jpeg Can’t believe how good this Durif is - the glass on the right is the Vin Jaune that Dan sells. No idea what the alcohol is, but it’s a wine still full of life. Lots of silky, creamy chocolate and plenty of bush and bacon fat. When I lived I Europe I bought ...

77A9A65B-719D-495B-821D-2299F50CF887.jpeg Thanks to Andrew (who I don’t think is on this site) for putting together this tasting. We tried a whole spectrum from Aldi up to the Dom. Cuttlefish wrote some extensive notes, which I hope he will share, while my notes are just some memories from the morn...

Went to a Montrose tasting with Cuttlefish tonight, which was fun. 19, 12, 11, 94 and 95 of the Grand wine, 19 and 14 of Le Dame and the 19 white and red Tronquay. I went along just to see how young Bdx looks nowadays, and the answer is ‘very well’. The 2 Tronquay wines were very open, modern and ac...

I bought a few bottles of Elizabeth Semillon at MW, 1 of the 84 and 2 of the 86. I drank the 83 with Con a few weeks ago and it was hanging on, so hopefully these will be fine - cork of course, so who knows. A couple of curios from Langtons: a NV Morris Sauternes, and a Mic Morris Sparkling Durif/Sh...

1 * 1993 JJ Christoffel Erdener Treppchen Auslese
2 * 23 Sorrenberg Sauvignon|Semillon
3 * 07 Elizabeth Semillon, Mount Pleasant
1 * 15 Petite Mensang, Symphony Hill Wines

Really interested in the Symphony Hill - never really tried much wine from Queensland.

83 Elizabeth Semillon
66 Black Label
84 Mount Mary Cabernets (corked)
82 John Riddoch
85 Moss Wood
A very old Muscat

2nd get together with Tom Cannavan and it was a fantastic night. 66 was the star - it improved all night - and this was the best bottle of JR I have had . Cudos to Con.

My Leibherr finally arrived today. Looks fantastic, but it was a bit of a shock to find out that I had enough wine to fill it. 195 is the capacity, but I have about 185 bottles in. As usual, its the Burg bottles that are the problem - they have cost me 1 row. Either way, I assumed zit would be 2/3 f...

The Melbourne group had lunch yesterday at ll Gambero on Lygon Street. Corkage was $10 a bottle. Food was the simple pasta/pizza variety, but it was all edible and the service was good. Kitchen closed at 3, but we could still order deserts and there was no rush to get us out - we left just after 5. ...