June 2015 Purchases

[Andrew Jordan]

x6 2012 Linderman's Limestone Ridge purchased at the TWE Cellardoor Sydney Tasting Event last night at the SCG. Nice venue for a wine tasting! This wine and the 2012 Seppelt St.Peters stood out to me for real bang for your buck. The 2010 Penfold's Grange was still wound pretty tight and wasn't giving too much away as expected but it had class written all over it. However for $600 per bottle ... pass.

[Willard]

Didn't want to put it down until they arrived as I had an uncharacteristically superstitious moment...

4 x 2014 Tyrrell's Vat 9
3 x 2014 Tyrrell's Johnno's Shiraz
5 x 2014 Tyrrell's Old Patch
6 x 2014 Tyrrell's 4 Acres

This will be my only purchase for June (keep repeating to myself...).

[Willard]

3 x 2005 Seppelt Chalambar Shiraz
4 x 2010 De Bortoli Estate Pinot Noir
4 x 2008 De Bortoli Estate Shiraz Viognier
6 x 2013 De Bortoli Villages Pinot Noir

It's been creeping up for a while but I reckon I'm about a dozen bottles away from crossing the line from De Bortoli fan to De Bortoli tragic. Steve Webber, and his team, just seem to have a knack or producing really good, elegant wines that cellar well at a very competitive price.

I'm not quite at the tragic level, but I agree on the quality De Bortoli has been producing lately. I had the 2013 (I think) Estate Pinot Noir a few weeks back and it had class and complexity well beyond the $22 or so I paid. I've found a couple of the chardonnays to be a little lean for me though still classy.

Will

[Duncan Disorderly]

3 x 2005 Seppelt Chalambar Shiraz
4 x 2010 De Bortoli Estate Pinot Noir
4 x 2008 De Bortoli Estate Shiraz Viognier
6 x 2013 De Bortoli Villages Pinot Noir

It's been creeping up for a while but I reckon I'm about a dozen bottles away from crossing the line from De Bortoli fan to De Bortoli tragic. Steve Webber, and his team, just seem to have a knack or producing really good, elegant wines that cellar well at a very competitive price.

I'm not quite at the tragic level, but I agree on the quality De Bortoli has been producing lately. I had the 2013 (I think) Estate Pinot Noir a few weeks back and it had class and complexity well beyond the $22 or so I paid. I've found a couple of the chardonnays to be a little lean for me though still classy.

Will

I haven't had the 2013 Estate Pinot, but I have half a dozen bottles so I'm glad to hear your high praise. The 2014 also sounds pretty superb and is but a fortnight away from being added to the cellar.

[timnit]

It was my 30th Birthday so have managed to acquire some great bottles or acquire cash to purchase on our week long trip from Melbourne to Great Western, Coonawarra, McLaren Vale, Barossa and Eden Valley's!!!

1 x 2009 Rockford Basket Press Magnum
1 x 2012 John Duval Entity
1 x 2009 Best's Old Clone Pinto
1 x Kay Brothers 125year Sparkling Shiraz
1 x 2014 Hentley Farm Shiraz
1 x 2010 Balnaves Cabernet
1 x 2012 Schwarz Wine Co Nitschke Block (my surname!)
1 x 2012 D'Arenberg Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viogner
1 x 2015 Rockford White Frontignac
1 x 2013 Rockford Frugal Farmer
1 x 2012 Rockford Rod & Spur
1 x 2009 Kaesler The Bogan
1 x 2008 Two Hand Coach House Block

Various Half Bottles from Rockford, Katnook, Wirra Wirra & Penfolds - great to have with wife now pregnant!

Other presents received.. not bought on trip;
3 x 2009 Shelmerdine Merindoc Heathcote Shirzaz Magnums
2 x 2006 Rockford Baseket Press
1 x 2013 Clonakilla Shiraz Viogner
1 x 2012 Kay Brothers Block 6
1 x 2010 Torbreck Run Rig
2 x Johnnie Blue
1 x Makers Mark
2 x Johnnie Red
1 x Johnnie Double Black

[sparky]

Another case of 2012 Metala, can't help myself

Cheers
Craig

Shhhh!! Stop telling everyone or it'll run out!

[JamieBahrain]

I have to get a case now......

Anyone with note on the contemporary house style? What about longevity?

[deejay81]

Anyone with note on the contemporary house style? What about longevity?

My descriptors aren't very good but I had this a couple of weeks back: From the What are you drinking now thread:

Drank with a Mrs Macs microwave beef pie...

2012 Metala White Label Shiraz Cab - Bottle No 160149

How many bottles of this stuff did they make???? Anyway, Didn't really pair well with the pie but it didn't not pair with it either, I was just hungry and Lauren and I both wanted a drink.
Decanted and poured. Dark purple with a little bit of red. Initially lots of raisins and blackcurrents from the decanter, then in the glass, more black fruit bit of eucalyptus and menthol.
Upon tasting, more black fruits, a bit of leather, and some fine tannins, couldn't really notice too much oak either.
For how much I paid for this ($13 in a six pack or so possibly less), this is great stuff with or without meat pies!

[JamieBahrain]

Thx Deejay.

Is it structured to cellar or the modern style drink up?

[phillisc]

Thx Deejay.

Is it structured to cellar or the modern style drink up?

Yes Jamie, its a bit of a fruit bomb, but a beautiful fruit bomb! Beautiful fruits, rich, plush with a good balance of oak, power of shiraz with the calming temperance of cabernet...Best VFM wine in the country.
Wolfies right hand man John Glatzer knew exactly what he was on about when he knew 40 years ago that LC provided some outstanding depth to the Barossa marques that wowed the show circut for just as long.

I believe In my humblest of humble opinons that LC is the most under rated unheralded region bar none in Australia.
I have a few Metalas in the the cellar from the 80s, a few from the 90s and stacks from the noughties...they will cellar for decades and a thread that Mahmoud and myself had a bit of fun back last year or so, where can you have a wine that cost you 20 cents a vintage.

On another well worn point:

I know you will tell me to let go again and yes understand how we can be in absolute raptures about a particular Aussie red(s), yours is HoG/Mt Ed mine is John Riddoch, but in Graeme's current thread, the statement alluding to MT Ed not possibly staying at 1/7 the price of HoG with respect leaves me scatching my head.

I get bloody annoyed at wine writers, particulary one in Australia who is not on the gravy train but driving it, making constant suggestions that wine X should be 5 times the price.
We as passionate consumers need to remain impartial about such things, I try my best, but cry in my beer about the prices of many wines that overnight scaled the heights that I can not ever consider buying again.

I don't doubt that Mt Ed is outstanding...that's not the point, what I do doubt that if something is already so good ( and yes got 3 bottles of the 2012 myself and will probably be the most expensive wine that I buy this year at $135 pb), how can it then be better than so good, year after year after year??
Soon we will be in St Henriville 100 points...102 points.

I don't get, much less buy the argument, (pardon the pun) that wines need to go up crazily in price...just based on speculation...100 point reviews or some Johhny come lately international wine scibe/buyer saying this is the next 3 Rivers.

Oh Moira, sorry for the advertisement...just purchased another case for my trouble.

Cheers
Craig

[Rocky]

12 x 2013 Woodlands cab merlot
6 x 2014 Woodlands Chardonnay
6 x 2011 Vasse Felix cab sav
1 x 2002 Penfolds Grange

[Andrew Jordan]

12 x 2013 Woodlands cab merlot

Thought this was pretty good too for the price and stocked up like you!

[Hacker]

12 x 2013 Woodlands cab merlot

Thought this was pretty good too for the price and stocked up like you!

Look out for the Cab Franc Merlot if you can find it. Much less produced in 2013 apparently. But well worth it.

[Rocky]

12 x 2013 Woodlands cab merlot

Thought this was pretty good too for the price and stocked up like you!

Look out for the Cab Franc Merlot if you can find it. Much less produced in 2013 apparently. But well worth it.

I am visiting in early July so will ask about it but i am sure it won't be going for the $16 / bottle I paid for the Cab Merlot. From memory, like their Pinot, the Cab Franc is in small quantities.

[Hacker]

I am visiting in early July so will ask about it but i am sure it won't be going for the $16 / bottle I paid for the Cab Merlot. From memory, like their Pinot, the Cab Franc is in small quantities.

That is an amazing price, the winery sells it for around $23 or so. You did well!

[Rocky]

I am visiting in early July so will ask about it but i am sure it won't be going for the $16 / bottle I paid for the Cab Merlot. From memory, like their Pinot, the Cab Franc is in small quantities.

That is an amazing price, the winery sells it for around $23 or so. You did well!

That "L" place.

[Pat]

6 x 2012 Wynns Black Label Cab Sav
6 x 2012 Rockford Rod & Spur

[Scotty vino]

6 X 2013 Majella The Musician, Coonawarra
1 X 2011 Rockford BP.
1 X 2014 Taylors Shiraz (landed in my lap so chucked it the cellar)

[Luke W]

6 x 2012 Rockford Rifle Range Cabernet Sauvignon
5 x 2012 Seppelt St Peters Shiraz

[michel]

2013 Rousseau - kaching on the credit card

[Hacker]

2013 Rousseau - kaching on the credit card

2012 was my last foray into Rousseau. Guaranteed. I think.

6 x 2007 Moss Wood Cab Sav
6 x 2010 Grand Puy Lacoste - curse you felix
6 x 2012 Majella Cab Sav - curse you too Ian

[michel]

2013 Rousseau - kaching on the credit card

2012 was my last foray into Rousseau. Guaranteed. I think.

6 x 2007 Moss Wood Cab Sav
6 x 2010 Grand Puy Lacoste - curse you felix
6 x 2012 Majella Cab Sav - curse you too Ian

every year is my last

2014 out of barrel is awesome

[Ozzie W]

1 x 2014 Head Wines Ancestor Vine Grenache
2 x 2014 Head Wines Old Vine Grenache
2 x 2014 Head Wines 'The Contrarian'
1 x 2013 Pizzini Sangiovese
3 x 2013 Standish Grenache
3 x 2013 Standish 'The Standish'
3 x 2013 Standish 'The Relic'
2 x 2014 Rockford Black Shiraz
2 x 2011 Rockford Basket Press Shiraz

[Wayno]

12 x Sieber rd shiraz Grenache 2013
12 x Devils Lair CS 2012
3 x Majella CS 2012
3 x Majella Shiraz 2012
12 x Quattro Mano Tempranillo

[Scotty vino]

The boss was at a wine shindig in Adelaide today and came home with this lot,
1 of each;
2010 De Lisio The Covert Shiraz
2012 John Duval Wines Entity Shiraz
2014 Kaesler Barbera d'Anunda
2013 Possingham & Summers Viognier
2014 Schwarz Wine Company Grenache Meta
2013 Sons of Eden Kennedy GSM
2014 Teusner The Wark Family Stonewell Shiraz
2013 Vinteloper Wines Adelaide Adelo Touriga (65%), Shiraz (25%), Pinot Noir (6%) & Grenache (4%)

[felixp]

2013 Rousseau - kaching on the credit card

hahaha, lucky you didn't buy in Hong Kong, here it is double kaching on the credit card, despite the tax-free environment. Rousseau is one of maybe 10 or so producers people here buy irrespective of the price, in fact, I am told they usually don't even bother asking what price is!!!!
Virtually all of these wines are Burgundy, although HK and the Mainland seem to have also become the home of the absurd Liber Pater

[rens]

CVNE IMPERIAL RIOJA GRAN RESERVA 2005
CVNE IMPERIAL RIOJA GRAN RESERVA 2007
CVNE CUNE RESERVA 2008

[Chuck]

A lucky dip from auction:

1 x BIRD IN HAND Mount Lofty Ranges Shiraz 2013
1 x HOWARD PARK Flint Rock Great Southern Shiraz 2011
1 x LECONFIELD McLaren Vale Shiraz 2013
1 x SHINGLEBACK The Davey Estate Reserve McLaren Vale Shiraz 2012
1 bottle XANADU Margaret River Shiraz 2012
1 bottle WIRRA WIRRA Woodhenge McLaren Vale Shiraz 2012

And to Feed my emerging habit for Single Malt Whiskey:

Oban 14YO
Talisker 18YO
Dalmore 14YO
Bowman 12YO
Talisker Storm
Glenmorangie 12YO

Gosh this stuff is good. Drinking it straight the spirit kick is awesome. Super long finish that keeps giving long after the sip.

Carl

[Sigmamupi]

2013 Rousseau - kaching on the credit card

But you will never regret it.

I assume you are buying direct if its 2013 vintage and you have some sort of introduction or long term relationship to them and you just can't walk in off the street like an Australian cellar door?

Btw, out of interest what price do they charge direct? I have drunk young Rousseau Chambertin or Clos de Beze a number of times off restaurant winelists in France and the current going rate at the right venue is about 500-550 euros a bottle, which sure beats buying it in Australia or HK. You just have to make the sacrifice of drinking a great wine young rather than waiting until its peak but my dining group wasn't complaining about vinous infanticide when we sampled a 2010 Clos de Beze in Beaune last year

[Hacker]

Btw, out of interest what price do they charge direct? I have drunk young Rousseau Chambertin or Clos de Beze a number of times off restaurant winelists in France and the current going rate at the right venue is about 500-550 euros a bottle, which sure beats buying it in Australia or HK. You just have to make the sacrifice of drinking a great wine young rather than waiting until its peak but my dining group wasn't complaining about vinous infanticide when we sampled a 2010 Clos de Beze in Beaune last year

That is about the retail release price in Australia. If you are lucky enough to be on a buyers list.