Feb 2020 Purchases

[FredericoWines]

'12 Pierre Peters Les Chetillons BdB
NV ('14) Marie-Courtin Eloquence BdB
NV ('15) Ulysse Colin Les Maillons BnN

[Mike Hawkins]

'12 Pierre Peters Les Chetillons BdB
NV ('14) Marie-Courtin Eloquence BdB
NV ('15) Ulysse Colin Les Maillons BnN

Nice work... Chets is creeping up in price, but I’d like to get some more of the 12. I’m hearing great things about the 13.

[FredericoWines]

I paid CAD148 for the Chetillons, approx AUD 170. Did I do okay?

[Mike Hawkins]

I paid CAD148 for the Chetillons, approx AUD 170. Did I do okay?

Yes

[WAwineguy]

Not. Buying. Any. More. Wine!!!

Well, except champagne of course

2008 Veuve Clicquot Rose
2008 Bollinger La Grande Annee
2008 dom Perignon
2008 Louis Roederer Cristal

All staying in their boxes on the floor of the cellar for a while to come.

[FredericoWines]

Not. Buying. Any. More. Wine!!!

Well, except champagne of course

2008 Veuve Clicquot Rose
2008 Bollinger La Grande Annee
2008 dom Perignon
2008 Louis Roederer Cristal

All staying in their boxes on the floor of the cellar for a while to come.

Yes. I wish I could find '08 VC Rosé and Bollinger LGA at stores here in Calgary, AB, Canada

[Mike Hawkins]

Not. Buying. Any. More. Wine!!!

Well, except champagne of course

2008 Veuve Clicquot Rose
2008 Bollinger La Grande Annee
2008 dom Perignon
2008 Louis Roederer Cristal

All staying in their boxes on the floor of the cellar for a while to come.

28/3 2008 Taittinger Comtes is released.... start saving!

[phillisc]

Not. Buying. Any. More. Wine!!!

Well, except champagne of course

2008 Veuve Clicquot Rose
2008 Bollinger La Grande Annee
2008 dom Perignon
2008 Louis Roederer Cristal

All staying in their boxes on the floor of the cellar for a while to come.

That would be about my budget for the year I reckon
Cheers craig

[mjs]

1 x 2017 Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet at a 7/11 in Bangkok for B800 ($40)

[phillisc]

A case of 2013 Seppelts Salinger

Cheers Craig

[Mahmoud Ali]

Succumbed once again, this time to a couple of bottles of 2011 Hexamer Meddersheimer Rheingrafenberg Riesling Spatlese (Nahe, Germany). I'm not supposed to buy any more wines but they met with both of my escape clauses, them being an older vintage and on sale. Sigh.

[Ian S]

Riesling Spatlese or Kabinett doesn't count. It's not like they won't get drunk when the weather warms up

[Mahmoud Ali]

Riesling Spatlese or Kabinett doesn't count. It's not like they won't get drunk when the weather warms up

Does that mean I can go ahead and indiscriminately buy German riesling without fear of overstepping my self imposed buying restraints?

[sjw_11]

For me it is always if there is a special offer ... "Oh it doesn't count if I am saving money!!"

[Mahmoud Ali]

... "Oh it doesn't count if I am saving money!!"

That's the one I'm going with!!

[JamieBahrain]

The wine market has collapsed in China according to my sources. And I'm guessing i HKG too.

So I've stopped buying and awaiting inevitable sales- but retailers holding out.

[Ozzie W]

The wine market has collapsed in China according to my sources. And I'm guessing i HKG too.

So I've stopped buying and awaiting inevitable sales- but retailers holding out.

Is this related to Coronavirus or is something else going on?

[JamieBahrain]

Corona Virus.

Nobody is buying, just rice and toilet paper.

[Ozzie W]

And so it begins. The offers for 2016 Barolo have started.

2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Ravera
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Monvigliero
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Villero
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Parussi
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Rocche di Castiglione
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Monprivato
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Perno
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Gabutti

Prices nearly the same as the 2015's (which I didn't buy).

[rosewaterwrx]

And so it begins. The offers for 2016 Barolo have started.

2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Ravera
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Monvigliero
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Villero
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Parussi
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Rocche di Castiglione
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Monprivato
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Perno
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Gabutti

Prices nearly the same as the 2015's (which I didn't buy).

Hard to find any tasting notes on the 16 Sordo wines. I believe Gary from Winefront will be publishing reviews Monday evening but curious that I can't find any tasting notes elsewhere.

[Ozzie W]

And so it begins. The offers for 2016 Barolo have started.

2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Ravera
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Monvigliero
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Villero
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Parussi
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Rocche di Castiglione
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Monprivato
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Perno
2016 Giovanni Sordo Barolo Gabutti

Prices nearly the same as the 2015's (which I didn't buy).

Hard to find any tasting notes on the 16 Sordo wines. I believe Gary from Winefront will be publishing reviews Monday evening but curious that I can't find any tasting notes elsewhere.

Tasting notes are available from the importer, David Ridge. Also a couple TNs from Walter Speller.

[JamieBahrain]

Prices nearly the same as the 2015's (which I didn't buy).

Many 16 Barbarescos were same price and little hype. I'm pretty sure Gaja's 16's SSL and ST still same price as release.

There's a lot of Barolo and Barbaresco easily available on the market- and there's a lot more Cru bottlings and plantings than a decade ago- so coupled with troubled traditional and emerging markets hopefully we avoid the BS vintage hyperbole.

[Ozzie W]

Prices nearly the same as the 2015's (which I didn't buy).

Many 16 Barbarescos were same price and little hype. I'm pretty sure Gaja's 16's SSL and ST still same price as release.

There's a lot of Barolo and Barbaresco easily available on the market- and there's a lot more Cru bottlings and plantings than a decade ago- so coupled with troubled traditional and emerging markets hopefully we avoid the BS vintage hyperbole.

Many producers are frequently not easily available in Australia. Demand often outstrips supply. If you're not quick enough, you just miss out, and bottle limits may also apply. More so if the wines are highly revered by local wine critics such as The Wine Front. Our currency has also fallen of late, so there will be pressure to increase prices, even if just slightly. 2016 vintage yields above average, so hopefully that increases availability down under. It's still early days for the 2016 Barolo releases, so we'll see what happens.

[kenzo]

2 x 2015 Flaccianello
1 x 2012 Tyrell's Vat 1 semillon
1 x 2013 Tyrell's Vat 9 shiraz

[Wines101]

2003 Janasse Chaupin
2003 Clos Des Papes
2006 Marcoux VV
2011 Xanadu Reserve Chardonnay
2015 Clos St Jean
2017 Cullen Kevin John Chardonnay

[mychurch]

Sorry Gavin

When I first moved here my wife decided I needed to get into drinking ‘normal’ wine, so signed up for something called Wine Selectors. Seems to specialise in selling on overpriced stock, or off vintages. Had a few decent wines , but I managed to get her to stop and told her that if she ever wanted to buy me something, then order from Auswine. All fixed I thought until these arrived yesterday

3 * Tyrrells ‘14 Vat 47 Chardonnay
3 * Tyrrells ‘18 HVD Chardonnay
3 * Cromy ‘12 Zadar Chardonnay

I don’t actually mind getting the Tyrrells, although I’d rather it was their Semillon, but I wonder why someone still is selling the ‘14. The Cromy, down on the site at $75 a bottle, is an obviously poor buy in my eyes. $600 for the lot.

Big difference of course if that she was cold called and they got her at just the right moment. Have to smile and say thanks, but I have yet again given her the Smink to this site so that she can check. Maybe I should just send Gavin her number.

[FredericoWines]

2016 Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet

[mjs]

12 x 2016 Balnaves The Blend - what a cracking wine for the price
6 x 2019 Wynns Riesling
6 x 2019 Wynns Chardonnay
12 x 2016 Bleasdale Frank Potts Cabernet Malbec

[felixp21]

The wine market has collapsed in China according to my sources. And I'm guessing i HKG too.

So I've stopped buying and awaiting inevitable sales- but retailers holding out.

spot on, Jamie. I'm getting increasingly "desperate" emails from e-tailers in HK offering all sorts of stuff, including hard-to-get Burgundy. Covid-19 combined with the unpopular 17 and 18 (EP) Burgundy vintages are really biting deep with the HK wine merchants.
the Chinese market might well be dead for a decade after Covid..... every business owner I know (including me ) is losing large amounts of hard-earned by paying staff to isolate at home, and trying to sell stuff to totally dead markets. Situation in China is becoming increasingly dire.
will be fascinating to see what happens in France with (1) Trump's threatened measures, we have not heard the last of that, and (2) the catastrophic almost total loss of the Chinese market.

[felixp21]

I'm tipping the complete collapse of the Bordeaux 2019 EP campaign, as in, there may not even be one!!!