March 2025 Purchases

[phillisc]

2 Wynns PX
A few mixed 2022/2024 Rieslings from Riesling Freak...a very enjoyable tasting.
Some more 2021 Rockford BP and 2024 Vine Vale EV Riesling.

Cheers Craig

[Andrew Jordan]

x3 2021 Houghton Cabernet Sauvignon Jack Mann (voucher and a store purchase credit helped bring price down to $89/bottle

[marmi01]

1 x Savannah Estate Sparkling Moscato
1 x Vinifera 2022 Organix Gran Tinto
1 x Charteris 2023 Pinot Noir

Mick

[Alan Foo]

3 x 2021 Rockford BP
1 x 2021 Rifle Range Cab Sauv
1 x 2021 Rod and Spur
1 x 2021 P.S. Marion Tawny
2 x 1990 Wynns Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon
1 x 1991 Wynns Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon

Cheers Alan

[Mike Hawkins]

6 x 21 Rockford BP

[mjs]

3 x 2023 Te Mata Coleraine
6 x 2021 Ch Labegorce Bordeaux

[Mike Hawkins]

6 x 2021 Eisenstone x10 Shiraz

[mjs]

Interesting mystery mixed red dozen from the big L:

1 x 2020 Domaine Belle Crozes-Hermitage Les Pierelles
1 x 2021 Ch Batailley Pauillac
1 x 2021 Ata Rangi Martinborough Pinot Noir
1 x 2018 Domaines Bournet-lapostolle Le Petit Clos Clos Apalta
1 x 2022 Lindemans Coonawarra LImestome Ridge
1 x 2020 Orlando Abrigo Valmaggiore Nebbiolo d'Alba
1 x 2020 Artadis Vinãs de Gain
1 x 2015 Clarendon Hills Blewitt Springs Brookman Merlot
1 x 2020 1847 Wines First Pick Barossa Shiraz
1 x 2020 Omada Barossa Valley Cabernet
1 x 2017 Yalumba The Octavius Barossa Old Vine Shiraz
1 x 2017 Cape Mentelle Explorers Blend

[Rossco]

6 x 2012 Seppelt Show Reserve Sparkling Shiraz

[SipAndANibble]

1 x 2012 Petaluma Coonawarra Evans vineyard blend

[phillisc]

A dozen 2019 Majella Shiraz.
Cheers Craig

[Michael McNally]

A dozen 2019 Majella Shiraz.
Cheers Craig

At half price you'd be mad not too! (I am mad - don't buy 12 of anything no matter what the offers).

Cheers

Michael

[phillisc]

A dozen 2019 Majella Shiraz.
Cheers Craig

At half price you'd be mad not too! (I am mad - don't buy 12 of anything no matter what the offers).

Cheers

Michael

Michael, I almost agree, but I have tried this wine a few times and its great...for $17:50 bottle, a dozen is probably not enough, but a mate and or the lad will help me out.
I have a wry smile re the Torbreck thread, they don't have a Shiraz of this calibre at this price point. Never mind Prof Lynn is a great bloke and probably realises a few things; wine is a bit slow to move, people are watching their pennies, so price it to clear it, rather than play games through VM or some other mystery player.
I do think if this was the Cabernet, there would be punters purchasing multiple cases and everyone would be on it.
I don't buy many 12s these days but when there is a bargain with pedigree, or its Wynns Black Label, game on.

Cheers Craig

[lew_drinks]

8 * lakes folly Cabernets
4 * lakes folly Chardonnay

[mjs]

Also got onboard the Majella sale, used some points, so only $16.1/b

12 x 2019 Majella Shiraz

[phillisc]

That's the spirit Malcolm!

A couple of auction buys, unfortunately a fraction more than release price
1 1980 Wynns BL
1 1999 Wynns BL

Cheers Craig

[mjs]

Some auction success for me from 1998

1 x 1998 Katnook Cabernet [magnum]
2 x 1998 Wynns Shiraz
2 x 1998 Yalumba The Menzies

[Alan Foo]

That's the spirit Malcolm!

A couple of auction buys, unfortunately a fraction more than release price
1 1980 Wynns BL
1 1999 Wynns BL

Cheers Craig

Craig, Lucky you nobody fighting with you over the 80 and 99 Wynns BL. I opened a bottle of the 80 last week and it's full of favour and drinking very well.

[phillisc]

That's the spirit Malcolm!

A couple of auction buys, unfortunately a fraction more than release price
1 1980 Wynns BL
1 1999 Wynns BL

Cheers Craig

Craig, Lucky you nobody fighting with you over the 80 and 99 Wynns BL. I opened a bottle of the 80 last week and it's full of favour and drinking very well.

Cheers Alan, I reckon I have seen your name pop up at Wickham's or other auctions and yes you like Coonawarra and Wynns as well. I was thinking of back filling from the 70s but will stick with the 80s vintages. I used to have 6 or more of all but many have been consumed.

I have probably shown my hand now and wish we could work together to share the spoils. I know Con has a few and there's another poster on here who states dozens and dozens of BLs from the 70s and 80s in the cellar that he has no intention of drinking. For a fair price, I would certainly like to buy a few.

I still have about 6 or so to get... mainly odd years, as it was even years for many years that were the better wines.

Cheers Craig

[sjw_11]

2023 Lirac, La Lorentine, Domaine de Marcoux x6

2023 Côtes du Rhône Blanc, Le Temps Est Venu, Stéphane Ogier x6

[Alan Foo]

2013 Penfolds St Henri x1
2001 Wynns BL x1
2013 Wynns BL x1
2017 Joh Jos Prum Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett x1

Cheers Alan

[Andrew Jordan]

A few more for the month:

x2 2008 Seppelt Shiraz Show Sparkling Shiraz (on sales at $55 per bottle from Treasury)

x3 2021 Seppelt Shiraz St Peters (Auction purchase)

x1 2017 St Hallett Shiraz Old Block (Magnum)
x1 2012 Wolf Blass Black Label
x6 2021 Katnook Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (free 6 pack for purchasing above 2 wines)

[I Love Shiraz]

3 x Devil's Lair Cabernet Sauvignon on clearance at Dan's.

[phillisc]

AJ you'll be very happy with the 21 St Peters... monumental wine.
A dozen 2019 D'arenberg Dead Arm... haven't purchased this wine in 20+ years.
Cheers Craig

[Sean]

I did a tasting at Port Phillip Estate yesterday. A $10 fee for 5 wines, but they throw in one or two extra. Lunch at the Piazza at Montalto. Just tasted a couple to decide on a lunch wine. Both wineries were pumping with a big crowd on a Saturday afternoon.

I know we just had summer (when everything goes brown), but I can’t remember the peninsula looking so dry before - even up around Red Hill. All the fruit has been picked now apparently and it’s been another early vintage.

Both wineries have a long list of wines on offer, which I might slowly work through over the next year or two. Liked seeing a list of back vintages at Montalto. They had 8 on offer, if you are a club member you can ask for others.

Purchases -

Port Phillip Estate Red Hill Chardonnay 22
Port Phillip Estate Red Hill Pinot Noir 23
Kooyong Estate Chardonnay 21
Montalto Chardonnay 22
Montalto Pinot Gris 23 x 2

[mjs]

Not a wine purchase as such, but just ordered "The Australian Ark", Andrew Caillard's tome on Australian wine history.

Should be some interesting reading

[phillisc]

Not a wine purchase as such, but just ordered "The Australian Ark", Andrew Caillard's tome on Australian wine history.

Should be some interesting reading

Malcolm...so far it's been a very good read. Volume one is very dense, I am 200 pages in, it's heavy going but just starting to unravel...100+ pages before SA is mentioned.
Cheers Craig

[Alan Foo]

1996 St Hugo Cabernet Sauvignon x1
2013 St Hugo Cabernet Sauvignon x1
2004 Rockford Rifle Range x1
1997 Lindemans Steven Vineyard Bin 9425 Shriaz x4

Cheers Alan

[marmi01]

2022 De Juliis July Shiraz × 1
2024 De Juliis Semillon × 1
2024 Yangarra Circle Grenache Blanc × 1

Mick

[mjs]

6 x 2019 Penfolds St Henri Shiraz
1 x 2021 Penfolds Bin180 Coonawarra Cabernet Shiraz