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Hi. First post. Have been reading for a while so I thought I would add some tasting notes.
Sunday Lunch
Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque 1998
I struggle a little for tasting note on bubbly but this was awesome with a dozen fresh shucked oysters. Great mousse and length
99 Cullen Chardi
Poured very cloudy. I haven't seen to find a fault like this for a while. Didn't seem to affect the wine too much. Probably wasn't at best but still very drinkable.
92 Latour.
My 1st first growth. Apparently not a great vintage but an awesome wine. Very complex nose. Still holding great fruit mixed with some nice tertiary earth and wood. Followed through on the palate. Top fruit. Great balance. Awesome complexity. Incredible Length. Got a great one.
Dinner
2004 Paringa Reserve Pinot
Decanted for an hour. Opened up beautifully. Lovely balance of fruit and earth. One of those wines you can sniff 5 times to the sip all the way through. Followed through on the palate. Wonderful use of oak. Excellent wine.
2003 Mount Mary Quintet
Last three wines from MM have been corked so I opened this with some trepidation. Decanted for 4 hours. Lovely fruit of the forest/cedar nose with lush mouth filling fruit on the palate. Excellent fruit weight. Nice powdery tannins with great length to finish.
Pretty good day all round

Thanks for the forum. :)

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Just thinking about my 1st first growth. Any other experiences along similar lines. Have had some good second growths but this wine sent a new benchmark.
J

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Welcome to the forum J. Cut down a bit on the whites/bubbles and you'll fit in fine. :wink:

Michael (a 1st Growth virgin).
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welcome... no first growths for me either... yet :(

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J wrote:2003 Mount Mary Quintet
Last three wines from MM have been corked so I opened this with some trepidation. Decanted for 4 hours. Lovely fruit of the forest/cedar nose with lush mouth filling fruit on the palate. Excellent fruit weight. Nice powdery tannins with great length to finish.


I hope you got replacements from the winery. The 2003 Quintets seems to have a lot of cork problems, at Wine Australia last year it was included in the Cabernet masterclass and a few bottles opened for that were corked too.
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Michael McNally wrote:Welcome to the forum J. Cut down a bit on the whites/bubbles and you'll fit in fine. :wink:


Nothing wrong with a good champagne, about the only way a true red bigot drinks pinot or chardonnay. ;-)
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J wrote:Hi. First post. Have been reading for a while so I thought I would add some tasting notes.


J, welcome, but read the Sticky post at the top of this forum, Gavin may delete your registration in his daily purge, so if he does, re-register according to the suggestions in that post.
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Thanks for the tip.I'm trying to get my 5 posts in so I can edit my profile. Love your website. Keep the bastards honest and more wine for my dollar!
PS We'll convert you yet.
PPS Corked wines were
2 2000 chardi
1 2003 PN

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J wrote:PS We'll convert you yet.


Ha, ha. Let me know when hell has frozen over. :-)
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Red Bigot wrote:
J wrote:PS We'll convert you yet.


Ha, ha. Let me know when hell has frozen over. :-)


I thought I saw a flying pig if that's any help :lol:

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Not even?
An aged hunter sem.
A fresh clare riesling
A clean crisp chardi
A Yquem!!!
Surely you jest

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J wrote:Not even?
An aged hunter sem. - been there, done that, moved on, have a couple left in the cellar
A fresh clare riesling - nope, don't like them
A clean crisp chardi - if desperate and it's really a good one and there isn't any decent red
A Yquem!!! - good stickies have an occasional dispensation, as do muscat and tokay ;-)
Surely you jest - not at all, there are just too many good reds to bother with whites, personal preference rules!


You may be surprised at how many wine drinkers out there strongly prefer reds, or maybe it's just the people I drink wine with.
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I moderately strongly prefer reds... but love leeuwin estate, aged semillons, aged rieslings...

I am pretty sure the red bigots drink stickies :P

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I have more reds 75% in the cellar than whites 25% but according to the deluxe version of kwfc cellar database (which is the worlds greatest) 54% of the wines i consume are whites

given that in nz we have whites worth drinking :lol:
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Craig(NZ) wrote:I have more reds in the cellar than whites but according to the deluxe version of kwfc cellar database (which is the worlds greatest) 53.6% of the wines i consume are whites

given that in nz we have whites worth drinking :lol:


Image :lol:
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Brian I thought you would come back with the reply "and reds that are not"??
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Craig(NZ) wrote:Brian I thought you would come back with the reply "and reds that are not"??


Why would I say that? Image

There are some NZ reds in my cellar, but mostly Syrah.
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I too drink mostly red but on the right occasion find that the odd white does hit the spot.
I would never question personal taste as at the end of the day there really is only personal degrees of yum or yuck. I was just checking how far to one side you lean.

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J wrote:I too drink mostly red but on the right occasion find that the odd white does hit the spot.

I'm pretty successful in avoiding those occasions.

J wrote:I would never question personal taste as at the end of the day there really is only personal degrees of yum or yuck. I was just checking how far to one side you lean.


Pretty close to horizontal. ;-) (Says he, sipping on a Piper Heidsieck NV that went well with pan-fried red snapper, normally it would be an older medium-bodied red, but this is a celebration week working up to a 25th non-wedding anniversary next w/e, so lots of Champagne and Sparkling reds for a while as well as the odd older red).
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Why would I say that?

There are some NZ reds in my cellar, but mostly Syrah.


yeah, even ive bought a few nz syrah over the last few years.

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Any scars with white wine RWB. I had one with bacardi at 15. Can really shape your future. Have not touched it since.
Let that comment about Aussie white go through to the keeper. For now! :wink:

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Red Bigot wrote:
J wrote:2003 Mount Mary Quintet
Last three wines from MM have been corked so I opened this with some trepidation. Decanted for 4 hours. Lovely fruit of the forest/cedar nose with lush mouth filling fruit on the palate. Excellent fruit weight. Nice powdery tannins with great length to finish.


I hope you got replacements from the winery. The 2003 Quintets seems to have a lot of cork problems, at Wine Australia last year it was included in the Cabernet masterclass and a few bottles opened for that were corked too.


OH NO! I just read this. I bought a case last year and haven't opened any yet. Now I simply have to try one.

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My cellar is 100% red. Even my bubblies..... :P

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