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crusty2 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2024 1:41 pm My order is on the way, Clare to Adelaide - via Sydney

JamieAdelaide wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2024 7:50 am Chatting to a Clare restaurateur whose cellar near mine in Kennards, definitely an allocation now for Clare businesses as well as local pickers, with high take up ans forwarding their allocations. When he saw my Great Wall of Wendouree, he offered to buy. Not a seller. 24b has formed a new section of the wall. I don’t open them for 20 and I trust I’ll still be around-if not someone will enjoy them.

JamieAdelaide wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2024 11:00 am I don’t believe the local allocations has always been the case?

JamieAdelaide wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 10:17 am I’m struggling to transition from someone who drinks their Wendouree mature to someone who also drinks them young. My 20 year rule still in play and had my first 2001 Cabernet Malbec last night. Usual routine. Decanted into a small decanter and after about 30 min a bouquet emerged. Re-poured back into the spring water bottle for later serving. Excellent wine. Intense though open aromatics of dark violets, lavender and iodine. The wine has a good run on the palate with an evenness prior a bit of austerity and completes with slightly chewy tannin. 94pts

mychurch wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 2:30 pm A lot of wines that need to be aged are quite open when they are first bottled and then shutdown. Once the Wendouree arrives, pick a bottle and leave it standing for a few days to get over the travel shock and then open . If it’s difficult to drink, put the cap on and try again either later the same day or the next. Repeat until you have a wine you like.

darellk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 11:00 am Being a beginner in the Wendouree world, my 81 year old father-in-law who is responsible for my later in life interest in red wine says he isn't waiting 20 years to try this wine I have been "rattling on about for the last 4 years!!" So I will have to open a 2022 when my small purchase arrives, and am keen to learn about the best way to prepare - aerate and decant, or just decant and wait a few hours?

Matt@5453 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 5:47 pm

darellk wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 11:00 am Being a beginner in the Wendouree world, my 81 year old father-in-law who is responsible for my later in life interest in red wine says he isn't waiting 20 years to try this wine I have been "rattling on about for the last 4 years!!" So I will have to open a 2022 when my small purchase arrives, and am keen to learn about the best way to prepare - aerate and decant, or just decant and wait a few hours?

I typically pour half a bottle into an old skool wine carafe, give it a few vigorous 'whirls', decant back to bottle then repeat. Then give it a few hours in the decanter, and then just taste at intervals, have a glass over dinner etc. Then I come back to the other half bottle over the next day/night, doing the same.

I have no qualms opening wines young, particularly Wendouree, really to get a sense of the vintage and likely aging, I actually like to see an expression of the wines at an early age. I get to taste a lot of wines around blending time, hence have a bit of 'cellar palate'. But its a case of each to their own.