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2xBrothers in Arms No. 6 Shiraz Cab 04
2xSt Hallett Single Vineyard Shiraz 08
2xPicarus Cabernet Sauvignon 06
1xFraser Gallop Cabernet Sauvignon 07
2xRingbolt Cabernet Sauvignon 07
2xTeusner Riebke Shiraz 07 (2x08s rainchecked)

Cheers

daz

Some Langtons purchases:...at pretty cheap prices....hope they don't drink too cheap

Taltarni Victorian Shiraz 1997 x 12
Viking Grand Shiraz 2001 x 12

ross

double post

Bick wrote:Bought back in April, ep, but delivered to me this afternoon: a case of Stonyridge Larose 2008. Hmmm.

A very similar event for me this morning. Took over ½hour to shuffle bottles around and squeeze them into the wine cabinet dammit.
Too much wine? No, not enough time......

jafa

6x 2006 Villa Maria Reserve HB Merlot. Cellar stock up.
May succumb any day now to the nagging thought no 2007 Coleraine in cellar........

VM Res merlot is the type of purchase you make AFTER coleraine, not before!! Priorities!!!

Craig(NZ) wrote:

VM Res merlot is the type of purchase you make AFTER coleraine, not before!! Priorities!!!

Ummm... (special pricing! ) made me do it!
Don't you know there's a financial crisis on?
Lucky the cellars full, otherwise a very deep depression.

jafa

1x 2008 Muddy Waters Dry Rielsing
3x 2007 Dalwhinnie Moonambel Shiraz
1x 2005 Dalwhinnie Moonambel Shiraz
1x 2006 Moss Wood Cab Sav
1x 2005 Bin 389 magnum
1x 2008 Te Hera Pinot Noir

Was given the Te Hera to confirm or re-assess my general lack of enthusiasm for Martinborough Pinot. I want to like it and perhaps am misisng something, i just haven't previously enjoyed Escarpment, Martinborough, Ata Rangi etc, at least not as much as everyone else.

half a dozen Delatite Pinot Gris 2008, and a bottle of Lanson NV

hoddles chardonnay and wood lands charonnay.... this is what i have plannned with my freinds...
cheers!!!

Enjoy...

Beelgara Estate - various for everyday drinking
Stoneleigh Sauv Blanc
La Motte Shiraz for the cellar
Monichino - various for the cellar
Moet Chandon

12 2007 Fraser Gallop Cab Sav. Not a bad little wine for the price. Should go 10+ years in the cellar.

Rockford Basket Pressed
Rockfor Vine Vale
Rockford Riffle Range
Rockford Frontignac
Rockford Alicante Bouchet
Alex Head Blonde
Alex Head Brunnette
mixed quaffers

Graham

Another three bottles of ring.bolt Cab Sauv 07 and three real cheapies for the additional 5% discount.

daz

I see you are a fan, i think i will hunt some down Daz , press comments below.

Press
Ringbolt Cabernet Sauvignon 2007



95 points - "A poised bouquet of cassis and cedar and a lovely note of violets; equally as attractive on the palate, the balance between fruit, acid, oak and tannin is impeccable; very long and varietal, with refreshing tannin and fruit."

James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2010



"Margaret River is about 100 kilometres long and runs north-south. This means the south is slightly cooler (temperature-wise) that the north, a difference you can often taste in the wines: the northern-end wines are sweeter and riper. This wine is from near the middle, though it tastes cooler.

Buy the best piece of lamb you can afford, roast it up and serve it with this little beauty - we guarantee you will be onto a winner. It's gravelly and grainy and perhaps a little herbal, but with a lamb roast all those flavours would go down a treat. The wine isn't unripe; it's curranty and pure and flows nicely along your tongue. Classy."

Value 4 stars l Score 91 l Drink 2009 - 2013

Campbell Mattinson & Gary Walsh, The BIG Red Wine Book 09/10 (Aus), 1 June 2009



"The 2007 Margaret River Cabernet vintage has already produced the Jimmy Watson Trophy and countless other major show awards. At the just completed Macquarie Royal Sydney Wine Show

2009, the Trophy for Best Cabernet Sauvignon went to Ringbolt Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2007. As impressive as a $20 wine picking up a major gong is, it is the wines it beat home, which illustrate the value here. Penfolds Bin 407, Houghton Wisdom, Hardys HRB, Wolf Blass Grey, Coldstream Reserve Cabernet, Wynns John Riddoch the list goes on and on. I'd add that most wines retail for twice the price as Ringbolt but some are 3 and 4 times the price.

Indeed the Ringbolt encapsulates what many drinkers love about Margaret River - approachability. I don't want to turn this into a Margaret River versus Coonawarra versus Yarra battle but the balance here is difficult to emulate from other regions at such a young age. It has wonderful coffee, chocolate and leaf on the nose with an inch of briary character for interest. In the mouth it begins with dark berry fruit before teasing with bright berry and ripe flavours on a long finish. Even with the expected influx of good juice from Margaret River, I'd be surprised if anyone trumps this at twenty bucks. An excellent wine"

Ringbolt Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 -winner of 'The Dan Murphy's Perennial Trophy' and Gold Medal for Exhibitor of the Best Varietal Wine, Cabernet Sauvignon at the 2009 Sydney Royal Wine Show.

"It's enlightening as a winemaker to be able work with a great expression of Cabernet Sauvignon in Australia - Margaret River. The wines from this region are quite distinctive and this award for Ringbolt is testament to the strength of the 2007 vintage in Margaret River and the meticulous efforts of our partner growers." Peter Gambetta, Winemaker

Bert Werden, The Wine Star Journal www.winestar.com.au (Aus), 4 March 2009



89 points - "This small-scale cabernet balances clean blueberry fruit with earthiness. It's light enough that it doesn't hit you in the face with fruit and alcohol. The tannins are a little blunt, but the fruit is juicy, spicy, and delicious with any grilled meat." Click here for more.

Wine & Spirits (USA), October 2008





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12 x 2007 Crôzes-Hermitage, Cuvée Les Galets, Domaine Des Hauts Chassis

12 x Bonneau du Martray White 2007

Rockfords BP & SS.

2 x Ringbolt 07 Cab(yeah big fan)
2 x Scribbler 07 - there will be nil Signature from this vintage
2 x Wynns Riesling
1 x Dutsche GHR Shiraz 06 - any TNs??


cheers
Seddo

2x 2006 WOLFBERGER Riesling
2x 2003 DR LOOSEN Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling-Auslese
1x 2003 TRIMBACH Cuvee Frederic Emile Riesling
2x 2004 NOON WINERY Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon
6x 2007 Chapel Hill Winemakers Selection Shiraz
1x 2006 Greenock Creek Cabernet Sauvignon
3x 2005 Greenock Creek Alice's Shiraz
2x 2004 Greenock Creek Roennfeldt Road Shiraz

Oh dear nearly back to back posts

4x Wynns Gables Cab/Shiraz 06
4 x Pitchfork Cab/merlot 07
2 x JAJA shiraz 04 (nearly tempted to throw a Binks in there)
2 x Clonakilla SV 08

and for tonight a Dutsche St Jakobi 06


cheers
Seddo

12x 1998 Seppeltsfield Vintage Port (cleanskin)
1x 1997 Penfolds RWT
1x 1993 Peter Lehmann Shiraz Stonewell
1x 1997 Penfolds Shiraz St. Henri
1x 1998 Penfolds Chardonnay Yattarna
1x 1999 Penfolds Chardonnay Yattarna
3x 2002 De Bortoli Noble One Botrytis Sémillon

Well the Rockford order arrived this morning.

6* 07 Basket Press
3* Black shiraz
1* Marion Tawny Port
1* 09 White Frontignac
1* 08 Frugal Farmer

Never tried the last two so filled out the dozen with them for a change.

And a trip to the barn on the weekend to get some summer quaffers and some cheap 07 Marg River cabs to try and see what I want to buy in quantity:
6* 08 (maybe 09) Grant Burge Moscato
3* NV De Bortoli Emerio
7* 07 Brookland Valley Cab Merlot
6* NV Jansz Sparkling
1* 07 Vasse Felix Cab Merlot
1* 07 Madfish Bay Red
1* 07 Teusner Riebke
6* 07 Ringbolt Cab sav
3* 08 Brown Brothers Dolcetta and Syrah
and a couple of cleanskins and some montieths raddler beer.

Also put in the Noon order for:
6* 07 Eclipse
2* 07 Solaire
2* 07 Twelve Bells
2* 08 Rose

6x 2004 Petaluma Coonawarra

Purchased from an otherwise non-descript bottle-o at Nelson Bay. They also had 5 each of the 1999 and 2001 vintages. All 3 vintages were the same price, $46 per bottle. I was tempted to get the whole lot! Got cold feet in the end; perhaps they haven't been kept well and they knew it. So I got only the 2004 (the newest).

I went in there looking for some Hunter shiraz but came out with more Coonawarra which already dominated my small wine collection, even more so now!

Bit dissappointing that the bottle shops in and around Nelson Bay don't make a feature of Hunter wines. I expected to find a decent range of Tyrells reds but in the end found the same stuff as I'd find in Sydney, mostly the budget Old Winery range. Why are some of the mid-range Tyrells reds (those around the $30 mark) hard to find?

6 x Rockford BP 07

Mumm NV, Pol NV and Lanson 98 Champers (DM special ATM)
2 x Clonakilla O'Riada 2008
Joseph Moda Cab Sav Merlot 06 (can't get enough of this.. yum)

Cheers
TiggerK

24 x 1998 sepltsfield VP. Got on the band wagon. After tasting happy to be there
6 x 2007 Wynns Cab Sav
6 x 2006 Wynns Cab Sav
both the black labels were on special sub $20. At that price I couldn't resist.

3 x 2002 Jacob's Creek Steingarten Riesling $19ea, discounted at a local store.....fingers crossed it's as good as JO's
descriptive/point score -97!, (JH 93pts).

6 x 1998 cleanskin VP that everybody has jumped on board, nice stuff.

12 x 2005 Chateau Reynella Cleanskin, yes another wine given a "boot" on this forum and a damn fine wine it is, although
it needs time.

Well, I thought I'd absolutely thrash my credit card this month so:

12 * 07 Fraser Gallop Cab sav
6 * NV Moet
2 * NV Laurent-Perrier
2 * NV Veuve Clicquot
2 * NV Pol Roger
2 * NV Taittinger
2 * 05 Seppelt Sparkling Shiraz (cork)

6 x Sorby Adams Morticia SS
6 x Churchview Estate Noble Riesling 2007

I'm not buying much wine at the moment..but..

04 Jack Mann
07 Petaluma Red

and I'll grab a few 09 Vat 1 and Johnno's Semillon any tick of the clock
perhaps one or two bottles of 07 Rockford BP and Cab...(but mainly because it's a birth year).

oh and
Magnum of 05 Vieux Telegraphe and some other odds and ends. I like small quantities of lots of different wines.
GW

2 x Chateau Pibarnon Bandol 2005
2 x Les Serines Cuilleron St Joseph 2006
2 x Voyager Estate "Girt By Sea" 2007
12 x Seppelts 1998 VP

Word on the bandol is very positive, won't see the light of day for many a year. And thanks to all for the VP tip - must have been a quiet day at Seppeltsfield sales until the advice surfaced here!

1x 2007 Wynns Cabernet Sauvignon L9160.....