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Hi guys,

Belatedly joining the party here and prompted by Gavin to invite people in Adelaide to come along to a tasting of some of my imported wine portfolio in the CBD on Monday.

For reasons of space and well, financial constraints, I won't be opening a dozen bottles of each wine and therefore have to keep the numbers under control, but drop me a line if you would like to attend.

Preference goes to trade from 2-5pm, with a second session for enthusiasts (read potential buyers!) from 5.30pm-7.30pm. If you want to hoover up any leftovers, come along for the post-tasting dinner.

There will be 40 wines open:

Champagne from Ployez-Jacquemart, Henri Billiot, Rene Geoffroy.
Pinot noir from Surveyor Thomson (Central Otago) and Dupont-Tisserandot (Gevrey Chambertin).
Chardonnay from Stephane Aladame (Montagny), Alex Gambal (Beaune) and Thierry Matrot (Meursault).
Hawke's Bay wines from Ash Ridge and Unison.
German rieslings, dry to rich, from Willi Schaefer, Schloss Lieser, Schafer-Frohlich, Emrich-Schonleber, Reinhold Haart, Knebel, Schmitges and Zilliken, and gewurztraminer from Rebholz.

Sounds great. I'd like to go. My role in the industry fits around production, trade and enthusiast. I'm always intersted to find wines with varying sensory properties to use for sensory analysis projects and wine education.

I'd just like to thank Neville for such a generous tasting experience - backing up after the Shiraz challenge the afternoon before was a tough ask, but it was worth the effort! I saw quite a few familiar faces there, although I also expected there to be more people...

As a group the rieslings were an absolute standout, with a fine balance of acidity and length to match the higher RS, almost never cloying. As a nation that's starting to develop wines in this direction, we have a long way to go to match this kind of standard. Willi Schaefer's were strong across the board (personal pick would be the feinherb), I liked the sweeter Spatlese style from Andreas Schmitiges, and WOTN for me was the 93 Zilliken Auslese.

Other personal highlights were the 07 Stephane Aladame 1er Cru Montagny, and of the reds the very reasonably priced 06 Alluviale Merlot Cabernet Franc and 05 Dombeya Samara Bordeaux blend. Neville can expect an order form from us in a couple of weeks.

Cheers,
Ian

n4sir wrote:As a group the rieslings were an absolute standout, with a fine balance of acidity and length to match the higher RS, almost never cloying. As a nation that's starting to develop wines in this direction, we have a long way to go to match this kind of standard. Willi Schaefer's were strong across the board (personal pick would be the feinherb), I liked the sweeter Spatlese style from Andreas Schmitiges, and WOTN for me was the 93 Zilliken Auslese.

Cheers,
Ian

totally agreed, Willis were really good as well as Schaefer-Frohlich IMO

the 93 Auslese was so balanced in everything and even more young looking than the Spatlese, although the later shew nice clean kerosene in great depth.

it was ascertained again how rewarding Riesling can be.

Thanks Neville for this tasting.

Pleasure, guys, thanks for coming.