The Auswine Forum

I am not sure if I have missed this topic already being started however in the event it hasn't I will kick things off.

1 x 2005 St Henri
1 x 2007 Watershed Shiraz
1 x 2004 Grant Burge Shadrach
3 x 2008 Westend 3 Bridges Durif
1 x NV Mumm Brut (trying to appease my wife)

October already. How time flies!

6x 08 Wynns BL
12x 07 Hidden Talent Great Southern Shiraz

Now I finally have some space I've splashed out a bit - all in 2s & 3s,

08 Ata Rangi Pinot
06 St Hugo
05 St Henri
05 Voyager CSM
08 Wynns V&A Cab Shiraz
09 Dog Point SB
08 Majella Cab Sav
07 Wynns Glengyle
07 Yalumba The Menzies
08 By Farr Chard
08 By Farr Sangreal
06 La Montesa Rioja

The breaks will be on now with summer approaching - perhaps some 08 Burgs and the occasional browse around the shops.

Down in and around Canberra last weekend so grabbed some Clonakilla O Riada Shiraz 2009, and a bottle each of the 2008 Lerida Estate Shiraz, and Shiraz Viognier.

Wife came home with 2010 Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc tonight. Not sure when to drink it. It's usually best after about 3-6 months in the bottle so maybe wait a while

Anyone tried it yet?

Rockford BP 08
Rockford Black Shiraz
Tar and Roses Tempranillo

12 x St Hallett Classic Barossa Shiraz 2008. Hope it's better than the Gamekeeper's Shiraz 08 I had recently but for $7/btl it may end up as the base for sangria over the summer that's already arrived here.

Some purchases of the last two months:

2 x Henschke Hill of Grace 1989
5 x Henschke Mount Edelstone Shiraz 1990
1 x Henschke Cyrill Henschke 1994
1 x Wolf Blass Black Label 1986
2 x Wolf Blass Black Label 1991
1 x Wolf Blass Black Label 1993

2 x Trinity Hill Gimblett Road Shiraz 2001

1 x Chateau Leoville Las Cases 1984
1 x Chateau Coutet 1988
1 x Chateau Beau-Sejour-Becot 1990
1 x Chateau Cheval Blanc 1992
6 x Chateau Clos Dubreuil 1997
1 x Chateau Chasse Spleen 2000
2 x Leroy Auvenay 1966
1 x Leroy Gevrey Chambertin 1972
1 x Bouchard Pere & Fils Chevalier Montrachet 1973
1 x Louis Remy Clos de la Roche 1985
1 x Herve Roumier Echezeaux 1986
2 x Herve Roumier Chambolle Musigny 1987
1 x Domaine Pegau Chateauneuf-du-Pape Cuvee Da Capo 2007 (Magnum)

4 x Peter Mertes Neustadter Pfaffengrund Beerenauslese 1980
3 x Volker Metzger Bockenheimer Grafenstück Beerenauslese 1983
2 x Simon Puenderich Pündericher Rosenberg Eiswein 1986
1 x Josef Thielmann Cochemer Hochlage Eiswein 1983

1 x Quintarelli Amarone 1986
1 x Romano Levi Grappa 1996
6 x Feudi di San Gregorio Syriacus 1997
1 x Bibi Graetz Testatamatta 2000

1 x Niepoort Vintage Port 1982
1 x Taylor's Fladgate Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha Vintage Port 1995



Some notes from a recent tasting:



Chateau Labegorce 1975: Good color, silky but slightly metallic, did not last very long on the palate - weakest wine of the evening.

Chateau Palmer 1975: Still dark color, an elegant wine with good tannins and length, can still go some years - nice drinking.

Sylou Corton Clos du Roi 1943: I had no high expectation for this one due to the age but got very positively surprised. The wine had still a bright ruby color with brownish touch. Very silky, still good structure and surprising changes in aromas over the time - a great experience to see how well wine can age.

Gernot Heinrich Salzberg 2004: What a powerhouse – dark colored, very rich with a lovely nose of fruits and spices. A very good wine but almost too much at the moment, should be kept for another 5 years at least but then it will be a great experience.

Henschke Keyneton Estate Shiraz / Cabernet / Malbec 1985: A big W O W for the third time!!!!! This was the third bottle of the Keyneton 1985 I tried now in the last few month and every bottle was a sensation. Unfortunately only one is left……

Henschke Hill of Grace 1989: Still dark colored, well concentrated with a wonderful complex nose with a lot of fruits, blackcurrant and sweet spices. Creamy-textured in the mouth, perfect length on the palate - great stuff.

Chateau Lafon 1966: This one was an example how an aged well made Sauternes can taste. Pale mahogany color, with an intense nose of apricots and brown sugar. Still a bit fat with a perfect structure and length. Maybe it could be a touch sweeter but overall a wonderful wine to close a remarkable evening.

Cheers and happy drinking.

2 x Leasingham Cabernet Malbec 2005 (may get more @$14 if I like it)
1 x Seville Estate Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2005 (gorrrn - I like it, not bad @ $20, thinking about more)
1 x Maglieri Shiraz 2006 (just expecting a solid good Vale shiraz for $10)

Coming up in October:

Some 09 Beaujolais for Summer - Jean Marc Burgaud is already here, $240 a case. What a snip.
Some 09 Cotes du Rhones
A few 07 Grunhaus from Kabinett up to the Abstberg #49 Auslese
Some 93 Zilliken Spatlese and Auslese
Rockford - probably just the sparkling black this year
08 Castagna's might be due later this month - not sure on that one.
Some of the 08 Pyramid Valley Pinots
Some 08 Bouchard reds and white
and got my hands on some 1979 Leo Buring DWI16 rieslings.

6 x Wynns 08 BL.

Chuck

Rockfords,
6 x Basket Press Shiraz
6 x Black Shiraz Sparkling Shiraz
2 x Moppa Springs GSM
2 x Rod and Spur Shiraz Cabernet
2 x Rifle Range Cabernet
and more of the last 3 when I can afford it!
Noon,
3 x Reserve Shiraz (hopefully)
3 x Reserve Cabernet (hopefully)
5 x Twelve Bells
1 x Noon Tawny
Went to a tasting this afternoon and picked up,
2 x 2009 Grosset Polish Hill Reisling
2 x 2007 Leeuwin Siblings Shiraz (not bad value for $20ish)

I am well (and I mean well!!) and truly over budget now, so that might do me for the rest of the year, unless something comes up that is just too good to resist (price wise). I have to concentrate on building a cellar now.

The wine budget has been long extingushed, so nothing for months.
But the ep 2009 Larose hit the doorstep Friday.
Guess that means the 2010 offer is not far away

cheers jafa

goodie, our srl must be on the way too

At Rockford CD Thursday

6 x 08 BP Shiraz
3 x 96 BP Shiraz
3 x 02 Flaxman SVS Shiraz
3 x 02 Hoffman SVS Shiraz

3 x 02 Flaxman SVS Shiraz
3 x 02 Hoffman SVS Shiraz

Hi Mike

i've tried a few bottles of the 02 Basket Press Shiraz, and been somewhat disappointed with all them (porty & unbalanced), particularly given the 02 Barossan vintage reports.
The reason for my post is because i'm not very familiar with the Flaxman and Hoffman and wondered whether they're occasionally released (?). If so, did the best fruit go in them, resulting in the BP been soemwhat disappointing?

Interested to hear you thoughts, and others who've tried it/them.

Cheers
Michael

12 2009 lappiere Morgon
6 2009 lappierre raisins Gaulois
6 tyrrell's 2005 belford semillon
1 Chapoutier 1997 Cote Rotie la Mordoree
2 Chapoutier Crozes Hermitage les varonniers
6 Oberto Barbera D'Alba
3 Tyrrell's 2010 vat 1 semillon
3 Tyrrell's 2010 Johnnos Semillon
3 Tyrrell's 2009 4 acre shiraz
3 Collector 2009 reserve hiraz

Got my Rockfords order in so
6*08 Basket Press
3* Black Shiraz FRS
3*10 Alicante Bouchet to round out the dozen (and because I love it)

From Mount Pleasant
2*07 Maurice O'Shea
2*07 OH&OP Shiraz
2*07 Rosehill Shiraz

And I'm trying to source some 02 Dom Perignon preferably with the warhol packaging as I like to mix my art and wine - my two passions.

bacchaebabe wrote:And I'm trying to source some 02 Dom Perignon preferably with the warhol packaging as I like to mix my art and wine - my two passions.

Hi Kris. Can you give a little more detail? The Warhol thing is a mystery to me. Velvet Underground did a Warhol tribute in 1990 - perhaps that should have been linked to the 1990 Dom (which I loved as often as I could)

Cheers

Allan

Dom Perignon are releasing a limited number of bottles in warhol packaging so instead of the satid green labels they are lurid pink, blue and yellow or something with eqally pop looking boxes. Of course you pay a premium for the packaging but i'm a sucker for warhol. The labels aren't actually designed by Warhol as he's obviously not with us any more but have been designed by some London design firm.

Here is what they look like:
http://www.freshnessmag.com/2010/07/22/ ... -perignon/

bacchaebabe wrote:Dom Perignon are releasing a limited number of bottles in warhol packaging so instead of the satid green labels they are lurid pink, blue and yellow or something with eqally pop looking boxes. Of course you pay a premium for the packaging but i'm a sucker for warhol. The labels aren't actually designed by Warhol as he's obviously not with us any more but have been designed by some London design firm.

Here is what they look like:
http://www.freshnessmag.com/2010/07/22/ ... -perignon/

Thanks Kris. Eye catching indeed, and depending on the premium you pay, perhaps a collectors item in future (the box, not the wine, which I will drink). Enjoy!

Jim Barry Watervale Riesling 2009 x 6
Tahbilk Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 x 6

Michael R wrote:

3 x 02 Flaxman SVS Shiraz
3 x 02 Hoffman SVS Shiraz

Hi Mike

i've tried a few bottles of the 02 Basket Press Shiraz, and been somewhat disappointed with all them (porty & unbalanced), particularly given the 02 Barossan vintage reports.
The reason for my post is because i'm not very familiar with the Flaxman and Hoffman and wondered whether they're occasionally released (?). If so, did the best fruit go in them, resulting in the BP been soemwhat disappointing?

Interested to hear you thoughts, and others who've tried it/them.

Cheers
Michael

Michael,

Based on he last couple of timesI've had the 02 BP, I tend to agree with the portiness statement (I didn't prior to that). The Flaxman and Hoffman are part of the SVS range released in miniscule quantities at CD. The SVS range tend to be single vineyard and the source often differs each vintage. As such, the best fruit doesn't necessarily go into these. For what its worth, the Flaxman (Eden Valley) was superb.
Mike

Waiters Friend wrote:

bacchaebabe wrote:Dom Perignon are releasing a limited number of bottles in warhol packaging so instead of the satid green labels they are lurid pink, blue and yellow or something with eqally pop looking boxes. Of course you pay a premium for the packaging but i'm a sucker for warhol. The labels aren't actually designed by Warhol as he's obviously not with us any more but have been designed by some London design firm.

Here is what they look like:
http://www.freshnessmag.com/2010/07/22/ ... -perignon/

Thanks Kris. Eye catching indeed, and depending on the premium you pay, perhaps a collectors item in future (the box, not the wine, which I will drink). Enjoy!

I paid AUD 20 per bottle premium for mine. They look great, though its what's in the bottle that ultimately counts. (yes, I know, I'm a victim of fashion etc etc etc!).

Mike

Waiters Friend wrote:

bacchaebabe wrote:Dom Perignon are releasing a limited number of bottles in warhol packaging so instead of the satid green labels they are lurid pink, blue and yellow or something with eqally pop looking boxes. Of course you pay a premium for the packaging but i'm a sucker for warhol. The labels aren't actually designed by Warhol as he's obviously not with us any more but have been designed by some London design firm.

Here is what they look like:
http://www.freshnessmag.com/2010/07/22/ ... -perignon/

Thanks Kris. Eye catching indeed, and depending on the premium you pay, perhaps a collectors item in future (the box, not the wine, which I will drink). Enjoy!

I paid AUD 20 per bottle premium for mine. They look great, though its what's in the bottle that ultimately counts. (yes, I know, I'm a victim of fashion etc etc etc!).

Mike

12x 2008 d'Arenberg Footbolt Shiraz
1x Magnum 2005 Footbolt (freebie)

...and quite a lot of pretty unremarkable Chilean wine, although the sav blanc and chardonnays I've had have been quite good. The reds have all been simple, smooth and sweet, tasting generally like middle of the range American merlot (particularly the Carmenere), whatever the varietal.

Too much!

Assorted 3's or 6's of:
Moss Wood Cabernet
Woodlands Margaret
Wynns CSM
Gembrook Hills Pinot
Curly Flat Pinot
Matua Valley Pinot
Seppelt Drumborg Pinot
Pepperjack Shiraz Viognier
Squealing Pig Sauvi
T'Gallant Imogen Pinot Gris
Seppelt Jaluka Chard
Seppelt Fleur de Lys

I'm really really going to stop now.

Yering Station Shiraz Viognier 2007
Dutschke GHR Shiraz 2007 and 2008
Teusner Dog Strangler 2008
Gemtree Phantom 2008
De Bortoli Gulf Station Pinot Noir 2008

From auction:

1 bottle CAPEL VALE Whispering Hill Mt Barker Shiraz 2007
6 bottles CLASSIC MCLAREN WINES La Testa McLaren Vale Merlot 1999
1 bottle YALUMBA Galway Pipe Port (old bottling)
6 bottles YALUMBA Galway Pipe Port

Chuck

The Yard 2008 Reisling - Larry Cherubino - Kalgan River WA
Shaw and Smith M3 Chardonnay 2008
Leeuwin Prelude Chardonnay 2008