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Some purchases from one of my favourite wine regions to get the month off to a great start.

4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Alberello
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rivaggi
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rosso

6 x 2012 Howard Park Abercrombie
6 x 2015 Markus Molitor Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese GK

Ozzie W wrote:Some purchases from one of my favourite wine regions to get the month off to a great start.

4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Alberello
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rivaggi
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rosso

What gives Ozzie, four bottles of each this time ??

Roagana Barbaresco 2009/2010- Paje VV and Paje regular x 3 of each. Amazing wine.


Wendouree 6 x of each of the 2014's. Amazing wine.

Ozzie W wrote:Some purchases from one of my favourite wine regions to get the month off to a great start.

4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Alberello
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rivaggi
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rosso

A new name to me - one to look out for?

2015 allies mornington pinot - merricks , teurong and one other

mjs wrote:

Ozzie W wrote:Some purchases from one of my favourite wine regions to get the month off to a great start.

4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Alberello
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rivaggi
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rosso

What gives Ozzie, four bottles of each this time ??

I make exceptions for exceptional wines of exceptional value. Have you had a Nerello Mascalese from Mt Etna before?

Ozzie W wrote:

mjs wrote:

Ozzie W wrote:Some purchases from one of my favourite wine regions to get the month off to a great start.

4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Alberello
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rivaggi
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rosso

What gives Ozzie, four bottles of each this time ??

I make exceptions for exceptional wines of exceptional value. Have you had a Nerello Mascalese from Mt Etna before?

Is this the Mt Etna we had post Burgundy dinner?

Ian S wrote:

Ozzie W wrote:Some purchases from one of my favourite wine regions to get the month off to a great start.

4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Alberello
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rivaggi
4 x 2014 Azienda Agricola Crasa SRC Etna Rosso

A new name to me - one to look out for?

If you like wines from Mt Etna, then SRC most definitely needs to be on your radar. I believe 2014 is the second vintage for the SRC brand. The owners are mentored by Frank Cornelissen, so I can see a great future ahead for their wines.

Benchmark wrote:

Ozzie W wrote:

mjs wrote:What gives Ozzie, four bottles of each this time ??

I make exceptions for exceptional wines of exceptional value. Have you had a Nerello Mascalese from Mt Etna before?

Is this the Mt Etna we had post Burgundy dinner?

Good memory, Benchmark. That post-dinner drink was a 2013 Girolama Russo 'a Rina Etna Rosso.

2002 Krug
2 mixed doz Wendouree
Expensive month and only a few days in!

6x Luke Lambert Nebbiolo 2014

Mixed dozen 2014 Wild Duck Creek
6 x 2014 Mt Pleasant Philip Shiraz

Cheers
Ian

ticklenow1 wrote:Mixed dozen 2014 Wild Duck Creek
6 x 2014 Mt Pleasant Philip Shiraz

Cheers
Ian

I went for
6 x Springflat
4 x Ducks and Drakes and
2 x Yellow Hammer Hill

What price did you pick up the Philip for?

Cheers

Michael

7 x Mt Pleasant Phillip 2014
3 x Vallana Gattinara 2006
1 x Sorrenberg Gamay 2014
2 x Crawford Young Vine Riesling 2014

If you like wines from Mt Etna, then SRC most definitely needs to be on your radar. I believe 2014 is the second vintage for the SRC brand. The owners are mentored by Frank Cornelissen, so I can see a great future ahead for their wines.

Some of the makers use little sulphur and make wine "naturally". They are not for ageing without risk eg. Cornelissen. Passo definitely ages - we have had the 2007 more than once and the 2008's are still relatively youthful.

Chris H wrote:

If you like wines from Mt Etna, then SRC most definitely needs to be on your radar. I believe 2014 is the second vintage for the SRC brand. The owners are mentored by Frank Cornelissen, so I can see a great future ahead for their wines.

Some of the makers use little sulphur and make wine "naturally". They are not for ageing without risk eg. Cornelissen. Passo definitely ages - we have had the 2007 more than once and the 2008's are still relatively youthful.

Frank Cornelissen is a zero additions zealot. What's interesting about his approach is that he uses heaps of technology and is obsessive when it comes to cleanliness and maintaining perfect conditions during wine making. He's made mistakes in the past, but he seems to have worked out how to make ageable wines without using any sulphur. For example, he used to blend across vintages which caused issues, but has stopped doing this. Perhaps the environment of Etna is somehow conducive to making wines this way?

Your money, your risk on unsulphured wines Oz

2 x Mt Pleasant Philip 2014
2 x Mt Pleasant Rosehill 2014
2 x Mt Pleasant Op & OH 2014

12 x By Farr Farrside Pinot Noir 2014. I discovered I have almost no Aussie pinot so time to stock up a little.

Well, after nothing for over 2 months, I picked up a few today. Eclectic for sure, but that's as much a reflection of the diversity in the shop I went to, as my own tastes.

2014 Flor de Vetus Verdejo, Rueda
2013 Fleurie Les Moriers, Lucien Lardy
2012 Ch. Wagenbourg Grand Cru Zinnkoepfle Gewurztraminer
2010 Murray Street Vineyards Benno Shiraz Mataro
2010 Artadi Vinas de Gain White Rioja
1999 Monte Bernardi Tzingana
1985 Philippe Pollet Vouvray demi sec
1971 Harveys Bristol Cream - 175th anniversary (Magnum)

6 x 2015 Giant Steps Lusatia Park Pinot Noir
6 x 2015 Serrat Pinot Noir

4 x 2012 PdB Barbaresco
2 x 2012 Benevelli Piero Ravera di Monforte Barolo
3 x 2014 Mount Pleasant Rosehill
3 x 2014 Mount Pleasant OP & OH

12 x 2009 Mount Pleasant Elizabeth

3 x Uccelliera Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 2010

Ian S wrote:
1971 Harveys Bristol Cream - 175th anniversary (Magnum)

Well that is something we don't often see on the boards Ian. Interesting choice. Is it for drinking or cooking?

2 x Torbreck Les Amis 2012
2 x Billecart Salmon Rose NV

No movement as yet with a Wendouree charge on the credit card...hopefully soon.

6 x each of Wendouree's 2014 reds. ETA end of this week!

Got today;

2014s;
6 X Wendouree Shiraz
3 X Wendouree Cab Sav
3 X Wendouree Malbec
2 X Wendouree Shiraz Mat
1 X Wendouree Shiraz Mal

rooman wrote:

Ian S wrote:
1971 Harveys Bristol Cream - 175th anniversary (Magnum)

Well that is something we don't often see on the boards Ian. Interesting choice. Is it for drinking or cooking?

A gamble for sure, but at least up to the 1960s they aged remarkably well with proper complexity. A gamble mainly because the style did change, I believe in the early 1970s