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Hey guys, its now November... bleeding 'eck that means it really is getting on for Xmas!

I will kick off this months thread...
6x Ch de Beaucastel, Châteauneuf-du-Pape red 2017 (pre-arrival)

Let’s kick this thread backwards
2016 Rousseau
This is the last year ever....

michel wrote:Let’s kick this thread backwards
2016 Rousseau
This is the last year ever....

What vineyards and *gulp* what price are they getting now? You don't have to answer the last question.

Hacker wrote:

michel wrote:Let’s kick this thread backwards
2016 Rousseau
This is the last year ever....

What vineyards and *gulp* what price are they getting now? You don't have to answer the last question.

Everything
Except didn’t get offered Chambertin

12 x Better Half Yarra Valley NV bubbles. Nice dryer style. For Xmas.
2 x Jacobs Creek 2009 St Hugo Winemaker's Series Barossa Cabernet Merlot. From auction
1 x De Bortoli Black Noble. Fortified botrytis. Good stuff and again from auction.

Carl

Annual spring "blockhead" purchase. One of two mailing lists left.

2 X 2017 Felton Rd Block 5 Pinot Noir
2 x 2017 Felton Rd Block 2 Chardonnay
2 x 2017 Felton Rd Calvert Pinot Noir

Brodie

Some auction purchases:
x1 Barale Barbaresco 'Serraboella' 2015
x6 Le Casematte Peloro Terre Siciliane Rosso Nerello Mascalese 2014

And some orange wine samples:
x1 Ruggabellus Solumodo 2016
x1 Ruggabellus Quomodo 2016
x1 Ruggabellus Sallio 2016

For summer drinking:

3 x Pietradolce Etna Rosato 2017

Didnt mean too but

12x 2010 Wynns BL
6x Grace Farm CS
6x Grace Farm Reserve CS

So far this month, mostly from auction a few nights ago.

1 X 2009 Best’s – Bin 0 Shiraz.
1 X 2012 Best’s – Bin 0 Shiraz.
1 X 1994 Best’s – Thomson Family Shiraz
3 X 1998 Tahbilk – Reserve Shiraz.
1 X 1965 Wynns – Black Label Cabernet.
1 X 1982 Wynns – Black Label Cabernet.
2 X 1990 Wynns – Black Label Cabernet.
3 X 1991 Wynns – Black Label Cabernet.
2 X 1991 Wynns – Centenary.
2 X 1990 Wynns – John Riddoch.
1 X NV Baileys of Glenrowan – HJT Liqueur Tokay.
1 X 1971 Chambers Rosewood Winery – Seabrook Vintage Port.
1 X 1955 Orlando – Tawny Port.
1 X 1952 Seppelt – Seppeltsfield DP 8 Vintage Port.
1 X 2008 De Vogue – Bonnes Mares.
1 X 2013 De Vogue – Musigny VV.
1 X 2014 De Vogue – Musigny VV.

Cheers Con.

Tried my luck in an auction of some Coonanwarra. Good years, OK wines - I might be lucky!
6 x 1990 Brand's Laira Coonawarra Original Vineyard Shiraz
6 x 1994 Mildara Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon
6 x 1996 Leconfield Coonawarra Shiraz
6 x 1990 Rosemount Estate Coonawarra Cabernet

michel wrote:Let’s kick this thread backwards
2016 Rousseau
This is the last year ever....

Don't believe you. Photos please.

Cloth Ears wrote:Tried my luck in an auction of some Coonanwarra. Good years, OK wines - I might be lucky!
6 x 1990 Brand's Laira Coonawarra Original Vineyard Shiraz
6 x 1994 Mildara Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon
6 x 1996 Leconfield Coonawarra Shiraz
6 x 1990 Rosemount Estate Coonawarra Cabernet

There was an awful lot of older stuff on there with good provenance and lowish reserves. I went a more scattergun approach:
1 x 1996 HIGHBANK VINEYARDS Basket Pressed Cabernets
4 x 2001 JAMIESONS RUN Rothwell Cabernet Sauvignon
1 x 1999 KATNOOK ESTATE Cabernet Sauvignon
1 x 1998 LINDEMANS Limestone Ridge Vineyard Shiraz Cabernet
1 x 1998 LINDEMANS Pyrus Cabernets
1 x 1998 LINDEMANS St. George Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
1 x 1988 MILDARA Jamiesons Run Dry Red
1 x 1993 PENLEY ESTATE Cabernet Sauvignon
1 x 1993 WYNNS COONAWARRA ESTATE Cabernet Sauvignon

Cheers

Michael

Michael,

The three Lindeman's wines of 1998, the Limestone Ridge, Pyrus, and St. George, were all very nice wines when young. I tasted them at the Coonawarra cellar door and thought they were cellar candidates. I have other vintages of these wines here in Canada so am very interested to know how they are whenever you open them.

I'd also be interested in hearing about the '88 Jamieson's Run. I bought the '91 and '92 when a saleman in Calgary (a three hour drive south of where I live) told me about the wine having won the Jimmy Watson Trophy. A bottle of one of these wine (can't recall the vintage) was still dark and tannic only two years ago.

Mahmoud.

Mahmoud Ali wrote:Michael,

The three Lindeman's wines of 1998, the Limestone Ridge, Pyrus, and St. George, were all very nice wines when young. I tasted them at the Coonawarra cellar door and thought they were cellar candidates. I have other vintages of these wines here in Canada so am very interested to know how they are whenever you open them.

I'd also be interested in hearing about the '88 Jamieson's Run. I bought the '91 and '92 when a saleman in Calgary (a three hour drive south of where I live) told me about the wine having won the Jimmy Watson Trophy. A bottle of one of these wine (can't recall the vintage) was still dark and tannic only two years ago.

Mahmoud.

Mahmoud

I found a 98 Limestone in my cellar buried deep away at the back. I was concerned the fruit would have dried out and the wine long past it’s use by date.

I was however pleasantly surprised upon opening the wine to find it had matured into an excellent wine and the timing was perfect. Red fruit, soft in a Margaux ish manner, almost feminine with red fruit and medium bodied, velvety tannins and reasonable length on the finish. Personally I wouldn’t be holding them much longer. My storage condition are low temperature so if stored closer to high teens definitely worth opening now.

Mark

Mahmoud Ali wrote:Michael,

The three Lindeman's wines of 1998, the Limestone Ridge, Pyrus, and St. George, were all very nice wines when young. I tasted them at the Coonawarra cellar door and thought they were cellar candidates. I have other vintages of these wines here in Canada so am very interested to know how they are whenever you open them.

I'd also be interested in hearing about the '88 Jamieson's Run. I bought the '91 and '92 when a saleman in Calgary (a three hour drive south of where I live) told me about the wine having won the Jimmy Watson Trophy. A bottle of one of these wine (can't recall the vintage) was still dark and tannic only two years ago.

Mahmoud.

Will let you know when I open them. The Lindies have been favourites for a while but I stopped buying them in the 90s and 00s as the QPR was not so flash and they lost their way a bit style wise. I got back on board with the 2010, 2012 and 2013 vintages, but then the (discounted) price leapt from $30 to $50 so I haven't bought the 14s, 15s or 16s - though I have liked them a lot at the Coonawarra Roadshow.

I used to buy the Jamieson's run all the time in the late 80s. Fortunately it was a big volume wine and the JWT didn't hike the price too much.

Cheers

Michael

Michael McNally wrote:

Cloth Ears wrote:Tried my luck in an auction of some Coonanwarra. Good years, OK wines - I might be lucky!
6 x 1990 Brand's Laira Coonawarra Original Vineyard Shiraz
6 x 1994 Mildara Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon
6 x 1996 Leconfield Coonawarra Shiraz
6 x 1990 Rosemount Estate Coonawarra Cabernet

There was an awful lot of older stuff on there with good provenance and lowish reserves. I went a more scattergun approach:
1 x 1996 HIGHBANK VINEYARDS Basket Pressed Cabernets
4 x 2001 JAMIESONS RUN Rothwell Cabernet Sauvignon
1 x 1999 KATNOOK ESTATE Cabernet Sauvignon
1 x 1998 LINDEMANS Limestone Ridge Vineyard Shiraz Cabernet
1 x 1998 LINDEMANS Pyrus Cabernets
1 x 1998 LINDEMANS St. George Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
1 x 1988 MILDARA Jamiesons Run Dry Red
1 x 1993 PENLEY ESTATE Cabernet Sauvignon
1 x 1993 WYNNS COONAWARRA ESTATE Cabernet Sauvignon

Cheers

Michael

I was tempted by the '86 Jamiesons also - as I was looking for sets of six. But in the end I decided four 6-packs was quite enough (discretion being the better part of valour - and just in case storage wasn't quite up to scratch).

Hm. I just remembered I'm going to have to explain this to Mrs CE...maybe over a nice bottle of red?

Cloth Ears wrote:I was tempted by the '86 Jamiesons also - as I was looking for sets of six. But in the end I decided four 6-packs was quite enough (discretion being the better part of valour - and just in case storage wasn't quite up to scratch).

Hm. I just remembered I'm going to have to explain this to Mrs CE...maybe over a nice bottle of red?

I would wait until you have finished the nice bottle of red and are opening the second....

I have adopted a more US military style of "don't ask, don't tell" which works most of the time.

Cheers

Michael

Michael McNally wrote:

Cloth Ears wrote:I was tempted by the '86 Jamiesons also - as I was looking for sets of six. But in the end I decided four 6-packs was quite enough (discretion being the better part of valour - and just in case storage wasn't quite up to scratch).

Hm. I just remembered I'm going to have to explain this to Mrs CE...maybe over a nice bottle of red?

I would wait until you have finished the nice bottle of red and are opening the second....

I have adopted a more US military style of "don't ask, don't tell" which works most of the time.

No, not really US military style, because they waterboard, and instead you are suggesting the more civilized wine-boarding.

Cheers ............. Mahmoud.

1 X 2013 Hewitson Old Garden Mourvedre
1 X 2014 Hewitson Falkenberg Shiraz
6 X 2018 Rockford Black Shiraz
6 X 2017 Rockford Frugal Farmer
6 X 2018 Rockford Vine Vale Riesling
6 X 2015 Rockford Basket Press Shiraz
1 X 2017 Tscharke Estate Grenache/Mataro
3 X 2018 Tscharke Gewürztraminer Eva Frizzante (apparently goes well with gin, lime and a sprig of mint)
1 X 2016 Tscharke Marananga Estate Shiraz
1 X 2016 Tscharke Shiraz Shiraz Shiraz

Scotty vino wrote:1 X 2013 Hewitson Old Garden Mourvedre
1 X 2014 Hewitson Falkenberg Shiraz
6 X 2018 Rockford Black Shiraz
6 X 2017 Rockford Frugal Farmer
6 X 2018 Rockford Vine Vale Riesling
6 X 2015 Rockford Basket Press Shiraz
1 X 2017 Tscharke Estate Grenache/Mataro
3 X 2018 Tscharke Gewürztraminer Eva Frizzante (apparently goes well with gin, lime and a sprig of mint)
1 X 2016 Tscharke Marananga Estate Shiraz
1 X 2016 Tscharke Shiraz Shiraz Shiraz

Hi Scotty

Great to see some Frugal Farmer in there, an underrated wine. I like to give it a good 30-45 minute chill in the fridge which I believe brings out it's best.

The 2006 Hewitson Old Garden at 10 years was one of the best wines I've ever had the pleasure to drink and still had many years on it.

Enjoy.

Cheers
Paul

Another 6 x 2008 Clos de Goisses

Stomper wrote:

Scotty vino wrote:1 X 2013 Hewitson Old Garden Mourvedre
1 X 2014 Hewitson Falkenberg Shiraz
6 X 2018 Rockford Black Shiraz
6 X 2017 Rockford Frugal Farmer
6 X 2018 Rockford Vine Vale Riesling
6 X 2015 Rockford Basket Press Shiraz
1 X 2017 Tscharke Estate Grenache/Mataro
3 X 2018 Tscharke Gewürztraminer Eva Frizzante (apparently goes well with gin, lime and a sprig of mint)
1 X 2016 Tscharke Marananga Estate Shiraz
1 X 2016 Tscharke Shiraz Shiraz Shiraz

Hi Scotty

Great to see some Frugal Farmer in there, an underrated wine. I like to give it a good 30-45 minute chill in the fridge which I believe brings out it's best.

The 2006 Hewitson Old Garden at 10 years was one of the best wines I've ever had the pleasure to drink and still had many years on it.

Enjoy.

Cheers
Paul

totally agree. Great summer drinking I'll give your pre chill method a go.

2x Fontodi Flaccianello della Pieve 2015

Sunday auction.

1 x pikes the Merle 2014 mag.

Could of won more 2002 Riesling if their website is more stable. The last 10 mins. Can’t even click in to my watch list.

My sympathies. At one auction I had trouble keeping tabs on a birth year wine and wasn't able to raise my bid accordingly.

Saving for holiday next year so being good

A magnum 2013 Puriri Hills Pope (now or never as only 30 made, 2 of them now mine), and a few of my "cheap wine of the year" 2016 Shingle Peak Reserve Pinot Noir

6 x Domenica Nebbiolo 2015
6 x Monchiero Langhe Neb 2015
3 x Wickhams Road Pinot Gippsland 2018
3 x Wickhams Road Pinot Yarra 2018
6 x Oakridge Over the Shoulder Rose 2017
6 x Oakridge Meunier 2017
2 x Podere Ruggeri Corsini Dolcetto d’Alba 2016
4 x Podere Ruggeri Corsini Langhe Neb 2016

And that’ll do for the year I hope...

Scotty vino wrote: 1 X 2016 Tscharke Shiraz Shiraz Shiraz

Opened a 2013 this week, probably kept it a year longer than was ideal, just as an aside. Still delish, nice to find Barossa Shiraz that isn't overworked.

winetastic wrote:

Scotty vino wrote: 1 X 2016 Tscharke Shiraz Shiraz Shiraz

Opened a 2013 this week, probably kept it a year longer than was ideal, just as an aside. Still delish, nice to find Barossa Shiraz that isn't overworked.

Yep, they are great quaffers. Have drunk almost all of my 14s and soon will get onto 15 and 16.

-- George Krashos