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6 x Paritua Hawke's Bay 2015 Red Blend. My first venture into NZ Bordeaux style blend.

Bought some quaffing wine to refill the depleted stocks. Seems i have lots of
cellaring stuff, but actually very little 'drinking now' wines.

6 x 2014 Hentley Farm Shiraz - For the better half, i have gone off Barossa Shiraz at the moment, but she still loves it
6 x 2016 Leconfield Coonawarra Cab Sav
6 x 2016 Balgownie Estate Limited Release Shiraz Cabernet
6 x 2016 Baron de Lestac Bordeaux
1 x 2018 Farr Rising Gamay
1 x 2017 Domaine Naturaliste Floris Chardonnay
3 x 1996 Mildara Coonawarra Cab Sav
3 x 2017 Bay of Fires Riesling
1 x 2017 Powell & Son Eden Valley Riesling

6 x 2017 Coldstream Hills Esplanade Pinot

Found a bunch of sherry on sale. We use it for evening aperitifs and for splashing into cooking and for deglazing, namely: Gonzales-Byass 'Tio Pepe' Fino and some old sediment laden bottles of KWV Cape Pale Dry (a South African fino). A few days later I found a 100% Bobal wine from Utiel-Requena in Spain, a 2012 Vicente Gandia 'Bo' Bobal Unico which will be my first Bobal wine. Looking forward to trying it.

Mahmoud Ali wrote: KWV Cape Pale Dry (a South African fino)..

How intriguing. This producer is most well known for their brandy, which (at the higher year levels e.g. 15) is pretty darn good albeit perhaps over priced on a full international comparison. I have brought it back from duty free a couple of times. Their wines are mostly in the $10-15 range and I had no idea they made sherry.

6 * 2014 La Mission

I know the game in Bdx - the ‘18 coming out at £3000 a case makes older vintages, that were once too expensive, look good value. This is first growth quality in a sold, If not spectacular, vintage for less than half the 1st Growth Price.

sjw_11 wrote:

Mahmoud Ali wrote: KWV Cape Pale Dry (a South African fino)..

How intriguing. This producer is most well known for their brandy, which (at the higher year levels e.g. 15) is pretty darn good albeit perhaps over priced on a full international comparison. I have brought it back from duty free a couple of times. Their wines are mostly in the $10-15 range and I had no idea they made sherry.

This is the current bottling of the KWV Pale Dry: This is the older livery on the bottles I found on sale: Among the bottles was an even older livery, and note that here they use the term sherry: Mahmoud.

Edit: PS: On the flip side, I haven't seen or heard of the KWV brandy, though considering they make sherry and port, it makes eminent sense.

One bottle of Chateau Canon 2015, a rare find in this city.

6 x 2013 Wynns Black Label Shiraz
6 x 2014 Yalumba The Cigar

4 x PdB Riserva Pora 2014

4 x Cavalotto San Giuseepe Riserva 2012

Good prices, contrary to my strategy at the moment and I''l put one of each on the tasting bench

6 x Tyrrell's Reds (Vat 9, Vat 8 and 'Old Hillside') - thinking I might drop the Vat 8 after the tasting last week.
2 x 2016 Bondar Rayner Vineyard Shiraz
2 x 2018 Bondar Rayner Vineyard Grenache
4 x 2017 Bondar Violet Hour Shiraz
4 x 2018 Bondar Junto GSM
4 x 2018 Koerner 'Cannonau' Grenache
6 x 2012 Seppelt Drumborg Riesling
6 x 2013 Seppelt Drumborg Pinot Noir
Got sucked in by a 'deal' - 6 x 2015 Mandala 'The Matriarch' Pinot Noir
And a $50 voucher + free delivery on Qantas wine was enough to get me to buy this mixed six (for under $220 delivered)
2016 Seppelt Drumborg Vineyard Pinot Meunier
2015 Glenlofty Estate The Sawmill Vineyard Shiraz
2017 Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier
2013 Dandelion Red Queen of the Eden Shiraz
2014 Moppity Reserve Cabernet
2015 Bird In Hand Cabernet Sauvignon

And the Wild Duck Creek mailer arrived today...........

Michael McNally wrote:6 x Tyrrell's Reds (Vat 9, Vat 8 and 'Old Hillside') - thinking I might drop the Vat 8 after the tasting last week.
2 x 2016 Bondar Rayner Vineyard Shiraz
2 x 2018 Bondar Rayner Vineyard Grenache
4 x 2017 Bondar Violet Hour Shiraz
4 x 2018 Bondar Junto GSM
4 x 2018 Koerner 'Cannonau' Grenache
6 x 2012 Seppelt Drumborg Riesling
6 x 2013 Seppelt Drumborg Pinot Noir
Got sucked in by a 'deal' - 6 x 2015 Mandala 'The Matriarch' Pinot Noir
And a $50 voucher + free delivery on Qantas wine was enough to get me to buy this mixed six (for under $220 delivered)
2016 Seppelt Drumborg Vineyard Pinot Meunier
2015 Glenlofty Estate The Sawmill Vineyard Shiraz
2017 Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier
2013 Dandelion Red Queen of the Eden Shiraz
2014 Moppity Reserve Cabernet
2015 Bird In Hand Cabernet Sauvignon

And the Wild Duck Creek mailer arrived today...........

Michael, well done on the 2016 Bondar Rayner...picked up a dozen at the sea and the vines festival last year ( on again this weekend, Queen's birthday), thought it was sold out.
Know there is a little bit of noise about the '17 Violet Hour on another blog, but had a bottle on Friday and thought it very good.

Yes WDC mailer...could spend an absolute bomb, but will stick with Spingflat and some Yellow Hammer Hill.
Cheers Craig

Oops, duplicate.

Michael McNally wrote: 2 x 2016 Bondar Rayner Vineyard Shiraz
2 x 2018 Bondar Rayner Vineyard Grenache

Any connection to the Rayner Vineyard Shiraz that used to be made by made by Brokenwood?

phillisc wrote:Michael, well done on the 2016 Bondar Rayner...picked up a dozen at the sea and the vines festival last year ( on again this weekend, Queen's birthday), thought it was sold out.
Know there is a little bit of noise about the '17 Violet Hour on another blog, but had a bottle on Friday and thought it very good.

Yes WDC mailer...could spend an absolute bomb, but will stick with Spingflat and some Yellow Hammer Hill.
Cheers Craig

Hi Craig

It is sold out, but when I heard about it last year some time I contacted Selina and asked her to put a couple away for me until my next order. I have never had a bad wine from them and been buying from them for 3 or 4 years. Still have some 2014 Juntos and Violet Hours. Great wines. Love the Junto. And the QPR is excellent!

Same for me with WDCE this year. Might even have to downsize to a six, but hard to pass up some of the 'lesser' labels like Dabblers and Ducks & Drakes.

Mahmoud Ali wrote:Any connection to the Rayner Vineyard Shiraz that used to be made by made by Brokenwood?

Hi Mahmoud

I suspect it is. The Wine Front has some Brokenwood Rayner reviews and say it is from the Blewitt Springs sub-region, and I'm guessing they are one and the same. A lot cheaper though! The 2004 is listed at $69.00.

Cheers

Michael

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3 x 2016 Jamet Cote Rotie

Coincidentally I also bought some Cote-Rotie.

After tasting a bottle of the 2010 Delas 'Seigneur de Maugiron' Cote-Rotie that I found in a small liquor shop it was clear that I needed to buy some. It isn't a single vineyard wine but rather a blend of fruit from the Cote Brune and Cotes Blonde, so rather less expensive. Nonetheless I was surprised to find this back vintage for only $27, at what must have been an old price. A check on wine searcher shows it to be worth roughly double or more in other parts of the world. The same wine is over $100 at Dan Murphy's and Vintage Cellars!

Anyway, having tasted a bottle and finding it in good nick, I went back to pick up what I thought were five or six bottles. There were a few more :

9 x 2010 Delas 'Seigneur de Maugiron' Cote-Rotie.

The store also had a bottle of 2001 Brand's 'Laira' Coonawarra Cabernet for $35 but I gave that a miss.

Mahmoud Ali wrote:Coincidentally I also bought some Cote-Rotie.

After tasting a bottle of the 2010 Delas 'Seigneur de Maugiron' Cote-Rotie that I found in a small liquor shop it was clear that I needed to buy some. It isn't a single vineyard wine but rather a blend of fruit from the Cote Brune and Cotes Blonde, so rather less expensive. Nonetheless I was surprised to find this back vintage for only $27, at what must have been an old price. A check on wine searcher shows it to be worth roughly double or more in other parts of the world. The same wine is over $100 at Dan Murphy's and Vintage Cellars!

Anyway, having tasted a bottle and finding it in good nick, I went back to pick up what I thought were five or six bottles. There were a few more :

9 x 2010 Delas 'Seigneur de Maugiron' Cote-Rotie.

The store also had a bottle of 2001 Brand's 'Laira' Coonawarra Cabernet for $35 but I gave that a miss.

Where is that store?

FredericoWines wrote:Where is that store?

I presume you are somewhere in Australia so the store in question is a long way off. I live in Edmonton, Canada.

Mahmoud Ali wrote:

FredericoWines wrote:Where is that store?

I presume you are somewhere in Australia so the store in question is a long way off. I live in Edmonton, Canada.

Ha ha, I'm only 3 hours from you

Sorrenberg Gamay 2018 x3
Sorrenberg Cabernets 2016 x3
Savaterre Chardonnay 2017 x6
Eldorado Rd Persévérance Old Vine Shiraz 2016 x2
Traviarti Nebbiolo 2017 x2

FredericoWines wrote:

Mahmoud Ali wrote:

FredericoWines wrote:Where is that store?

I presume you are somewhere in Australia so the store in question is a long way off. I live in Edmonton, Canada.

Ha ha, I'm only 3 hours from you

Okay, that must mean stampede country, as in Calgary, right?

Mahmoud Ali wrote:Any connection to the Rayner Vineyard Shiraz that used to be made by made by Brokenwood?

Michael McNally wrote:I suspect it is. The Wine Front has some Brokenwood Rayner reviews and say it is from the Blewitt Springs sub-region, and I'm guessing they are one and the same. A lot cheaper though! The 2004 is listed at $69.00.

I've got a few bottles of the 2001 vintage, bought many years ago for roughly $25 if I recall. Do the fellows at Wine Front have anything to say about the '01 Rayner Shiraz?

Mahmoud.

Curiosity led me to look at Wine-Searcher and to my surprise they had the 2016 Brokenwood Rayner Shiraz listed. It is available at cellar door for A$100 and this is what the website says about the vineyard:

Previously made between 1993 and 2007, the Shiraz grapes for this wine are not from the 1950 plantings but from a block right next-door and planted in the early 1990s. A feature of the vineyard, which is just outside the town of McLaren Vale in South Australia, is the deep sand over clay soils.

Relatively easy choice I would think, to buy wine from the original Rayner Vineyard plantings from Bondar (they bought the vineyard in 2013) instead of paying more than double for Brokenwood's newer plantings.

Mahmoud.

Chuck wrote:6 x Paritua Hawke's Bay 2015 Red Blend. My first venture into NZ Bordeaux style blend.

Although now owned by Chinese investors, the winemaker is the same. Jason Stent is a really good wine maker and the range of Paritua reds are very solid. The Red is Merlot dominant (74%) and made more like a St Emilion. Ripeness is a bit high for my tastes

I really like the Paritua Syrah. More Nth Rhone but still full ripeness and length. They get it fully ripe at 13 to 13.5% alcohol which I appreciate.

Brodie

A case of 2012 Katnook Prodigy

Cheers Craig

12 x 2016 Vasse Felix Cabernet

6 x 2016 Standish Relic
3 x 2016 Standish Schubert Theorum
6 x 2015 Olivers Taranga HJ Reserve
4 x 2015 Shaw and Smith Balhannah Vineyard
2 x 2015 Spinifax La Maline
6 x 2017 Florita Vineyard Reisling

3 2012 Fraser Gallop Parterre Cabernet
3 2018 Seppeltsfield Grenache
3 2012 Seppelt Drumborg Riesling
1 2015 Bannockburn Shiraz
2 2017 Mt Langi Cliff Edge Shiraz