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Time to kick this off I guess...

Domaine Daniel Bouland Chiroubles 2015 x6
Vietti Roero Arneis 2019 x6

Pagodes de Clos 2019 EP x6
Branaire-Ducru 2019 EP x6

Malescot Exupery 2019 X 6
Chateau Laroque 2019 X 12
Duhart Milon 2019 X 6
Tour St Christophe 2019 X 12
Branaire Ducru 2019 X 6

2x Beausejour Duffau Lagarrosse '16
2x Spottswoode Estate Cab '16

9 x 2016 DR BURKLIN-WOLF Wachenheimer Goldbachel PC Riesling, Pfalz
6 x 2019 HODDLES CREEK Estate Pinot Noir, Yarra Valley
2 x 2019 Te Mata Estate Gamay

FredericoWines wrote:2x Beausejour Duffau Lagarrosse '16
2x Spottswoode Estate Cab '16

How much and where d you get the spottswoodes from?

Jimmya wrote:

FredericoWines wrote:2x Beausejour Duffau Lagarrosse '16
2x Spottswoode Estate Cab '16

How much and where d you get the spottswoodes from?

I live in Canada. Paid $255 for one and $204 (all CAD$) for the other at different shops.

Jimmya wrote:

FredericoWines wrote:2x Beausejour Duffau Lagarrosse '16
2x Spottswoode Estate Cab '16

How much and where d you get the spottswoodes from?

I really like the 2016. Good purchase.. and even better if you refrain from opening for a decade!

Mike Hawkins wrote:

Jimmya wrote:

FredericoWines wrote:2x Beausejour Duffau Lagarrosse '16
2x Spottswoode Estate Cab '16

How much and where d you get the spottswoodes from?

I really like the 2016. Good purchase.. and even better if you refrain from opening for a decade!

Have you had it yet? What's your take on it? I have two bottles each of '14, '15 & '16 and it's hard to resist the temptation bro open one now!

A cheeky case of 2018 Leconfield Coonawarra Cabernet
6 Wild Duck Creek 2018 Springflat Shiraz
6 Wild Duck Creek Yellow Hammerhill Shiraz Malbec

Cheers Craig

FredericoWines wrote:

Mike Hawkins wrote:

Jimmya wrote: How much and where d you get the spottswoodes from?

I really like the 2016. Good purchase.. and even better if you refrain from opening for a decade!

Have you had it yet? What's your take on it? I have two bottles each of '14, '15 & '16 and it's hard to resist the temptation bro open one now!

Ive got 4 bottles of the 2013...maybe i should try one..i got them in oz before the price went spastic

Jimmya wrote:

FredericoWines wrote:

Mike Hawkins wrote:

I really like the 2016. Good purchase.. and even better if you refrain from opening for a decade!

Have you had it yet? What's your take on it? I have two bottles each of '14, '15 & '16 and it's hard to resist the temptation bro open one now!

Ive got 4 bottles of the 2013...maybe i should try one..i got them in oz before the price went spastic

Yes, please. Look forward to your TN on '13. I paid CAD170 for the '14 two years ago, then CAD 200 for '15 one year later and now CAD 255 for '16!

FredericoWines wrote:

Mike Hawkins wrote:

Jimmya wrote: How much and where d you get the spottswoodes from?

I really like the 2016. Good purchase.. and even better if you refrain from opening for a decade!

Have you had it yet? What's your take on it? I have two bottles each of '14, '15 & '16 and it's hard to resist the temptation bro open one now!

Yes, but unless you like your wines young, hold off. It’s really really primary. I haven’t had many vintages of this wine, but I may start to seek it out a little more often.

Mike Hawkins wrote:

FredericoWines wrote:

Mike Hawkins wrote:

I really like the 2016. Good purchase.. and even better if you refrain from opening for a decade!

Have you had it yet? What's your take on it? I have two bottles each of '14, '15 & '16 and it's hard to resist the temptation bro open one now!

Yes, but unless you like your wines young, hold off. It’s really really primary. I haven’t had many vintages of this wine, but I may start to seek it out a little more often.

Sure. I planned to wait 4-5 years before opening first bottle of '14.

Napa Cabernets are usually big, and I too would wait on the Spottswood. It's also overpriced but that is a function of the US dollar (exchange rate) and American collectors driving the price up. I have very few Napa Cabs other than the early ones I bought many years ago when I first started collecting but have very fortunately found some spectacular deals and have added some '07, '09, '10, '11, and '12 Napa and Sonoma cabernets.

Mahmoud Ali wrote:Napa Cabernets are usually big, and I too would wait on the Spottswood. It's also overpriced but that is a function of the US dollar (exchange rate) and American collectors driving the price up. I have very few Napa Cabs other than the early ones I bought many years ago when I first started collecting but have very fortunately found some spectacular deals and have added some '07, '09, '10, '11, and '12 Napa and Sonoma cabernets.

Yes. I stopped buying Napa Cabernet Sauvignon until a couple years ago. Before that I had wonderful wines like Shafer Hillside Select, Montelena Estate, Insignia, Beringer Private Reserve when they were only one third or fourth of what they are selling now. But I started buying them again as wines from everywhere are also going up in prices and they are not more expensive anymore, relatively of course.

Mahmoud Ali wrote:Napa Cabernets are usually big, and I too would wait on the Spottswood. It's also overpriced but that is a function of the US dollar (exchange rate) and American collectors driving the price up. I have very few Napa Cabs other than the early ones I bought many years ago when I first started collecting but have very fortunately found some spectacular deals and have added some '07, '09, '10, '11, and '12 Napa and Sonoma cabernets.

Thankfully this isn’t as big as some

Mike Hawkins wrote:

Mahmoud Ali wrote:Napa Cabernets are usually big, and I too would wait on the Spottswood. It's also overpriced but that is a function of the US dollar (exchange rate) and American collectors driving the price up. I have very few Napa Cabs other than the early ones I bought many years ago when I first started collecting but have very fortunately found some spectacular deals and have added some '07, '09, '10, '11, and '12 Napa and Sonoma cabernets.

Thankfully this isn’t as big as some

Although never had it before, I read that Spottswoode is not a typical California big, jammy, fruit bomb. Rather it's reserved and elegant, more of Old World style. Correct me if I'm wrong.

4* Brian Rizza
4* 19 Absolution Chenin, Tripe.Escariot
2 * Cirillio 1850 Grenache

All bought for online tastings. I bottle for me and the rest are off to friends in Europe.

More wines....this time not EP Bordeaux for cellaring but rather consumption

Jasci & Marchesani Pecorino 2017 X 1
Edi Kante Chardonnay 2015 X 1
Jasci & Marchesani Janu 2015 x 1
Ferraris Opera Prime Ruche 2016 X 1
Poggio Le Volpi Roma limited edition 2015 X 1
Jasci & Marchesani Nerube 2017 X 1
Cesarini Rossobastardo 2015 X 1

FredericoWines wrote:

Mike Hawkins wrote:

Mahmoud Ali wrote:Napa Cabernets are usually big, and I too would wait on the Spottswood. It's also overpriced but that is a function of the US dollar (exchange rate) and American collectors driving the price up. I have very few Napa Cabs other than the early ones I bought many years ago when I first started collecting but have very fortunately found some spectacular deals and have added some '07, '09, '10, '11, and '12 Napa and Sonoma cabernets.

Thankfully this isn’t as big as some

Although never had it before, I read that Spottswoode is not a typical California big, jammy, fruit bomb. Rather it's reserved and elegant, more of Old World style. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Not necessarily old world, but definitely medium to full bodied. Still has new world tannin and nose

Lunch down at Coriole on the WKend. Superb.
Good to see some places starting to open up and getting some folk thru.
All CD's super organised running the CV19 protocol like clockwork. big tick.
Nice to kick back by the fire and watch the rain coming in thru the vale.
Some bits and pieces below;

1 X 2019 Chapel Hill Vermentino
1 X Chapel Hill The DEVIL Tawny
1 X 2013 Mary Kathleen Coriole Cabernet-Merlot (tried 2016 Lloyd RES, nice, but this left it in the dust IMO)
2 X 2019 Coriole Fiano
2 X 2019 Coriole Nero d'Avola
2 X 2010 Coriole Sangiovese
2 X 2019 Coriole Sangiovese
4 X 2018 Lloyd Brothers Miegunyah Vineyard Pinot Gris
1 X 2014 Lloyd Brothers GUY ANTHONY Sparkling Shiraz
5 X 2014 Lloyd Brothers Miegunyah Vineyard Sparkling Cuvee
1 X 2018 Lloyd Brothers 'The Olive Tree' Mourvedre
1 X 2018 Lloyd Brothers montepulciano
4 X Monsters Pet Nat ‘La Birba’ 100% Lacrima di Morro d’Alba, Marche IT

Scotty V...just out of interest what does the Lloyd Reserve pull these days?
Have some 90s and 10/12 vintages but not purchased since

As for the other Lloyd (Lloyd Brothers) the lads, Matthew and David's parents (Guy and Adele) were our neighbours when we were youngsters. Simply amazing to be taken down to Adelaide airport in the mid 70s and be given a ride in a chopper out over the gulf to land somewhere on Yorke Peninsula.
I must drop into the winery one day and say hello.
Cheers Craig

phillisc wrote:Scotty V...just out of interest what does the Lloyd Reserve pull these days?
Have some 90s and 10/12 vintages but not purchased since

As for the other Lloyd (Lloyd Brothers) the lads, Matthew and David's parents (Guy and Adele) were our neighbours when we were youngsters. Simply amazing to be taken down to Adelaide airport in the mid 70s and be given a ride in a chopper out over the gulf to land somewhere on Yorke Peninsula.
I must drop into the winery one day and say hello.
Cheers Craig

I think $100.00-110.00. I think there's 15% off for members.
A great drop no doubt but i preferred the MK. IN fairness the 2016 Lloyd res does need a few more years under its belt to strut it's stuff.
Prob not a fair showing.

Did speak to the staff @ Coriole regards the LLoyd bros and the setup they have going. Prompted a visit and purchase post lunch.
Also some discussion on the 1919 coriole vineyard which they believe was possibly planted earlier. There's some research currently being done to try and ascertain an accurate date.

Schrodingers wine time.

Yesterday i ordered the following from my contact in Europe

1 * 18 Rousseau Clos de Beze
1 * 18 Rousseau Le Chambertin
1 * 18 Rousseau Clos St Jaques
1 * 18 Rousseau Gevry-Chambertin
1 * 18 Grivot Richbourg
1 * 18 Grivot Exchezeaux
1 * 18 Bruno Clair Clos St Jaques
1 * 18 Bruno Clair Clos de Beze

and told them I'd happy take a 2nd bottle if there was 1 available. In my head I own 2 bottles of each, if my wife ever asks "I order too much as there is no chance of getting it all", and with world demand still high, its quite possible I wont get any. Suitcase will be opened in a few weeks and the truth will be out.

decided to get back into buying a little wine, mostly in 3's or 6's
(not counting 2017 Burgundies, which are annual purchases and therefore don't count )

2009 d'Yquem (3)
2012 Pierre Gonon St Joseph (6)
2007 Amiot Clos de la Roche (6)
2009 Bouchard Corton Charlemagne (6)
2015 Chartron Chevalier Montrachet (CdC) (3)
2018 Pooley Pinot (12)
mixed dozen of the latest Standish releases, I've forgotten whether that is 2017 or 2018, I'll check when I'm next in the cellar
2015 Marchand-Tawse Mazis Chambertin (6)
2016 Chantal Remy MSD Clos de Rosieres (12)
mixed bag of Overnoy Jura
2017 mixed Peay Pinots (12)
2017 mixed Littorai Pinots (12)

... and there I was, promising to keep purchases to a minimum.

Didn't think you were a fan of Standish, felixp21?

2018 Standish Standish
2018 Standish Schubert's Theorum
2019 Seppelt Drumborg Riesling
2013 Balnaves shiraz
2018 Tahbilk Marsanne

2014 d'Arenberg Shiraz The Dead Arm
2016 d'Arenberg Shiraz The Dead Arm
2018 The Standish Wine Company Shiraz Lamella
2018 The Standish Wine Company Shiraz The Standish
2017 Rockford Cabernet Sauvignon Rifle Range
NV Rockford PS Marion Tawny
2015 Rockford Shiraz Basket Press
2016 Rockford Shiraz Basket Press
2015 Rockford Shiraz VP
2017 Primo Estate Joseph Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Moda
2016 Clos Mogador Priorat
2014 Ferrer Bobet Priorat
2016 Viñedos de Páganos Rioja La Nieta
2013 Woody Nook Cabernet Sauvignon Gallagher's Choice
2017 Frankland Estate Shiraz Isolation Ridge Vineyard

kenzo wrote:Didn't think you were a fan of Standish, felixp21?

2018 Standish Standish
2018 Standish Schubert's Theorum
2019 Seppelt Drumborg Riesling
2013 Balnaves shiraz
2018 Tahbilk Marsanne

.... had to see what all the fuss is about. They must be good, everyone here loves em!!!

Had resisted recently but lost control this week.

12 x Penfolds Cellar Reserve Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2017
2 x 08 Dom Perignon
6 x 08 Veuve Clicquot Rose
4 x 08 Larent Perrier

First Purchase in what feels like a while....... i think reality its only a few weeks.

3 x 2016 Produttori Barbaresco
3 x 2016 Ruggeri Corsini Bricco San Pietro
6 x 2016 Monchiero Langhe Nebbiolo