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6 each of the 2021 Lindemans Trio
6 2021 Seppelts St Peter's

Cheers Craig

12 x 2021 Jim Brand The Pursuit Cabernet Sauvignon

6 X 2023 Seppelts Great Western Riesling

Also picked up a Clarendon Hills pack:

1 x 2003 Hickinbotham Syrah
1 x 2007 Hickinbotham Syrah
1 x 2008 Hickinbotham Syrah
1 x 2010 Hickinbotham Syrah
1 x 2013 Hickinbotham Syrah
1 x 2015 Hickinbotham Syrah
1 x MAGNUM Hickinbotham Cabernet Sauvignon 2003
1 x MAGNUM Hickinbotham Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
2 X 2013 Astralis Syrah

Cheers Ed

A few more Yeringberg 2021 Cabernets.

Will be interested in what you think of the GW Riesling, the region makes some solid Rieslings, but Drumborg is the pick.

Might pull the trigger on some 2023

Cheers Craig

phillisc wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:12 am A few more Yeringberg 2021 Cabernets.

Will be interested in what you think of the GW Riesling, the region makes some solid Rieslings, but Drumborg is the pick.

Might pull the trigger on some 2023

Cheers Craig

Bought a 6-pack '23 Drumborg - outstanding potential but way to young at the moment. Put the other 5 in my Kennards locker - will look at in 3 then perhaps 5 years.
Tight yet quite mouthfilling - quite textural but very muted Riesling fruit. Will be outstanding, like the 1976 and 1978 examples enjoyed some 40 years ago.

WineRick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 11:51 am

phillisc wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:12 am A few more Yeringberg 2021 Cabernets.

Will be interested in what you think of the GW Riesling, the region makes some solid Rieslings, but Drumborg is the pick.

Might pull the trigger on some 2023

Cheers Craig

Bought a 6-pack '23 Drumborg - outstanding potential but way to young at the moment. Put the other 5 in my Kennards locker - will look at in 3 then perhaps 5 years.
Tight yet quite mouthfilling - quite textural but very muted Riesling fruit. Will be outstanding, like the 1976 and 1978 examples enjoyed some 40 years ago.

WR...that may get me over the line...did it have that laser like lick of acidity?
Agree that sometimes these Rieslings are very muted. Had an 02 Leonay recently, very soft and delicate, but think its only half way. Will have another at Christmas I think.
Cheers Craig

6 x 2018 Nightfall Coonawarra Dry Red - Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc Merlot
6 x 2021 Lindemans St George
6 x 2021 Lindemans Limestone Ridge

(thanks to phillisc for the last two items)

Haha I can visualise you going down to the cellar to decide what to have with dinner young Malcolm - will it be a Coonawarra or......a Coonawarra.

Thought we'd re-educated you back into Burgundy with MBSC - clearly you've reverted

Continuing the theme
A few 2021 Penley Estate Eos Shiraz Cabernet

Cheers Craig

6 X NV Veuve Fourny Cuvee R Extra Brut 1er
6 X 2022 Turkey Flat Rose

Good Xmas drinking!

Astralis 2016 only because it was half price - Black Friday deal

3 x 2020 Houghton Jack Mann, needs a looong sleep before I will touch it.

My next comment is entirely non wine related and I anguished long and hard whether to say anything at all.
There is an Aust listed company named Imugene and they have just today received US FDA fast track designation for their product that kills cancer tumours. Yes, a cure for cancer. I will say no more.

Started cooking a Green Curry on Monday and forgot about the closing of the Wickmans auction. Shame - there was a lovely 97 Seppelt Great Western Shiraz and 1970 Leasingham Cab Malbec that i had my eye on. Anybody here buy them ?

That left a single bottle of 1996 Richmond Hill Coonawarra Cab ( the 97 was the best corked wine I can remember having) and a bottle of NV Wynvale Port the looks to have come from the 70's.

MC spotted the '97 GW but have 4 bottles from an original sixer in the cellar.
Picked up the other '98 Wirra Wirra Penley, for the same price as last months' bottle. Will be good to have a back up.

Cheers Craig

2008 and 2012 Seppelt Show Sparkling Shiraz
2021 Seppelt St Peters

Hacker wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2023 5:43 pm
There is an Aust listed company named Imugene and they have just today received US FDA fast track designation for their product that kills cancer tumours. Yes, a cure for cancer. I will say no more.

Big pharma will buy them out and shelve it. It's not in their interests to cure cancer.

A mixed case of 2016/18 Balnaves Tally
6 2021 Frank Potts Cabernet Blend.

Cheers Craig

6 x Domaine Michel Rebourgeon Bourgogne Cote D'Or

Got a Vanya Cullen 2012 at auction. Keen to try this in a decade. Many auction odds and ends to keep from depleting the cellar. A lot of mature Coonawarra is pretty cheap and suits my old fashioned palate. I’m amazed on social media at the diversity of drinking the generations behind partake in. It’s all too new for me and hard to keep up!

No new purchases. I’m moving my other cellar back to Australia slowly but surely at about 30 bottles a months. I’ve pretty much unlimited luggage it’s just what I can carry- 2 x suitcases with 12 bottles of Barolo each.

Go easy on those old Coonawarra's

Cheers Craig

Couple of randoms for xmas period:
1x Langoa Barton 2015
1x Penfolds Bin 311 2022 (which interestingly is about $1 cheaper from BBR than it would be in Oz from Uncle Dan's)