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4th June 2007, 10:55 PM #46
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5th June 2007, 07:37 AM #47
Wirra Wirra Cab Sauv 2002 - ripper. It went really well with the beef cheek pie!
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Jeremy
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5th June 2007, 08:25 AM #48Member
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I am at Dookie College this week doing a residential session for my winemaking course. The rooms are like prison cells - except for the Parisian versions - but I was allowed to bring my 'puter.
Last night we had a structured tasting of students' wines. The stand out wine was a Brands Cooonawarra Cabernet Shiraz Merlot. Strange blend but stunning wine with so much depth and intensity and all those shiraz and cabernet characteristics combined into one - I couldn't detect the merlot but maybe that was just me.
I get to go home tomorrow night and get back to the important things in life: setting up my woodshop and building the new kitchen.
Bill
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11th June 2007, 09:38 PM #49
Jacobs Creek Reserve Shiraz 2004 is a nice drop.
Cheers
Michael
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12th June 2007, 11:06 AM #50
Another weekend of selling wine coming up. such a pity I have to taste it all?
Maybe some D'Arenburgh Shiraz to start with?
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12th June 2007, 11:15 PM #51
Got spoilt last Sat night. A mate bought a Penfolds 389, we went to dinner - he paid for that also.
Started with a bruschetta.
The had with a lovely penne marinara with extra prawns.
YUM
My shout next time.Have a good one
Keith
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For no special reason at all finished off the last bottle of Penfolds Cabernet Shiraz Bin389 1988. It passed muster
Bob
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16th June 2007, 10:39 PM #53Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)
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16th June 2007, 10:51 PM #54
Recently opened in my cellar:
Bowen Estate Shiraz 1998 - not drinking as well as it was last year.
Bowen Estate Shiraz 1997 - IMO drinking better than the 1998.
Bowen Estate Shiraz 1996 - at its peak IMO.
Balnaves 1996 The Blend - Magnificent wine. Last bottle in the cellar
Rockfords 1998 Basket Press Shiraz - great but not yet at its peak
Rockfords 2002 Rifle Range Cab Sav - great but still a few years to go.
Rockfords 2003 Rifle Range Cab Sav and BP Shiraz - very green and tight.
Geoff Hardy 2002 K1 Shiraz - Magnificent. One of geoffs best efforts for some time.
Geoff Hardy 2003 K1 Shiraz - Nothing like the balls of the 2002. Might improve with a year or two in the cellar but my overall impression is that 2003 was a bit of an average year for SA reds.
2002 Penfolds Grange - at $500 a bottle do you think Im crazy enough to actually drink the stuff. A grossly overpriced cult wine that I buy purely for investment purposes.
Reccomendation - buy up all the 2002 red you can before its gone from the shelves.Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)
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17th June 2007, 11:33 AM #55
Agree, mostly.... I had a Leeuwen Estate 2002 blend Friday week ago & it was smooth but not a Friday night after work wine, no balls.
We had a Wyndham Estate Bin 444 Cab Sav 2002 last night & it was, in my opinion, much better than the Leeuwen Estate from last week.
The Millaa Millaa pub has some Rosemount Estate Show Reserve Cab Sav 2002 on the shelf for $34 a bottle, I'm not sure if that is a good price or not, seems a bit high.Cliff.
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20th June 2007, 01:36 AM #56
Wine?... gak puke!! Cant abide the stuff... maybe its me other side of the tracks palete but gawd strewth people you may as well go buy a bottle of vinigar!
Actually I think it might be my palate... have never tasted a good wine yet had a lot of different wines put in front of me from time to time some really excellent chatew de cardboard along with what people call grange hermatige but didnt make a stick of difference still tasted like vinigar to my taste buds
My elder sis is right into the stuff and will spend thousands on good "quality" wine... but even when she offers the really good stuff... its still vinigar to me... so I dont get offered it much anymore
Still there you go... some like rum an some dont some like scotch some dont some like kahluah an some dont an some like wine and some like me dont like the stuff... so its all goodBelieve me there IS life beyond marriage!!! Relax breathe and smile learn to laugh again from the heart so it reaches the eyes!!
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20th June 2007, 10:14 PM #57
Crikey Bill you'll have Stoppers(aka Christopha) in conniptions next about the Coonawarra reds and deservedly so.
I'm getting most of my wine (reds) made by an old chap, (in the Margeret River region) and making it without preservatives ....man the bouquet and the freshness which is drinkable after a year.
I've been on an annual sorte to Margeret River and have a reasonable cellar which is problematic in the ensuing move interstate but won't be drunk in haste to lessen the load but rather nurtured in it's entirety to see me out those long cold winters over yonder!
Sipping on a Cape Mentelle Zinfidel over dinner and now has the problem of wine induced typos so I'll leave ya all to ponder on one of life's great delights of being partial to some teriffic Oz reds.
CheersJohnno
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20th June 2007, 11:58 PM #58Member
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John,
It's many years since I have had a Cape Mentelle Zinfandel. It is an old favorite of mine but haven't seen one for a while.
On the preservative free wine, how long does it last? My 2004 Shiraz had a very low level of preservative (last time I checked it had 3.5ppm SO2) but is starting to look a little tired. Luckily I have sold all but my museum stock and I hope most of my customers have consumed their stock or are watching it closely.
Bill
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21st June 2007, 12:23 AM #59
Bill,
From the chap that makes the wine, he reckons on about five years and the wine I'm getting is about 1 yr and recently bottled.
Good solid red cabernet style.
cheersJohnno
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28th June 2007, 12:08 AM #60
I can't read the empties... it is too dark here inside the bin.
Cliff.
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