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Did you eventually end up with everything you ordered? It wasn't clear to me from your post. Since I mentioned earlier that I also had an issue, I'll take this opportunity to say that I'm in surplus from Winery Lane right now. Due to a picking error I ended up with six incorrect bottles...

It would be weird to rename a single vineyard shiraz that's named after the vineyard in question. I wonder if they only release the single vineyard wines in years when a particular vineyard shines. Agreed with the comments about the Dawkins 2010 in any case. I have only opened one and it...

3) is Claymore Bittersweet Symphony I believe. Edit: stubacca beat me to it. Anyway I will add that it isn't bad at that price (and is definitely a better price than I've seen it for elsewhere) if you like malbec, which is actually a pretty big player in the flavour profile, or so was my...

Looks like that'd be here, and more specifically for The Den, here.

Nice work WDT. I found myself faced with a magnum of that Black Wattle Cabernet as an option to bring the total up to the threshold on one of my orders, and it seemed like a decent bet. It seems they ran out of the magnums though, and substituted the following mixed 6-pack instead: Heirloom...

Hmm, VM have Innocent Bystander Syrah 2015 on at the moment and are quoting the James Halliday score and review text for the previous vintage as though it were for this one. That's seriously dodgy. (The Yarra Valley wine show score is correct. You'd think they'd be happy enough with that.)

No need to apologise. I can't even claim that assertion is strictly true, but that's the only place I've seen these two, so... Nonetheless some of the others in the pack looked interesting.

Or a classy 4-pack with a couple of made-for-DM quaffers (Dragon's Blood, Nessus). Not necessarily bad value if that's the sort of mix you're looking for. On a somewhat related note, I've never figured out whether all the made-for-someone-or-other RRP-circa-$11 Gemtree wines are the same...

So BF, grand final day done and dusted, how does Peter the Red's White of Whites stack up? Most of those reviews on Dan's site seemed to be clustered into a short period a couple of years ago. Did Pierre find his mojo for only a little while or does he have the magic touch? I struggle to...

I sure hope you're right, because I've elected to buy now and evaluate later. At least I'm not put off by assertions that it's peppery. Anyone who doesn't want two cases, the Burns & Fuller shiraz is on there at a reasonable price too and the price after the coupon on a case of each is...

Yes, successfully. Two transactions within half an hour or so of each other.

They didn't even mention that it was a CashRewards offer. Should be good for the regular 8% off too if you click through via the CR site.

Also pleased to report that although I've not received my order yet, Steve's provided me with tracking info so I now have a delivery estimate and a bit more peace of mind.

Gee that's a non-event. VM pricing is usually a bit sharper than other sites - see for example the Claymore Bittersweet Symphony (but that's as it should be, since VM don't seem to offer anything other than referral bonuses and the occasional targeted voucher these days). You could get a dozen...

Well that's encouraging, thanks. I will give them Monday to reply too before pinging them again. I do like to support the little guys, especially when they come up with good offers like that, and I can understand them not having as sophisticated systems as the supermarkets etc. It's just that...

I'm also very unimpressed so far. Have contacted them twice to follow up my order, first via website form and secondly on Thursday via email, and received no reply to either. Starting to wonder if their plan for half-price gift cards was to fulfil only half of the orders. I will give them the...

According to the blurb, it's "The kind of shiraz B-grade pretenders could only aspire to be." Quite impressive for a wine that's also reportedly only 15% shiraz.

Would you mind elaborating? I'd assumed the same, so now I'm a bit curious.

I don't know, it seems wrong to me that colour & clarity should count for as much as either bouquet or overall quality. If I could save $60 a bottle by ignoring the colour & clarity of a 15-point wine that was particularly awful on those counts, I sure as hell would. Maybe it just doesn't come...

WINEAVENUE is supposedly an "exclusive" code to bargainavenue, which is one of those coupon sites. I guess in theory this might mean that CashRewards cashback might not be granted with it. But then again: Their attention to detail is generally MIA. So there's every chance it will. Just a...