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[burmans]

Plenty of people would rather buy from reputable sources, where you know the wine has been stored correctly.

Take into account retail stores, like BWS and Liquorland don't exactly store bottles well. Most are in direct light all the time, which isn't ideal and definitely not temperature controlled.

I'm sure for most wines it's OK, but if you're spending big $$$ you don't want to serve friends, or guests bad wine.

What’s that got to do with buying or not buying Penfold wines?

 

[burmans]

I'm so glad someone actually has more wine than me

Red bigot owns WAY more wine than you. I’m a subscriber on his site, this list above is a small fraction of what he buys which I know because many people there post what they buy.

 

[kevviek]

Eastland Melbourne, but seems I got the last DM. WB black / Thomas Hardy cab sav / GB Shadach etc are all half price there with stock, so check it out

DM back up to $140 at that store, must have been a pricing error on a new line.

 

[boomy]

DM back up to $140 at that store, must have been a pricing error on a new line.

Similar to Moss Wood CS 2018 which was sold at half price for a while until BWS finally fixed the mistake

 

[baiden]

Grant Burge Icons 6pk at TWC for $299 that includes:

2018 Grant Burge Balthasar Shiraz
2016 Grant Burge Shadrach Cabernet Sauvignon
2016 Grant Burge Meshach Shiraz
2017 Grant Burge Holy Trinity GSM
2018 Grant Burge Corryton Park Cabernet Sauvignon
NV Grant Burge Sparkling Shiraz Cabernet

Now I'm not saying this is a great buy, but its prob not bad value with 8.5% CR

Grant Burge Icons 6pk - Valued at $489 RRP

Grant Burge Icons 6pk - Valued at $489 RRP, a Mixed Case - Read Reviews At The Wine Collective

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[misohoney]

Grant Burge Icons 6pk at TWC for $299 that includes:

2018 Grant Burge Balthasar Shiraz
2016 Grant Burge Shadrach Cabernet Sauvignon
2016 Grant Burge Meshach Shiraz
2017 Grant Burge Holy Trinity GSM
2018 Grant Burge Corryton Park Cabernet Sauvignon
NV Grant Burge Sparkling Shiraz Cabernet

Now I'm not saying this is a great buy, but its prob not bad value with 8.5% CR

Grant Burge Icons 6pk - Valued at $489 RRP

Grant Burge Icons 6pk - Valued at $489 RRP, a Mixed Case - Read Reviews At The Wine Collective

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Fair value is probably closer to $200

 

[redbigot]

Red bigot owns WAY more wine than you. I’m a subscriber on his site, this list above is a small fraction of what he buys which I know because many people there post what they buy.

To be fair, a lot of what I've bought in the last 6 months is for friends who let me do all the hard work of finding the bargains and reap the benefits. Also I buy a fair number of single bottles for tasting groups. Working up to retirement, in my last year of full-time work I bought over 1,000 bottles to achieve a cellar with 10 years drinking, around 3,000 bottles. Purchases since then have been to maintain that state and about now should start reducing a little. I also dig into my cellar for tastings and wine group dinners.
Along the way I have sold at least 30 dozen - Penfolds, Rockford, Wendouree and others as I stopped buying them, found I didn't really like some of them, especially the cork-sealed wines and I decided the sale price would fund future purchases.
I think there are a few people on my Forum who have more wine then me, certainly some with much bigger buying budgets then me.

 

[qaz]

Recent posts elsewhere: The Chardonnay Thread, The Pinot Noir & Grenache Thread, Advice on champagne, Wine lovers musings, Wine Reviews, Articles, Blogs & Other Resources, How do you store your wine

• 2016 Graham's Vintage Port - JS99, D(RM)/WS(JM)98, WE(RV)97, V(NM)96, WA(MS)95, JR18.5, DS99, FV98, MJ20, RM19, AG96 - $198 @ The Wine Collective (less 8.5% Cashrewards, $10/$20 voucher)

2016 Grahams Vintage Port

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• 2018 Brian Oregon wines - GW95 - $50 @ Different Drop, $51 @ DRNKS

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• Sunshine Creek Yarra Valley Cabernets 2014 - JO96, HH95, GW93 - $29 @ Cloudwine

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Meet the wine sellers thinking inside the box

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Virtual wine tastings get a bit too popular during lockdown

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Mike Press - 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon for just $120 a case including shipping.

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[Daver6]

Plenty of people would rather buy from reputable sources, where you know the wine has been stored correctly.

Take into account retail stores, like BWS and Liquorland don't exactly store bottles well. Most are in direct light all the time, which isn't ideal and definitely not temperature controlled.

Most? That's a big call. I've never seen a shop with that much natural light!

More seriously though, I've never seen a wine shop that has the entire store temp controlled. High volume stuff I wouldn't even worry about. It's not like its goign to be sitting on the shelf for very long anyway. The turnover is high. I'd also suggest that the temp fluctations in a BWS are going to be less than 99% of places people are going to store the wine once they've purchased it.

 

[toney]

Recent posts elsewhere: The Chardonnay Thread, The Pinot Noir & Grenache Thread, Advice on champagne, Wine lovers musings, Wine Reviews, Articles, Blogs & Other Resources, How do you store your wine

• 2016 Graham's Vintage Port - JS99, D(RM)/WS(JM)98, WE(RV)97, V(NM)96, WA(MS)95, JR18.5, DS99, FV98, MJ20, RM19, AG96 - $198 @ The Wine Collective (less 8.5% Cashrewards, $10/$20 voucher)

2016 Grahams Vintage Port

2016 Grahams Vintage Port from Oporto, Portugal - Read Reviews At The Wine Collective

www.thewinecollective.com.au

• 2018 Brian Oregon wines - GW95 - $50 @ Different Drop, $51 @ DRNKS

Brian Wines | Liquid Library

liquidlibrary.net.au

• Sunshine Creek Yarra Valley Cabernets 2014 - JO96, HH95, GW93 - $29 @ Cloudwine

35% Discount, 96 Points Jeremy Oliver. Wine of the Week. $29!

us16.campaign-archive.com

Meet the wine sellers thinking inside the box

The partners behind new brand Hey Tomorrow are out to prove good wine in environmentally-friendly casks is the way of the future.

www.afr.com

• 2020 Hey Tomorrow & Lethbridge Nouveau White [Strathbogie Ranges]
• 2020 Hey Tomorrow & Phillip Lobley Nouveau Red [Yea Valley]
• 2019 Hey Tomorrow & Syrahmi Syrah [Heathcote]

Quality Cask Wine & Goon Wine Australia | Hey Tomorrow

Forward drinking Australian cask wine in a box. Boxed wine has a bad reputation but Hey Tomorrow thinks inside the box and brings quality cask wine to your door.

heytomorrow.com.au

Virtual wine tastings get a bit too popular during lockdown

Wine makers are milking the surge in popularity for online tastings of up to 100 people at a time. “The thing we didn’t quite count on was how successful this format would be.”

www.afr.com

Winemaker experiences at The Urban Winery Sydney

Chef x winemaker long lunches, blend-your-own wine sessions, winery tours, barrel tasting, grape stomping, personalised labels and so many more experiences at the Urban Winery Sydney.

urbanwinerysydney.com.au

Virtual Tasting - Urban Winery Sydney Reservations

Rezdy Online Booking

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Press Club Offer | August is Cabernet Month 🍷

Thanks for pointing out the Pinot and Chardonnay threads @qaz. My tastes are slowly changing from the classic big reds (and I’m trying to predict some future evolution) so will pay closer attention to these threads

 

[henleybeach]

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Pikes Eastside Clare Valley Shiraz 2016 375ml
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With the $40 voucher, works out around $7.34 including delivery

 

[Birdyzone]

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[stewartedin]

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[Mynameismynameis]

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No bonus pts offer.

 

[Lenscap]

To be fair, a lot of what I've bought in the last 6 months is for friends who let me do all the hard work of finding the bargains and reap the benefits. Also I buy a fair number of single bottles for tasting groups....

Seems as good a time as ever to ask.
I too wrote off TWE, thoughts on Accolade?

 

[misohoney]

I too wrote off TWE, thoughts on Accolade?

Much better value on CellarOne and more tempting discounts. Also more generous with their referral credits

 

[redbigot]

Seems as good a time as ever to ask.
I too wrote off TWE, thoughts on Accolade?

My preferred price range, depending on purpose is $10-$60, almost never over $100pb. The guiding principle is always QPR: "Is this wine fair/good/outstanding Quality for the available purchase Price."
I was lucky to be buying and drinking Penfolds and other now TWE reds from about the 69 vintage onwards, some fabulous wines, especially into the 90's when the fabulous 90, 91 Bin 707 vintages were easily available for $30 and $35. I'm only guessing at the equivalent cost in todays terms, probably around $100 maybe $150, it was a special occasion wine to drink after appropriate cellaring and fair QPR. At $600+ now the QPR for little or no increase in quality is nonexistent to me.

I still occasionally buy wines from the TWE stable, either from the chains or from Cellardoor.co, when the offered price makes QPR sense, the majority in recent time have been Seppelts Sparkling reds and St Peters.

Now Accolade have some interesting brands that they have bought over the years and have in some cases sort of left alone to do their own thing. I do buy some of theirs, mostly via cellarone. St Hallett (mostly Blackwell, halves and full bottles, Sparkling Shiraz), Grant Burge (only Filsell) Stonier (love the Reserve PN, sometimes discounted enough to tempt me and their newest buy, Rolf Binder wines, bought the Bulls Blood 2017 on opening special. Some others there, including some I used to buy in times past, Reynella, Hardys, but mostly they don't come down in price enough to satisfy my QPR calculation.

 

[qaz]

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I still occasionally buy wines from the TWE stable, either from the chains or from Cellardoor.co, when the offered price makes QPR sense

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perhaps the best value of the bunch given reviews:

• Penfolds St Henri Shiraz 2018 - NS/KG/AC99, EL/TS/HH97, JP96, CM(WF)95+ - 375ml $50 delivered in 12pk @ cellardoor.co - limit 1 (via Winefront)

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[redbigot]

• Penfolds St Henri Shiraz 2018 - NS/KG/AC99, EL/TS/HH97, JP96, CM(WF)95+ - 375ml $50 delivered in 12pk @ cellardoor.co - limit 1 (via Winefront)

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Yea, saw that, but can't cope with 12 myself and haven't found anyone who wants to share. My last Penfolds buy was St Henri 2010 @ $70pb in 2014.

 

[dandandan]

Yea, saw that, but can't cope with 12 myself and haven't found anyone who wants to share. My last Penfolds buy was St Henri 2010 @ $70pb in 2014.

If you can get Cellardooor.co inner sanctum prices, it's $45 for the 375ml St Henri and $91 for the 750ml.