Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[cove]

I do the free delivery CE. I got 11.15% off that price. I sent it to work.

 

[TheRealTMA]

A heads up. One of our favourite Central Otago wineries Mt Difficulty have just released their new vintages. We've just ordered two cases. For wine club members (sign up for free on online AFAIR) , they are offering the 2013 vintage of Mt Difficulty Single Vineyard Pinot Noirs and others including free shipping. Pity the A$ vs NZ dollar is not as good as it was a few years ago.

"The 2013 vintage has produced a quintet of amazing Mt Difficulty Single Vineyard Pinot Noirs!

Firstly, the Growers Series Packspur Pinot Noir from Lowburn - if you’re looking for drinkability, then Packspur never fails to deliver. Though it’s a shame to drink it young, it is delicious already. The 2013 is darker than in previous years, with dark cherry, plum and a hint of bramble and chocolate on the nose. The palate has gorgeous sweet cherry fruit and liquorice with good acid and tannin balance.

For the first time we have produced four Single Vineyard Pinot Noirs from our Bannockburn estates, with Mansons Farm joining the names you know - Pipeclay Terrace, Long Gully and Target Gully. They are dark and robust, with fantastic acid structure and predominant black fruit characteristics.

The Target Gully 2013 is all red – red current and red cherry on the nose, with red liquorice on the palate, with a hint of Omega plum tartness. It’s got great length, and is the most open of the Bannockburn wines at present.

It’s been three long years since the last Pipeclay Terrace, and it's bright in the glass. There are brown spice and forest floor characters on the nose, along with Black Doris plum. On the palate the oak is dry and the tannins are rich, offset by dark currants and blueberries.

The Long Gully 2013 has less fruit on the nose, though there’s some dark cherry with brown spice and chocolate, perhaps even tobacco. Cherry and spice on the palate too, but it's the least expressive and integrated at this time.

The inaugural Mansons Farm Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2013 is, in one word, a monster! It's floral on the nose, with a big mouthfeel - chewy, spicy, dry tannins balanced by slightly sweet fruit. It is a fitting tribute to one of our oldest vineyards.

Library Pinot Noir Mixed Case - Two bottles of each Mt Difficulty Bannockburn Pinot Noir from vintage 2008 -2013 RRP NZ$855

Special Australian Member Price (includes delivery to your door) NZ$775 Save $200

2013 Premium Pinot Noirs - Two bottles of Mt Difficulty Bannockburn Pinot Noir 2013 and two bottles of each Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2013 - Packspur, Long Gully, Pipeclay Terrace, Target Gully and Mansons Farm

RRP NZ$1043 Special Australian Member Price (includes delivery to your door) NZ$935 Save $228"

See their web site for details.

I've broken out a Pipeclay Terrace 2010 for tonight's BBQ Roast Pork!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

I do the free delivery CE. I got 11.15% off that price. I sent it to work.

Sorry I was less than clear cove - did you buy at their standard price or was it a promo delivery offer or such similar to this:

 

[QF WP]

Whilst I'm no great cook, a rolled shoulder is about to go in the oven

One glass for the cook

 

[cove]

CE if you buy over $300 of wine Dans will ship for free. I don't go to liquor stores virtually ever.So I bought at $94.90 less 5% and a 6.15% rebate. Now I can start on my 7.5% discounts from Groupon.

 

[drross]

I'll have one for you

wine or oxy?

 

[blackcat20]

Tonight's Plan. Cab with a casserole and Noble One with homemade brownies.

 

[Sedimental]

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Tonight's Plan. Cab with a casserole and Noble One with homemade brownies.

Love it when a plan comes together!

 

[TomVexille]

Love it when a plan comes together!

And come together it did

 

[JohnM]

Last night. A couple of Great Southern Shiraz offerings.

The Plantagenet (excellent and drinking at its peak I would say) was the wine I chose for dinner. The Frankland Estate (good but lacking the much better body and textural mouthfeel of the Plantagenet) was in response to the inevitable PJM Friday night question: "What else have you got?".

 

[TheRealTMA]

Actually I told a fib, in the end we didn't have the Mt Difficulty 2010 Pipeclay terrace Pinot for the BBQ Roast Pork, we had this instead... Brilliant.



Drinking brilliantly now. Could keep for longer but now it's just fab, so much so that MrsTMA wanted a second glass! We bought it from the winery last August. Pity we only bought one of the 2006!

 

[JohnM]

so much so that MrsTMA wanted a second glass!

Only a second glass . In my world, it's a second bottle :shock:.

 

[rogerkambah]

I do the free delivery CE. I got 11.15% off that price. I sent it to work.

You treat your workers very well.

 

[Buzzard]

wine or oxy?

Just don't wash one down with the other.

 

[QF WP]

All my cooking skills aren't completely lost:



Had emptied the Vasse Felix, so this was taken from the rack:

 

[TheRealTMA]

Only a second glass . In my world, it's a second bottle :shock:.

Who said there were no other bottles? . (But not of this specific wine, unfortunately.)

 

[TheRealTMA]

All my cooking skills aren't completely lost:

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Had emptied the Vasse Felix, so this was taken from the rack:

Looks like you apply more focus to your wines, QFWP!

 

[UpInTheAir:)]

Only a second glass . In my world, it's a second bottle :shock:.

Maybe that says something about the company she keeps

 

[TheRealTMA]

Maybe that says something about the company she keeps

ymstbicnpc!

Actually, that's one of the problems of taking her to all these wineries - she gets to taste the good stuff not the usual $5 NZ SB she's used to. It's a bit of a worry.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Interesting article. The Wrath of Grapes - "A band of upstart winemakers is trying to redefine what California wine should taste like — and enraging America’s most famous oenophile in the process."


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/magazine/the-wrath-of-grapes.html