Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[blackcat20]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Ah so it's the last item then! How can I now keep my DYKWIA status amongst friends. Out with my Vinturi then!

We should just use a large salad bowl, pour in the wine, aerate it with a whisk then put back in the bottle. I've got strange looks in restaurants for aerating a recently opened wine by gently inverting the bottle (with cap or hand over the top ) several times.

I've seen this one in use and quite like the look of it:
Menu Winebreather Carafe by Norm Architects | Scandinavian designed wine aerator and decanter | MenuDesignShop.com

 

[TomVexille]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Ah so it's the last item then! How can I now keep my DYKWIA status amongst friends. Out with my Vinturi then!

We should just use a large salad bowl, pour in the wine, aerate it with a whisk then put back in the bottle. I've got strange looks in restaurants for aerating a recently opened wine by gently inverting the bottle (with cap or hand over the top ) several times.

I'm tempted to take this one with when we go to a restaurant

 

[tehuringa]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Epic dinner on Saturday night at Fino at Seppeltsfield with a motley crew of winemakers and the odd sommelier and general wine bum.

Front row left to right: Matt (Winemaker Smidge Wines), Kevin (Winemaker Yalumba), Charlie (clutching the bottles, Winemaker Yangarra Wines), Fiona (Winemaker Seppeltsfield), Carps (Winemaker Tintara), Sarah (Winemaker Wynns Coonawarra), Iain (Winemaker/Owner Brokenwood),

Second Row: Patrick (Somm at Magill estate), Rebecca (Winemaker Bremerton Wines), Corrina (Winemaker Olivers Taranga), Mary (Viti guru), Nicole (ex-somm), James (Winemaker Jauma Wines)

Back Row: Adam (Winemaker Shaw + Smith), Emma (Winemaker at Treasury Estates), Shadowy looking bloke (Me), Andy (Winemaker Oxford Landing), Andrew (Torbreck Wines)




Plenty of highlights .... some great Champagnes... Taitinger Comte de Champagne 2004, Pol Roger Winston Churchill 1999, Some great white Burgundies... Bonneau du Martray Corton Charlemagne and Roulot Meursault, Some cracking red Burgundies, some Sauternes and some amazing Seppeltsfield fortified including the super rare DP64 Tokay and the new mega-100 year old Para sold in a Lurlique decanter for $10,000 :shock:

Followed by two games of rugby on telly and a recovery lunch in the Barossa with Iain Riggs it's a very slow Monday.

 

[penegal]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Looks like a fantastic weekend tehuringa.

Very jealous.

 

[AnonymousCoward]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Air, I assume

The little graph on the back suggests it is better than the Vinturi.

Better at what? "Look, we're 4x better at looking good in graphs that our competitors"?

 

[AnonymousCoward]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

I've seen this one in use and quite like the look of it:
Menu Winebreather Carafe by Norm Architects | Scandinavian designed wine aerator and decanter | MenuDesignShop.com

Does it work well? Saw it in a shop once in Sydney, but it looked a little gimmicky at the time, so didn't buy.

 

[blackcat20]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Better at what? "Look, we're 4x better at looking good in graphs that our competitors"?

Better at aerating one would assume
I'm certainly happy with it, especially ay $10.

Does it work well? Saw it in a shop once in Sydney, but it looked a little gimmicky at the time, so didn't buy.

Havent used it myself but Two Hands use them.

 

[Steady]

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I'm feeling ripped off - I bought my aerator on sale from HN - but it was $6- more than yours

Seems to do the job, and like your duckbill one it pushes into the bottle and doesn't drip.

 

[blackcat20]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

I'm feeling ripped off - I bought my aerator on sale from HN - but it was $6- more than yours

Seems to do the job, and like your duckbill one it pushes into the bottle and doesn't drip.

It was on sale...

 

[Steady]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Yes - down to $16 from $35

 

[blackcat20]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Yes - down to $16 from $35

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Thats a decent deal.

I couldnt decide between mine and the Vinturi so I bought them both. Much cheaper in the US.

 

[coriander]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

I've got strange looks in restaurants for aerating a recently opened wine by gently inverting the bottle (with cap or hand over the top ) several times.

Doesn't that stir up the sediment?

 

[Steady]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

I do have a vinturi - it is a mini one that seems to make a mess every time I use it (not just at the end of the bottle )
I saw this one on special (or maybe clearance) and grabbed it - I'm very happy with it.

 

[TheRealTMA]

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I'm tempted to take this one with when we go to a restaurant

Take it for your next QF F flight!

 

[TheRealTMA]

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Doesn't that stir up the sediment?

Don't normally do this for older wines with sediment. They can be decanted.

Should we ask Sedimental?

 

[TomVexille]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Take it for your next QF F flight!

Now you're talking

Assuming that QF have any decent reds of course

 

[TheRealTMA]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Now you're talking

Assuming that QF have any decent reds of course

Well, ok. EK then!

 

[TomVexille]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Well, ok. EK then!

Maybe SQ and JL. I don't have the points to book EK anymore

 

[beefarmer]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

Ah so it's the last item then! How can I now keep my DYKWIA status amongst friends. Out with my Vinturi then!

We should just use a large salad bowl, pour in the wine, aerate it with a whisk then put back in the bottle. I've got strange looks in restaurants for aerating a recently opened wine by gently inverting the bottle (with cap or hand over the top ) several times.

The mollydooker shake may not be a patented item, but his marketing is second to none.

 

[Daver6]

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Saturday night was Barolo night! Spot the impostor though...