Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[Steady]

Enjoying a 2013 Hare's Chase Ironscraper Shiraz tonight. Thanks to Wozza for the recommendation. Definitely a wine I would never have come across without this forum

Savoury, spicy, meaty, fruity, lengthy, delicious!

Happy to have a few more to watch develop with a bit more time. Still cropping up on langton's for around $20pb for those interested.

Yes, I have a few of these tucked away thanks to Wozza and DB's reviews

 

[blackcat20]

2006 Cabernet for us tonight courtesy of notzac.

 

[Steady]

2006 Cabernet for us tonight courtesy of notzac.

notzac ?

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[blackcat20]

notzac ?

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AFF member, gifted us the bottle.

 

[Steady]

AFF member, gifted us the bottle.

one of my mantras - Is free, is good...

[Borrowed from a Josef Chomy advertisement for small goods (before he became a Tassie winemaker) "is Don, is good"]

 

[Whining&dining]

Enjoying a 2013 Hare's Chase Ironscraper Shiraz tonight. Thanks to Wozza for the recommendation. Definitely a wine I would never have come across without this forum

Savoury, spicy, meaty, fruity, lengthy, delicious!

Happy to have a few more to watch develop with a bit more time. Still cropping up on langton's for around $20pb for those interested.

The name has got me in let alone the concept, haven't got anything through Langton-perhaps I should...

Pepperjack used to be the wine you took out to a restaurant about one point five decades ago showing folks that you were not a complete tight a@#$ but you knew a little about the red stuff. It used to be reasonably honest but as the palate gets more sophisticated tastes change. I don't think I have had since then, but last Christmas day, someone pulled out a 2014 Pepperjack Shiraz. It was really good as I was seriously surprised. We drank it on a stinker of a day, I think it was late thirtees, but it held it's own easily. I gave it a 7.3 giving marks for...wait for it, some complexity. I am not rekindling the affair with this Jack. I had a comparative tasting of the certified and the regular in store and found no enhancement in the premium priced wine.

Funny thing is we had a bottle of Pepperjack courtesy of my wayward brother at Christmas a number of years ago and it was unfortunately eminently forgettable but then again we had downed quite a few awesome drops in the prelude! (and I don't mean the one parked in the driveway)

AFF member, gifted us the bottle.

Doncha love the generosity of folks!

one of my mantras - Is free, is good...

[Borrowed from a Josef Chomy advertisement for small goods (before he became a Tassie winemaker) "is Don, is good"]

Now I'm a Tassie boy (although Melbourne born) and remember the ad quite well but had no idea that Josef Chromy had anything to do with it, is he the one making the pronouncement??

 

[Steady]

Now I'm a Tassie boy (although Melbourne born) and remember the ad quite well but had no idea that Josef Chromy had anything to do with it, is he the one making the pronouncement??

He started/owned Don Smallgoods before listing and making his fortune

 

[Whining&dining]

Gotya, the ads are inscribed somewhere inside my noggin but had forgotten the affiliation, he certainly knocks out some fine libations....

 

[JohnM]

This monster brought back from Canada early in the year was very good with my nice rich oxtail stew last night.

 

[Captain Halliday]

I opened a 2010 St Hallett single vintage Shiraz tonight (a favourite quaffer of mine, purchased after sampling a later vintage in QF Dom J) while spending a bit of time on what could be described as a jigsaw puzzle. I have been rearranging the Vintec's - after an hour or so, I managed to get 150 bottles into the 120 Vintec with space for 4 more and the small one (40 I think) is now almost empty

It must be time to find some more bargains....

I'm glad I'm not the only one who spends large amounts of time tinkering and rearranging. It might not be ideal for the wines, but it is remarkably good therapy.

 

[Sedimental]

A lazy lunch yesterday with Thai crab cakes, fresh bream and flathead fillets and Peking duck rolls. Key lime pie dessert.

 

[georgehall]

I finally got to open that bottle of Pinotage. With nothing else to compare it to with this variety all I can do is try and rate it for what it is, and that is downright delicious.

My vivino review offers almost nothing:

My one and only experience with this style and I am a huge fan.

On the nose it's like a combination of NZ Pinot and Coonawarra Cabernet. It's almost indescribable as I just have no reference point for the variety.

There is spice, dark fruit, tannins, blackberry, earthiness coming through...the more I drink the more I pick up that earthiness. Going to let it decant for an hour, but I like this, I like it a lot.

 

[tehuringa]

if you get a chance, check out the Lammershoek Pinotage... it's a cracker. It is a variety that has improved greatly in South Africa over the last decade... previous to that it was a cough-shoot... bretty wines everywhere.

 

[georgehall]

if you get a chance, check out the Lammershoek Pinotage... it's a cracker. It is a variety that has improved greatly in South Africa over the last decade... previous to that it was a cough-shoot... bretty wines everywhere.

It's defiantly a style I am going to sample more off, it's a style that sits right in my sweet spot. thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep an eye out for it.

 

[tehuringa]

It's defiantly a style I am going to sample more off, it's a style that sits right in my sweet spot. thanks for the suggestion, I'll keep an eye out for it.

Keep an eye out for the wines of Adi Badenhorst also... not Pinotage but fantastic wines (some very cool stuff coming from Swartland at the moment)... he's a great bloke too. Wines tnd to be blends... the white is a complete fruit salad...Chenin Blanc, Roussanne, Grenache Blanc and Gris, Verdehlo, Colombar, Viognier, Chardonnay & Semillon; the red Shiraz, Mourvedre, Grenache and Cinsault and he also does terrific aperitif (vermouth), beer and tonic water.

 

[Whining&dining]

On the nose it's like a combination of NZ Pinot and Coonawarra Cabernet. It's almost indescribable as I just have no reference point for the variety.

There is spice, dark fruit, tannins, blackberry, earthiness coming through...the more I drink the more I pick up that earthiness. Going to let it decant for an hour, but I like this, I like it a lot.

Had to resort to the interweb to glean the exact makeup of the Pinotage variety and it makes fascinating reading, Pinot crossed with Cinsaut, what a strange mating! I love an underdog and with apparently the worlds largest plantings only comprising 6% of South Africa's vines it is quite obviously a rare and strange beast, I'm going to have to seek it out now, thanks georgehall!

 

[Steady]

I'm going to have to seek it out now, thanks georgehall!

Sounds like something I would like also

 

[georgehall]

Had to resort to the interweb to glean the exact makeup of the Pinotage variety and it makes fascinating reading, Pinot crossed with Cinsaut, what a strange mating! I love an underdog and with apparently the worlds largest plantings only comprising 6% of South Africa's vines it is quite obviously a rare and strange beast, I'm going to have to seek it out now, thanks georgehall!

I knew nothing of it until a few weekends back when my local favourite wine bar dropped a glass of this in front of me blind, he told me to try and pick it and I just gave up...but I loved it.

As my review says, on the nose it smells like a really strong earthy NZ Pinot, but then on the pallete its got tannin and earthiness like a Cab Suav...it's very interesting, and seriously hits that sweet spot for me, like a 'heavy' Pinot.

Defiantly recommended to try.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Had to resort to the interweb to glean the exact makeup of the Pinotage variety and it makes fascinating reading, Pinot crossed with Cinsaut, what a strange mating! I love an underdog and with apparently the worlds largest plantings only comprising 6% of South Africa's vines it is quite obviously a rare and strange beast, I'm going to have to seek it out now, thanks georgehall!

There are some interesting Pinotages from WA you should search out. I've had a few nice ones over the years. I guess it developed because of the SA connection and expats in WA.

 

[JohnM]

There are some interesting Pinotages from WA you should search out. I've had a few nice ones over the years. I guess it developed because of the SA connection and expats in WA.

Hmmnnn, that's news to me. Can you be more specific?