Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[boomy]

RWT, nice! On recent flights it was on the list but SQ always had only the other option available.

It never stops to amaze me when airlines serve top shelf wines so young. While some of airlines are better with French wines they never seem to with Aussie. Even QF, which one would expect more knowledge from their sommeliers, offer reds like Clonackilla SV, RWT and St Henry way before their drinking time.

 

[drron]

I'm very definitely not into infanticide when it comes to red wines.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I'm very definitely not into infanticide when it comes to red wines.

There should be a word for it derived from the Latin roots of adulescens, enophile and paedophilia.

 

[Daver6]

Is the 2012 RWT a bit too young to drink?

Depends how you like you're wines really.

 

[AnonymousCoward]

It never stops to amaze me when airlines serve top shelf wines so young. While some of airlines are better with French wines they never seem to with Aussie. Even QF, which one would expect more knowledge from their sommeliers, offer reds like Clonackilla SV, RWT and St Henry way before their drinking time.

Given how much wine QF goes through, I'm guessing they're not interested in being in the cellaring business. That would be a lot of capital tied up in bottles sitting there doing nothing.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Some very interesting posts - I guess if you don't like young wines just send the RWT back - personally I cannot get enough of that 2012 RWT into me on the OZ-SIN-OZ flts.

Good thing we don't all like the one girl huh?

 

[baiden]

Some very interesting posts - I guess if you don't like young wines just send the RWT back - personally I cannot get enough of that 2012 RWT into me on the OZ-SIN-OZ flts.

Good thing we don't all like the one girl huh?

Now that would make for an "interesting" feedback forum.......ahem

 

[vmile]

Depends how you like you're wines really.

I suspect a 2012 RWT would be just fine, following a sufficent quantity of Krug.

Or as Cruser Elite so eloquently states,

"Everything tastes better when served with Krug by a Singapore girl!"

 

[QF WP]

Took this to lunch with friends - my last bottle of the 6 I bought ~9 months ago. Got to ring my Langtons Broker and source some more lest my wife start complaining there's none in the house

 

[drron]

Continuing the Petaluma theme.Last night one of the lesser lights-

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just over it's best but still good drinking.
Tonight a surprise.I expected this to be past it's peak but probably the best aged white wine I have had-

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My extensive stock of Petaluma wines is due to one of the best investment decisions I made in the early 1990s.I invested in the Petaluma IPO.$3.50 a share.Only because shareholders would get a discount on Petaluma wines which grew to cover brands like Michelton and Stonier.There was a hostile takeover by Lion in 2001 and I received ~ $29 for my initial shares.best of all they retained the original shareholder discounts.
Interestingly the Petaluma brand will be spun off probably next year.
Brian Croser the founder of Petaluma now has the original Piccadilly vineyard back under the Tapanappa brand.This chardy is from that vineyard.

 

[ste667]

Drron, I was eyeing up the 97 Petaluma Cabernet on cellar one - do you think this would still be drinking well?

 

[AnonymousCoward]

Drron, I was eyeing up the 97 Petaluma Cabernet on cellar one - do you think this would still be drinking well?

I have a couple of bottles of the 1997 left - I think it's at its peak (or maybe a little beyond). Very good drinking if you like that older-style Cab blend. Not as good as the 1998, but still a thumb's up from me.

 

[penegal]

A number of the things which make wine enjoyable (or not enjoyable) are quite different in a pressurised metal or plastic tube.

The main thing is you enjoyed it.

 

[TheRealTMA]

A number of the things which make wine enjoyable (or not enjoyable) are quite different in a pressurised metal or plastic tube.

Yes! Normally more of it!

 

[penegal]

Yes! Normally more of it!

Well the price is right.... In F and J... Not sure about that BOB cough in Y class

 

[JohnM]

The start of a serious lunch with my elder son for his birthday. Lovely texture, very fine bead.

 

[blackcat20]

I suspect a 2012 RWT would be just fine, following a sufficent quantity of Krug.

Or as Cruser Elite so eloquently states,

"Everything tastes better when served with Krug by a Singapore girl!"

Ask them to open it at the start of a 12 hour flight then have a good eight hour sleep. Tastes pretty darn good after that.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Ask them to open it at the start of a 12 hour flight then have a good eight hour sleep. Tastes pretty darn good after that.

Or alternatively ask them to rip the top off one imm you board then you can tuck into it as soon as lunch / dinner is served.

 

[blackcat20]

Or alternatively ask them to rip the top off one imm you board then you can tuck into it as soon as lunch / dinner is served.

Or just do both there was a definite improvement after a few hours.

 

[Steady]

Ask them to open it at the start of a 12 hour flight then have a good eight hour sleep. Tastes pretty darn good after that.

So RWT for breakfast?