Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[TheRealTMA]

View attachment 119436 A very smooth and easy to drink Cabernet.

Your reaction solvent looks a little dark. Distill it first so you start with clean EtOH and you'll probably get first order reaction kinetics rather than have to wait for the third order kinetics.

 

[The Warlock]

Yarraloch 2013 Estate Pinot Noir

Lovely savoury Pinot, Burgundian style with nice bit of complexity coming out.
This was only $15 a bottle direct from the cellar door because of minimal label damage, most bottles there is virtually none. You should call them to place order as their website doesn't work.

Absolute bargain, highly recommend and would have happily paid full price.

I've since gone back for 6 more.

Thanks @qaz for the tip off on this one.

 

[Sedimental]

Last Tuesday of the month's blind wine tasting wines

 

[Sedimental]

Second bracket

 

[cove]

I took a Diana and a Moet to the neighborhood party. They went down well.

 

[juddles]

Am in Chile for a while, reliving the past.....

A friend gave me this nice bottle - Casillero del Diablo Legendary Collection. A very nice cab sav. It is some sort of run to celebrate some alliance with the Manchester United footy club, but I don't care about that. Sorry for not taking good photo with some wine still in it - I was onto the backup Cousino Macul carmenere by the time I thought about this thread - and am solo

 

[Sedimental]

Petaluma C'warra 2004 and Turkey Flat Cab Sauv 2002

 

[tgh]

This is the most discouraging thread.. but it's like salt, I can't do without it….

 

[boomy]

Recent purchase from EpiQure. Drinks beautifully now.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Recent purchase from EpiQure. Drinks beautifully now.

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Ah! Mine arrived today!

 

[vmile]

Ah! Mine arrived today!

Me too!!!! Got to love 15,000 QF points

 

[boomy]

Me too!!!! Got to love 15,000 QF points

And the wine is nice bonus

 

[wineflyer]

Been looking for a more savoury pinot (as opposed to the more fruit forward aussie style pinot's) and found the Goisot quite nice

A little tannic and acidic on first pour, but 15 minutes in the glass smoothed that all out. Colour is quite dark for a pinot, but had a floating on clouds kind of mouthfeel. Savoury and umami, a little grassy without being earthy. It was extremely moreish, after every sip, I couldn't wait to take another.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Shipment from Langton’s arrived yesterday. Trying first one.


Very rich Cabernet, ruby, spice tannins, good fruit. Drinking well now but wouldn’t keep much longer.

 

[Major]

It has been a little cooler over the last couple of days so I nuked some of this for 30 seconds before dinner



This was followed by a delightful Bin 28 with the lamb shanks I put in the slow cooker about 7 hours before

 

[wineflyer]

Shipment from Langton’s arrived yesterday. Trying first one.

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Very rich Cabernet, ruby, spice tannins, good fruit. Drinking well now but wouldn’t keep much longer.

I use my Zalto Burg's for all the reds i drink, how do they drink in the universals?

 

[Daver6]

I use my Zalto Burg's for all the reds i drink, how do they drink in the universals?

I'm not a fan of reds in Universals. I use them mainly for aromatic whites and champagne.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I use my Zalto Burg's for all the reds i drink, how do they drink in the universals?

I think they work quite well. Normally only use them for whites but some reds now as well.

 

[cove]

I went with Billecarte champagne and a 2011 Moss Wood yesterday to a lovely French restaurant. Our group liked both. Chez Pierre in Nedlands charge $10.50 a bottle corkage on byo for their lunch which was a good pick for a Wednesday get together.Give it a try when you are in Perth.

 

[Whining&dining]

I haven't posted any recent tastings here for a while but have enjoyed (vicariously) the fine wine that has run over various member's gums. Thought I'd finally clear the backlog and try to do justice to some of the fine libations that have come my way (many of them like the one pictured have been gifted by fellow wine-fancier and benefactor, Rug). I tried the 2016 Kalleske Clarrys GSM a few months back and like the aforementioned member found it a touch closed and not putting forth the abundance of flavour I've come to both love and expect from the Kalleske vintners. The 2017 Clarrys GSM is a different kettle of fish altogether, a real trip to an old-fashioned lolly shop....
The wine positively leaps from the bottle, the vibrancy of translucent madder lake stains the glass, its hue reminiscent of the darkest carmine of the 'Lord Bute' pelargonium (see photo). Exuberant, but the lifted nose still doesn't give the game away of the fruit that is still yet to come. It's the palate that picks you up by the lapels and demands attention: the confectionary notes from the Grenache component borne aloft by a gentle resinous quality as if a bottle of retsina had a one night stand with the vines at night. Oak is well-nigh irrelevant in this equation. Juicy red berries coat the mouth, imagine a bagful of those soft raspberry-flavoured jubes that stuck your teeth together as a child with a musk-stick used like a swizzle stick and you're starting to get it, tastes like the colour purple, bloody delicious! Cheers dears....*
*photo credits my youngest son