Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[Daver6]

How about you and Mrs Daver6 after drinking it - plus the preceding aperitifs...? .

I'll wring the truth out of MD6 on Wednesday night while you luxuriate in whY on QF9....

Just the one bottle...and was only 12% ABV.

I'm sure the BA F lounge at LHR will make up for 17+ hours of torture in whY? I'm so doomed

 

[TheRealTMA]

Hard to beat EK F for onboard wines. QF F should hang their head in shame.


And nice duck breast.

 

[JohnM]

Hard to beat EK F for onboard wines. QF F should hang their head in shame.

Not to mention the cutlery....

 

[cove]

My attempt to avoid jet lag by doing a no alcohol onboard was fairly unsuccessful. Our next run is on QF so I will try the bubbles and the red wine just for you JohnM. It is our double status credit run this month.

 

[TheRealTMA]

My attempt to avoid jet lag by doing a no alcohol onboard was fairly unsuccessful. Our next run is on QF so I will try the bubbles and the red wine just for you JohnM. It is our double status credit run this month.

Bah! Silky idea. DOM, Chateau Margaux, Hennessy all the way is the only way to go as JohnM suggests.

 

[QF WP]

I cracked this a couple of weeks ago:



Not as good as my first bottle a year ago, but eminently drinkable.

 

[TheRealTMA]

21212 dinner Edinburgh with these wines. White was very strange. So was the sommelier. Very strange wine list with not much recognizable. ( food was not good. Don’t recommend it. Can’t for the life of us understand why it still has a michelin star .)




Next night at Kyloe, a fabulous Argentinian Malbec from the Eco Valley for 2/3rds the price.

 

[juddles]

Tonight I am sitting on a deck looking out over the tiny fishing village of Guanaqueros, IV Region, Chile. I grew up here.

Bought some wine at the supermarket in La Serena a few days ago - by God Chile has excellent wine pricing!! Anyway, tonights tipple is a Ventisquero Carmenere, 2015. Not flash but very enjoyable. But I did something I have not done since my youth.

Am in a holiday house, which here typically has cough kitchen stuff, including glasses. I am no wine snob but I do like a good red wine glass. What is here I can only describe as "thimbles". As I was finishing the first bottle, I filled the glass, but there was a bit left, so I actually drank it from the bottle. God that brings back memories

So to all you wine lovers, when was the last time you drank from the bottle?

Uncouth, maybe, but extraordinarily pleasing.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Robert Parker Hotel Ednam House, Kelso, Scottish Borders. Very good wine list for uk country hotel and low markups. This was only £40.

 

[JohnM]

Tonight I am sitting on a deck looking out over the tiny fishing village of Guanaqueros, IV Region, Chile. I grew up here.

Bought some wine at the supermarket in La Serena a few days ago - by God Chile has excellent wine pricing!! Anyway, tonights tipple is a Ventisquero Carmenere, 2015. Not flash but very enjoyable. But I did something I have not done since my youth.

Am in a holiday house, which here typically has cough kitchen stuff, including glasses. I am no wine snob but I do like a good red wine glass. What is here I can only describe as "thimbles". As I was finishing the first bottle, I filled the glass, but there was a bit left, so I actually drank it from the bottle. God that brings back memories

So to all you wine lovers, when was the last time you drank from the bottle?

Uncouth, maybe, but extraordinarily pleasing.

Mate, I'm loving the imagery - and you know the underlying reason why....

 

[TheRealTMA]

Where do they come up with the names of Australian wines sold in the uk?

 

[JohnM]

Where do they come up with the names of Australian wines sold in the uk?

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Well, it is from the Riverland....

 

[qaz]

Like previously, a few photos to entice AFFers into attending Melbourne tastings

2015 Burgundy, Yarra Valley, Margaret River, Rhone:



Marchesi Mazzei:

 

[Steady]

I was just contemplating what to open tonight and realised I haven’t posted last weeks bottles yet - so here they are

The Serrat SV was really good...



My first Hillwood wine - loved it and it was cheap for a Tassie wine. No Cellar Door but they will sell from the vineyard if you call and ask, or phone order for delivery.

This was a museum release from the Stonewall room thanks to some AFFers - my last bottle of 2 purchased. I had the first one 6 or so months ago, it was good - but this bottle was outstanding.

 

[burmans]

Where do they come up with the names of Australian wines sold in the uk?

From the company that makes it, google it - shows up as Diliquente wines. interestingly my company blocks this as a gambling site so I guess that's what you'd be doing with this wine.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Did another excellent Spanish wine tour with Adrian McManus from Northwest Iberia Wine tours yesterday - Home - North West Iberia Wine Tours

Adrian is not cheap but well worth the cost because of his knowledge and contacts. He gets you to places you’d never get to on your own. (Will do a TR at some stage.)

Yesterday, two wineries in Toro (Tinto de Toro - Tempranillo) plus brilliant lunch at restaurant Lera featuring game as speciality.

 

[blackcat20]

Tonight's effort


Friday night

 

[TheRealTMA]

Interesting aerator - lovely wine - Tinto Finca or Tempranillo

 

[TheRealTMA]

Penultimate tour and lunch at Cepa 21 in Ribera de Duero, Spain.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Final two tours in Ribera de Duero. Bodegas Protos in Peñafiel with cellars under the 10th C castle, and Bodegas Portia in Borgos Provence.



Portia