Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[amaroo]

Two very nice drops .... just like the location.

 

[JohnM]

@amaroo on yet another wine and food cough jaunt .

 

[Rugby]

@amaroo - not drinking the local stuff?

 

[amaroo]

@amaroo - not drinking the local stuff?

Just for you Rugby





Followed up with a delish Waiheke sticky

 

[Rugby]

Just for you Rugby

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Followed up with a delish Waiheke sticky

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That’s the ticket! And what the hell, a bit of Waiheke is great anywhere

 

[amaroo]

Another CO beauty...

 

[Deleted member]

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Two very nice drops .... just like the location.

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Where you is Amaroo?

 

[amaroo]

Where you is Amaroo?

Blanket Bay. Lake Wakatipu a stones throw from Glenorchy.

 

[beefarmer]

Blanket Bay. Lake Wakatipu a stones throw from Glenorchy.

After the great view and the even better accom, have you Ran To Paradise yet, or should I say drove 20kays north?

 

[amaroo]

After the great view and the even better accom, have you Ran To Paradise yet, or should I say drove 20kays north?

Yes, we even walked some of the Routeburn track - beautiful!

 

[Deleted member]

Trying out one of the latest BB purchases from our recent Cellar Door experience.

 

[afro]

Japanese wine, grape is called “koshu”, pineapple and a little bit of coconut on the palate, it is a dry wine and not sweet at all.

 

[blackcat20]

View attachment 158348 Trying out one of the latest BB purchases from our recent Cellar Door experience.

Did you try the Gamay?

 

[Deleted member]

Did you try the Gamay?

Yes we did.

 

[beefarmer]

Had a Pumpa 2012 Cabernet/shiraz/Tempy tonight, a stunner for about $22+. Great body, full on fruit, a winery I had never heard of but each of these 4 or so that i have had over 2 years was spot on. Easily an 8.25/10.

Saturday night had the Gibson Shiraz again. Great wine indeed. Also a 2015 Lake breeze cabernet, damn nice and always consistent. The surprise of the night for many was a dan murphys cleanskin, something called Bin 49 merlot. Damn fine starter of the night with enough fruit and body to make it thoroughly enjoyable. I think it sells for about $7 and it is better than a few twenty dollar wines we all have bought.

 

[Major]

Langhorne Creek is one of my favourite red wine areas and Bremerton are on top of my best winery list.
This wine is magnificent and to my palate it just doesn't get any better

 

[beefarmer]

Langhorne Creek is one of my favourite red wine areas and Bremerton are on top of my best winery list.
This wine is magnificent and to my palate it just doesn't get any better

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LakeBreeze are another langhorner. I have had two of the Bremerton Tamblyns '13s, a quadruple blend, in the last year and really loved them.Great value indeed.

 

[Daver6]

A friend very generously put on a vertical tasting of the Howard Park Riesling including all vintages made under screw cap. Ie 2001 - 2018 and threw in the 1997 for good measure. WOTN was the 2010 followed very closely by the 2005. We were also lucky enough to have someone from Howard Park join us who was a wealth of information and all round nice guy.

 

[JohnM]

Tonight at Pisco Elqui in the Elqui Valley in Chile.

Now, this valley and the adjacent four are in the specified Pisco appellation where about 10,000 ha of grapes are grown for distillation to produce Pisco (the base liquor of Pisco Sour fame). The predominant variety for that is Muscat. (BTW, Chile produces far more Pisco than Peru).

There are almost no table wine producers in the region, but near to where @juddles and I are staying tonight is one. We gave this one of theirs a crack tonight over dinner at a restaurant in the village that stocked it. Far too young, but it is the first of this 5 variety blend. Quite light textured, given the abv level, and somewhat spicy, but I reckon it will settle into something quite nice in another 3-5 years, if not more.

Well-presented stylish labelling suggests it’s not a Mickey Mouse operation. We may get a chance to visit the cellar door on Friday on the way back down the valley.

 

[JohnM]

This was an absolute cracker tonight in Pisco Elqui, Chile with @juddles . We could have easily downed another one, but they insisted they needed to close .

Incredibly smooth and refined for a relatively young wine, given that Chilean reds generally tend to be quite tannic and robust.