Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[burmans]

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My bargain of the month, $15 magnums at 'auction'. Drinking really well

I've seen these on Langtons, thanks for the quality steer!

 

[boomy]

Nice Pinot with some age on it. Can see in the photo it’s on the darker side, more heavy and earthy but easy drinking.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Can’t tell you just how much I will be hoeing into this!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

After the good stuff we had to downgrade to this overhyped overpriced stuff!

 

[Steady]

After the good stuff we had to downgrade to this overhyped overpriced stuff!
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Bugger, I feel for you. Hopefully your palette won’t be ruined

 

[boomy]

After the good stuff we had to downgrade to this overhyped overpriced stuff!
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Pfft I buy $20-$30 wines that are better than this one but they’re secret so I can’t give you any names

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Sorry - I forgot the warm up!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Apparently this goes on in Sale every Sat night!!

Wouldn’t you think Straitman and Jessica Tam would open their doors to everyone?

FTR: My glass is on the left- like I wouldn’t demolish these at the drop of a hat!

 

[tielec]

2016 blind cabernet tasting tonight. Woodlands, Mosswood and Bowen rated top 3 by the group, in that order. Mosswood, Mt Mary and La Parde for me personally.

 

[afro]

Apparently this goes on in Sale every Sat night!!

Wouldn’t you think Straitman and Jessica Tam would open their doors to everyone?
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FTR: My glass is on the left- like I wouldn’t demolish these at the drop of a hat!

great that you enjoy them young but they deserve better glassware.you can afford grange might as well buy a couple of zalto. Riedel shiraz glasses is not a bad sub.

 

[Whining&dining]

Four jolly decent reds, enough to warm the coughles of most punter's hearts, two of them: the 2013 Rose Kentish Old Vine Cab Shiraz and the 2015 Patritti JPB Shiraz a gift from our esteemed member @Rug and the other two: the 2014 Maverick Ahren's Creek Shiraz and the 2013 Clarendon Hills Brookman Cab Sav, from my own modest cellar.
The Rose Kentish possiby a bit more restrained than the other three (contrary to what I've read online) but the lingering consensus is that it is smooth as Michael Klim's bald pate and as luscious as a platterful of squashed boysenberries, a favourite blend from yesteryear, I think Cab Shiraz is worthy of a reboot as the balance acheived here is sublime.
The Maverick Ahren's Creek is a tad more elegant than other Maverick releases I've tried, more savoury and less full-throttle fruit-cluster bomb, not that I'm adverse to that level of profusion. It probably could have done with a longer lie down in the woodshed but I think the time was ripe as was the fruit.
The Clarendon Hills isn't giving me cassis and minty notes to any large degree, more accurately I'm getting tart plums along the lines of a satsuma and a touch of kentish cherry built on a large frame that roams far and wide, I think the Brookman will cellar for a considerable time yet before unveiling all its virtues.
The JPB from Patritti is drinking exceptionally well (as Rug had promised) and fruit both red and black are in the driver's seat. Soft and complex but with a firm and commanding core (think of a maypole of gentle tannins with streamers of bold fruit flavours swirling around it). Emminently slurpable, it might be a good long-term cellaring proposition but sometimes you've got to give in to the urge...

Oh and all under cork, with not an issue among them that I could detect

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Dinner with friends + penegal:

 

[penegal]

Dinner with friends + penegal:

Good night. Pity that you scared off @boomy, etc

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Good night. Pity that you scared off @boomy, etc

We'll get together soon - I will make sure Aeolus in town too - A pm me pls?

 

[boomy]

Dinner with friends + penegal:
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We'll get together soon - I will make sure Aeolus in town too - A pm me pls?

Good night. Pity that you scared off @boomy, etc

Looks like you had fun night with some quality drops.

Wish I could be there but I’m in no condition to drink ATM.
Thankfully I’m going back to warm sunny QLD today but not envy of the pax on my flight as I’m going to be THAT coughing and sneezing guy who everywhere wants to avoid

 

[Katie]

Wish I could be there but I’m in no condition to drink ATM.
Thankfully I’m going back to warm sunny QLD today but not envy of the pax on my flight as I’m going to be THAT coughing and sneezing guy who everywhere wants to avoid

Hope it's warm and sunny when you get back, @boomy, because it sure as heck is neither warm nor sunny right now!

OK, it's not freezing cold and snowing, but it's overcast and cold. I had to keep my jumper on when I went out to get lunch!!!

 

[boomy]

Hope it's warm and sunny when you get back, @boomy, because it sure as heck is neither warm nor sunny right now!

OK, it's not freezing cold and snowing, but it's overcast and cold. I had to keep my jumper on when I went out to get lunch!!!

Weather looks ok for the next 7 days but in any case it must be better than VIC. Unlike the statement on their license plates this is NOT the place to be (during winter).

 

[penegal]

Get better soon @boomy

 

[Major]

I went to Sydney today for a lunch with a few mates I have known for 70 years.
Our host trotted out a couple of wines. I much preferred the 707

 

[Buzzard]

I was fortunate enough to try these at a friends house recently. More fortunate that he supplied the lot!
The 93 and 94 BP's were past their best but still ok the best of the BP being the 03. The Command was just this massive fruit bomb, a wine that needs another 10 years! For me the stand out was the Hector, simply stunning, dare I say I enjoyed it more than the BP. The VP was a fabulous way to finish the evening whilst the vintage French Bubbles were definitely a nice way to start.