Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[Steady]

Another Tassie Pinot tonight - it's a step up from last nights - very nice.

 

[blackcat20]

Another Tassie Pinot tonight - it's a step up from last nights - very nice.
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Love that wine, but the current vintage was disappointing.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Round 2 of our wine and cheese afternoon:
This was matched with two styles of feta and stuffed olives.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Round 3 of the wine and cheese afternoon:

Paired with a rich yet smooth Camembert.

 

[AdMEL]

Pizzini with lunch and friend brought the rosé to drink with dinner (steak sandwich) and while watching the tennis. Pizzini is one of my favourite Pinot grigios and rose was quite nice too.

 

[blackcat20]

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Leconfield Cab Sav in the decanter tonight. First taste was pretty darn smooth.

And totally knocked the socks off last nights wine. Wish I had another bottle (or that I'd had the bottle to myself, but good wine is designed to be shared).

 

[Captain Halliday]

Round 4 of the wine a cheese afternoon:

Disappointed I don't have any 2010 left.

Cheese pairing was an aged cheddar.

Though it could be argued this is a middle of the road, conservative, yet populist wine... The pairing was the best of the day IMHO. Surprised me on a hot Darwin day.

 

[RooFlyer]

JohnM (or anyone). Almost all the wines in the pic below are Malbecs from Mendoza. In preparation for my trip to Mendoza, should I go

a) Left to right,
b) Top to bottom or
c) Alphabetically?

 

[juddles]

RooFlyer, the top shelf, near centre, brown label - looks like a Luigi Bosca - start there as a good middle reference. Cant descipher most of the other labels apart from some Santa Julias - am unsure if it is my failing eyesight or your coughpy-quality photo that restricts me.

In any case, my jealousy of someone heading to Argentina at the moment overrides my ability to make any sensible contribution to this thread!

 

[RooFlyer]

Apologies juddles I keep forgetting your provenance

Prices seem to be between C$18 and C$42 before tax, most sub $25.

 

[JohnM]

Apologies juddles I keep forgetting your provenance

Prices seem to be between C$18 and C$42 before tax, most sub $25.

Start at the top and work down until you notice the change point .

 

[RooFlyer]

Start at the top and work down until you notice the change point .

Ok, but I'll take one or two home to have for later.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Start at the top and work down until you notice the change point .

There's only one way to sample such diverse selections - Monte Carlo method - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[amaroo]

Who’s drinking all the world’s wine?

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HOW many bottles of wine do you think were produced last year? A friend and I were trying to figure out an answer to this question over dinner the other day. I won’t embarrass myself by revealing how far off I was, but let’s just say it was by a very long way.

The latest figures from International Wine & Spirit Research (IWSR), a London-based drinks research group, in a report commissioned by Vinexpo, estimate that in 2013, 3.2 billion cases of wine were produced. That’s 38.4 billion bottles — quite an astonishing number. The majority, 54 per cent, is red wine, compared with 37 per cent for white and 9 per cent for rosé.

Who drinks it all? The quick answer is Europe and the US. But if I were to ask you to name the No. 1 wine-consuming country by volume, I suspect you might guess France. Wrong.

According to the IWSR, the US is still the biggest market by volume, drinking a total of 339 million cases of wine in 2013. This was above France’s 296 million cases, Italy’s 288 million, Germany’s 274 million and China’s 144 million (which made it the world’s fifth largest consumer of wine). Britain came in sixth, drinking a total of 133 million cases.

Per capita wine consumption is perhaps the more interesting figure. Here, Italy leads the pack, ahead of France, Switzerland, Portugal and Austria.

In terms of total market value (which nation spends the most on wine), the top three are the US, France and Britain, with Britain forecast to increase its spending over the next three years, nudging France into third place. The IWSR predicts that by 2018, the top two still-wine markets by value, the US and Britain, will be worth $US33.2 billion ($42.6bn) and $17.1bn respectively.

 

[JohnM]

JohnM (or anyone). Almost all the wines in the pic below are Malbecs from Mendoza. In preparation for my trip to Mendoza, should I go

a) Left to right,
b) Top to bottom or
c) Alphabetically?

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A good way would be to select some from various regions (eg. Mendoza, Valle de Ucco, N Patagonia (Neuquen)) and sub-regions (such as Maipu and Lujan de Cuyo in Mendoza) and see how much you can distinguish characteristics of each.

 

[RooFlyer]

A good way would be to select some from various regions (eg. Mendoza, Valle de Ucco, N Patagonia (Neuquen)) and sub-regions (such as Maipu and Lujan de Cuyo in Mendoza) and see how much you can distinguish characteristics of each.

Yesterday, I essentially employed the Monte Carlo method per TheRealTMA above - just grabbed a bottle. It was from Alamos winery, a bit south of Mendoza. C$20 after tax. 2012 Malbec; 89 points from Parker (if that's of any interest!). Gorgeous red-purple colour; luscious berries sums it up for me. The top pic is from their web site.

 

[JohnM]

Yesterday, I essentially employed the Monte Carlo method per TheRealTMA above - just grabbed a bottle. It was from Alamos winery, a bit south of Mendoza. C$20 after tax. 2012 Malbec; 89 points from Parker (if that's of any interest!). Gorgeous red-purple colour; luscious berries sums it up for me. The top pic is from their web site.


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And this is a pic from the road nearby .

 

[JohnM]

Last night's offering:

 

[Steady]

Last night's offering:

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So how was it?

 

[JohnM]

So how was it?

In the B* good category. It had morphed into the slightly honeyed, gold-hued characteristics of aged Hunter Valley Semillon.