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Blue-Gold Award Winner

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Judges' Comments
Fred Dame
Dark ruby in colour with a dark centre. Ripe green pepper herbal baking spices. Currant and dried earth and dark cherries. Good sweet oak. A warm balance and a long finish. This was a real classic with this dish. The venison really stepped up. The Cabernet was just the right amount of power to it.

Brent Marris
A good solid fruit driven nose. Great palate strength. Ripe fruit with integrated oak and youthful tannins on the finish. A great match with the venison. Layers of flavour in the wine.

Steve Flamsteed
Lots of blueberry and cassis on the nose and dark chocolate. Soft and chewy tannins and lovely dark fruit flavours. A delicious wine and it has some future ahead of it.

Rob Geddes
Appealing varietal soy. Blackcurrant fresh well balanced ripeness with pip and pulp elements. Soft tannins. Very good length of tight blackcurrant fruits builds and remains firm and savoury dry tannins with bay leaf and eucalypt to finish.
Warren Gibson
A very ripe concentrated wine. Strongly tannic and concentrated again. Somewhat lean and dry. Good matching with the dish though. There was a savoury note there.

Kym Milne
Blackcurrant. Good vibrant Cabernet blackcurrant characters but the palate is a touch sharp tart and angular. Bright Cabernet just a touch young.




The shiraz is supurb. My mate says the chardy is supurb. these 5 clowns above say it's good. Boom, boom get into my room.

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[AnonymousCoward]

Cellar Door, and some are available through "good" wine merchants / shops.

But I do take your point that these are "rare" wines, and certainly not the easiest to buy in this combination. That is the "value proposition" of this bundle.

OK cool - I know I could probably order these in via my local wine shop (they stock YY and Kaesler already), but it would probably have to be 6-pack buys. And buying 6 x 6 packs does get exensive

Looking at cellar door prices:

WOMS - $80
YY #2 - $92
Serrat - Sold Out
Punch Close Planted - $90
Bleasdale Iron Duke - $$65
Paxton Jones Block Shiraz - $37

Excluding the Serrat, that's already $364. Serrat cellar door was $40, if you could get it. Seems to be selling for well over $100 now (I saw $160+ prices at Langtons)

 

[tiger8888]

Thoughts on today's secret deals?

 

[AnonymousCoward]

That does raise a good point however,

Are you on Vinomofo for:
(a) Good wine
(b) Discounted wine

Definitely (a) - you can get cheap plonk from just about anywhere. The fact that the prices are sharp at VM is a bonus.

TBH I'm amazed that wine can be put into (relatively) glass bottles, shipped hundreds of KMs, take up valuable real-estate in a wine shop, and still be profitable at $5/bottle.

 

[AnonymousCoward]

Thoughts on today's secret deals?

I think the Margaret River Semillon Sauvignon Blanc is Thompson Estate and the McLaren Vale 2013 Shiraz ($45 down to $20) might be a Kangarilla Road, however I'm not sure alcohol matches...

 

[penegal]

OK cool - I know I could probably order these in via my local wine shop (they stock YY and Kaesler already), but it would probably have to be 6-pack buys. And buying 6 x 6 packs does get exensive

Looking at cellar door prices:

WOMS - $80
YY #2 - $92
Serrat - Sold Out
Punch Close Planted - $90
Bleasdale Iron Duke - $$65
Paxton Jones Block Shiraz - $37

Excluding the Serrat, that's already $364. Serrat cellar door was $40, if you could get it. Seems to be selling for well over $100 now (I saw $160+ prices at Langtons)

You do make a good point AnonymousCoward... As I said, upon second glance this bundle was a good value proposition for some, but not quite good enough for me to buy at the time.


FWIW, I have spent an equivalent amount and got a few more bottles of wine I would consider "almost as good".

YMMV.

 

[penegal]

TBH I'm amazed that wine can be put into (relatively) glass bottles, shipped hundreds of KMs, take up valuable real-estate in a wine shop, and still be profitable at $5/bottle.

Mass production. Capitalism at work...

 

[dinglebat]

Any ideas on the Black Market Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 from today?

 

[bmhchang]

Any ideas on the Black Market Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 from today?

Seems like the 2014 is not Cabernet Sauvignon but Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc.

 

[dinglebat]

Seems like the 2014 is not Cabernet Sauvignon but Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc.

This is the link - https://vinomofo.com/deals/red-wine/black-market-deal-cabernet-sauvignon-2014-6ff1167f

 

[AnonymousCoward]

This is the link - https://vinomofo.com/deals/red-wine/black-market-deal-cabernet-sauvignon-2014-6ff1167f

That deal was from a few days ago. Did you try search? Cabernert $8.40 in the search box at top right gets you what you want to know.

 

[luckystar]

Anyone knows what today's[h=1]mof_ SECRET DEAL Shiraz 2013 from $45 down to $20 is? Thanks in advance.[/h]https://vinomofo.com/deals/red-wine/mof_-secret-deal-shiraz-2013-9c415243

 

[AnonymousCoward]

Anyone knows what today'smof_ SECRET DEAL Shiraz 2013 from $45 down to $20 is? Thanks in advance.

https://vinomofo.com/deals/red-wine/mof_-secret-deal-shiraz-2013-9c415243

http://www.australianfrequentflyer....inomofo-wine-deals-53217-431.html#post1293137

 

[botchee]

Anontmouse,

Can you elaborate on why Kangarilla rd ? I can only find Blanch point 2012 @ $45 and a Devils Whisker 2013 @ $40.

 

[Dr Ralph]

Curious to know where you'd assemble these wines from, if you were purchasing?

I'd go directly to the vineyard.

After the release of the latest Halliday in august last year. A group of my friends decided to get together and get a mixed dozen of 97 pt + wines. We dealt directly with the vineyards and some very odd ordering systems. Once all recieved we split up the cases ourselves. Was a time consuming and expensive exercise, but i got a great mix of outstanding wines many of which ive never seen offered for sale anywhere else.

 

[simonk83]

McLaren Vale 2013 Shiraz ($45 down to $20) might be a Kangarilla Road, however I'm not sure alcohol matches...

Yeah it's half a percent out, but perhaps they're throwing us off Did it receive a 95 from Halliday? Can't see awards on their site.

 

[Dr Ralph]

That does raise a good point however,

Are you on Vinomofo for:
(a) Good wine
(b) Discounted wine

Both for me.

 

[penegal]

I'd go directly to the vineyard.

After the release of the latest Halliday in august last year. A group of my friends decided to get together and get a mixed dozen of 97 pt + wines. We dealt directly with the vineyards and some very odd ordering systems. Once all recieved we split up the cases ourselves. Was a time consuming and expensive exercise, but i got a great mix of outstanding wines many of which ive never seen offered for sale anywhere else.

Agree - I do similar things with friends "offline".

It works particularly well for mail order type winemakers. You also often qualify for discounts on larger orders (depending on the price structure of the winery).

 

[blackcat20]

I'd go directly to the vineyard.

After the release of the latest Halliday in august last year. A group of my friends decided to get together and get a mixed dozen of 97 pt + wines. We dealt directly with the vineyards and some very odd ordering systems. Once all recieved we split up the cases ourselves. Was a time consuming and expensive exercise, but i got a great mix of outstanding wines many of which ive never seen offered for sale anywhere else.

Serrat have sold out of every single wine they make...

 

[simonk83]

Any thoughts on the Paxton MV Shiraz from anyone who may have tried it?

Disclaimer: I did search first, didn't find anything relating to it

EDIT: Never mind, did a bit of googling. A few other places rated it around 90, so I might not worry about it.