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[redbigot]

Craneford Barossa Shiraz 2021

The wines from the stupendous 2021 vintage, from a number of regions, of which the Barossa must surely be to the fore, continue to thrill. If your cellar

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Anyone tried this current offering from VIM?

I extracted a good serving via Coravin and tasted 15 minutes later. The colour is dense crimson-black, plenty of extract, 14.8% a/v, dark dusty oak slightly tarry nose, not reductive, just big old-style winemaking, not fruit-driven, but plenty of fruit working on defeating the oak and big chewy tannin extract, again a not-unpleasant dark tarry note, acid is not poking out, but is a little citrussy/sour, good length finish.
With food the fruit sweetens up and the acid recedes nicely, happy days.
If you like the old-style Barossa Shiraz, with plenty of heft, but not the over-ripe Parker style, this is for you. I'm keeping mine.


My cellar database shows me I last bought Craneford Shiraz in 2007, the 2004 John Zilm Shiraz and before that the 1999 Shiraz, nothing since.

 

[concussed]

I extracted a good serving via Coravin and tasted 15 minutes later. The colour is dense crimson-black, plenty of extract, 14.8% a/v, dark dusty oak slightly tarry nose, not reductive, just big old-style winemaking, not fruit-driven, but plenty of fruit working on defeating the oak and big chewy tannin extract, again a not-unpleasant dark tarry note, acid is not poking out, but is a little citrussy/sour, good length finish.
With food the fruit sweetens up and the acid recedes nicely, happy days.
If you like the old-style Barossa Shiraz, with plenty of heft, but not the over-ripe Parker style, this is for you. I'm keeping mine.


My cellar database shows me I last bought Craneford Shiraz in 2007, the 2004 John Zilm Shiraz and before that the 1999 Shiraz, nothing since.

Thanks Mr red that and VM returns policy is good enough for me.

 

[Dr Reo Symes]

Lol, so many of the usual fake rrp wines now grouped and tiered as if it's some generous and exclusive loyalty scheme that plebs can't access. My view of VM's marketing just dimmed some more, which is quite a hard thing to do. I doubt it will stop me carefully and opportunistically buying when something right pops up, but sheesh really?

I've largely transferred my buying to Winestar, which has almost all the 'mystery' wines at significantly lower prices, and a more nuanced PR arm. No vouchers, but all dozens are free and I have not experienced any delivery delays.

 

[hadrian]

I've largely transferred my buying to Winestar, which has almost all the 'mystery' wines at significantly lower prices, and a more nuanced PR arm. No vouchers, but all dozens are free and I have not experienced any delivery delays.

Have you figured out a way to know what the mystery wines on Winestar are, like we can for VM?

 

[accompanimince]

Have you figured out a way to know what the mystery wines on Winestar are, like we can for VM?

They sell all their mystery wines at the RRP under it's label name.

So to find something like this :

Mystery BA197 Super Premium Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019 - Mystery Wine

Mystery BA197 Super Premium Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019 - Mystery Wine

www.winestar.com.au

You'd just search "2019 barossa shiraz" and find the matching $120 wine which is :

Lights Valley Colonel Barossa Shiraz 2019

Lights Valley Colonel Barossa Shiraz 2019 - Lights Valley

www.winestar.com.au

 

[redbigot]

They sell all their mystery wines at the RRP under it's label name.

A friend once carelessly bought both the "mystery" and non-mystery version of the same wine. They phoned him up and told him they were the same and adjusted the price of the order.
Also, the tasting notes appear in the email offering the mystery wine, and on the non-mystery listing but not on the mystery listing. So if you google part of the TN from the email you will usually get the plain listing in the results, or elsewhere.

 

[AUElwood]

The Unwraps is a useful website to find the identity of the mystery wines from Winestar. I believed it was created by one of the AFF member.

 

[Dr Ralph]

Have you figured out a way to know what the mystery wines on Winestar are, like we can for VM?

You'll find that these have sometimes been discussed in this or the dan murphys thread. But given how extremely easy it usually is to discover the name of the wine, that doesn't happen very often.

 

[hadrian]

They sell all their mystery wines at the RRP under it's label name.

So to find something like this :

Mystery BA197 Super Premium Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019 - Mystery Wine

Mystery BA197 Super Premium Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019 - Mystery Wine

www.winestar.com.au

You'd just search "2019 barossa shiraz" and find the matching $120 wine which is :

Lights Valley Colonel Barossa Shiraz 2019

Lights Valley Colonel Barossa Shiraz 2019 - Lights Valley

www.winestar.com.au

Thanks! Tried this and it works well.

 

[tappytappy]

Have you figured out a way to know what the mystery wines on Winestar are, like we can for VM?

VM aren't leaking the wine titles through the website anymore so the easy way is likely gone ...

 

[Bill Bosworth]

They sell all their mystery wines at the RRP under it's label name.

So to find something like this :

Mystery BA197 Super Premium Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019 - Mystery Wine

Mystery BA197 Super Premium Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019 - Mystery Wine

www.winestar.com.au

You'd just search "2019 barossa shiraz" and find the matching $120 wine which is :

Lights Valley Colonel Barossa Shiraz 2019

Lights Valley Colonel Barossa Shiraz 2019 - Lights Valley

www.winestar.com.au

Yes, Bert don't try particularly hard at all to hide these and usually it's a reduction on a wine also sold full price on the site. Very different to VM black market.

Still needs a good sift to avoid hyped rubbish.

 

[Dr Reo Symes]

Yes, Bert don't try particularly hard at all to hide these and usually it's a reduction on a wine also sold full price on the site. Very different to VM black market.

Still needs a good sift to avoid hyped rubbish.

Agree on this, but I find their PR emails a refreshing change from VM. They normally acknowledge that the mystery wine's RRP is a fantasy but that it is a nice drop at the selling price. My experience has been that this is a fair claim. The Reschke RSR 2020, for example, might not be everyone's favourite Coonawarra Cabernet, but at $12.99 it is great value.