Wine thread

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Love the Sticks + Stones, big fan of d'Arenberg in general.

Got a bottle of Bailey's of Glenrowan Classic Topaque tonight, sweet tooth is screaming at me!

 

[Bazal]

Kilikanoon Medley GSM. These guys are just about the only Clare Valley winery worth spit IMO

EDIT-I should have said in terms of red wines....

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Looking forward to the Fine Wine Partners trade show this Thursday. All museum released stock, YUM!

 

[Bazal]

Woodlands Margaret River Cab Merlot went cracking with my lamb rack and herbed roast veggies

 

[Bazal]

Cien y Pico Doble Pasta. Spanish garnacha...Doble pasta is a winemaking method that basically involves fermenting the new must on the remaining lees of a previous vintage(s). It makes for an interesting wine. I have never had a wine that smells so expressively of black olives (in a good way). It's fking delicious too, everyone is loving it in front of the footy!

 

[_Johnsy]

Looking forward to absolutely murdering some reds tonight.

Me & mrs Johns going over to our best mates house (the girls known each other for 25+ years) for a quiet drink.

Always plenty of laughs, and a few tears now and then. There is nothing more important in life than good company (family included) good wine (all drinks included) and a good laugh.

Cannot wait, although I feel i'll see it a bit differently tomorrow morning.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Having a d'Arenberg Custodian Grenache. It's not bad, but I'd put it towards one of the lesser Grenache's I've had.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

It is improving though with time.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Shouldn't be feeling this good this morning...

 

[Bazal]

Cracking the new St Hugo GSM this evening

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Had that last week, really enjoyed it.

 

[Bazal]

It's pretty f**king delicious...can see why it has so much bling. It's rich and smooth but not too heavy, and the mataro really comes through. I think I'm a fan

 

[Bazal]

Drinking with brother in law and brother tonight. Did a bottle of Grant Burge Balthasar shiraz-viognier already, excellent stuff. 2007 it was...now we're on to a local cabernet, also a 2007. Wallaroo cab sav, I think I paid $18 for it a couple of years ago at cellar door...they could slap $50 on it and it would be well worth it, I promise.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Small cellar doors are notoriously hit and miss. You seem to have gotten a great hit, yet some out there seem to think they are the same quality of something like Petaluma Shiraz, yet are more in the Jacobs Creek market.

 

[Bazal]

Wallaroo are great. On tasting their 2009 shiraz sits in a bracket of heavy, oaky shiraz that are up there at $40 odd bucks and have huge cellaring potential....but it's $20

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Having a Reschke Vitulus Cab Sauv. If Coonawarra was the women I like, this would be the woman I'd have angry monkey sex with. Nearly black in colour, it has such great depth and structure for a $25 wine (not including my secret squirrel "I get everything at cost price" deal) that it is very hard to think of a better wine in its category.

P.S. Coonawarra Cab Sauv's are my personal favourite, so I may be a touch biased.

 

[Bazal]

Give the Reschke Bos a try, most places seem to have 2004 or 2005 in stock, it's awesome...

Grange day tomorrow...I've opened a pool as to when I will sell out. I only got 6 bottles so my money is 10.15 am :lol:

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Bos '04 is the current vintage (or so the guy at the DWS show tells me). '05 is "coming soon". Could be bullshiting my drunken arse though.

And on Grange, I hate you. Only got one bottle of the '06 into my store. Still got it.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

And I want a bottle of the current Reschke Empyrium. It is going to be an absolute belter of a wine, though will take a minimum of 10-15 years to reach its earliest drinking age.

 

[Bazal]

I only got 6 RWT as well...that'll probably go to the first customer thats walks in