Wine thread

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

One from left field. Pirramimma '04 White Label Tannat. Very interesting, particularly since this is the first time I've had Tannat (on a run of trying different varietals as opposed to brands / regions). Deep purple, well structured wine. Inky on the palate, with vibrant stone fruit flavours and fine tannins.

Very good wine. Might get another bottle and put it away for a while.

 

[_Johnsy]

working tonight, otherwise woud have put away a bottle with the beautiful bride. Shift work, hey zues !!!!!

 

[Garts]

Drinking some Windy Peak Pinot. Its one of the cheap Pinot's but goes ok.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Windy Peak Pinot is one of my two favourite quaffers (the other being d'Arenberg Stump Jump GSM). Great value for under $20, particularly for a Pinot Noir.

 

[Bazal]

Love Tannat...got a bottle of Moss Wood pinot that was opened last night (not by me). Gonna give that a try, see if it's going well.

Also, Windy Peak pinot is a very handy quaffer, but for a few bucks more the Gulf Station is a cracker IMO, well worth trying too

 

[Bazal]

This Moss Wood is good. Can see why my brother didn't like it, he's not much of a wine drinker and tends to like the younger, fruitier stuff. Which this is not. There's plenty of fruit, of course, but loads of almost charry oak and mushroomy, resiny characters. Which I do like, so yay me

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

I've always been a fan of Moss Wood, though at the same time been very suspect of Pinot's coming out of WA. I guess if anyone can pull it off it will be them.

 

[Bazal]

It's a bloody good one, a bit pricey but very very nice.

 

[Twizzle]

another bottle of the Gnarly Dudes last night and its just gets better

whats the other Two Hands like Baz ?

Angel something, its a Shriaz and about $1 cheaper than the Gnarly Dudes

 

[Bazal]

Angels Share, the McLaren Vale shiraz. It's a pretty big wine, also really good. I prefer the Gnarly Dudes myself, but they're both very nice.

The Brave Faces GSM is excellent as well

 

[JessEel]

was directed to a friend of a friends online wine website - bought six bottles of Montana Marlborough Sauv Blanc for $8.99 a bottle. cheering, thats a top NZ Sauv Blanc when it's twice that price!

 

[Moffo]

I've recently been OS and enjoying a few US Pinots. They are amazing, couldn't rate them highly enough. If you see a red from the willamette valley buy it

Looking closer....pepperjack is my favourite local. Awesome drop

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Best's Great Western Pinot Meunier. A bit more tannin than Pinot Noir, and some great red berry flavour, particularly bitter cherry. Delicious.

 

[Bazal]

I didn't even know Bests did a straight Pinot Meunier...it's a grape I love, personally. I picked up a few in the King Valley

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Yup, they do as "Young Vine". Grey Label etc.

 

[Bazal]

I shall have to hunt it down, I rate Bests in general

 

[Bazal]

2008 Waterwheel Memsie shiraz malbec cabernet....still my favourite wine $10 and under, such a shame they went to straight shiraz. It's only getting better too, bigger and blacker as the malbec bullies the shiraz out of the way. Will be a sad day when I drink the last one, thankfully I bought about 4 doz

 

[Twizzle]

hey Baz, whats this bullshit about goons being 30 bucks and wine being min 12 bucks per bottle in order to crack down on underage drinking

 

[Twizzle]

got me a Peter Douglas Chime Hoop 2006 Cab Sav for tonight, seems we be well priced at $22 for a 2006 Cab Sav

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

hey Baz, whats this bullshit about goons being 30 bucks and wine being min 12 bucks per bottle in order to crack down on underage drinking

Government plans to tax alcohol by the unit rather than by the current system. Hence goon being expensive.

Nothing confirmed yet, but with this govt nothing would surprise me.