Wine thread

[Bazal]

Does not compute. How can you have the biggest variety of your chain not have variety?!



:lol:

Because that's what happens when you get a bunch of noob MBAs out of Supermarkets to run a liquor business.

 

[Twizzle]

Went wine shopping at DMs yesterday and saw a cab sav called Line and Length, just had to buy it with a name like that but I wont know till Christmas day if its any good

Baz ?

 

[Bazal]

Went wine shopping at DMs yesterday and saw a cab sav called Line and Length, just had to buy it with a name like that but I wont know till Christmas day if its any good

Baz ?

Haven't had that one but it's by St John's Road who make some pretty good stuff so I'd expect to be decent at the very worst. There are a few cricket themed wines out there. Wirra Wirra do one who's name escapes me, brokenwood have the cricket pitch wines, Jim Barry has the Cover Drive cabernet although that's total shit

 

[Drew-Sta]

Looking to open a Smith and Hooper 'Hundred of Joanna' 2009 tonight. It will go nicely, I suspect, with the roast lamb and roast chicken we're having.

CMS, with Cabernet and Merlot making up 70% of the blend.

 

[Bazal]

What's everyone drinking tomorrow? I'm in charge of wine for several events

Champagne breakfast...Moet NV. I think it's ordinary but no one else knows any better so I'm not wasting my good stuff on them, plus simple is better in the morning

Lunch, probably a Mt Difficulty Pinot or a Domaine Durand St Joseph, and a 2008 Grosset Riesling. See how I feel on the red

Dinner/evening, Clonakilla Ballinderry 2009, Pol Roger Blanc de blancs 2000, Moss Wood Chardonnay 2009, and a Lustau Pedro Ximenez....

 

[Titanic]

Great Wall Cabernet Sauvignon at the Nanjing Intercontinental.

 

[Drew-Sta]

Great Wall? Is that a Barwang brand?

Baz - I have Burgundy, Chenin and Rhone (primarily Syrah).

Also got The Anarchist Shiraz, Mt Benson from Sam Brand

 

[Twizzle]

Line and Length got drunk last night, so did I, not bad a bit tobaccoey for mine

Today we have Clare Valley Knappstein Cab Sav (2012). Also got a Tap King for Chrissy and a Hahn Super Dry refill which will get a run today and probabaly a refill for the Boxing Day Cricket tomorrow. I hear good things about the Tap King, supposedly tastes alot like draft beer.

I may report back later if and when i am able.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Unfortunately my wine selections are highly limited today due to my grandparents taste in grog (lunch at Grandpa's = home brew or Berri Red Lambrusco, dinner at Grandma's = Riccadonna). Might crack out a red tonight if I can still move...

 

[Twizzle]

today just gets better, also got a Chivas Bros Lochan Nora liqueur and its f**king beautiful.

Then I got a Glen Grant single malt, haven't cracked it yet.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

St Hallett Old Block Shiraz 1995. This wine has seen all of its secondary flavours come through. Tobacco, leather, white pepper, and cedar, backed up with blackcurrant. So much delicious, really complex wine that I doubt the layman would appreciate. Decanted for 3 hours, it did need the air.

 

[Bazal]

I has like 4 bottles of 2010. Very much forward looking to them. In about 30 years.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

I cannot state how much you need it to breathe (and buy a better corkscrew than the one I have, though it is probably under Stelvan now). Smelt of stale bread when I first popped it, now though it is immaculate.

 

[Bazal]

2010 Tour de Mirambeau Passion Rouge. Bourdeaux of unstated provenance and make up. One of the silly clearance prices at work, 2 for $30. All I can find is that it's merlot dominant and the winery is based in Entre Deux Mers. It smelt like wet hessian when opened and I feared for the quality of it but a good decant has blown most of that off. Still an odd dampness, which I doesn't feel like a fault as much as a weird part of the wine.

Anyway it's pretty good, quite soft and a little green but nice fruit, a slatey earthy kinda thing, a bit of oak, god length. Probably not worth the $40 odd full price tag but handy at $15

 

[Titanic]

Great Wall? Is that a Barwang brand?

No, local mildly acceptable drop from Hebei ... not quite up to the standard of Dynasty's top end products which are pretty fair. However, Chinese whites are vinegar. When in doubt go to the old favourite fallback baijiu; Maotai.

 

[Misanthrope]

Cracked open my Sticky Fingers from Mt Broke last night. Really drinkable, summery wine. Not so sweet as to be an overpowering dessert accompaniment, but fruity enough that it isn't too dry for the brothers and their uncivilised tongues.

 

[Bazal]

2012 Innocent Bystander Pinot. Ridiculous value as always, slippery and silky, plush fruit, spicy oak.

 

[Bazal]

2008 Tandem Ars Nova. Navarra DOC Tempranillo Cabernet. Way more serious than I expected. Cabernet seems to dominate, with that savoury, slightly tomato character of good aged cab sav and then that Spanish tempranillo dustiness.

 

[muzby]

i have a bottle of this in my cellar which i meant to crack open over dinner on new years at the shindig we had here..

colonial estate exile 2010 shiraz..

completely forgot about it (even though i bought it 2 days earlier) and we ended up drinking chimay & la chouffe beers instead..

so now i have a rather nice drop just sitting there waiting to be drunk, and no real 'special' occasions or events on the horizon (well, there are special occasions coming up.. but i'm not going to drink it at my daughter's 4th birthday..)

and got a 94 or 95 pointer from my boss for christmas as well.. can't remember the name (and CBF'd going to have a look right now) but thinking i need a reason* to drink these puppies..



*"because it's tuesday" doesn't count as a reason....

 

[Drew-Sta]

Finished off Dorrien Bin 1 Shiraz '11 on Friday night. Reasonable, but clearly suffered from the poor year.

Then had Schulz The Boulevard Barossa Shiraz '13 over Sat/Sun. Beautiful peppers, blackcurrant, cherry and some lovely strawberry.

Had some Bleasdale Langhorne Creek 18yo port Sunday evening too. Spectacular...