Wine in LAX J lounge - are they kidding

[Duffa]

First they serve me a wine that isn't in the voluminous wine booklet on the LAX leg; then they have the temerity to offer me this in the lounge. Koonunga Hill was what I drank when I was a broke student.
Come on Qantas. Not good enough.

Sorry about sideways pic

 

[opusman]

Just be grateful it's not Yellow Tail!

 

[Sprucegoose]

Just be grateful it's not Yellow Tail!

yellow tail was plonk specially designed for the North American market. We went low end for volume and never really bothered in the same way with our top end wines. Marketing tragedy really.

 

[grussellt]

In 1976 Koonunga Hill was about $2 a bottle (and 2 years earlier Penfolds Auldana was 49 cents) and it was a blend. Today Penfolds uses the name as a brand for different wine styles, some of which can be very good in a reasonable year. Of course the test is - would you pick it in a blind tasting as a good wine?
Cheers!

 

[markis10]

In 1976 Koonunga Hill was about $2 a bottle (and 2 years earlier Penfolds Auldana was 49 cents) and it was a blend. Today Penfolds uses the name as a brand for different wine styles, some of which can be very good in a reasonable year. Of course the test is - would you pick it in a blind tasting as a good wine?
Cheers!

I agree, it's a label and a resonable quaffer, I quite enjoyed the $6.99 a bottle special from Dans earlier this year and thought its drinking like a $12-16 bottle. FWIW it looks like its rolled out to most international lounges, my only beef if the fact they use it for most of the choices, why not just a red and a white and have an alternate offering for those not a fan?

 

[serfty]

... FWIW it looks like its rolled out to most international lounges, my only beef if the fact they use it for most of the choices, why not just a red and a white and have an alternate offering for those not a fan?

I noticed the preponderence of Penfolds at the SIN lounge.

Having it at LAX would suggest there has been some significant contractual relationship organised.

 

[opusman]

There are better Penfolds wines than KH tho

 

[markis10]

There are better Penfolds wines than KH tho

And there are worse, be careful what you wish for!