Recent content by AnonymousCoward

This is less than $4/bottle. None of these wines are going to "blow your socks off", but you can always use them for cooking, and the Wynns and Saltram will make OK gifts for non-wine nerds.

The 2013 Coppermine Road was just awful, with huge tannins and thin flavour. No wonder they were dumping it all over the place.

For some reason it's not widely publicised (unlike #1), but they've been making this for a while. I have some 2010 in my cellar, and CellarTracker has photos going back to 2005...

Curious to know why you think that's "bad" (other than maybe the 2017 vintage)?

I think most of those wines have been asked/answered here previously in the thread. is there a specific one you wanted to know about?

I bought three cases at full price. If it really is that good, not fussed with paying a few bucks more.

I didn't find the 2013 particularly approachable (tried a couple of bottles last year). It seems to have a decent structure, at and $12 (I got mine from CrackaWines rather than DM), it's throw away money. Maybe it'll get better in a few years. Maybe it'll go down the sink. There's so many good...

Something can be a secret selection without anything wrong with it. This wine does have something wrong with it, hence why it is a secret selection. Really hard to understand what you’re disagreeing with.

I’m saying that there is something wrong with it, hence helping explain why it’s a secret selection. Not the other way around.

+1 Not sure these will ever come into balance (and I guess the need to offload these as secret selections etc.). I’ve put a few away to see how they go, but I wouldn’t be rushing out to buy them.

I think you are better off sticking to Barossa stuff, then mucking around with Yarra Valley or WA stuff.

It's TWE's "Family and Friends" site. You need to be invited. They let existing members send out invites every so often. Or go to one of the TWE tasting events and you can sign up then.

Not really a "rip off". If Wendouree sold through retail, the price would be $80+, and the cellar door price would be $80+ as well (so as not to undercut the retail channel).

Agree with RB re trusting wine competition scores: always look for additional scores. Re European vs. Australian scores, typically 90 in Europe is a 93-95 here (depending on the Aus reviewer). Scores tend to be much tougher over there than here.

Katnook and Forest Hill offerings look overpriced IMHO, even with the bonus points...