Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

Friday Night Chardonnay Series:

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Very luscious, if not unctuous wine. Bit too much oak for stand alone but nice with food. Lemon, white peach, butter... Maybe needs mor years.
 
TheRealTMA said:
Friday Night Chardonnay Series:

Very luscious, if not unctuous wine. Bit too much oak for stand alone but nice with food. Lemon, white peach, butter... Maybe needs mor years.
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Snap!! We had a Paringa Estate Shiraz with lunch yesterday... certainly luscious also but no real Shiraz character...
 
Tonight on the Gold Coast with friends. I brought two bottles as it was Andrews birthday last week. We started with the St Hallett (both bottles are 2011 Shiraz)

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Okay, we decided to open this one instead of the Rockfords. Wow, it is spectacular - I smelt talcum powder and vanilla at first, very smooth and modest tannins. A bit peppery after the first mouthful. Apparently this is all the rage in Sydney at the moment
 
QF WP said:
Okay, we decided to open this one instead of the Rockfords. Wow, it is spectacular - I smelt talcum powder and vanilla at first, very smooth and modest tannins. A bit peppery after the first mouthful. Apparently this is all the rage in Sydney at the moment
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ok. sounds great. ??photo

silly DrRoss. the photo was in the previous post
 
UpInTheAir:) said:
Snap!! We had a Paringa Estate Shiraz with lunch yesterday... certainly luscious also but no real Shiraz character...
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The The Paringa Pinot is the best of the lot. Shiraz from MP didn't do much for me either but the Pinot is fab. Chardonnay seems a bit variable...
 
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TheRealTMA said:
The The Paringa Pinot is the best of the lot. Shiraz from MP didn't do much for me either but the Pinot is fab. Chardonnay seems a bit variable...
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Yeah.. We knew the pinot was good that's why we chose the shiraz.. The "haven't been to the restaurant before and we need to choose a wine that suits everyone and safest to pick the most expensive" moment :)
 
UpInTheAir:) said:
Yeah.. We knew the pinot was good that's why we chose the shiraz.. The "haven't been to the restaurant before and we need to choose a wine that suits everyone and safest to pick the most expensive" moment :)
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Somewhere way upthread I had a Paringa Reserve Shiraz with a bit of age - maybe about an '07-08. Totally different level than the Estate Shiraz - just as the Reserve Pinot is >> than the Estate. And, of course, cool-climate Shiraz wines are nothing like the Barossa-type monsters that most people are accustomed to, so many will cry 'rubbish' against that benchmark.

Just waiting for PJM to grace me with her presence for dinner; an '08 Curly Flat Pinot awaits its destiny with the angels.
 
QF WP said:
Oops, the new format isn't loading the photo properly ". ". ". - oh no, the night is getting ugly
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Its ugly all the time now with this "enhanced" app. :( :( :(

I'm enjoying another Maverick Twins tonight, lovely wine - punching well above its weight
 
Having a Coriole Shiraz, not something I would normally buy as I am not a fan of McLaren Vale wine but it was in a mixed pack from Epiqure. It is a reasonable quaffer.
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drross said:
TheRealTMA. is this your 1000th post??
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Thanks! I was a hard fight to come up with enough $^%&$^%$. I'll be up to 10K in no time! :)

So yes, but I've never been a Virgin. I always fly QF or EK actually, never Virgin so it probably doesn't matter.
 
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