Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[penegal]

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I stocked up on Cullens Diana M reds from Margaret River this past week. It is a great drop but they seem to get rarer due to usage.

Vanya Cullen is one of Australia's great winemakers IMHO. She makes some fantastic wines.

 

[drron]

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It's good to be home and not working.
Over the weekend it was a Tahbilk 2000 shiraz.
Tonight a Lindemans 1988 Bin 7603 when it was still called a Hunter River Burgundy.
both drinking very well.

 

[Hvr]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

A competition some of you may be interested in:

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[drron]

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Celebrated the removal of my knee staples tonight with a 1989 Hill Of Grace.Red velvet.

 

[AdMEL]

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Celebrated the removal of my knee staples tonight with a 1989 Hill Of Grace.Red velvet.

Nice! I have a 1994, which was a birthday gift. Too hot to drink it at the moment!

 

[boomy]

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3 good reds I had recently at various restaurants:
By Farr Pinot Noir 2009
d'Arenberg "dead arm" Shiraz 2009
Kaesler "the bogan" Shiraz 2009

 

[penegal]

Re: Nice Wines I have DranK Recently - Red or White

3 good reds I had recently at various restaurants:
By Farr Pinot Noir 2009
d'Arenberg "dead arm" Shiraz 2009
Kaesler "the bogan" Shiraz 2009

At the risk of sounding like a "W" (from WP), I have a couple of bottles of these wines at home.

I have only tasted the By Farr so far, but it was quite a nice drop

 

[NM]

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Celebrated the removal of my knee staples tonight with a 1989 Hill Of Grace.Red velvet.

In lieu of anesthetic, pain management or sleep enhancement, perhaps??

 

[AnonymousCoward]

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At the risk of sounding like a "W" (from WP), I have a couple of bottles of these wines at home.

I have only tasted the By Farr so far, but it was quite a nice drop

I have all of these as well, and they are definitely all good

 

[drron]

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Had another reason to celebrate tonight.Down 15Kg in the last 5 months.
So a 1994 Lindemans St.George cab sav.Despite being 20 years old still a fair bit of tannin and could last another few years.
Now to think of another reason to celebrate on Sunday.Definitely a good idea to convalesce in style.

 

[amaroo]

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I've just come off a 28 day adventure drinking reds from Napa, Epernay and a few from Italy, Spain and a couple from South Amercia.....the best was - Insignia Joseph Phelps 2007

 

[markis10]

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Very much enjoyed the 2013 Auntsfield Sav Blanc last night.

 

[drron]

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Well the last of my weeks indulgence.Back on the wagon next week but I have lifted my spirits.
Tonight celebrating the second day of the second month.Works for me.
Tonight another Lindemans-a 1988 Hunter River Burgundy.Very nice but just past it's best.Fortunately this was my last bottle.

 

[JohnM]

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A bottle of Ruinart NV Blanc de Blanc followed by an '03 Cullen Diana Madeline was the goods for two of us last night .

 

[cove]

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We had a Pouilly Fuisse from Costco US at $17.99 a bottle and we concluded it was worth the money. Very nice white wine from somewhere in France.
Australian wines are pretty reasonably priced in California so it reminds me to never want to own a vineyard any time this century.
Diana's are waiting for my return to Perth but it is business first.

 

[penegal]

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At the weekend we had a number of good wines.

The most interesting was the 2005 Chain of Ponds "The Cachet" blend (Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz Merlot). Having not tried this before I was a little sceptical, but Halliday thought it was reasonable. I asked room service to find a decanter for me to borrow in the afternoon, and we had a little taste and decanted the bottle just before going out for dinner. Upon our return the wine was ready to drink and went down quite nicely.

In hindsight, it could probably have had a little more bottle age, but with a solid ~2+ hours of decanting it was "just right".

Given the price I paid ($0), I was quite happy with this one.

 

[Gredgy69]

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Before Christmas we had a 1998 Metala (bought in 1999) which I must admit I was worried about as my storage isn't what it should be but geez it was nice. I was very pleasantly suprised. After Christmas we had a 2008 Penfolds Bin 128 Shiraz - absolutely devine.

 

[JohnM]

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We had a Pouilly Fuisse from Costco US at $17.99 a bottle and we concluded it was worth the money. Very nice white wine from somewhere in France.

That's in Burgundy. Pouilly Fuisse is a Chardonnay wine, not to be confused with Pouilly Fume which is a Sauvignon Blanc wine from the upper Loire Valley around Sancerre (great place to visit if you haven't been there).

 

[cove]

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Thanks JohnM our empty bottle had gone to garbology. We only had glasses that held half a bottle each so we have fixed that now. The taste was good and almost great.

 

[Major]

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Opened a bottle of Chateau Tahbilk Shiraz 2005 last night and it is really smooth. Good tannin and just a hint of spice.

So used to screw tops I had to search for a corkscrew