Nice wines I have drunk recently - Red or White

[NoName]

Last night with steak dinner. Absolutely delicious.

Cork snapped when trying to open which made for a few challenges. Managed to get the other half out eventually without anything dropping in.

 

[Assassin]

Lunch with a couple of colleagues/mates with better cellars than mine…

 

[boomy]

Steak and Sami Odi perfect match Little wine #15 is a beauty! Drink now (after a good long decant) or hold you can’t go wrong.

 

[Daver6]

Steak and Sami Odi perfect match Little wine #15 is a beauty! Drink now (after a good long decant) or hold you can’t go wrong.

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I like your style. One glass for each hand!

 

[Captain Halliday]

Goes well with rib fillet.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Delicious with roast leg of lamb.

 

[Learned_One]

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Crikey! These are museum specimens. How did the 78 HOG and 85 Bollie go down, Assassin?

 

[Assassin]

Crikey! These are museum specimens. How did the 78 HOG and 85 Bollie go down, Assassin?

Yes indeed! The fizz was mostly but not entirely gone but the wine itself was very interesting- brioche and dried stone fruits with a note of honey in the background. The HOG was beautifully mature - still some fruit with an olive tapenade background. No noticeable tannins at all. Really interesting to think where we were in the years those wines were made!

 

[klab]

good afternoon does anybody have any intel on standish 24 release? I prefer SO for modern barossa but hearing that andelmonde is back for v24 release has made me think it is time to put my toe back in the standish pond - how does 24 andelmonde compare with other 24 cuvee's, pricing per bott?

 

[Oscarq]

Mayer was brilliant, Rockford a little dissapointing.

 

[Brissy1]

Really interesting to think where we were in the years those wines were made!

Well in '79 I was tasting HOG in Henschke's cellar door, so maybe the same vintage you drank.
Bought 2 bottles of HOG (max Cyril allowed) and stored them for err, months. From memory I was unimpressed despite the hype even then, unbalanced. Should have waited 50 years!

 

[Assassin]

Well in '79 I was tasting HOG in Henschke's cellar door, so maybe the same vintage you drank.
Bought 2 bottles of HOG (max Cyril allowed) and stored them for err, months. From memory I was unimpressed despite the hype even then, unbalanced. Should have waited 50 years!

in 79 is was in year 3 at school and wine was not on my radar! Do you remember what those bottles cost you?

 

[Brissy1]

in 79 is was in year 3 at school and wine was not on my radar! Do you remember what those bottles cost you?

$5ea. (=$32 today according to Ai). That cellar door price was much less than retail (hence the 2 bottle limit). For comparison could get Grange in 1980 for about $16 (by the doz on sale at a place in Port Adelaide, yet another "wine glut" period).
Why can I remember this detail, but not my wife's birthdate?