Vinomofo Wine Deals

[Vipers]

Good morning brains trust,

$40 birthday voucher has landed in my inbox and I'm looking at the Mitolo G.A.M. Shiraz to relieve myself of a few dollars. Vinomofo has the 2021 ($29.99 p/b) and has just added the 2019 ($25 p/b) to their listings and it has thrown a spanner in the works as to which vintage to get. Listings are almost word for word identical albeit products have different closure systems (19 screwcap, 21 cork).

Any thoughts on which way to lean?

Relevant listings below:

Unwrapped: Mitolo G.A.M Shiraz 2019 - Red Wine

Mitolo G.A.M Shiraz 2021 - Red Wine

Concentration, spice, and all things nice. Perfumed red cherries and plums, with a smooth chocolate-like texture, and those cooling breezes we know and love of the McLaren Vale leaving you with a wine of concentration and freshness.

www.vinomofo.com

Thanks

I'm not sure of the 2019, but the 2021 was the pick at a tasting I had a couple of months ago. For a young wine, it had a lot to offer.

 

[Bill Bosworth]

You probably can visit them at the Stonehaven winery, Padthaway, which they bought from Hardy's and have revamped. I think Ben Wurst is a very good head winemaker. He might, however, be very stretched by the rapid expansion of CW, absorbing a series of separate brands, as they have. Presumably he has other makers on board too, given the range they now oversee. If a larger company is to absorb smaller wine producers, better to be CW, which has wine in its DNA, is locally owned, managed & based in S.A, than something like Pernod Ricard or other foreign mega outfits.

I like it how you can get wine in your DNA after moving into grapes in 2003 from onion and potato-growing. Sounds positively Lamarckian!

Anyhoo, I'm pleased they are local (I had thought they were majority foreign). Hopefully they grow the business well enough to shed some of the current negatives. As it stands if I dig and find the CW name I stop and move on... possibly unfair but based on some consistent experiences

 

[Koosc]

I'm not sure of the 2019, but the 2021 was the pick at a tasting I had a couple of months ago. For a young wine, it had a lot to offer.

That is the way I was leaning. Didnt take much to tip me over the edge.

 

[beefarmer]

With Reschke there was a LOT of wine in tanks due to legal holds, goes some way to explaining recent bottlings of older wines. Wouldn't expect the same level of tank stocks at Schild, but who knows.

Have Dru and his brother made up yet?