Looks great Gary!

This could be my earliest post ever…

This will be interesting, given I’m an Aussie Shiraz drinker 🙂

Shake-N-Bake FTW gary!! Thanks for the shoutout. Love the show, made my day twice now 🙂

Darn, not in time to claim one of the brown bags, just for old times’ sake…

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Wow, I’m getting back into the top 10s….this time difference is helping me!

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Go Gary Go!!!!

HELL YEAH THATS MY SHIRT SHAKE-N-BAKE FTW!!! THANKS FOR THE SHOUTOUT GARY!!!!

Awesome show today. I’m feeling the shiraz lately and I’m all in favor of Australian stuff. Running down the top 3 on the QOTD,
1)Thorn-Clarke Shotfire ’06
2)Heathvale ’04
3)d’Arenberg ’04
Good times for everyone.
And let’s get some love for the start the REAL football season– Barclay’s English Premiership Football.

Giddy Up Gary….kickin’ shirt…..

no disrespect to the Jets, of course. 😉

QOTD : 2004 Mitolo G.A.M. Buttery coconut mmm

QOTD: Haven’t had a Aussie Shiraz recently although I do have a 2000 Elderton Command Shiraz in the cellar.

QOTD: 2004 Two Hands Lily’s Garden

QOTD: Here we go!
1st Place – Jim Barry “The Armagh” Shiraz (69 â?¬)
Deep dark red, brown tinge. Inky in the center. Soft warm dark berries. Well ripe. Hints of tobacco, Licorice, coffee Lovely!. Great! Beautiful balance. Rich fruits but not to intense, fine tannins puckery acids. Smoky. Mega long. Tannins surrounding every taste bud in my mouth.

2nd Place – Penfolds Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz (12 â?¬)
If you want a great value drink now Aussie that is neither Fruit-Bomb nor Oak-Monster you really should try this out. Very approachable, great balance. This wine is polite enough to be drunk with food (unlike #3 below). There are always some of these in my cellar.

3rd Place – Tatachilla Shiraz (15 â?¬)
Do you feel like a wine that will sneak up behind you, tap you on the shoulder and then punch you right in the face, this is what you want. Fruit Bomb, rich and full.

QOTD: Here we go!
1st Place – Jim Barry “The Armagh” Shiraz (69 â?¬)
Deep dark red, brown tinge. Inky in the center. Soft warm dark berries. Well ripe. Hints of tobacco, Licorice, coffee Lovely!. Great! Beautiful balance. Rich fruits but not to intense, fine tannins puckery acids. Smoky. Mega long. Tannins surrounding every taste bud in my mouth.

2nd Place – Penfolds Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz (12 â?¬)
If you want a great value drink now Aussie that is neither Fruit-Bomb nor Oak-Monster you really should try this out. Very approachable, great balance. This wine is polite enough to be drunk with food (unlike #3 below). There are always some of these in my cellar.

3rd Place – Tatachilla Shiraz (15 â?¬)
Do you feel like a wine that will sneak up behind you, tap you on the shoulder and then punch you right in the face, this is what you want. Fruit Bomb, rich and full.

even though i am not a big australia (wine) fan, this was a really good show. gotta respect the blind tastings + these seemed to be pretty serious, or at least respected wines. they were not 4 2buck chucks. i have not had any molly dooker wines, probably would not buy one, but if someone offered one to me, i would be surely curious. at 72 bucks, i could buy some kick ass wine from france, italy…. 2 bottles of great oregon wine.
oh well, good show. wish i could have tasted them
QOTD – i cannot tell you. i have had one or 2 in the past 7 1/2 months and they did not tickle my elmo. one was like drinking a 2 x 4 and the other was a cocktail w/ grape juice

even though i am not a big australia (wine) fan, this was a really good show. gotta respect the blind tastings + these seemed to be pretty serious, or at least respected wines. they were not 4 2buck chucks. i have not had any molly dooker wines, probably would not buy one, but if someone offered one to me, i would be surely curious. at 72 bucks, i could buy some kick ass wine from france, italy…. 2 bottles of great oregon wine.
oh well, good show. wish i could have tasted them
QOTD – i cannot tell you. i have had one or 2 in the past 7 1/2 months and they did not tickle my elmo. one was like drinking a 2 x 4 and the other was a cocktail w/ grape juice

QOTD: I think I have to go with the Hazyblur Adelaine Shiraz 2005. I liked the other hazyblurs, john duvals, and mitolos also from 2005 but the adelaine is drinking way better and smoother at the moment!

Great show. Love the Aussie wines. Best in last 7 months ARES 04

AWESOME show you look damn good in that shirt Gary 🙂

QOTD:
-Haven’t really explored the Australian wines since i am not really a fruit bomb fan and most of them are from that region.

QOTD: Torbreck Woodcutter’s Barossa Valley – TONS of sediment so make sure to decant!

Qotd: Never had one, may try one in a few weeks who knows, it depends on how the packers, and farve start.