Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
Hoddles Creek Pinot Noir 2004 Drinking the Hoddles Creek Pinot Noir right now and I thought it would be past it but it’s far from it. Most $20 Pinot at six years of age is on a downward slide but this still has plenty of fruit flavour left and subtle, soft secondary development. I’m really impressed [...]
Continue Reading10 Tips for starting a cellar – Pt 10
INCLUDE VINTAGE CHAMPAGNE What cellar would be complete without Vintage Champagne for special occasions. Non Vintage Champagne is a blend of various vintages and is released with bottle age and ready to drink. In the very best years Champagne releases ‘Vintage’ wines from that specific vintage and these wines will keep and do improve. A few [...]
Continue Reading10 Tips for starting a wine cellar – Pt 9
CELLARING SOFTWARE It helps to have accurate drinking windows for you cellared wines. Drinking windows mean the time span within which a wine will be drinking at its peak. You don’t want to go to all the trouble of cellaring a wine only to leave it too long and for it to dry out or spoil. [...]
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CELLAR CHEAPER STUFF TOO It’s not only the expensive wines that should be cellared. There’s plenty of cheaper wine that will improve with a few years bottle age. Whole cases of high quality cheaper wine makes for decadent drinking in a few short years and balances out the cellar. Cellaring suggestion # 8: Tempranillo: Australia is experimenting with [...]
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STORAGE CONDITIONS It’s extremely important for any wine storage area to be cool and dark. Avoiding temperature fluctuations is critical as well as excessive handling of the wine. Avoid buying wine from second hand sources unless you can ascertain know how the wine has been stored, handled and transported (I’ve been burned too many times). Worn [...]
Continue ReadingKangarilla Road Zinfandel
Zin or Primitivo? I opened a 2002 Kangarilla Road Zinfandel the other night hoping that the cork had held up and I wasn’t disappointed. The wine in good condition it sung the praises of a kind vintage and is a good indicator of how well this variety holds up over time from this producer. Not that [...]
Continue Reading10 Tips for starting a wine cellar – Pt 6
taste before you buy I have been the victim of marketing hype as much as the next person and I’ve bought wine for the cellar plenty of times on the basis of a good review only to find out years later that I don’t like the wine. Try to taste the wine before you buy if [...]
Continue Reading10 Tips for starting a wine cellar – Pt 5
buy varietals from the right regions The Europeans long ago decided which varieties grow best in which regions and are now generally limited by law to do so. We are still working it out but strong trends have emerged and you can be pretty sure of the leading lights from each wine region if you just [...]
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buy from different countries We Aussie’s are a parochial bunch and we certainly produce enough good wine to never have to look abroad but to do so is to ignore a whole world of wine. Balance your purchases with some benchmark wines from countries that have been making wine for a whole lot longer than us. Cellar [...]
Continue Reading10 Tips for starting a wine cellar – Pt 3
buy back vintages If you haven’t cellared wine until now you can get a jump on your cellar by buying wine that has already been aged for you. There are some good Hunter Semillons, Eden Valley Rieslings and Margret River Cabernets all released direct from the vineyard with some bottle age. This is because the producer [...]
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- Yarra Valley Pinot Noir
- 10 Tips for starting a cellar – Pt 10
- 10 Tips for starting a wine cellar – Pt 9
- 10 Tips for starting a wine cellar – Pt 8
- 10 Tips for starting a wine cellar – Pt 7
- Kangarilla Road Zinfandel
- 10 Tips for starting a wine cellar – Pt 6
- 10 Tips for starting a wine cellar – Pt 5
- 10 Tips for starting a wine cellar – Pt 4
- 10 Tips for starting a wine cellar – Pt 3
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