This is an emergency! We're running out of wine!

I have only been drinking from Oz since summer when a friend offered me a glass and I fell in love. I haven't been able to find that particular brand since and I can't remember the name of it, just would recognize the bottle. Total Wine (discounted) has a huge selection of all wines, and the best selection of Australian wines around. I always buy Pinot Noir -- just whatever appeals to me at the time. Do you have a particular brand you would recommend that is reasonably priced? I've found you don't have to pay a lot of money for a good bottle of wine, but I don't necessarily want the cheapest either. I've tried several different Oz Pinot Noir's and they are all outstanding. Next purchase, I'll pay closer attention and let you know my favorites.
 
dbeyat45 said:
Never exported to the US. They were deemed to have "better taste" ..... so we sent them sparkling Porphyry Pearl. :cool:
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Dammit!! I was gonna use that one but couldn't spell it. Wasn't that the pits? I used to drink wine until I found out what was making me puff up like a poisoned pup and break out in a rash. Siiiigh. But it's for the best, my favourite wine was Riccadonna, Italian. I'da been lynched in the 'Valley'.
 

I bought a cheap bottla Tawny Port for Christmas cooking experiments from a new winery in Mudgee many years ago. It lay forgotten in a box in a cupboard for around a decade and I was at the point of throwing it out, but popped the top instead... and it was the most blissful tipple. Talk about 'maturing' well. It didn't go into the cooking I can tell yas that!

Did anyone ever hear of a wine from an optimist who thought starting a vineyard just out of Alice Springs was a good idea?

No? gee, wonder why? He would have done better making moonshine from fermented Spinifex seeds I think.
 
Katybug said:
I have only been drinking from Oz since summer when a friend offered me a glass and I fell in love. I haven't been able to find that particular brand since and I can't remember the name of it, just would recognize the bottle. Total Wine (discounted) has a huge selection of all wines, and the best selection of Australian wines around. I always buy Pinot Noir -- just whatever appeals to me at the time. Do you have a particular brand you would recommend that is reasonably priced? I've found you don't have to pay a lot of money for a good bottle of wine, but I don't necessarily want the cheapest either. I've tried several different Oz Pinot Noir's and they are all outstanding. Next purchase, I'll pay closer attention and let you know my favorites.
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I see some on Total Wine that are a good bit cheaper than I can buy here ..... I wonder if they ship to Oz? ;)

Try this one KB:
http://www.totalwine.com/eng/product/charles-cimicky-shiraz-trumps/2140750
 
We had a couple of frosts in our region last week... quite late in the season for frosts but they happened .
Some of our local vineyards have copped a hit in the low lying areas of their vines.. ruining the growth of that particular vine.
No grapes this year. Also happened a few years back and it wiped out the entire crop.
 
terra said:
We had a couple of frosts in our region last week... quite late in the season for frosts but they happened .
Some of our local vineyards have copped a hit in the low lying areas of their vines.. ruining the growth of that particular vine.
No grapes this year. Also happened a few years back and it wiped out the entire crop.
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Geez, this is sounding very serious. Thank goodness for a huge selection of Vodka, but the "liquor's quicker" is really true for me and not something I can enjoy for the evening, and remain reasonably coherent. Probably one of my worst complaints of aging.
 
TWHRider said:
Reading this thread again, it has just dawned on me that, every day, I walk past half dozen or so bottles of wine that were gifts. They're all nicely situated in the top off my buffet because they weren't cheap and one has a really unique label on it.

By now they've been sitting in there anywhere from from four years to ten years. With Christmas coming and people tend to spend more money than they have brains, mehbee I should offer them up for auction on Ebay :dollar:
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news TWH, but if those bottles have been sitting in an upright position for all that time, and not stored in a temp controlled enviorment, they are vinegar now. Mix them with some baking soda and they will make a good drain cleaner or make salad dressing.:playful:
 
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