A Nice Bottle of Red

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:34 pm

Every Friday we have Pizza night at Dave's place.

Now it's a well known fact that you can't eat Pizza without washing it down with a good bottle of plonk.

It's also very handy that Dave lives right across the the road from Dan Murphy's which happens the the biggest imbibing emporium in Geelong.

The past few weeks I've picked up a bottle of Jim Barry's "The Cover Drive" which is a superb Shiraz and costs about $17.

I can thoroughly recomend this as you don't have to clench your teeth to prevent the ingestion of seeds.

Anyone got any others little gems they'd like to share.

Bob

Kim · Post by **Kim** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:21 am

I love a good red, especially a Shiraz, bit if you want to try a cracker of a white give "Verse 1" a nudge from Margret River. This is a truly excellent Chardonnay and a bloody good le'gopener.

Cheers

Kim

Dennis Leahy · Post by **Dennis Leahy** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:26 am

Kim wrote:... and a bloody good le'gopener.

Cheers

Kim

Alain · Post by **Alain** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:55 am

I love Australian Shirazs'! The best bloody wine on the planet, if you ask me! I've yet to taste an Australian wine I didn't like... nor an Ontarian, or Italian...or Chilian...

BillyT · Post by **BillyT** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:56 am

WTF is a Plonk!

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:23 am

Plonk is wine Billy. Usually reserved for the cheap stuff.

Kim · Post by **Kim** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:30 am

bob wrote:Plonk is wine Billy. Usually reserved for Tasmainian's.

Just correcting the typo there Bob

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:43 am

Maybe you should correct the typo in the quote Kim.

Hesh1956 · Post by **Hesh1956** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:27 am

So tell me Bob (said in my best Jewish accent) is this wine anything like Mogan David - You know, you drink it and someone else pays for it......

BillyT · Post by **BillyT** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:05 pm

Ha!!
Mad Dog 20 20!!
I haven't heard of that stuff since high school!

Paul B · Post by **Paul B** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:42 pm

Friday night is pizza night at my place too, and we usually share a bottle at work at knock-off time on a Friday. If it's a good bottle I'll generally buy another to share with the missus over a pizza.

Leasingham shiraz (2002) is one of my favorites. There's another I tried the other week which was so good I can't remember the name, they're both about $20 a bottle . I'll look it up at work tomorrow - we have a wine guide at work. Can't go past an Aussie Shiraz.

Paul B · Post by **Paul B** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:51 pm

Brands Laira Shiraz is the one I couldn't remember. Fantastic shiraz for the $$$

joel · Post by **joel** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:32 pm

It was a shiraz that put me onto the red's, when I had been a white lover. It was a Henschke shiraz. Don't remember the exact details, vut man it was GOOD! It had a real peppery taste that I've been searching for ever since.

I lived in Adelaide for a few years and I visited the Barossa quite frequently. Now I'm in Newcastle and I live fairly close to the Hunter valley. It's really hard to live so close to top notch wine regions

Alain · Post by **Alain** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:11 pm

...had a fantastic bottle of Rosemount Estates Grenache/Shiraz yesterday.... hmmmm...

I was wondering, is there an Australian wine under 14%??? Ha!

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:14 pm

Alain wrote:...had a fantastic bottle of Rosemount Estates Grenache/Shiraz yesterday.... hmmmm...

I was wondering, is there an Australian wine under 14%??? Ha!

I hope not

Lillian · Post by **Lillian** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:52 pm

Sweetie is the wine "connoisseur" in our family. I remember seeing a couple of Yellow Tail bottles of Shiraz come through the house recently. It most have been tasty for there to be a second, and quite possibly, a third bottle.

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 8:02 am

My all time favorite wine is d'Arenberg Stump Jump Red. From McLaren Vale South Australia. I think around the $20 a bottle.

http://www.darenberg.com.au/

An unmistakable South Australian Shiraz. Everyone that I've given a bottle to can't believe how good it is, even when they previously didn't like red wines. When we were traveling around Australia we spent about 6 months in McLaren Vale. I worked in the vineyards and drank heaps of some of the best wines on the planet. MMMM....good times

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