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  • SmudgeS Do not disturb
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    #108

    Bought these in a fine wine auction in Wellington last week. A mixture of various vintages of Peregrine pinot noir (mainly 2007 but one 1999 in there), and their 2008 pinot gris. https://ibb.co/xhvPbsQ

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    @nzzp said in The new wine thread:

    @bovidae said in The new wine thread:

    A family celebration at an Italian restaurant a few weeks back. We started with a Prosecco, and added a few dollars to the Kirwan family bank account.

    Drank some recently. Nice, for what it was -a dry, easy drinking prosecco. Thankfully not too sweet (unlike the prosecco friends brought last night and we tipped)

    I enjoyed it, and compared favourably with the proseccos I have drank in Italy.

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    @snowy said in The new wine thread:

    Yes. Typo. Moorish is a completely different thing.

    Correct. "Moorish" means looking a bit like Roger Moore.

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  • Victor MeldrewV Online
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    @dogmeat said in The new wine thread:

    Equally true of the top HB and Waiheke Cabernets

    I have a few bottles of decent 2018 HB Cab/Merlot. Just drinkable now but needs a good 3-5 years to open up I reckon.

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  • Victor MeldrewV Online
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    @nzzp said in The new wine thread:

    @bovidae said in The new wine thread:

    A family celebration at an Italian restaurant a few weeks back. We started with a Prosecco, and added a few dollars to the Kirwan family bank account.

    Drank some recently. Nice, for what it was -a dry, easy drinking prosecco. Thankfully not too sweet (unlike the prosecco friends brought last night and we tipped)

    Find Prosecco a bit bland much of the time. I prefer Cava as it seems to have a bit more complexity, but still easy-drinking.

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    @smudge said in The new wine thread:

    Bought these in a fine wine auction in Wellington last week. A mixture of various vintages of Peregrine pinot noir (mainly 2007 but one 1999 in there), and their 2008 pinot gris. https://ibb.co/xhvPbsQ

    Peregrine is nice gear. I've enjoyed bottles of their PN in the past and recently bought some of their next label Pinot Gris for Mrs CF

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    @smudge I honestly prefer Pinot Gris to SB now. I used to find them sweet but there’s a lot nowadays that are drier while still having the PG fruit. It’s now my go-to on a nice summers day.

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    @victor-meldrew said in The new wine thread:

    @snowy said in The new wine thread:

    Yes. Typo. Moorish is a completely different thing.

    Correct. "Moorish" means looking a bit like Roger Moore.

    That raised a few eyebrows

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  • CatograndeC Offline
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    @victor-meldrew said in The new wine thread:

    @snowy said in The new wine thread:

    Yes. Typo. Moorish is a completely different thing.

    Correct. "Moorish" means looking a bit like Roger Moore.

    Also reminded me of the viagra advert. It can’t make you James Bond but it can make you roger more.

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  • SmudgeS Do not disturb
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    @canefan said in The new wine thread:

    @smudge said in The new wine thread:

    Bought these in a fine wine auction in Wellington last week. A mixture of various vintages of Peregrine pinot noir (mainly 2007 but one 1999 in there), and their 2008 pinot gris. https://ibb.co/xhvPbsQ

    Peregrine is nice gear. I've enjoyed bottles of their PN in the past and recently bought some of their next label Pinot Gris for Mrs CF

    Main reason I bought it is because we had some (well, a lot) of the 2007 vintage at a mate's wedding in 2010 and it was magnificent. Reviews suggest it's aged OK. Here's hoping.

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    @jc said in The new wine thread:

    @smudge I honestly prefer Pinot Gris to SB now. I used to find them sweet but there’s a lot nowadays that are drier while still having the PG fruit. It’s now my go-to on a nice summers day.

    This. Plenty of dry ones around now. Can even find a decent Riesling that isn't a bottle full of sickliness these days. Not a pleasant experience if you get it wrong though.

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    @snowy Dry River

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  • canefanC Offline
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    @snowy said in The new wine thread:

    @jc said in The new wine thread:

    @smudge I honestly prefer Pinot Gris to SB now. I used to find them sweet but there’s a lot nowadays that are drier while still having the PG fruit. It’s now my go-to on a nice summers day.

    This. Plenty of dry ones around now. Can even find a decent Riesling that isn't a bottle full of sickliness these days. Not a pleasant experience if you get it wrong though.

    Dry riesling is so underrated and underpriced for what you get. I've always loved Felton Rd dry riesling with it's bouquet of dried apricots, and Kusuda riesling from Martinborough was and maybe still is a cult classic

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  • SnowyS Offline
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    @dogmeat said in The new wine thread:

    @snowy Dry River

    Had a 2014 Dry River Riesling with dinner tonight at Kauri Cliffs. It was indeed dry and very pleasant. Nice one.

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    @canefan said in The new wine thread:

    @snowy said in The new wine thread:

    @jc said in The new wine thread:

    @smudge I honestly prefer Pinot Gris to SB now. I used to find them sweet but there’s a lot nowadays that are drier while still having the PG fruit. It’s now my go-to on a nice summers day.

    This. Plenty of dry ones around now. Can even find a decent Riesling that isn't a bottle full of sickliness these days. Not a pleasant experience if you get it wrong though.

    Dry riesling is so underrated and underpriced for what you get. I've always loved Felton Rd dry riesling with it's bouquet of dried apricots, and Kusuda riesling from Martinborough was and maybe still is a cult classic

    Massive fan of dry riesling, a lot of it ages extremely well as well. can open up like a chardonnay when aged too. Dry ones in Aussie are predominantly but not exclusively Clare valley based and because Riesling isn't the most popular variety you can get some really good examples for a good price.

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    @canefan said in The new wine thread:

    @snowy said in The new wine thread:

    @jc said in The new wine thread:

    @smudge I honestly prefer Pinot Gris to SB now. I used to find them sweet but there’s a lot nowadays that are drier while still having the PG fruit. It’s now my go-to on a nice summers day.

    This. Plenty of dry ones around now. Can even find a decent Riesling that isn't a bottle full of sickliness these days. Not a pleasant experience if you get it wrong though.

    Dry riesling is so underrated and underpriced for what you get. I've always loved Felton Rd dry riesling with it's bouquet of dried apricots, and Kusuda riesling from Martinborough was and maybe still is a cult classic

    I totally agree, I wonder if a cheap/bad riesling and chardonnay experience in particular, put people off completely. IMO some grape varieties make more put off bad wines than others but I'm no sommelier so that could be a bullshit opinion..

    But there are some very bad and cheap rieslings out there...

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    @gt12 🤣🥂

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  • CrucialC Offline
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    @nostrildamus said in The new wine thread:

    @canefan said in The new wine thread:

    @snowy said in The new wine thread:

    @jc said in The new wine thread:

    @smudge I honestly prefer Pinot Gris to SB now. I used to find them sweet but there’s a lot nowadays that are drier while still having the PG fruit. It’s now my go-to on a nice summers day.

    This. Plenty of dry ones around now. Can even find a decent Riesling that isn't a bottle full of sickliness these days. Not a pleasant experience if you get it wrong though.

    Dry riesling is so underrated and underpriced for what you get. I've always loved Felton Rd dry riesling with it's bouquet of dried apricots, and Kusuda riesling from Martinborough was and maybe still is a cult classic

    I totally agree, I wonder if a cheap/bad riesling and chardonnay experience in particular, put people off completely. IMO some grape varieties make more put off bad wines than others but I'm no sommelier so that could be a bullshit opinion..

    But there are some very bad and cheap rieslings out there...

    Same goes with Pinot Noir. Plenty of lolly water pretending to be wine.

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    @crucial said in The new wine thread:

    @nostrildamus said in The new wine thread:

    @canefan said in The new wine thread:

    @snowy said in The new wine thread:

    @jc said in The new wine thread:

    @smudge I honestly prefer Pinot Gris to SB now. I used to find them sweet but there’s a lot nowadays that are drier while still having the PG fruit. It’s now my go-to on a nice summers day.

    This. Plenty of dry ones around now. Can even find a decent Riesling that isn't a bottle full of sickliness these days. Not a pleasant experience if you get it wrong though.

    Dry riesling is so underrated and underpriced for what you get. I've always loved Felton Rd dry riesling with it's bouquet of dried apricots, and Kusuda riesling from Martinborough was and maybe still is a cult classic

    I totally agree, I wonder if a cheap/bad riesling and chardonnay experience in particular, put people off completely. IMO some grape varieties make more put off bad wines than others but I'm no sommelier so that could be a bullshit opinion..

    But there are some very bad and cheap rieslings out there...

    Same goes with Pinot Noir. Plenty of lolly water pretending to be wine.

    I've been lucky then with Pinot Noir but then I generally pick NZ ones.

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