Recent content by Graeme Gee

It's not that easy to find recent evidence in favour of the proposition, I'll admit. Hill of Grace and Mt Edelstone are single vineyards, with all the vintage variability that implies. The whole state has done itself no favours since it began to chase 'more oak, more alcohol' in the nineties...

Ach, I should follow this board more closely; if I'd known you were coming I'd have baked a cake, so to speak. Never mind. Glad you got to see the strangeness of the Hunter. It's a very odd place to make wine; too much rain at vintage time, the wrong sort of heat; making dry semillon and...

Aussie Rules is ironically named; the joke being that there are no rules. Rugby has so many rules that if they were rigidly enforced by the referee, the game would never move at all; hence the occasional complaint you see that the ref 'ruined the game' or was whistle-happy. GG

Haven't any experience with Kalleske (only a few modest-level shirazes) to pass judgement. d'Arenberg is a mixed bag. Some of their older shiraz/grenache blends have been lovely. I think they make better wines at 13.5% and 40% new oak than they do at 14.5%/100%. And perhaps with recent vintages...

What a range of wines shiraz makes in Australia. From the lean, brambly wines in Western Australia, the mint of Clare, the eucalypt of Langhorne Creek, the spice and sandalwood of Coonawarra, the chocolate and fruit-cake of COMPETENT makers in Barossa and McLaren Vale, the iron & rust of...

I understand the local reaction. I guess the Burgundians are lucky that demand presumably outstrips supply, and that their buyers are so accepting of so much faulty stock being shipped. A 2% price drop would be fine if only 2% of my bottle was corked, but in my experience it's 100% of the...

The Nuremburg defence? What kind of taint rate would prompt the debate to break the surface? In any other industry, this kind of fail rate would prompt a recall. It's a good thing wine's such a trivial subject, and the money spent can be thrown away without a second thought. Nice that producers...

All that slagging of the Ravenswood, and you still go and score it 10/10. I knew you'd suffer 'score inflation' once you began handing out the points. Exactly the same thing happened with the WA, WS, WC and all those W... subscriptions of mine, without whom wine is virtually unpurchaseable. It's...

It's not a Parker rant. There are none of those fuckin'....dots.... G

Don't think anyone wants copper. Suspect the use is not so widespread as allegations imply. Perhaps at the basic, commercial, FMCG-level it's more of an issue to deliver an absolutely consistent 'product' batch to batch, vintage to vintage. But I seriously doubt quality-focussed producers are...

Look, I think considered opinion says that it'll age about the same as the best wines under cork. That is to say, the one stunning wine you got when you opened a 10-year-old case of 12 cork-sealed bottles... The only screwcapped Vat 1 I've tasted more than once is the 2005. It's jaw-droppingly...

Well done! There goes your wine budget, by the way... cheers, G

TYRRELLS PRIVATE BINS - 2009 REDS & 2010 WHITES - North Ryde RSL, Sydney (4/09/2010) These notes were taken during the Tyrrells masterclass at the public tasting in Sydney of the 2009 reds and just-released 2010 whites. Bruce Tyrrell hosted the masterclass and shared his insights on the wines...

{cork, 11%} An auction buy recently. I wondered at the accuracy of the description; 'Reserve' sounds outside the purity of single-wine vision that constituted the Virgin Hills of old. Sure enough, though, Halliday's Classic Wines (3rd edition 2002) has 1993-dated notes for both a 1990 and 1990...

Indeed. It's rather like trying to gain some insight into recent geological discoveries from a creationist... G