or @Hydrology ...not too shabby with the lens (albiet usually of a hifi subject)

19 hours ago, tripitaka said:

 

Your bottle photography is always lovely!

 

I reckon maybe only @Misternavi can challenge you 😀

I don't drink nowhere as much as @AccuMagi 

After so many wet weekends, this is a better way to wrap up a Saturday!

Hearts & Bones, Margaret River, Petit Verdot, 2019.

Happy Saturday folks, giving Chatto’s Bird a spin tonight, very nice Pinot here.

22 hours ago, Mendes said:

Happy Saturday folks, giving Chatto’s Bird a spin tonight, very nice Pinot here.

Any good Steve? 
 

I am getting a dozen of these. Your thoughts please? 

Edited August 28, 20223 yr by AccuMagi

On 27/08/2022 at 5:16 PM, AccuMagi said:

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Edited August 28, 20223 yr by Mendes
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This popped up in an Ubereats promo (30% off) for $70. Insane price for such a classic. It's been a while. Making up for lost time now  

 

 

1 minute ago, lemarquis said:

This popped up in an Ubereats promo (30% off) for $70. Insane price for such a classic. It's been a while. Making up for lost time now  

 

 

All good Sir? We missed you for a while there🙏

Just now, tripitaka said:

All good Sir? We missed you for a while there🙏

 All good Sir, and a lovely evening to all 🙏

Well someone has to finish the leftovers.  Cheers all

 

13 minutes ago, 2Brix said:

Well someone has to finish the leftovers.  Cheers all

 

The Barbera any good?

Waiting for epl kick off...

12 minutes ago, tripitaka said:

The Barbera any good?

 

No complaints for the price paid ($17). Moderate nose, light mouthfeel, strong black currant, low tannin and tending to a acidic/dry finish (at least to my palate).

1 hour ago, lemarquis said:

This popped up in an Ubereats promo (30% off) for $70. Insane price for such a classic. It's been a while. Making up for lost time now  

 

 

Great price! It's around $130 retail now. 👍

Candidates for tonight! 
I hope they worth the penny…! 

Edited August 27, 20223 yr by AccuMagi

On 20/08/2022 at 5:13 PM, Mendes said:

Solid day hiking with buddies today, now time to chill with a nice bottle of Pinot. We did Kalamunda to Mundaring Weir Hotel along the Bibbulmun Track,a beautiful Perth day.

 

Me and a mate from school days (I'm talking the sixties here) over from Pommerania did that walk just before covid bit. He actually caught the last flight out before the border closure. Great trek but I must have walked through a nest(?) of 'roo ticks and spent the next day being picked at by the misses!  Great arrival destination too I looked every bit as knackered as you.

 

 

On 26/08/2022 at 7:30 PM, AccuMagi said:

Hello Friday.  
Not fancy but doing the job! 

This is more my style in wine purchasing (perhaps). I read this thread and am amazed at the dedication and willingness to spend such large amounts on something I am so disinclined to spend more than $15 a bottle on. It's not that I don't appreciate a nice(r) drop, nor do I think you lot are anything less than admirable in your good tastes. It's just so hit and miss for me, to spend $25 to >?? on something I then turn my nose up at would really pee me off, whereas a $<10 to 12 Merlot or Cab Merlot of whatever Aussie vinyard that has designed an eye-catching label and then quite nice or maybe not so nice, I'm not going to be too upset. - Troglodyte, I know.

 

On a sojourn down to Denmark WA I bought a couple of bottles of Single File Shiraz that had me in raptures for $15-ish per bottle. Now I can't find it for less than $35 and am loathe to indulge myself. I am not worthy, the wife keeps telling me so!

 

If I were to stretch my ever-so-tight purse to find $20.00 for an easy drinking red that's easy available (Danny's, BWS etc.) what would you canny-sewers recommend to this viniculturally challenged, taste-bud ruined, idle, tippler.

 

(I was a member of Naked Wines for a while but very little of their cheaper stuff was drink-able.)

 

Now Back to something different... 

Happy Saturday....!🙏🙏

6 minutes ago, Grimmie said:

Me and a mate from school days (I'm talking the sixties here) over from Pommerania did that walk just before covid bit. He actually caught the last flight out before the border closure. Great trek but I must have walked through a nest(?) of 'roo ticks and spent the next day being picked at by the misses!  Great arrival destination too I looked every bit as knackered as you.

The hike was some training for the Cape to Cape we are doing in a couple of weeks, really excited for that one, doing it over six days.

Wow now that's a hike worthy of the name, - perhaps YOMP would be more appropriate (for those with long memories) what kind of over-nighting will it be. Camping or accomodation.

6 minutes ago, Mendes said:

The hike was some training for the Cape to Cape we are doing in a couple of weeks, really excited for that one, doing it over six days.

 

 

An old favorite of mine for many decades on the left, and then, when it's bought as a present just the odd tipple every now and then.

1 minute ago, Grimmie said:

what kind of over-nighting will it be. Camping or accomodation.

It will be accommodation in MR this time, the others not so keen to rough it. Our wives doing the drop off each morning 🥰

10 hours ago, Mendes said:

It will be accommodation in MR this time, the others not so keen to rough it. Our wives doing the drop off each morning 🥰

Oh! love it. must have them well trained. Though... gord knows what they'll be emptying the bank balance on while the cats are away.

 

Any wineries on the way?

21 minutes ago, Grimmie said:

Any wineries on the way?

I don’t think so, staying well hydrated will be a priority, that is until the last day 😇😂🍷🍷✌️
 

Great idea to sleep comfortably in MR. Hot shower , good food and sleep makes a world of difference. Mates from Melbourne came over to walk Cape to Cape a few years back. I agreed to ferry them to drop and collect points every day. I could mountain bike most of the day then. The only condition was that we visited a winery on the way home after pickup. They did the Cape to Cape and I did the Grape to Grape😀 

Dedicated to those who love the grape and everything it offers us.

 

✌️🍷

Please note - I am not an alcoholic…! 
I only do this marathon every few months…, to gauge the efficiency of my organs. 
still a young man at heart afterall. 😁