BrightonCorgi Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 On 7/5/2023 at 5:27 PM, Ken Gargett said: how recently was yours bottled? Was not bottle date on the back. The back label had oxidation that I would guess is early 70's bottling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 On 7/9/2023 at 3:22 AM, BrightonCorgi said: Was not bottle date on the back. The back label had oxidation that I would guess is early 70's bottling. i have a very old one i got many years ago when they were still quite cheap. from 1864. but the label split and flaked and part fell off. not making this up. it split down the '1864' between 18 and 64. the 18 bit flaked off and was lost. good luck me ever convincing anyone it is not 1964. so the chances of selling it are gone. probably not a bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrightonCorgi Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 2 hours ago, Ken Gargett said: i have a very old one i got many years ago when they were still quite cheap. from 1864. but the label split and flaked and part fell off. not making this up. it split down the '1864' between 18 and 64. the 18 bit flaked off and was lost. good luck me ever convincing anyone it is not 1964. so the chances of selling it are gone. probably not a bad thing. If it were 1864, the bottle itself would've been early 20th century at latest. Those bottles do have non-uniform look and odd tints some times. The wine itself, that can be hard to tell the difference. Madeira doesn't seem hard to fake beyond something like 1796 Barbeito. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Had a 3 day weekend in the Hunter Valley with a couple of the Sydney FOH boys. Did a little shopping while I was up there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 On 7/10/2023 at 11:53 AM, BrightonCorgi said: If it were 1864, the bottle itself would've been early 20th century at latest. Those bottles do have non-uniform look and odd tints some times. The wine itself, that can be hard to tell the difference. Madeira doesn't seem hard to fake beyond something like 1796 Barbeito. i do have the details somewhere. have to dig them out. from memory, more recent than that. but long time since i checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 10 hours ago, Fuzz said: Had a 3 day weekend in the Hunter Valley with a couple of the Sydney FOH boys. Did a little shopping while I was up there. so fuzz, you went to the hunter and bought port, sparkling and sweeties. you are such a tourist. that is like going to Burgundy and coming home with sherry. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 53 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said: so fuzz, you went to the hunter and bought port, sparkling and sweeties. you are such a tourist. that is like going to Burgundy and coming home with sherry. I have plenty of HV shiraz and I'm not a big semillon drinker. But I am out of those tawny, sparkling and sweet wines. And I've been meaning to go back to Capercaillie for a number of years to get their Shimmering Chambourcin. So yeah, tourist. So do they make cream sherry in Burgundy? Thanks for the advice! I'll let people know you gave me the recommendation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 10 hours ago, Fuzz said: Had a 3 day weekend in the Hunter Valley with a couple of the Sydney FOH boys. Did a little shopping while I was up there. Those Peterson House sparkling wines...they are 'top notch' as we Australians are prone to say! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzz Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 4 hours ago, JohnS said: Those Peterson House sparkling wines...they are 'top notch' as we Australians are prone to say! Petersons, not Peterson House. Same family, but Peterson House focuses primarily on sparkling wine. Petersons has 2 cellar doors, one on Mount View Rd (the original one), the other on Broke Rd. Which is really confusing for some people as Peterson House is also on Broke Rd. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Gargett Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 On 7/17/2023 at 10:23 AM, Fuzz said: I have plenty of HV shiraz and I'm not a big semillon drinker. But I am out of those tawny, sparkling and sweet wines. And I've been meaning to go back to Capercaillie for a number of years to get their Shimmering Chambourcin. So yeah, tourist. So do they make cream sherry in Burgundy? Thanks for the advice! I'll let people know you gave me the recommendation. i never mentioned cream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLC Posted July 30, 2023 Share Posted July 30, 2023 I’ve had these before and they were a good inexpensive everyday wine. I believe our own @Ken Gargett did the review our LCBO used. Picked up 6 bottles as that was all at my local store but may get more elsewhere if I like them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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