Back to School

A back to school styled event with food from the school canteen, hosted by Cameron.

Le Snack

Dom Perignon 2002 Champagne - Tight, restrained, elegant, scent of Chardonnay grapes on the nose despite the 50/50 blend with pinot. Fermented pear notes, Toasty oak as it warmed up. A distinguished effort for a first up wine from invited guest - Josh Dunjey

Cream of Mushroom soup

Domaine Francois Raveneau a Chablis 2010 - A most curious Chablis enough sweetness, honey and floral notes on the nose to suggest a Gewurtz, followed by mildy sweet finish but not enough sweetness to be a German sweet riesling. Not a hint of mineraility.

Pewsey Vale, Contours Riesling 05 Museum release - a techincally correct and traditional australian riesling with kero notes. While this wine was a true representation of the style it lacked the odd bit of fruit zing or acid to make it original. Ultimately I found this wine uninspiring because it was too true to the style.

Hot Fowl roll and hot dog

Pierro 2010 Chardonnay - France, NZ were a couple of origins suggest for this wine. Sure it was restrained on the nose but it had power, poise, fresh fruit of melon and white peach with firm vanillin oak in the background.

Fonty's Pool 08 Chardonnay - Piss yellow colour showing age and perhaps too much time in oak. A buttery, flabby style, toasted oak rather than vanillin oak. Better luck next time stevo.

Jaffa Toasties

Felton Rd,  Calverts Pinot Noir 08 - Magnificent dusty, black berry, tobacco nose (reminiscent of a Chateaunuf du pape). A Cherry pinot with big tannins.

Felton Rd, Block 3 Pinot Noir 2011 - light nose, red berrys, ribena, warm drying dried herb tannis that I associate with central otago. Hint of green pea.

An entertaining show of 2 very differnet pinot styles from the same house.

Surprise wine

Babera D Alba, Granera Alta, Casina Chicco 2010 -  Black fruits, soft acidity, firm tannis. Hint of candied fruit. Impressed the membership, style worthy of further investigation.

Sausage rolls

Cullen Diana Madeline 04 - complete, young and fresh despite being older than the competition. Bright but very dark fruits.

Chateau Teyssier 06 - Pong, challenging but interesting nose. Well developed aged characteristics, dried herbs and very drying tannis. Smokiness of the speck in the sausage roll went well with this.  

Party pies

Peter Lehman Stonewell Shiraz 03 - big, briary tobacco, drying tannis, classic barrosan. Something I've often seen and wanted to try. Falls 5% short of the Elderton Command.

Faber Vineyards Reserve Shiraz 09 - This was a real odd ball next to 2 classic barossa shirazes. I felt it was a well made wine with a neat vanillin oak treatment but ultimately the fruit was lacking, stewed perhaps by the 40 degree summer days in the Swan Valley.  

Elderton Command Shiraz 05 - pepper, softer ripe fruit, cedary oak, beautiful.

Cheese

07 Chateau Rieussec Barsac
07 Chateau Fayleau Cadillac

too much wine for me by this point, I kept thinking of the car every time the region Cadillac was mentioned.

Thank you to Cameron for hosting.