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- Innkeeper - 01-26-2002
Today is Australia Day. Be sure to pop something from Oz tonight. I've got a porterhouse thawing. Oh, what to choose, what to choose!!!
- winoweenie - 01-26-2002
I'll do my part IK. Thunk it'll be a 92 Penfolds 707 Cab. WW
- Innkeeper - 01-27-2002
Well I went down to see what from Oz would go with the steak. My eyes fell on the '98 Rosemount Hill of Gold Mudgee Cabernet Sauvignon. Just two months ago I popped one and found it wound as tight as a drum. Didn't see a better candidate, so here's what happened. Opened it and poured it into a wide mouth carafe four hours before dinner. Fifteen minutes before dinner I poured the first round into wide mouth wine glasses. Then I grillpanned the steak and called Mother. The wine was wide open and fantastic. A ton of cassis dominated fruit on the nose, and upfront. Great structure and varietal complexity across the palate. Mostly tame tannins and well integrated oak complete the picture. Very nice finish, particularly while we sipped the last two glasses before dessert. Happy Birthday Australia.
- barnesy - 01-27-2002
Um,...no Aussie wine for me...
But my wife bought a Cockatiel with here b-day money....and cockatiels orignated from Australia....
On the wine front...had a bergerac blanc, a CDR and finished off a lbv port...
Barnesy