Top 50 most collected wines in Australia

This post caused me to buy a few bottles of the Parker First Growth today at $29 per.

Jenise, I am interested to know which vintage you got. There have been a few good ones recently. There is something very wrong however with the Australian pricing and approach to taxation of wine. Sadly I have not tried the Parker First Growth as it costs close to $100 down here. It guts me to think you can access it for 1/3 the price I paid even with the FX difference. Personally I leave most good Aus cabs for 10-12 years to let them mature and develop. It is part of my toaster in the airport lounge philosphy.

This post caused me to buy a few bottles of the Parker First Growth today at $29 per.

Cool! Where did you find that?

[Jenise]

It was today's offer at Garagiste, Salil--are you off their mailing list now?

Dropped off a while ago. Oh well, not to worry - Crush Wines in NY just got in some 1993 Tyrrell's Vat 9 Shiraz from Hunter (12.5%!) for $30. That'll take care of my Aussie fix.

It is part of my toaster in the airport lounge philosphy.

This post caused me to buy a few bottles of the Parker First Growth today at $29 per.

An absolute "steal", Jenise. Good job.

[Jenise]

This post caused me to buy a few bottles of the Parker First Growth today at $29 per.

Jenise, I am interested to know which vintage you got. There have been a few good ones recently. There is something very wrong however with the Australian pricing and approach to taxation of wine. Sadly I have not tried the Parker First Growth as it costs close to $100 down here. It guts me to think you can access it for 1/3 the price I paid even with the FX difference. Personally I leave most good Aus cabs for 10-12 years to let them mature and develop. It is part of my toaster in the airport lounge philosphy.

I bought either the 04 or 05, not sure which. Aussie wines are an incredible deal here right now, and there have been more than a few distributor close outs as certain dealers drop out of the business in this tough recession market. An attentive person can get some screamers--I recently missed out on the John Riddoch at $15 or $20 per, then passed on the Michael at the same price because I just didn't want more Syrah. My neighbor was bragging to me today about buying a case of the Shirvington cab (or maybe it's a cab blend) for $12 including tax. It's this environment that made the price on the Parker First Growth possible.

I recently missed out on the John Riddoch at $15 or $20 per,

Heavens that would have been an amazing bargain. Wynns have really been working hard on their vineyards recently to get the standard of their cab sav back up again. I have put some of the JR 04 down for some time around 2020 but it cost me close to $70.

I was in my local retailer this weekend and the entry level Mollydooker were there (and yes, I bought a bottle of so of each) and we got to talking about the limited range of Aussie wines coming into the US and the lack of hard promotion that is going on; actually has always been lacking. I mentioned to him that a recent email from Mollydooker has a link to what I guess is turning out to be an annual Mollydooker tasting trip around the USA by Sparky (and his mum) which starts mid-Sept and goes into early Nov. Now I know that there are quite a few folks who boo-hoo the Mollydooker wines but you can't fault these folks for the effort they put into selling them. There are a lot of Aussie wineries sitting a home complaining about how bad their business is who could do a lot worse than follow the Mollydooker example in getting their wines onto the world market.

Mike