Hello Pete
With friends like that, who needs enemas ?
At some point you may need white wine for a sauce or gravy …
Why waste real wine , when you have Blue Nun Alcohol Free ?
Or
Do you have a compost heap ?
I was going to cellar it for a few years but apparently it’s got a use by date. 
We’re having a crowd here next weekend (our last weekend in our current place) I’m sure some tea totaling free loader will try it or as you suggest it’ll end up in a sauce at some stage.
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If it’s not fit to drink then it’s not fit for a sauce
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Agree with your assessment of LGA 14 - it was being poured at Taste Champagne last week, along with a vast array f other champagne riches. I thought it was remarkably approachable straight off the bat but definitely had potential to develop a lot further. One of my highlights from the evening.
I read about the Hamilton Russell tasting which sounded like a great event and probably not to be repeated I guess.
going back through my memory vaults, it is a blend of the 1995 (which did not got through Malolatic fermentation giving that stunning acidity balance) and the power of from 1996 - but yes the 2014 is a class act
Anthony & Olive HR on great forum - NFI to the tasting - which I hear was a real event
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The theme for our Saturday lunch was the Rhone (or Rhone style) and with the exception of our Normandy cidre and the Sauternes and the 1995 Tahbilk Marsanne (one for @Pete_the_painter ) everything was on topic. Both CNDPs were on point with our starters and the Sorrel Hermitage flight (99 & 06) magnificent. A great lunch
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I’d never heard of Tahbilk wines, just went and googled them. Seems reasonable and they’re a carbon neutral winery. Might give their whites a try, cheers.
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Seems to have been quite a popular line at Oddbins back in the day, alongside the bargain bottles of Grange - definitely a great time to build a cellar. Just been reading an article about the estate on Jancis Robinson’s site and sounds ok.
Bargain bottles of Grange, I didn’t think there was such a thing.
Interesting story.
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When I first started working at Oddbins in London in the late 1980s we had three vintages of Grange on the shelf, at £17.99 each.
At the time I thought that eighteen quid for a bottle of wine was the definition of absurd.
How I wish I had been able to predict…
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Yes a time machine would help, don’t think you can buy any vintage under a few hundred bucks here now.
It is a wonderful wine.
Hi Pete - sorry to bother you but I put a post on this thread re Little Eden wines - I know Australia is a rather large country but I don’t suppose you’ve heard of them have you?
No I haven’t actually, I know where Eden Valley is. I’ll look them up as sometimes there’s different labels/names for import/export. Cheers.
That would be great thanks - as I put in the post I used to be able to get it over here but it seems to have disappeared - it wasn’t as far as I know anything special but it made for a nice light tipple in the afternoon on board ship - or even chilling out in the garden in the sun - I know we don’t see that big light as much as you - but it made for a pleasant sunset! 
Can’t find anything about Little Eden the winery, they seem to just be a producer and buy from other growers. Perhaps Rod might know a little more, sorry.
Mmmm … Sancerre wines. Excellent!
And yes, Oyster bay wines are commercially akin to Yellow Tail …
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You’re spot on there David re oyster bay - yuck 
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So many people I know get sucked into the ads and such, or just buy by the label. There are excellent values available with just a tad of research.
May have mentioned earlier but I can’t understand why the Oyster Bay stuff is so popular. I’d rather drink coke.