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Wood You Believe It?

It doesn’t take much to make me want to open a good bottle of wine, but reminiscing about great bottles past is a sure fire way to make me grab a corkscrew and head down to the cellar. Mention of the bottle of 1992 Yalumba Octavius Shiraz that returned with me from Australia started me thinking that it was about time that I tried a bottle from the case of the 1996 vintage I bought ten or twelve years ago.

DrinkingHarry Morris25 December 20111996, Australia, Barossa Valley, Octavius, Shiraz, Yalumba Comment

An Old Flame

Common wisdom states that you should never return to a past love, and so it was with a degree of trepidation that I opened a bottle of wine which I had tasted (and loved) only once before, almost twelve years ago to the day.

Drinking, ThinkingHarry Morris2 December 20111986, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, Australia, Cabernet Sauvignon, Dorrien, Drumborg, Great Northern Shiraz, Octavius, Seppelt, Shiraz, Southcorp, Victoria, WSET, Yalumba Comment