I always look forward to these videos of you guys they are so well crafted and can see the effort you put into them! So happy they are back! I’ve learned a lot about Australian Riesling today now the hard part is going to be finding all these beautiful wines I’ve just been educated on while living in the U.S 😅😢
I thought you might have some luck with these… both exceptional places to start, and really clear regional expressions of both Clare Valley (Grosset) and Frankland River. Go well!
Great video Erin & JJ. You both present so well, congratulations. Your chemistry together is so joyful to watch. 20 years ago, I thought I was the only Riesling fan around, how naive was I. (rhetorical). But there is a whole underground movement of us about. So thrilled to share my joy of Riesling with others. Also selfishly, I'm so glad you rated 2020 MH Reserve Riesling high, for I love these also ( and have heaps). And, I am thrilled, you both mentioned again the Crawford's, and even higher rated (?) Grossett G110's, and that the G110's are potentially placed at the very top (just in front of MH Reserve!?) for Oz Riesling. Big, big thanks again, to you both for such genuine joy in presenting a Riesling video. So good.
I still distinctly remember visiting the Porongurup Wine Festival in 2013, and stumbling across Duke's Rieslings for the first time. After I bought 2 bottles of the 2012 Magpie Hill Reserve, Duke's wife Hilde looked me straight in the eye and said "you MUST not open these for TWENTY years!". She was so stern and terrifying that I haven't touched them since 😂 they're still in my cellar, alongside several others from subsequent vintages.
Really great having you and John back Erin. So much knowledge and good chemistry between the two of you, makes for a great and fun learning session. I'm usually not a big Riesling drinker as most are too acidy for my taste buds but I love older ones, especially with that kerosene like smell. Will definitely be grabbing some of the Dukes Rieslings as well as the Frankland estates ones to lay down for a while! Thanks again for your time and effort.
Excellent news! Thanks for watching. And an update to the ‘kerosene’ descriptor is ‘toasty’. Kero can be a shaded fruit character, but the best Rieslings age into toasty, complex numbers, and I bet that’s what you’re shooting at 😉
I notice that Dukes has recently sold his Porongurup gem, but it is in safe hands with Ben Cane. I wonder if Rob will keep making the Magpie Hill Reserve?
Hi Erin, another interesting video... May I ask where I can find the video of the interview with wine makers from Leeuwin Estate? (Further to my comment last week I managed to sus out 7 bottles of 2018 Art Series Chardonnay a couple of 2017 and a 2013 from a tiny wine shop here in Toowoomba.) Pretty happy... I also contacted the vineyard... new financial year is going to be awesome...
Although I'm not a wine guy ....mainly because I have zero experience with it ...and if I have the nerve to ask you to try Bourbon and comment on it and give us your tasting notes and write about it...lol...I can at least learn from your channel and give it a try..Mini Yahooo
@@erinlarkin Omg so not true Erin...trust me when I say....you would be awesome...I just know it....you have the skill set...and definitely the language to explain what your smelling and tasting....please think about it...haha... You got this...and ill continue to watch and learn about wine...YAHOOOO...love that you at least replied... Lol...sweet
I always look forward to these videos of you guys they are so well crafted and can see the effort you put into them! So happy they are back! I’ve learned a lot about Australian Riesling today now the hard part is going to be finding all these beautiful wines I’ve just been educated on while living in the U.S 😅😢
Thanks for watching! Surely some of them will be available??
@@erinlarkin I’ll possibly be able to snag some Grosset “polish hill” or the Franklin Estate “Isolation Ridge” you mentioned now that I’m looking!
I thought you might have some luck with these… both exceptional places to start, and really clear regional expressions of both Clare Valley (Grosset) and Frankland River. Go well!
Great video Erin & JJ. You both present so well, congratulations. Your chemistry together is so joyful to watch. 20 years ago, I thought I was the only Riesling fan around, how naive was I. (rhetorical). But there is a whole underground movement of us about. So thrilled to share my joy of Riesling with others. Also selfishly, I'm so glad you rated 2020 MH Reserve Riesling high, for I love these also ( and have heaps). And, I am thrilled, you both mentioned again the Crawford's, and even higher rated (?) Grossett G110's, and that the G110's are potentially placed at the very top (just in front of MH Reserve!?) for Oz Riesling. Big, big thanks again, to you both for such genuine joy in presenting a Riesling video. So good.
Glad you enjoyed it! The G110 is an exceptional wine. Try and track one down… you won’t be disappointed!
I still distinctly remember visiting the Porongurup Wine Festival in 2013, and stumbling across Duke's Rieslings for the first time. After I bought 2 bottles of the 2012 Magpie Hill Reserve, Duke's wife Hilde looked me straight in the eye and said "you MUST not open these for TWENTY years!". She was so stern and terrifying that I haven't touched them since 😂 they're still in my cellar, alongside several others from subsequent vintages.
Haha. Awesome. I will add to Hilde’s instruction a comment… ‘drinking a wine too young can be forgiven, but drinking a wine too old is a waste’
Really great having you and John back Erin. So much knowledge and good chemistry between the two of you, makes for a great and fun learning session. I'm usually not a big Riesling drinker as most are too acidy for my taste buds but I love older ones, especially with that kerosene like smell. Will definitely be grabbing some of the Dukes Rieslings as well as the Frankland estates ones to lay down for a while! Thanks again for your time and effort.
Excellent news! Thanks for watching. And an update to the ‘kerosene’ descriptor is ‘toasty’. Kero can be a shaded fruit character, but the best Rieslings age into toasty, complex numbers, and I bet that’s what you’re shooting at 😉
Erin, if you keep posting about Riesling, my wife will start to love you more than I do!
Haha. Worse things!
Yet another great video with two inspirational people of wine, reselling!! Need to try more, but the few I have had are nice, but not wowww
That’s Porongurup - they’re restrained, not punchy, and come across as very quiet wines. Detailed and lacy, might be how I described them.
I notice that Dukes has recently sold his Porongurup gem, but it is in safe hands with Ben Cane.
I wonder if Rob will keep making the Magpie Hill Reserve?
All will be revealed, but at this stage, Ben intends on working alongside Rob in order to preserve continuity of style which is pretty cool
Any chance of doing a Forest Hill vertical? Block 1 and/or block 2, then Block 9 for the ultimate Shiraz!
Block 1 for sure!
Hi Erin, another interesting video... May I ask where I can find the video of the interview with wine makers from Leeuwin Estate? (Further to my comment last week I managed to sus out 7 bottles of 2018 Art Series Chardonnay a couple of 2017 and a 2013 from a tiny wine shop here in Toowoomba.) Pretty happy... I also contacted the vineyard... new financial year is going to be awesome...
Ha you did well! I haven’t released it yet, but will 🙏
Although I'm not a wine guy ....mainly because I have zero experience with it ...and if I have the nerve to ask you to try Bourbon and comment on it and give us your tasting notes and write about it...lol...I can at least learn from your channel and give it a try..Mini Yahooo
I’m not sure I’d do a very good job of bourbon!
@@erinlarkin Omg so not true Erin...trust me when I say....you would be awesome...I just know it....you have the skill set...and definitely the language to explain what your smelling and tasting....please think about it...haha... You got this...and ill continue to watch and learn about wine...YAHOOOO...love that you at least replied... Lol...sweet