January 2022 Purchases

Jonathan Beale said:
I’d like to lay my hands on some Sami Odi in the UK but the scarcity means that when they are rarely available they are a fair bit more than double those prices - e.g. £120 for the 2019 vintage!
Click to expand...

Mark Carrington said:
Similar frustration suffered.
Click to expand...

Its not just in the UK. At Langtons, the biggest auction site, the Single Vintage has been going to $250 a bottle recently. Its not the same all over - in Melbourne you could pick up bottles for $160 all in just before Xmas - but I cant see anything other than price rises in the future. Reputation wise, I would put Sami-Odi up with Standish as the 2 most collectable Shiraz producers at the moment. They are not the price of the big names. but they both have a loyal following and are seen to be offering a lot of wine for the money.

I believe the Sami-Odi mailing list is closed for now, but it may be worth trying to join anyway. I signed up while living in NL and there was no issue delivering abroad - that was with '12 baby Tui, so quite a while ago now. Interestingly it was a review by William Kelly on the old Mark Squires board that first alerted me to the producer. Seems that William has very broad tastes.
 
I’m not (officially) buying anything for myself but Mrs B is a fan of feinherb riesling and TWS have just delivered 5 bottles of Schloss Neuweier Riesling Katzenellenbogen 2018 for her personal rack (which to her irritation houses her wine and the cooking alcohol). It was reduced in their January sale. The six-pack was made up by a bottle of Kooyong Farrago Chardonnay 2018 that I accidentally bought for the cellar (also at a keen price in the sale).
 
1 Magnum Montille Pommard Rugiens 2012, 2 Vosne Petits Monts BG 2019...and I thought I had stopped for good... Did not get any Burgundy allocation for 2020... and now attempting to get a bottle of Musigny Drouhin... fingers crossed...
Got my bottle of Musigny Drouhin 2018 at half decent price...bought on the continent using receipts I'll get when I sell my UK holdings as the french taxman wants to extrotionate huge amounts of money (pay a second time VAT and duty but this time on marginal speculative prices...
 
Last edited:
Broke my duck today…

6 x Envinate Palo Blanco 2020 (back in stock at Decantolo and Gourmet Hunters for around £25 a pop)
6 x Jeremy Arnaud Chablis 1er Cru ‘Vau de Vey’ 2018 (with the very welcome 25% Marlo deal)
6 x Chateau de Messey Macon-Cruzille Clos des Avoueries 2020 (on a whim following Swig email - anyone tried previous vintages?)
 
I did try to buy three magnums each of Roederer 13 and Roederer Rosé 12 but the transaction was not an unmitigated success. I ended up with a single magnum of white 2014, which I'm sure will be enjoyable.
 
Had a little rummage around on TWS and ended up with
- few bottles Chateau Beauregard Moulin-a-Vent and Fleurie 2019 (these really are delicious wines)
- Domaine Piron Chiroubles 2019 (again guilt free drinking and superb quality)
- Tissot 2019 Trousseau Arbois Rouge (these have a nasty habit of evaporating quickly)
- some minor French/Spanish/Porguguese whites for entertainining over the weekend
- Assyrtiko Cuvee Monsignori - which at £31 I'm hoping is pretty decent for a wine based on 200 year old vines. Grrrr.
 
The Assyrtiko has also caught my eye on TWS list. I wasn't going to buy anything this month but I am certainly dithering now after reading some good posts on the forum search. Pity it's not going at the Costco price.
 
Chiu Lin said:
Lavaux St Jacques month, I bought 27 bottles of Lavaux St Jacques so far!
Click to expand...
An excellent choice. I don't think it's as good a vineyard as the Clos St. Jacques but in real drinking life I have probably enjoyed Lavaux more, it's the less controlled feeling which pleases me.
 
David Thomson said:
The Assyrtiko has also caught my eye on TWS list. I wasn't going to buy anything this month but I am certainly dithering now after reading some good posts on the forum search. Pity it's not going at the Costco price.
Click to expand...

I think you had an impact with this - it went from >120 bottles to sold out now (of which I may have been responsible for six).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top