Charles Gent

Wine writer,second-hand book buyer,music lover.

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Max Lake, you marvel - this Lake’s Folly cab-shiraz is 56 or 57 years old, seriously ullaged, and badly cellared. And it is absolutely delicious.

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Stockholm is not known as a wine lovers’ town, but Cork, a tiny Portuguese wine bar in the Old Town has an amazing list and bottomless bonhomie. Go Alex!

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@jeniport @theheraldsun Does Adelaide get any say in this?

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@whiteswine @bob_dambergs Our old pal Trish Veitch is amidships in the pie pic: a fearless 2IC to Philip on the culinary testing range.

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Corollary corner: two recent cellar door spiels in the Clare Valley referred to Malbec as an Argentinian grape. By this logic, Shiraz is Australian.

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@whiteswine Visionary and snappy dresser.

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@whiteswine Wonderful. But who sings the second verse?

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Defibrillating a dormant winery in the back-blocks of Eden Valley. Three lip-smacking red varietals from the old vines so far, with a burster of a blend in barrel. Go #Stonegarden Wines!

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Slight dizziness after a vertiginous tasting of Delatite rieslings from ‘94, ‘06 and ‘12. All singing, all dancing: extraordinary wines. #riesling #Delatite

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@mortontomster @PRIME7Tamworth @Wendycarlisle @gpaddymanning @markwakeham @Wendy_Bacon @Murphy_Steve @NWPAdvocacy @adamlmorton @richardaedy Not if he breeds.

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@whiteswine Where does that leave the cassock, I wonder? In a sort of Venn diagram?

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@whiteswine @YouTube And Graham Crowden played the ‘research’ scientist. It was quite a show.

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@whiteswine Yea, verily.

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11.07am. So far, so good.

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Not content with blending across regions, Peter Gago and the Penfolds crew are now blending in time. The new g5, in which five vintages of Grange cosy up, is a marvel. And very expensive.

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@whiteswine My first glance at the letter led me to presume the year in question was 1920.

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@whiteswine Bravo. Encore.

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Supply meeting demand: Tony Brady of Wendouree Cellars (right) with five-decade customer Charles Hawker.

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So, a place Penfolds has never bin before - these four wines with unfamiliar rego numbers comprise the new California Collection. Two are straight Napa fruit, two have a dose of South Australian premium grape on board. Extraordinary drinks in every way.

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