Rosemont PN

Sure that that's not Rosemount you're drinking, Bill? Aussie label, formerly making simple but decent wines, nowadays (since purchase by Southcorp or whatever successor corporation now owns them) not much above Yellowtail on the plonk scale.

Mark Lipton (Who bought a case of a mid-'80s Rosemount Diamond Mountain Reserve Cab/Shiraz as our house wine back in '89)

Yep, forced to drink one at a friend's house last week. They used to have such good wines. Oh well.

Lawrence Leichtman wrote in news:larry- snipped-for-privacy@news.lga.highwinds-media.com:

When in the Hunter Valley last fall, the wine tour operators noted the Rosemount site and moved along, not going to risk a tip on that one.

I noticed a problem with this bottle that seems to be common to Australia. The bottle producers don't have very good quality control on the interior size of the bottle neck. Maybe Martin Field can address this problem.

I've enjoyed the Mugee Hill of Gold Shiraz in the past. Now I'm afraid to try it again.

Dave

Nope - I thought they were engineered to specific tolerances.

What was the problem, leaking cork? Most Oz manufacturers are moving quickly to screwcaps so this should be a diminishing drama...

Cheers! Martin

I first encountered the problem with the 91 vintage with the neck being too small to insert a cork from another bottle into it. I communicated with several winery employees they told me a lot of wineries were affected that year. I encountered it again in the 96 vintage with the necks being too large. The current Rosemount PN release has the too large problem too.

Yes Bill, gone the way of the corporate swill. When Southcorp merged with a few large wine companies, the new huge entity was then swallowed up by Fosters Group (Oz's largets brewing group), and market share and wine quality of their basic ranges has been affected. They still do manage to produce some excellent small batch wines, (the marketing folks can't destroy that!!), but the Rosemount AND Lindemans ranges have imho suffered considerably since the dawning of the Fosters conglomerate.

hooroo....

Swooper