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  • Wirra Wirra – ‘Sparrows Lodge’ Pinot Gris – 2007

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    This review is painful to write – I am sure I will be forgiven any offence caused in it’s posting, for in the wine world there is a chance that this is a one off event a bad bottle, some fluke cause by the handling, or it could be representative… so with apologies I pen…

  • Orlando ‘Trilogy’ (Sparkling Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Pinot Miunier) NV

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    This sparkling has been fermented in the bottle on the lees for 18 months. The nose has subtle hint of creamy lemon zest with an odd smell of skinned carrots w/ freshly cut capsisum. The tiny bubbles slowly come out of the wine as it hits the tongue, which is disappointing as something like this…

  • Barossa Valley Estate – ‘Ebeneezer’ Shiraz (2001)

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    This wine was past it’s peak with some bricking beginning to show in the colour. I’d held on for just a little too long. The nose was all over the shop and after about 3 hours had pretty much blown off, however the palate was surprisingly resilient. The black fruit was there a sort of…

  • Casillero del Diablo – Carmenere 2007

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    The nose on this wine is pretty interesting, with the assistance of my pregnant supersniffer wife we’ve been able to get out of it the following smells leather (wet), vanilla, fresh (hot) bread, dark chocolate (lindt – 80%cocoa), coffee grounds, mulberry, (tiny teeny itty bitty vegemite), jersey caramel, hints of aniseed (going compared to when…

  • Varietal in Focus: Carmenere

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    Welcome to a new feature on Bugga.NET – “Varietal in Focus” where we take a quick look at a specific variety used to produce wine. Not too sure where this will lead to, but could be interesting, the very first variety to be examened will be Carmenere inspired by the individual to whom the NWLD…

  • It’s that time of year again…

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    It’s the time of year when several of the wineries from McLaren Vale are dropping their 2006 vintage Shiraz’s and Cabernet Sauvignons. Be on the look out for Wirra Wirra’s “RSW” Shiraz and “The Angelus” Cab Sauv. Coriole have just dropped some vintages as have Kay’s Amery the makers of the very fine Block 6…

  • Send CTRL-ALT-DEL through Remote Desktop

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    The wonderful fun and games that is remote desktop can often cause headaches, not the least of which is how to send a CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence to the remote host that your connecting to. The magic key sequence is CTRL-ALT-END – this will enable you to send the remote host a control alt delete key sequence.…

  • Lexus of Adelaide – EVIL

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    Just a quick post to encourage people not to get their cars serviced at Lexus of Adelaide, nor should you purchase a new Lexus from them. For I have received SMS spam marketing (number used: 042967374)from them today – and am forced to make conclusions like the following. If they market via SMS spam, then…

  • Nagios2 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04)

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    The joys of starting nagios in hardy heron – after installing as per the ubuntu site – I was unable to access the Nagios webpage by accessing http://localhost/nagios2/ – it took a little while to work out what went wrong, the fix is really quite simple. Ensure that you include the? the following line in…

  • Wirra Wirra – ‘Sparrows Lodge’ Tawny Port (NV)

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    Phwoar – this is a tasty Tawny. It’s got orange zezt combined with orange blossom honey as a primary flavour, with mocha and burnt toffee backing it up – these combine very nicely to form a full, mouth filling flavour that is not too intense. There seems to be a little fire/heat wilst in the…