Had a sip just after opening it, and I had to spit it out... so I waited another 20 minutes for it to breath, sip > spit. Waited another 30minutes sip > spit.
WTF!
$80 to mess up my Saturday night BBQ.
I've got to ask though, why the **** did you spend $80 on a bottle of wine in the first place :p
I guess growing up near margs told me that a cheap cleanskin can be as good as a $100 bottle 
How come the name didn't alert you to the fact that it was not $80 well spent?
Something named "anything Folly" would sound like russian roulette to me.
Next time if you want risky, go for something cheap like "PLONKO, the WINE OF EXTINCTION" 
Sounds like it has gone off. The cork probably failed. In all fairness, it was given roughly 11-12 years to fail.... 
Or not stored in correct conditions....
If you bought it recently, you can probably get away with returning it....
If you bought it a long time ago... and stored it correctly, try contacting the winery.... (???)...
Just some thoughts...
Well, I guess I just wanted to try something new... and a refined palate precludes some for the lesser contenders for my Saturday night BBQ.
So from now on I'm sticking with Barossa wines, there's just something in the soil there that makes the wine taste good.
Better off going for a Penfold wine. They have very consistent quality control and never sell a bad bottle of wine.
We usually by Penfolds as their prices are reasonable and its good to drink.
How much disposable income do you need to waste 80 bucks on a bottle of red to drink with an average saturday night BBQ?
was it a screw top? if not ,that,ll learn ya
no need to spend 80 hard earned on a nice wine , go the $15 Job next time and piss that up against the wall
Are you sure you sipped the wine and not the soy sauce? 
I never saw the point of big $$$ wines. For those who like that stuff great, but I sure can't taste the difference...
A mate and his dad are professional tasters. They're the serious business and legends in the tea and coffee industries as well as doing quality control for breweries and wine makers.
They reckon that the prime price point for a bottle of wine is $16. An $80 wine will be better, but it won't be 5 times better or even twice as good.
You can get perfectly nice wines for $5. The extra money buys you "character" and "interest". When handled properly and combined with the right food that character and interest can be a wonderful thing. Most of the time it's pointless.
Yeah, we did a taste test on Christmas Day a few years back;
$65 Verve Clicquot v's $15-17 Yellowglen Vintage. We concluded the Verve was better, but maybe 7-10% better, but 4 times the price.
Dinner party idea (that we have done a few times);
Get 3 or 4 decent bottles of wine (circa $25).... If you like Shiraz from a region, maybe get 2-3 from that region, and 1 or 2 from another region. Bottles stay in the brown paper, label them as A, B, C, and D (if you have a fourth). And you declare which ones you like the best, and try and pick which one is which.
1 person takes the caps off, and another person "shuffles" the bottles, and labels them ABCD... So nobody actually knows for sure what is in each.... Blind testing/tasting.... Requires 3 or 4 glasses each, and you need to keep them in order, left to right, and refill from correct bottle.... it's pretty easy.
^ That's awsome - I'm using it.
If it was a cork bottle take it back to the bottle'o get them to taste it and if it's corked see if you can get a bottle of the same or something else. Doesn't always work but you never know.
Just cause it costs $80 doesn't always mean it's good, i've had an expensive bottle or two that didn't live up to expectations - sucks but you learn from it, I'm trying to get a list of wines I drink I like with pricing.
... everybody loved the taste until they found out what it was 
... everybody loved the taste until they found out what it was
dispense with the wine.........just spend the $80 directly on the bird
That will give you a better return 
You Plonka You!!!
I have some really good advice on wine.
1 If you are an expert you are probably a complete wanker.
2 If you like the taste revert to the wanker( it can take the blame)
3 Never buy a bottle of red for more than $10
4 Never drink more than one bottle.
Remember, beer is made for the good folk, wine is what the tossers rap on about when they have no character.
You don't know what you is missing, until you's tried it.
I can tell you this 100% sure as 2 + 2 is 4. $85 bottle of whisky can be up to 10 times better than a $30 bottle, for my taste buds.
Where do you get a $5 bottle of red, the cheapest in Dan Murphy's is ~$8?
But < $12 on a bottle is that cheap $hit fruity, sugary stuff with undeveloped flavours that gives you a headache...
I think the sweet point is ~$20... one of my favourites was Gramps shiraz 2006 ($16), but the 2009 isn't as good.
Oh another thing vintage Australian wine is crap... reserve and grand reserve just doesn't mean much here.
But the ~5 yo good stuff is world class, and overseas Australian wines have corks.
PS: the cork was fine, and I like cork with lead seal; must have gone *bad from storage or it just tasted weird... Mrs said it was drinkable but I put her off it.
Thats unAustralian
Goon comes in a bag, is cheaper, wont break when you drop it and you can use the empty bag for so much more after youve finished with it, including a great drunk pillow.
I hope youve learnt your lesson.
I feel your pain Flyblownboy, but try and ignore the comments from those with a chip on their shoulder about liking things that taste good, be it food, wine or beer.
Life is too short to drink crap beer OR crap wine.
My base point for beer is Coopers, then I look about for boutique or craft beers.
My suggestion .... if you come accross a bad wine ... eat heaps of stong bitey cheese.
So Pete, when you hand one of us a cold Coopers after a sail does that mean we are getting the "poverty pack" stuff and you are keeping the VB's and Tooheys Red as the boutique stuff??
