I'd better give you all the spiel that is written by Sunday Times WC & Tony L. about this wine.

Dave Knappstein is the latest in a long line of talented winemakers. His great-grandfather Joseph Knappstein was one of the forefathers of the Australian wine industry, his father a former winemaker at Penfolds.

Today Dave works with his old-friend (and former flat-mate) John Forrest at the acclaimed Forrest Estate in Marlborough. It's here where he produced this exhilarating Sauvignon using fruit grown in the regions best vineyards.


I like it. I would say that MSB fruit for 2009 is easy. This wine is easy, yet very nice.
Riper gooseberries than 2008 and hardly a tarty bit in sight, some pink grapefruit - excl the pithy bit, add a table spoon full of lychee, add another table spoon full of mango, knock any sharp corners off, and you have it.

I need to do a horizontal with Ned '09 and JE'09 to do the maths.

I bought on the 24 hour offer game with biggy discount on 16th December, the wine turned -up on Saturday 2nd January, along with CB 2009. Right now, and I am immediately seduced by the fresh fruit, and beautifully balanced acidy of the wine - yeah .....the taste lingers very sweetly in the mouth, whilst I write this hogwash..... without any pithy bits to clutter the finish.

If you want an MSB which is lean and mean with attitude - dont buy it, if you you want a lovely and pale, yet fruity and fresh wine, this is for you.

For past comparisons - and given that the ole grey matter is not quite so accurate these days
....... I'd say, 70% The Reach 2007 and 30% Stonewall 2007. A good wine.
Smart minimal designer label, the DK design font is slightly raised on the paper.

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Strewth fella, could you not have posted this note a couple of weeks ago when Laffy's were flogging this wine for £5.49?

Strewth fella, Stelth is what we need ?


Yeah - like I need to culture a technique for tasting by telepathy, by licking my inbox - Samples by Doctor Who tardis methods need an App

Mind you, when I've received a Baddy, I call my Wine Adviser on the phone, he's got a local number in Theale - How poncey is that ??????




Having waited patiently for the decade to pass - I was supposed to get two of these for 0.00 - they weren't in there - bah - My WA said .......hush

Harman's Road Chardonnay 2008
Deliciously elegant, peach-soaked Chardonnay from Western Australia's Eden-like vineyards. And top-quality French oak barrels give the wine a toasty richness that Burgundy fans adore.

I'll have to buy it now -

New Year's Res:
1) Talk to wine advisor

2) Put the lawn mower on my beard cos GK's growing one.

You'd better watch out GK - Mel's in a cutting mood

How's the Misses with that stubble ? She wants to do the frying pan with it most likely - Ouch !

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Good point. I've had a beard since I slew my first mammoth. Been off twice...both on a/c of wimmin...but never for more than a few months.

After a long walk on the beach in the freeeeeeeezing cold I have just had a lovely hot bath and a plate of ham sandwiches and am now drinking the first of what could be quite a few glasses of 2008 Tawhiri Awatere sb.

The acidity and the tartness have faded just enough even for Dunc to now enjoy this still tart but gorgeously flavoursome wine.

A wine which none of you tried.

You've no class.

Hello Goose, the pic says Malborogh all over U now.

The Lychee has vacated the dK - I thought this may happen - having had a bedtime nipp before retiring yesterday.

So yes Goose - I'm ready for that Tawhiri Awatere sb - I liked The Crossings, remember, that was Awatere. I'm ready for a flavour hit.

Message for dK buyers - treat like hoppy real Ale - poor the glasses and swig back. For god's sake don't eat cheese with it.

Don't get me wrong - I like dK loads - but it ain't got no staying power.

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Hi Dunc, HYN !

DK reminds me of Southbank Estate. A wine I love for the first glass but the flavour evaporates after that. From blackcurrant and nettles to absolutely nothing.

I fear though Dunc that Cloudy Bay will be so far up your street that you will never give JE or any other MSB another thought.

It has body and flavour in equal measure but none of the blackcurrant that I so like. So, it's not for me.

After you've tried it i'll have to go back to talking to GK......

3 msb on offer at WR from the 6th

Sir G,
Since I only have 3 at the deep disco, You'd better tel me when the moon and the stars are lined up correctly for such a spiritual revelation.

As for GK, you'll have to pray for forgiveness holding the office of MSB guru is a priviledge requiring diplomacy of the highest order.

To cap off dK, whilst the mango for the most part, has also been evicted, the aroma of both fruits is still there - how weird is that ? perhaps my receptors are pre-ordained with my (requirements for) MSB expectation, and it's all a figment of my ....... Nah.

As I said, this wine is for a party 4, pour and swig - Pronto. The wine was fine with Farmed salmon tho, cos farmed salmon is very meek and rather mild, it was also fine with fresh fruit, a banana and a satsuma.

Me thinks - Time to move on to another '09 MSB, under the microscope, before the panel.

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Which ones, and which vintage - Please

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Listen here you sophomoric saddo’s, I’m the master of the wine universe, I have the gifted growth to prove it (and my wife say’s so).

MSB is sooooooooooo 2009. Get with it.

This year darlings, I will be mostly drinking…

Gruner Veltliner & Ripasso Valpolicella Classico. (and Firefinch SB, lots of).

Which ones, and which vintage - Please

Duncan - have you ever used the special offers search on this site? In fact, there are a lot more MSBs than mentioned above. I'm tasting MSB here on Wednesday evening. All welcome, but frost, mileage, etc.

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Yes, thanks Mel, I was explaining to Rich how to use it the other day

Quaffers sauvignon blanc offers

We are narrowing down the 2009 MSB first, to find the best of the bunch. At the mo, can't see the wood for the trees. All 2008 is out

It would be great to see you on Wednesday.

January is a hectic month here, I'm a small business tax practitioner who is now in harness until 31st January....If I dont get my deck chairs out on the promenade this month, I ain't got a business next year. It's a grind to the deadline.

However, I have to stop from time to time doing their books and accounts as well, otherwise I'd be one stop away from the sanatorium.

We should meet this year - when the warm days are with us.

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