"Martin" > wrote in message
...
>I know it's only September, but this red gets my value for money wine of
>the year award already. It's the Hardys Stamp of Australia Cabernet
>Sauvignon 2008 - I bought a dozen at around $AUD6.60 the 1 litre bottle.
>
> The wine is a lovely robust melange of fully ripe berries, plums, sweet
> vanillin American oak, mildly assertive tannins and a pleasant aftertaste.
> Good on its own or with tucker and a stunner at the price. Some very
> ordinary cask (bag in box) wines are dearer.
>

Perhaps they've changed the "formula". When I tasted this wine a few years
ago it was so full of oak, I poured it down the sink right away, it was like
drinking chocolate. It's the only wine to which I've ever done that!
Graham