Urgent wine help/advice needed!!

[Raupe]

We need that alcohol sub-forum! (Tinks, hehe )

I need some urgent red wine help/advice! (urgent only because I'm leaving in an hour!)

We're bidding on a house on Saturday and asked our Broker's Dad to do the bidding for us (we are scared and new to the game). His going rate (as advised by his son) for his services is 4 bottles of $30 red wine.

Now. I have no clue what he likes or what is nice (I never have the cash to buy myself a $30 bottle ). Soooo, do you have any recommendations of wines at that price? Must be red. That's all the info I got!

Thanks in advance!!

[nothing2lose]

Pepper jack is nice.

[*LittleMissSummer*]

Have just asked my DP who is a Fine Wine Specialist

Hardys HRB Shiraz 2007 $21 at Dan Murphys currently

Trryells Stevens Shiraz 2009 $27 currently

Murray Street Vineyards Barossa Shiraz 2008 $31

Wynns Black Label Coonawarra Cabernet $30 can be flexible in price

Grant Burge Filsell Shiraz 2009 ~$27

Gibson "The Dirtman" Shiraz ~$27

Kalleske Moppa Shiraz ~$25

ETA - M.Chapoutier Rasteau Cotes-du-Rhones Villages ~$23

[Raupe]

Thanks!

Anyone else? Where are all the famous booze-heads hiding when you need them?

EDIT: Thanks LMS! Just posted at the same time! That's great help

[Onelittleprincess]

Bin 555 from Wyndham estate. Australia's popular shiraz

[Raupe]

Thanks heaps! I'm off shopping now!

[Phteven]

Australian wines are usually pretty honest.
A $30 bottle usually tastes like a $30 bottle so if you just pick something with a few awards you will be fine.

[Raupe]

Done and done! Thanks for all your help!

[Raupe]

I need more help! hehe

So, I've got my four bottles of wine now. But I don't have anything to present them in. I don't want to just give him each bottle one by one, that would look silly. Does anyone know where I could buy a wine bottle "carrying bag" or box that holds two or four bottles? Nothing too exxy!

Thanks heaps

[Beach Mama]

Could you just buy a normal gift box from the Reject Shop and put some tissue paper around them to make it look nice inside??? Cheapish too?

[*LittleMissSummer*]

Could you just buy a normal gift box from the Reject Shop and put some tissue paper around them to make it look nice inside??? Cheapish too?

This sounds like a great idea.

What did you end up getting?

[Raupe]

I decided on two and DF decided on two:

Tollana, Robinson Vineyard Pinot Noir

Grant Burge, Filsell Old Vine Shiraz

2004 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Carpineto

2006 Francoise & Denis Clair, Cote-de-Beaune Villages

We got a mix of grape varieties and a mix of geography.

2 Australian, 1 Italian, 1 French.

I didn'y want to get just one kind (i.e. just Shiraz) in case he doesn't like that type! There were some that i wanted (and you suggested) that they didn't have in stock (the beauty of living in lil ol' Adelaide, hey? ). Ah well, I still managed to buy some. Better not drop them... $120.- worth of wine sitting on my coffee table. Trying *really* hard not to knock them over! Help me I'm clumsy!!

I'll head out this afternoon to buy the box!

Thank you so much for your input

[*LittleMissSummer*]

Great choices, my DP wants to know if the Tollana is the '08 because he said if it is you did great because that one rates high with him plus the italian one was a very good choice! He wasnt sure what the last one was as we don't sell it.