The first Tahbilk Wine Club Newsletter I received alerted me to the existence of the excellent value for money Everyday Drinking Range which subsequently became an integral part of Hughesy’s long-term ten-dollar-a-bottle-average.
After all, when you can pick up a dozen perfectly acceptable Cabernets for $59.40 (that’s $4.95 a bottle) is going to allow you to pick up a dozen for around $15 a bottle and still maintain the ten-dollar average.
That’s not to suggest for a moment that the Everyday Drinking Cabernets or the equally good value Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc (both $5.95/bottle or $71.40/dozen) were the only wines that ended up lobbing onto the courtyard veranda at the Little House of Concrete.
Each newsletter contains a number of mixed dozens, and opening a carton of wine often revealed a flier offering, for instance, a dozen of the gold medal 2005 Viognier for $114.
That particular dozen, along with the Spice of Life dozen from the start of 2008 and the mid-year New Reds pack were long gone by the time I started on this particular section of the site, but there’ll be full reviews of subsequent purchases once the plastic has recovered from a recent caning inflicted by purchases from other establishments.
