Help me find a wine I previously found

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Hello gentlemen and ladies,

A few years ago I had a red wine I really enjoyed as a pure drinking wine. It was lovely and smooth and had lovely smell and warm undertone. My memory tells me:

1) It was a Hardy's (I could be wrong!)
2) It had a picture of Stag on the front (I could be wrong twice!)
3) I think it was a Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon (but I could be wrong thrice and only definitely remember the Cabernet Sauvignon bit...)

So... what I have come up with so far is a Hardy's Stamp of Australia Shiraz Carbernet Sauvignon. This all looks good except for the minor detail is that it has a picture of a Kangaroo (which makes sense) instead of a Stag which I seem to remember :( The kangaroo appears to be in the same location as that of the stag and the bottle label looks very similar.

So.. either I'm going mad and just plain remember it wrongly, or there is still a wine out there that I need to find! (A third option is that they have changed the label... but I doubt it).

OcUK wine detectives, do your best!
 
Given your apparent vagueness on the wine itself this might well descend into a 'recommend a nice bottle of wine' thread, but I'd suggest that your hazy memory of the label is the best thing to be going on.

Stag's Leap would be a good shout for the animal in question, and suits your apparently location quite well, but I think you'd probably remember drinking a £40 bottle!

There are various other red which feature a similar motif - one in particular springs to mind with a silhouette and a yellow/orange colour being dominant on the label, but for the life of me I can't remember the sodding name!
 
Have no idea but I have found a remarkably good budget wine recently, thanks to Saturday Kitchen.

Get down to Waitrose and buy some bottles of Cuvee Chausseur for a fiver a pop. It is stunning value.
 
PapaLazaru said:
Have no idea but I have found a remarkably good budget wine recently, thanks to Saturday Kitchen.

Get down to Waitrose and buy some bottles of Cuvee Chausseur for a fiver a pop. It is stunning value.
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Interesting. My go to wine around that price is the Chat En Euef with the little cat sat on an egg :)
 
lol, I believe glitch the descent has already started! :-D

I think I must just remember it wrong and that it is the Hardy's, I'll have to give it a go. The memory of the stag still remains though.... I remember it because it is possibly the best red wine I've ever had to drink by itself.

£40 a bottle... eek. Yeah I'd remember that!! (I like wine, but that would have to be for something serious.)
 
Is this image of Stag from when you opened the bottle of when you finished it.

£5 bottle of wine is well out of my league - £3.99 from Aldi me.

Dave
 
Lol. Definitely before....

I am thinking that I might struggle with the recommended wine, as Waitrose might be a bit to classy for Plymouth ;-)
 
Not an expert on the subject but I do like the taste of those Barossa valley region reds (almost certain from your description it will be one of those) can't help with that one specifically but theres various other brands like wolfe blass, banrock station, jacob's creek, etc. that all taste fairly similiar.
 
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Well.. went and got a bottle of the Hardy's to celebrate my visa approval lol. Was pretty nice and very nice by itself :-) "Warm and comforting"
 
BTW looks like Hardy's do different animals on different types and lines of wine so quite possible they do one that does have a stag on it (might even be a one off special) though mostly they seem to be animals unique to that part of the world.
 
Rroff said:
BTW looks like Hardy's do different animals on different types and lines of wine so quite possible they do one that does have a stag on it (might even be a one off special) though mostly they seem to be animals unique to that part of the world.
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I don't imagine a Stag would represent Aus, so I'm more inclined to believe that I'm not going completely mental and it was a special as you say :) (That way I can pretend some semblance of sanity ;) )
 
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