Comments on: McLaren Vale Wines – Rosemount Wines

By: Lonely Grape

Lonely Grape — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:36:00 +0000

bettiwettiwoo – Please do not be concerned – I love it when I get questions and thus challenged about my opinion.

By: bettiwettiwoo

bettiwettiwoo — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:39:46 +0000

I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to sound combative or challenging. I was merely curious about your opinion about the relative quality of a brand (name) wine, the quality of which I, personally, feel has deteriorated over the years. At least: over the years since I first tasted it.

Yes, I think I was mostly referring to the ‘diamond labelled’ Rosemount, but I think I’ve had other Rosemounts as well … with the same sorry result. Like you, I have concluded that there are other, better options … if not necessarily from McLaren Vale, but at least within the same price range.

By: Lonely Grape

Lonely Grape — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:54:01 +0000

bettiwettiwoo,
Thanks for challenging my tasting notes. If you are referring to the standard diamond label that one finds in the bottle shops from Rosemount then I would agree about the quality change. I only tasted 1 of these wines at the cellar door. There were a number of wines that I indicated were not for me. There were a few cellar door only wines – with an emphasis on sweet styles (not for me). The Show Reserve Wines were better but I was disappointed by the Shiraz. The Premium wines in the Part 2 of the tasting were a step up but a major increase in price as well. Overall, there are better options for me around McLaren Vale.

By: bettiwettiwoo

bettiwettiwoo — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:18:12 +0000

When we were living in England (the years around 2000), we quite liked Rosemount wines and bought them with some regularity. After leaving England and moving to Australia, we still liked Rosemount wines and bought them, but after a year or two here, we felt that the quality was on a downward spiral (while prices stayed the same or even went up!) and we stopped buying them and have never gone back to doing so.

Judging by this testing, you seem to find their wines worthwhile. Has there been a change for the better? Or are these just wines available at the cellar door and the ‘regular’ stuff found widely available is still not really all that good?