Cleanskin wines

Freedom_ · 5th October 2006, 11:34 AM

I just noticed on the tv and my dad buying alot of the clearskin red and chardonnay/white wine to serve by the glass (restaurant business), $2 a bottle at dan murphys?? To last up to 5 years the prices..

Could imagine getting pissed alot cheaper. Quality/taste wise, anyone experienced them?

PostModern · 5th October 2006, 1:10 PM

Some cleanskins I've had have been good. Others have been terrible. It's always a bit of a risk, generally the price reflects the quality, but not always. I haven't had a lot of cleanskins because I generally like to know what the wine will taste like.

I've heard, but never confirmed, that some wineries bottle all of a batch, then to keep the price and acclamation high will only label a small proportion of the batch. The rest end up as cleanskins. Other batches are excess of batches used in blending better wines. The price will be your guide as to what is in which bottle.

I wouldn't hold much hope of a $2 bottle being a top drop tho.

Steve · 5th October 2006, 2:47 PM

Dan's cleanskins in the $5 to $7 range arent too bad - I liked the 'MG02' but I think it is all gone now

They are a bit of a lottery, so go and buy a mixed dozen of them to try then buy a few cases of which ones you like

AusKWiKsAnD · 5th October 2006, 3:14 PM

Any Perthies here??

Go to Aussie Liquor Wholesalers on Selby Street Wembley on Saturday's. Cheapest Alcohol I've ever seen, and as long as you go you after 12pm on a Saturday they have tasters on all the cleanskin wine they have. Awesome range.. from $1 a bottle right up to $8/9. And they offer large discounts too. I bought 24x $4.50 WA Cab Merlot and 36x SA Barossa Cab Merlot (these particular ones are a fantastic drop, awesome), and they gave them to me for $3 each bottle.

Sounds like a bit of a plug, I'm sure, but they've got everything too. Last time I was there got Coopers Pale and a Sparkling carton for $34 and $37 respectively, some interesting Cleanskin Beer there too for $20-30 a carton.

Only catch is you have to buy at least 9 Litres (about a carton of wine or case of beer) at a time, but they're happy to mix dozens, and have all the store wine as well for wholesale price too.

Seriously, for an alcohol drinker, the place is like heaven.

Edit: Oh! The last time I was there they had a Franklin River Cleanskin Batch selling at $1 a bottle, as approx 1/3 bottles were bad. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but it was unfiltered (oodles of sediment), and VERY earthy. Definitely an experience if you're into that sort of thing. Tasty, but I wouldn't recommend it all the time.

anc001 · 5th October 2006, 11:25 PM

For someone like me, just getting into wine over the last 12 months or so, its a great time to get into wine, and cleanskins are a great way to do it. IMX the vintage of most cleanskins around now coincides with a great year in most wine regions featured in cleanskinned products, add to this the low price and the sense of value and you can hardly go wrong.

IMHO by the time a cleanskin finds its way into a large liquor store chain its bound to be pretty drinkable for the price, lest they won't sell it. Again IMHO the ~$6 Woolies range of reds is great, easily the equal of my normal chosen plonk ($8-15) in most circumstances. My local woolies no longer has any Coonawarra 2004 Cab Sav as I have literally bought every bottle they had.

Now is a great time to fill up your cellar folks, get at it.
The other day a local low-medium sized winery had cartons of unlabelled bottles out for $15 a dozen, just to save them the cost of labeling them, (AFAIK they can't sell bottles unless it is either labeled or in a box that says what is in the box and how many bottles, so a dozen is convenient for them).

Get stuck in folks!

Bionic · 6th October 2006, 8:36 AM

Grrr. Have to go for another drive to the Hunter Valley (Cesnocksp?) area again.

I have had some good Cleanskins from Dan Murphy's in the past

Phalanx · 7th October 2006, 2:30 PM

For $2, the Dan Murphy ones aren't too bad. I've had plenty of worse wines in the $10-15 price range.

Dan Murphy's tends to get the clearskins for free to stock better wines from various wineries (at less profit for dans). So whether $6 or $1, it's pure profit for them. And win for us

TheWedgie · 7th October 2006, 2:46 PM

Picked up a single bottle of "2006 Cabernet Merlot WE3" from Dan Murphys at Marion here in Adelaide, will let you know how it goes.

EDIT: I thought I'd actually grabbed a 2004 they had there, oh well.

-Nick

doug81 · 8th October 2006, 5:32 PM

I bought a six-pack of cleanskin chardonnay from BWS for $11.95 (not per bottle, that's the price for six!)
I had a friend drink it, and he said it was pretty good. Worse wines out there for $10 a bottle....

Demented Freak · 9th October 2006, 11:46 AM

I think you really need to buy just one bottle, if you like it buy a case of it. Saves you the problem of having a case of wine that you don't like.

yanman · 9th October 2006, 11:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freedom_

I just noticed on the tv and my dad buying alot of the clearskin red and chardonnay/white wine to serve by the glass (restaurant business), $2 a bottle at dan murphys?? To last up to 5 years the prices..

Could imagine getting pissed alot cheaper. Quality/taste wise, anyone experienced them?

I was at BWS a few months ago and they had this huge pallet with boxes of cleanskin. You had to buy boxes of 6 and each box came with a bottle stopper

The bottles were a nice looking clear blue (no labels) and the boxes were white with blue writing, I think it said South Australian Wooded chardonnay. $11.95! Anyway they taste really nice!! What's amazing is that this now disproves the notion of "2-buck chuck" as it not only is a few cents cheaper than $2 but is actually really nice!

0M39A_1337 · 9th October 2006, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yanman

I was at BWS a few months ago and they had this huge pallet with boxes of cleanskin. You had to buy boxes of 6 and each box came with a bottle stopper

The bottles were a nice looking clear blue (no labels) and the boxes were white with blue writing, I think it said South Australian Wooded chardonnay. $11.95! Anyway they taste really nice!! What's amazing is that this now disproves the notion of "2-buck chuck" as it not only is a few cents cheaper than $2 but is actually really nice!

haha, if you think that wine was nice, you must have no taste :P

it was terrible!

was actually unwooded chardonnay, which means that it was just aged in big stainless steel drums, not nice wooden barrels, hence the strange metallic clean taste.

that said, i bought a box of it, as im a poor uni student who will drink just about anything

the local bws had about 3 of the big forklift pallets of the crap... sold them all within about 5 days! 90% of the buyers were obviousally poor uni bums like myself.

[edit]

the empty bottles make nice water bottles to keep in the fridge though

yanman · 9th October 2006, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 0M39A_1337

haha, if you think that wine was nice, you must have no taste :P

it was terrible!

that said, i bought a box of it, as im a poor uni student who will drink just about anything

the local bws had about 3 of the big forklift pallets of the crap... sold them all within about 5 days! 90% of the buyers were obviousally poor uni bums like myself.

each to their own i guess, me and my friends and flatmates all liked it and we usually only drink quality wine. my favourite white at the moment - 9th island sav. blanc. ($20+) is amazing and yet i dont consider the blue bottled ones disgusting in comparison.

yanman · 9th October 2006, 12:33 PM

of course being shipped in such enormous volumes around the country, there could be wide disparities in the product

0M39A_1337 · 9th October 2006, 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yanman

of course being shipped in such enormous volumes around the country, there could be wide disparities in the product

just noticed you're from hobart as well.

what bws did you buy from?

5th October 2006, 11:34 AM	#1
Freedom_ Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 875	Cleanskin wines I just noticed on the tv and my dad buying alot of the clearskin red and chardonnay/white wine to serve by the glass (restaurant business), $2 a bottle at dan murphys?? To last up to 5 years the prices.. Could imagine getting pissed alot cheaper. Quality/taste wise, anyone experienced them? __________________ i7 930 \| Gigabyte X58A-UD3R \| Gigabyte Radeon HD5870 \| 3x2GB 1600MHz OCZ DDR3

5th October 2006, 1:10 PM	#2
PostModern Angry Brewer Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Woonona, Illawarra, NSW Posts: 5,084	Some cleanskins I've had have been good. Others have been terrible. It's always a bit of a risk, generally the price reflects the quality, but not always. I haven't had a lot of cleanskins because I generally like to know what the wine will taste like. I've heard, but never confirmed, that some wineries bottle all of a batch, then to keep the price and acclamation high will only label a small proportion of the batch. The rest end up as cleanskins. Other batches are excess of batches used in blending better wines. The price will be your guide as to what is in which bottle. I wouldn't hold much hope of a $2 bottle being a top drop tho. __________________ The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer.

5th October 2006, 3:14 PM	#4
AusKWiKsAnD Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 1,676	Any Perthies here?? Go to Aussie Liquor Wholesalers on Selby Street Wembley on Saturday's. Cheapest Alcohol I've ever seen, and as long as you go you after 12pm on a Saturday they have tasters on all the cleanskin wine they have. Awesome range.. from $1 a bottle right up to $8/9. And they offer large discounts too. I bought 24x $4.50 WA Cab Merlot and 36x SA Barossa Cab Merlot (these particular ones are a fantastic drop, awesome), and they gave them to me for $3 each bottle. Sounds like a bit of a plug, I'm sure, but they've got everything too. Last time I was there got Coopers Pale and a Sparkling carton for $34 and $37 respectively, some interesting Cleanskin Beer there too for $20-30 a carton. Only catch is you have to buy at least 9 Litres (about a carton of wine or case of beer) at a time, but they're happy to mix dozens, and have all the store wine as well for wholesale price too. Seriously, for an alcohol drinker, the place is like heaven. Edit: Oh! The last time I was there they had a Franklin River Cleanskin Batch selling at $1 a bottle, as approx 1/3 bottles were bad. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but it was unfiltered (oodles of sediment), and VERY earthy. Definitely an experience if you're into that sort of thing. Tasty, but I wouldn't recommend it all the time. __________________ Dell XPS 1530 Dell Vostro 1700 QNAP TS409Pro w/ 4x1.5TB in RAID5 Last edited by AusKWiKsAnD; 5th October 2006 at 3:16 PM.

6th October 2006, 8:36 AM	#6
Bionic Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Wollongong - NSW Posts: 3,226	Grrr. Have to go for another drive to the Hunter Valley (Cesnocksp?) area again. I have had some good Cleanskins from Dan Murphy's in the past __________________ OCAU OFFICIAL CHAIR RAVER'S SOCIETY MEMBER #5 Computer games don't affect kids. I mean if Pacman affected our generation as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching on pills and listening to repetitive music.. ummm Hold on a sec yes it has

7th October 2006, 2:30 PM	#7
Phalanx Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 2,770	For $2, the Dan Murphy ones aren't too bad. I've had plenty of worse wines in the $10-15 price range. Dan Murphy's tends to get the clearskins for free to stock better wines from various wineries (at less profit for dans). So whether $6 or $1, it's pure profit for them. And win for us __________________ This post is coming to you LIVE in HD!

5th October 2006, 2:47 PM	#3
Steve Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: SE Qld Posts: 1,685	Dan's cleanskins in the $5 to $7 range arent too bad - I liked the 'MG02' but I think it is all gone now They are a bit of a lottery, so go and buy a mixed dozen of them to try then buy a few cases of which ones you like

7th October 2006, 2:46 PM	#8
TheWedgie Reputation: Over 9000 Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: South Australia Posts: 2,618	Picked up a single bottle of "2006 Cabernet Merlot WE3" from Dan Murphys at Marion here in Adelaide, will let you know how it goes. EDIT: I thought I'd actually grabbed a 2004 they had there, oh well. -Nick __________________ ugbox.net \| OCAU Emergency Services Club This post is the personal opinion of the poster and may not necessarily state or reflect those of SA Ambulance Service, SA Department of Health, or First Care Medical. It does not constitute medical advice, and should not be taken three times a day with meals. May cause drowsiness - do not drive or operate heavy machinery after reading.

9th October 2006, 11:46 AM	#10
Demented Freak Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: 2118, Sydney Posts: 2,551	I think you really need to buy just one bottle, if you like it buy a case of it. Saves you the problem of having a case of wine that you don't like. __________________ Join the OCAU Swingers Club and Shag for Agg "Are you telling the truth, or did you read that in the Daily Telegraph?"

9th October 2006, 12:33 PM	#14
yanman Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Hobart Posts: 5,747	of course being shipped in such enormous volumes around the country, there could be wide disparities in the product