These wines were such hot wines back on 03 and 04. After Parker reviewed them their 01 flew off the shelves. Their reg shiraz 01 got 93 points and their 9 Shiraz got 96 points. Their 02 vintages got the same scores. The 9 use to get 90 a bottle on all the auctions. Today for the same vintages I have seen them go for 25 bucks a bottle on auctions sites. Their 9 and S2 cab use to fly off shelves and some stores put them away for only their best customers. Today these wines still get very good reviews but there is no longer the buzz or the following anymore. This has been the biggest fad wine I have seen in probably the last 10 years.

The only Marquis Philips Iv'e had recently is the 2006 #9 shiraz at a tasting at work. I thought I was a nice wine for $27 cost. Maybe 91-92pts.

Had the 2006 Sarah's Blend at a blind tasting recently and for me it was the wine of the night. Nice and ripe but balanced and nuanced. Strangely, I had it at a barbecue soon after that and it was rather blah. Strange to have bottle variation under screw cap. And this was before I had any food, so I don't think it was the barbecue sauce that threw me off!

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The first samples I had of these tasted more like a Yoplait smoothie than wine. However, had a 06 recently (don’t remember which one) and it seemed much more balanced and less over the top.

I opened up an '02 or '03 Sarah's Blend several months ago, and it was utterly undrinkable.

I was wondering about these wines myself. They do seem to have lost their cache' in recent years.

The reviews had them lasting for 7-9 years on the 9 Shiraz. Yes I was one that bought them, I think most people into wine did, they were very hot after the great reviews especially for the money. I am saying I am surprised how they just fell off the wine map.

Don't the company fall apart and end up reorganized under a different name?

Here's what I had in mind:

http://www.winespectator.com/W.../0,1197,3197,00.html

Drank a 2002 #9 a few months back and it was not very good. If it was $10, I would have been happy.

However according to Parker's recent Aussie retrospective, Aussie wines clearly age well, my 52 degree wine fridge must have cooked this one, along with the 2000 Dead Arm I had at about the same time.

My impression is that when Sarah and Sparky Marquis left the label in '05 to start Mollydooker, they took their most avid fans with them.

The post-'05 Marquis Philips wines are not necessarily any worse than before, (can't say for sure, I've never tasted them), but they tend to be lost amidst the bewildering proliferation of fruit-bomb brands with gimmicky names in the Dan Philips/R Wines stable.

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Originally posted by NY Retailer:
Drank a 2002 #9 a few months back and it was not very good. If it was $10, I would have been happy.

However according to Parker's recent Aussie retrospective, Aussie wines clearly age well, my 52 degree wine fridge must have cooked this one, along with the 2000 Dead Arm I had at about the same time.

Should've kept 'em at 51...

A quick check of CT shows I have drank 13 bottles of 04, 05, and 06 MP in the last 2.5 years (when I joined CT). I have been drinking this since the 01 vintage. I scored the last three vintages between 87 and 89 and prefer the Chris Ringland version to the Sparky Marquis version as it is more dialed down. I was buying the 06 for $11 and found it to be a great QPR wine with burgers, etc. on a weeknight. I'm glad the buzz has gone away to create that kind of value. Haven't bought any 07 as I can't get for less than $14 now and there are other wines I would buy at that price.

Also had the 02 9 most recently in early 07 that Dan mentioned, but I thought it was an excellent wine, as do the vast majority of those on CT who have had it.

The big question is...

who uses what pronunciation?

Mar-kee or mar-kwis

Customers get confused when i say it mar-kwis

That is the correct pronunciation.

from the horses mouth himself(in this case Sparky ) (not that he is a horse) it is pronunced mar-kwis. Super nice guy,very passionate about wine in general and super cool to get drunk with.
I know his wines polarize these forums but time afer time they get rave reviews at my house from wine lovers and wine novices alike. We have done sparky/sarah wines in blind tasting format with other aussie wines and they always do very well (etiher wotn or runner up)
Looking forward to visitng winery at somepoint in near future.