Love Over Gold Eden Valley Shiraz 2017
A serious and personality filled Shiraz – a little bit atypical for Eden Valley thanks to the vintage but also with plenty of clues as
A serious and personality filled Shiraz – a little bit atypical for Eden Valley thanks to the vintage but also with plenty of clues as
From Barossa Ranges fruit, this is a terrific Shiraz which will benefit for an extended stint in your cellar (in truth, delicious now, but if
The brothers Lienert, John the grower and James the winemaker (which all sounds rather Biblical), have crafted a classic Barossa Shiraz here, in tribute to
The origins of The Signature is one of the great, rarely told stories in the wine trade, a wine that is dedicated to individuals who
This is the flagship for Victory Point. This vintage turned out surprisingly good for cabernet, especially for those prepared to wait until the long cool
This was a cooler vintage in Margaret River and this excellent chardonnay is a great example of some of the top-notch wines emerging. It’s all
Small crop and small production, so this has to be on your shopping list. It is quite different from the syrah styles made ten years
Shiraz has been a main player with Frankland Estate almost from the get go and this is one of the very best under this label.
Interestingly, while Frankland’s approach to riesling has been influenced by its approach to chardonnay, particularly wild yeasts, its approach to chardonnay has likewise been influenced
This is an off-dry riesling, and its making reflects the leading-edge approach Frankland Estate is taking, albeit using older European techniques. In this case it’s
Some Grenache can be real chameleons as young wines offering up just a hint of how they will evolve in the bottle, and you need
Another Frankland wine with an indelible vineyard and regional thumbprint. The distinctive characters of the ironstone soils of the vineyards emerge through the fruit in
An absolutely classic St Hugo and classic Coonawarra. Deep crimson and then showing a delicious mix of power and subtlety that is perfectly pitched and
Another of the Rosenthal Wines sourced from that Riversdale Vineyard; wow, what a fruit source to have access to. Yes, it’s cabernet but there is
From the start, this chardonnay has been set up for bottle aging, with fruit sourced from a single vineyard at the Langton vineyard near Mount
There was some debate around a decade ago that this iconic Margaret River winery had lost a little of its glitter and that the wines
Both the length of time the wine spends maturing and the percentage of new French oak steps up here – this is serious stuff. Sourced
Bright mid crimson in colour and then launches into a superb array of fragrant yet reserved aromas of rose petals, raspberry, dark earth, mushrooms and
Bright deep ruby. Beautifully ripe and well composed Cabernet Sauvignon with both generous fruit and complexity with lashings of blackcurrant and graphite aromas plus a
A classic Clare Shiraz here which offers exceptional value for money offering a wide array of complex fruits, some of which are hiding a little
Here is a Pinot that proudly shows its regional Orange characters thanks to a powerful backbone of earthy, spicy, truffle scented fruit aromas well matched
The grapes for this delicious Mornington Peninsula Chardonnay come from the estate’s own vineyards at Tuerong and Balnarring. They were whole-bunch pressed to French barriques
For their 2019 ‘Reserve’ Watervale, the team has sourced two parcels of fruit from the Koerner vineyard, Blocks G1 and G4. They were kept separate
As much as I enjoyed their Watervale Reserve, I love this even more. A small parcel of fruit from the Zander Quarry vineyard was put
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