Here’s a top shelf Adelaide Hills pinot at the same price as most other regions sell their second label – and that’s worthy of celebrating! There’s a gentle interplay of fruit and structure here, with elegant red berry and cherry fruits, sarsaparilla and dried herbs, underlain with tannins that are fine and supportive, yet with […]
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This wine is a delightful juxtaposition between the gorgeously pure fruit of a warm site in a warm vintage in a cool region, and the profoundly mineral, textural, granite-like tannin structure that defines this special vineyard. A wine of outstanding length and refinement, with fragrant notes of lifted violets, pure red cherries, plums and blackberries. […]
readThis is a tactical wine that we all need to keep on hand in our sparkling arsenal, an impeccably crafted Adelaide Hills style that ducks strategically under the price of any champagne worth drinking. There’s impressive drive of taut, lemon juice acidity derived from high altitude Piccadilly Valley vines, offset beautifully with the subtle spice […]
readGathering 2009 is one of the most intellectual sauvignon semillon blends you will encounter this year. It’s at the same time challenging and engaging, with profoundly exotic allusions. But for all of its frivolity and complexity, it’s taut and tense, agile and edgy, pulling into a disciplined, focused and disarmingly honed finish, defined by monumental […]
readThere is a harmony between pure, concentrated fruit and finely restrained, textural structure that marks this among the great vintages for Petaluma Chardonnay. White peach, fig, grapefruit and lemon blossom each find excellent definition, impeccably supported by understated ferment complexity and struck flint lees notes. Finely textured structure and outstanding persistence draw into a finely […]
readThe precision of Jeffrey Grosset is as apparent in his Adelaide Hills chardonnay as it is in his revered Clare rieslings. In 2010 it carries beautiful definition of finely perfumed lemon and grapefruit, pristine white peach and notes of almond blossom, underlined by exceedingly classy and restrained almond and cashew nut French oak. High altitude […]
readDeviation Road is on the rise among the most refined winegrowers of the Adelaide Hills. Its secret is its Carey Gully vineyard, planted by the family in Lenswood in 1983. At an altitude of 600m, this is the source of pristine aromatic whites and sparkling base. Its 2011 sauvignon is holding its poise beautifully almost […]
readThere’s impressive poached pear and fresh lemon fruit presence here, even a touch of baked apple and nutmeg, pulling into a nicely honed tail of cool Adelaide Hills acidity from this single vineyard in Charleston. One-third fermented in old French oak barriques helps to build its finely mineral texture, rounded out just a touch by […]
readLindsay Barratt is a gentleman and a mainstay of the Adelaide Hills for more than two decades, and he’s managed to pull a fantastically pure sauvignon from, in his words, “a bitch of a year.” This is a pristine and enticingly priced Adelaide Hills sauvignon that retains sensational, youthful vibrancy in mid-2012. Notes of lime, […]
readPinot gris is the fastest growing white wine category right now, which means that too many are thrown together from young vines on less than ideal sites. Deviation Road soars high above the masses thanks not only to its pristine, high altitude, 1983 planted site but, importantly, to a gentle and skilful approach in the […]
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