A brand new wine slotting between Yering’s Little and it’s Estate Chardonnays. The focus here is on middle and Upper Yarra fruit, hand picked with one-fifth barrel fermented in new oak. The result is a finely crafted grapefruit, white peach and lemon blossom style with a touch of toasty oak on the finish.
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In perfectly contrasting style to De Bortoli’s textural La Bohème, here’s an energetic gris that’s all about aromatics. Fresh pear fruit, poised lemon zest, mineral structure and a driving, lingering finish fleshed out with some fruit sweetness.
readAct 3 first opened last year, wowing audiences with textural restraint – it was going to be a hard act to follow. It’s second season has just opened, and what a show of exuberant florals, poached peach, cloves and perfectly gauged phenolics! An Upper Yarra core and barrel ferment keep it under control.
readThe Essenze of 2011 has just landed on Aussie turf, with all the verdant freshness of young kiwi sauv. Good definition of crunchy green apples, vibrant lime drops and a fine, tight, refreshingly dry finish. Skilfully crafted and insane value for money at $13 at Dan’s.
readIt is one of the profound contradictions of the wine world that such refined, finely textured and beautifully crafted Heathcote shiraz can be snatched for just $14 at Dan’s and Kemeny’s this week. At a refreshing 13.5%, its poised black plums and liquorice give voice to notes of pepper and game.
readThis perky little CdR landed in Oz just last week. Grenache leads the blend, with its characteristic berry compote and cherry fruits, finishing with lingering herbal notes. Garrigue, indeed. Give it a light chill to tone its fruit sweetness. Clean, fresh and screw capped. $17 at Wine Emporium.
readTower’s first single vineyard bottling from this longstanding site opposite the legendary Lovedale vineyard. A wine of high-wire tension, taut structure and firm, fine minerality that sings of Lovedale. Wonderful lift of lemon and lime blossom; the palate is loaded with crunchy granny smith apple skin texture. Poised for the long-haul and loaded with coiled […]
readThe throne is secure for the Hunter’s most famous blended semillon. The wine of the vintage (unless Brokenwood trumps in – stand by!) thanks to fine, chalky minerality and structure that surpass all others. Enticingly fragrant and pure lime and lemon blossom; a palate of profound definition and poise – lime, anise and pepper. Another […]
readAnother Usher Tinkler star, this is a very even, polished and concentrated expression of the vintage. Wonderfully pure and lifted on the bouquet, the palate is loaded with zesty lime and lemon, with driving, undeviating persistence. Layered, mouthfilling texture completes a great finish.
readNo surprise that this wine took out the big gong at the Hunter wine show last month, after the dramatic rise of Audrey Wilkinson in recent years. From dry-grown, old vines on the western ridge of the vineyard, it’s poised and restrained, layered with chalky minerality, great purity of lime blossom and granny smith apples, […]
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