Skilfully crafted rosé at a bargain price. Delightful fragrance of strawberries and blood oranges leads into an alluringly savoury palate that captures pomegranate and wild strawberry flavours. It’s elegantly fragrant and delightfully textural, with fine, mouth-embracing grip. Best price direct.
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A very sophisticated vintage for this 1968 planted site, recently renamed Justin’s Vineyard. It’s pretty and fragrant riesling of enticing and elegant kaffir lime, fennel and granny smith apple fruit. On release a year after vintage, it’s refreshingly poised and breathtakingly youthful, structured with impressive mouth feel of fine, chalk mineral texture and beautifully effortless […]
readThere’s a particular precision and focus to the new Gathering, every bit as complex as ever in its layers of fruit and barrel ferment intrigue, yet with more crunchy grapefruit zest and lemon pith definition than before. Oak feels better contained, emphasising fine, mineral texture and magnificent line and length. One of the great Gatherings, […]
readSpellbinding aromatics of the most exact, fragrant pear fruit, lifted lemon blossom, fennel and grapefruit zest. The palate is all of the same, a true grigio in its crunchy citrus energy and lingering pear character, softly textural and impeccably honed. Sourced mostly from 1998 planted Clarendon fruit, with a little Adelaide Hills. $28 at Discount […]
readIsolation Ridge is Western Australia’s finest riesling, and 2013 is one of its greatest vintages yet, a wine of crystalline purity and scintillating minerality. Breathtakingly pristine aromas of lime drops, lime blossom and granny smith apples introduce a palate of impressive lime and green apple fruit concentration. It’s light on its feet yet confidently poised, […]
readClassic Heathcote shiraz, in the most elegant guise. Tyrrell’s vineyard is now twenty years old, and in 2012 it put forth lovely purity and focus of black plum and blackberry fruit. Refined tannins, vibrant acid focus and supportive dark chocolate French oak (30% new) unite to build finely textured structure, seamless line and lingering persistence. […]
readBeautifully even and delightfully crafted, this is a very sophisticated gris that embraces all the character of wild yeast fermentation in older barrels, without for a moment losing sight of its pretty lemon blossom aromatics and pure nashi pear flavours. Lovely flinty complexity of gunsmoke wafts over a well-defined palate, contrasting taut, zesty acidity with […]
readA delightfully refined release for Grosset, a chardonnay of graceful perfume and impeccable poise. Breathtaking lemon blossom, grapefruit and red apple aromas introduce a palate of pinpoint accuracy, propelled by perfectly supportive, integrated oak, laced into seamless harmony by a silk thread of impeccable acidity. At a total production of just 400 dozen, you’d better […]
readOne of South Australia’s greatest pinots, with a track record now spanning 20 vintages, attaining particularly lofty heights in the great 2012 season. This is a wine of remarkable fruit presence, succulent black cherry depth of grand cru proportions and breathtaking violet fragrance. It ripples with pure, fresh cherries and alluring stewed plums, driven by […]
readThe sheer vibrancy and purity of fruit is nothing short of a marvel from these grand, dry grown 1867 vines planted by Henry Best himself. The 2012 is just the 13th release, precociously backward on release, promising a monumental future, yet so irresistible now that it will take superhuman restraint to let it get there. […]
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