Inkwell Shiraz 2011
Abandon all knowledge of the 2011 vintage, ye who enter here – is scrawled in blood-red writing on the inside of this bottle (or so it might seem).
View ArticleUlithorne Flamma Sparkling Shiraz NV
The alcohol isn’t terribly high and it’s meant to be made in a “deliberately drier style”. But in the glass, you wouldn’t really pick it as either.
View ArticleCascabel Graciano 2012
Cascabel have been at the forefront of all things ‘alternative’* varieties, particularly with a Spanish ilk. Graciano finds itself mostly at home in Rioja, but McLaren Vale seems suitable to the...
View ArticleCascabel Carignan 2012
Cascabel planted their carignan in 2001 and this is the first time it has been released as a stand alone wine, rather than being used in their Tipico blend. The wine spends 12 months in old French oak...
View ArticleCascabel El Sendero Tempranillo 2011
There was extra attention paid to this block in 2011 and Cascabel say ‘we picked perfectly healthy fruit and as a bonus the fresh and lively flavours reflect the vintage’. Sunny side up, though...
View ArticleWolf Blass Black Label 2009
Pretty likely the kind of wine that some people just love, and others loathe.
View ArticleChapel Hill The Parson’s Nose Shiraz 2012
I know it’s not an expensive wine, considering, but I was expecting a little more from the vintage.
View ArticleAlpha Crucis Shiraz 2011
Arguably the fanciest iteration of wine that is produced from Chalk Hill Wines’ winery and sourced from select vineyards for best fruit from a season. The label won some international design award too....
View ArticleHesketh Usual Suspects Shiraz 2012
Barrel-fermented McLaren Vale shiraz, grown and made in heroic style.
View ArticleVigna Bottin Sangiovese Rosé 2013
Paolo and Maria Bottin are the proprietors of Vigna Bottin; a family legacy traipses back to ye olde Italy but the first travelling generation arrived in Australia in the 1970s and McLaren Vale. The...
View ArticleOliver’s Taranga Shiraz 2012
The back label mentions that 2012 may be the “vintage of the century”. Long way to go, of course.
View ArticleOliver’s Taranga DJ Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2010
You could call this DJ Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon out of Oliver’s Taranga in McLaren Vale a ‘big hunk of spunk’ – if you were so inclined. Because it is.
View ArticleBekkers Grenache 2012
Toby Bekkers has a take-no-prisoners approach to the pricing of his wines. There’s only one way to find out what the market will bear …
View ArticlePaxton Thomas Block Chardonnay 2011
Biodynamically-grown and barrel fermented chardonnay out of McLaren Vale. It’s not a region-variety combination we pay a lot of heed to but then, 2011 was not your normal season.
View ArticlePaxton The Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2011
Biodynamically-grown cabernet sauvignon from McLaren Vale. Matured in French oak.
View ArticlePaxton Quandong Farm Shiraz 2012
Single vineyard wine out of McLaren Vale. Biodynamically grown. Wild fermented.
View ArticleOchota Barrels A Sense Of Compression the taras:mjkeenan collaboration 2013
‘Lucky you called when you did, I was just on the ride-on mower and my stubby fell out of its holder and I was just walking back to get it’, says winemaker Taras Ochota, ‘do you want me to tell you the...
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