Ulithorne Dona Grenache Shiraz Mourvedre 2013
A wine with a conscience. Every purchase of this wine ‘we donate a financial gift to selected charities that inspire positive social change’, perhaps the Labour Party, in current circumstances. It’s...
View ArticleMitolo Savitar Shiraz 2010
I tried it in a bracket with some other Shiraz. Came back to it again after eating dinner. Then I tried it the next day.
View ArticleMassey Bambino Shiraz 2010
The wines are made in the Stonyfell Winery in Adelaide Hills though the Ferguson clan source more broadly than locally for their fare. Here, Bambino hails from McLaren Vale.
View ArticleGeoff Merrill Reserve Shiraz 2004
Tasted as a mature wine in 2014. 15% alc shiraz out of McLaren Vale.
View ArticleGeoff Merrill Reserve Shiraz 2002
Tasted as a mature wine in 2014. 15.5% alcohol/volume. Sledgehammer shiraz from McLaren Vale.
View ArticleInkwell Blonde on Blonde Viognier 2013
I got a chance to sit down and hang out with winemaker Dudley ‘Dude-ly’ Brown, he of the spicy, thoughtful commentary on his website – worth a look. He ditched life in the head-hunting world of hi-tech...
View ArticleInkwell I & I Shiraz 2012
This is 100% shiraz, and the blend that the winemaker deems best, from the other blends, if you get the drift – all estate fruit. The last three years the picking has been earlier. I & I for the...
View ArticleInkwell Infidel Primitivo 2012
From winemaker Dudley Brown’s mouth, ‘I only use American oak in Primitivo, and that’s all the American oak I use’. The wine is left in barrel a little longer, and Brown is trying out some new barrels...
View ArticleYangarra High Sands Grenache 2011
Fruit is sourced from older bush vine plantings of grenache from Yangarra’s estate vineyard.
View ArticleYangarra Estate GSM 2012
Grenache 54%, Shiraz 28% and Mataro 18%. It says on the back label that the Grenache was planted in 1946.
View ArticleBattle of Bosworth White Boar 2011
Organically grown blend of McLaren Vale shiraz (60%) and cabernet sauvignon.
View ArticleBleeding Heart Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
The label design adds weight to the growing view that tattoos are so mainstream now that rebellion lies in a clean slate of skin.
View ArticleRudderless Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2004
McLaren Vale blend of grenache (60%), shiraz (35%) and mataro. Tasted as a ten year old. Made from young vines (planted 1999 and 2001).
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Shiraz Malbec 2010
McLaren Vale shiraz from the Sellicks Hill sub-region. Grown at the site of the famous Victory Hotel by Doug Govan.
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Grenache 2010
Small-production grenache from an exciting new-ish producer out of McLaren Vale.
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Malbec 2010
A minuscule 59 dozen of this McLaren Vale malbec were produced. It’s grown at Sellicks Hill on a vineyard planted in 1999.
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Shiraz Malbec 2011
McLaren Vale blend of shiraz and malbec from a difficult-but-interesting vintage.
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Mataro 2011
Many of the 2011 red wines from south-east Australia are dominated herbal, peppery notes – to put it kindly. This release from Rudderless certainly does not fall into that camp.
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