Battle of Bosworth Best of Vintage 2011
Grown organically. Blend of McLaren Vale cabernet sauvignon (47%), shiraz (7%) and petit verdot.
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Graciano 2011
Graciano shows great promise at this McLaren Vale/Sellicks Hill estate.
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Mataro 2012
Grown on a vineyard at Sellicks Hill in McLaren Vale (next to the Victory Hotel). Vineyard was planted in 1999 with cuttings taken from Seppeltsfield and Cascabel. Production of 100 dozen only.
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Grenache 2012
Production of 77 dozen only. Grown on a Sellicks Hill/McLaren Vale vineyard planted in 1999 with grenache cuttings taken d’Arenberg and Seppeltsfield.
View ArticleRosemount Estate MV Collection G.S.M 2013
If I’m not mistaken, exclusive to Woolworths owned wine stores: BWS, Dan Murphy’s etc. It’s one way of not getting hammered on margin anyway. Kind of got reviewed by accident, as I struggled to pull...
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Shiraz 2012
The Rudderless wines are grown on the five acre vineyard around the famous/legendary Victory Hotel at Sellicks Hill in McLaren Vale. Owner Doug Govan has something of the Midas touch when it comes to...
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Graciano Malbec 2012
Production of 141 dozen. Grown at Sellicks Hill in McLaren Vale. Beautiful style of drinking red.
View ArticleChapel Hill Chardonnay 2013
Oak input is noted as simply a “touch of French”. Like it. Chapel Hill’s Chardonnay is a favourite of many.
View ArticleChapel Hill Bush Vine Grenache 2012
Chapel Hill’s Bush Vine Grenache has been a quality performer over a number of years.
View ArticlePicked By My Wife Sagrantino 2012
Made by View Road Wines. Production of only 120 dozen. Matured in all old oak, mostly French but with some American. Grown in the Seaview sub-region of McLaren Vale.
View ArticleInkwell Road to Joy Shiraz Primitivo 2012
Forgot to get this bad boy up when Dud(e)ly Brown came-a-visitin’. This is 85% shiraz and 15% primitivo, and what joy when blends that shouldn’t or couldn’t do. Says Dudley, ‘Road To Joy is my gateway...
View ArticleWild Olive Shiraz 2013
Angove Family Winemakers are putting a lot of emphasis on the “organically grown” section of the market. This is made from “100% organic grapes”. McLaren Vale shiraz.
View ArticleThree Dark Horses Grenache 2012
Grown on 70-year-old dry-grown bush vines. Wild yeast fermented. Matured in 1-5 year old oak. 250 dozen produced.
View ArticleMitolo GAM Shiraz 2010
More alcohol doesn’t mean more flavour. Indeed above a certain level it can start to mean the opposite. In practice at least.
View ArticleS.C.Pannell Tempranillo Touriga 2013
What a good grape Touriga is turning out to be for South Australia.
View ArticleO’Leary Walker Clare Valley/McLaren Vale Shiraz 2012
‘This harks back to when we couldn’t get any fruit, when we first started, and Nick was taking fruit from McLaren Vale flat, so we’ve always incorporated about 30% McLaren Vale in the wines’, says...
View ArticlePaxton AAA Shiraz Grenache 2012
Don’t see these wines anymore, so thank heavens I leave the house every now and then to taste stuff.
View ArticleOliver’s Taranga Vineyards ‘Chica’ Mencia Rosé 2014
Can’t wait to see what happens with Mencia in this country, meanwhile, turning fruit from young vines into rosé not a bad idea.
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