Brash Higgins MRLO 2014
Lennon vineyard. McLaren Vale. 10% kick along from nero d’avola. Only 55 dozen. A quite miraculously beautiful label design.
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Graciano 2013
Graciano from Sellicks Hill in McLaren Vale. Has good casual sipping written all over it.
View ArticleTatachilla Reserve Shiraz 2013
Potent perfume of dark berry fruit, plums, milk chocolate, walnut oak. Fruit is plush and sweet, oak background mostly for the richness of fruit, tannins chompy and short but satisfying. Milk chocolate...
View ArticleKay Brothers Amery Vineyards Sparkling Shiraz NV
It’s the first release, so I feel I can review it in absence of a vintage, or disgorge date.
View ArticleHither & Yon Rosato 2015
Made from Red Muscat planted in 1988, with a 3% addition of Aglianico, for colour I’d guess.
View ArticleYangarra PF Shiraz 2015
Better than last year’s model. PF=preservative free with no additions used for the entire wine’s production, and a small subtraction at the end via filtration.
View ArticlePaxton MV Shiraz 2014
McLaren Vale shiraz, biodynamically/organically grown. The 2013 tended to polarise opinions.
View ArticleYangarra Small Pot Ceramic Egg Grenache 2013
Sourced from Block 30 (planted 1946). Raised in two 675L ceramic eggs, and kept on skins for 120 days post ferment. No oak. 93 cases.
View ArticlePaxton Quandong Farm Shiraz 2014
Quandong Farm Shiraz has never really wooed me but this release is excellent.
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