Bent Creek Vineyards Black Dog Shiraz 2015
The gist here is that the wine showed like a ‘big black dog’ so don’t be thinking it’s something to do with mental health, even though that’s where my mind went to straight away. It’s a curious name,...
View ArticleHand Crafted by Geoff Hardy Shiraz 2015
This ‘Hand Crafted by Geoff Hardy’ range traipses around South Australian wine regions, usually showcasing alt-varieties outside of the ‘noble’. Here’s their shiraz from McLaren Vale.
View ArticleChalk Hill Fiano 2016
400 dozen made, and sourced from Oliver’s Vineyard, so they must have a fair amount of Fiano in the ground now.
View ArticleShingleback Los Trios Bravos 2016
New wine from Shingleback. Blend of 59% tempranillo, 23% mourvèdre and 18% grenache.
View ArticleShingleback El Capitan Tempranillo 2016
Shingleback have so many wines in their portfolio – they badly need a “search” function on their website. This is 95% tempranillo/5% cabernet. All McLaren Vale.
View ArticleShingleback Kitchen Garden Mataro 2016
It’s from a vineyard immediately behind the Shingleback cellar door/farmhouse – where a kitchen garden once grew.
View ArticleRed Knot Classified Shiraz 2015
In the pitch-perfect words of Mike Bennie: “This was classified to be a $20 wine named Classified.”
View ArticleShingleback The Davey Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2014
Reserve cabernet sauvignon from the Davey vineyard.
View ArticleShingleback D Block Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
Powerhouse cabernet out of McLaren Vale.
View ArticleHither & Yon Grenache Mataro 2016
60% Grenache, 40% Mataro. I don’t have a feel for 2016 in McLaren Vale, as yet, but so far, I like what I see.
View ArticleCoriole Songbird Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
New label for me. I started humming what I thought was ‘Songbird’, but on checking, it’s Anne Murray’s ‘Snowbird’, which I recall fondly because it was one of my Dad’s favourite songs. So, if you don’t...
View ArticleWirra Wirra Church Block 2015
It’s one of the more reliable ‘go to’ red wines on the Australian market. Quality is always there or thereabouts. It’s a McLaren Vale blend of cabernet sauvignon, shiraz and merlot.
View ArticleBrash Higgins NDV 2016
This is the sixth vintage of this great nero d’avola wine. Produced in amphora on the Brash Higgins estate. Macerated for 180 days, incredibly.
View ArticleBrash Higgins SHZ 2015
From Omensetter Vineyard planted 1997. McLaren Vale shiraz with verve.
View ArticleBrash Higgins CBSV 2015
Fruit grown on the family estate, Omensetter Vineyard, then matured for 15 months in French oak. Quite classic, but with the BH lift and freshness. No additions in winemaking, natural ferment.
View ArticleBrash Higgins Omensetter 2012
It’s a blend of 85% shiraz and 15% cabernet sauvignon. The vintage defines when an Omensetter wine is released, but there’s best parcels already identified to make the wine, or watch to make this wine....
View ArticleYangarra Estate Ironheart Shiraz 2014
I wasn’t any kind of fan of the 2013 release, but I am of this 2014. It’s biodynamically grown, it sees 25% whole bunches, it’s cold soaked and then fermented wild in open vats before seeing all French...
View ArticleD’Arenberg The Galvo Garage Cabernet 2013
Cabernet Sauvignon 66%, Petit Verdot 19%, with Merlot bringing up the rear, as it were. Intermittent reviews here of this wine, though I remember it fondly.
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