Battle of Bosworth Shiraz 2015
Lovely people at the Battle of Bosworth, not that that matters, unless you have to live with them.
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Shiraz 2015
Excellent name for a winery. I think we all feel a bit rudderless at whiles.
View ArticleKay Brothers Amery Vineyards Hillside Shiraz 2015
Tasted this at the winery back in April, and here it is again. Good things come to those who wait, sometimes twice. Double Happiness. What I wrote back then, I’ve copied in, and elaborated on.
View ArticleKay Brothers Block 6 Shiraz 2015
What can you say about Block 6? I trod through it in April, and it’s quite a site/sight, planted in 1892, rugged old vines, cracking red clay in parts, gravel on the lower sides. Winemaking baton...
View ArticleLa Prova McLaren Vale Nero D’Avola 2016
La Prova now produces a Nero d’Avola from both the Barossa Valley and from McLaren Vale. This is the latter version.
View Articled’Arenberg Stephanie The Gnome With Rose Tinted Glasses 2017
Sangiovese and Shiraz, and as with so many wines from d’Arenberg, involves a fair amount of typing practise.
View ArticleYangarra Estate Grenache Rosé 2017
A new wine for Yangarra, I think, hand picked off their younger (10 years old) dry grown Grenache vines. Good old Yangarra, nailing it left, right, and centre these days.
View ArticleRed Knot Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
The press release describes this wine as tasting of “couverture chocolate”. I eat a lot (a lot) of high cocoa chocolate but I’ve lived under a rock; I’d never heard that word before. A word a day.
View ArticleRed Knot Shiraz 2016
The Red Knot wines routinely offer good value but I like these 2016 releases more than the previous few. They are volume wines, no getting around it, but these 2016s feels less concocted.
View Articled’Arenberg The Derelict Vineyard Grenache 2013
Invariably, the mind runs to Mugatu in Zoolander. Derelicte.
View ArticleBibliotheque Travel Writing Shiraz 2015
Pretty obtuse name by my reckoning. Nonetheless, travel writing is a pretty idealised job.
View ArticleMr Riggs Scarce Earth Shiraz 2014
In the recent past the vineyard name was paramount on these Scarce Earth wines, so I must have been having a bad day when I couldn’t see it on the label. Digging around on the website, I found...
View ArticleMr Riggs McLaren Vale Shiraz 2014
From the Gateway and Piebald Gully vineyards of McLaren Vale. Good releases from shiraz from 2014 from Mr Riggs here and here. Something for the big, red wine lovers to get stuck into.
View ArticleRudderless Vineyard Malbec 2015
Proprietor Doug Govan has a significant fancy for the wines of Wendouree, and indeed, some of his 487 Malbec vines are sourced from cuttings from Wendouree.
View ArticleNoon Eclipse Shiraz Grenache 2015
The 2015 wines were released in Oct/Nov of 2016, but hey, first viewing for me (never been sent samples). I tried this on a table in a Seoul, Wine Australia tasting. Ballroom wines. Curiosity piqued....
View ArticleTwo Hands Don’t Poke The Bear Cabernet Franc 2016
A name I can readily associate with, and, I suspect, a new offering from Two Hands. I can’t find a bottle image (as yet).
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