Koltz The Pagan Shiraz 2015
Clever winemaker is Mark Day, and also a lovely chap. He dries the grapes out on racks for seven weeks or more to make this ‘Moda Amarone’ style.
View ArticleKoltz The Wizard Shiraz 2016
A ripasso style. Not sure why it’s called The Wizard, but I don’t mind the name.
View ArticleMr Riggs The Magnet Grenache 2016
It’s from a 100-year-old vineyard (Dogridge). It sees 15% whole bunches. It’s 15% alcohol.
View ArticleOliver’s Taranga DJ Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2014
Old vine Cabernet Sauvignon out of McLaren Vale.
View ArticleOliver’s Taranga Vineyards HJ Reserve Shiraz 2014
All-French oak for this old vine McLaren Vale shiraz.
View ArticleHickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard Trueman Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
Wonderful vineyard up there in Clarendon. So nice, that I went out and did a wee in it. Oh, the vineyards that I’ve peed in! I should write a coffee table book with MB. “Great Vineyards That We’ve...
View ArticleOliver’s Taranga Vineyards Tempranillo 2016
It’s quite remarkable how Tempranillo has stolen Sangiovese’s march in Australia.
View ArticleSomos Barbera Rose 2017
The first release of this wine was an absolute belter, and this follows up nicely but perhaps without the same fanfare. A couple of less trumpets, per se. That being said, the DNA is all there in...
View ArticleCoriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 2014
I’m not a great fan of 2014 for Shiraz in McLaren Vale, but Coriole have turned out a good one here.
View ArticleHickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard The Peake Cabernet Shiraz 2015
From only the 1971 plantings and a blend of 56% Cabernet Sauvignon and 44% Shiraz. You can think of it as being a single site version of Penfolds 389, only better. 370 cases made.
View ArticleWillunga 100 Grenache Rose 2017
Not the Birmingham 6, instead, the Willunga 100. That reminds me, I really need to dig out some of the electro-industrial music of the Danish group, Birmingham 6 to listen to ASAP. Moody stuff right...
View ArticleSomos Mazuelo Cinsault 2017
A couple of younger generation wine guys making some interesting booze under this Somos label right here. That one of them is a Mexican winemaker, of origin and place, doubly interesting, but not...
View ArticleSomos Aglianico 2016
‘They’ say that aglianico is the world’s oldest, cultivated grape variety, right back to the amphora and sandal origins of Falernian winemaking. The Georgians might have something to say about that,...
View ArticleSomos Cabernet Franc 2016
I am pretty sure Somos means ‘we are’ in Spanish, if my high school Latin works ok still. Cabernet franc, as we know, is one of those fickle varieties that has a small window for righteous ripeness,...
View ArticlePrimo Estate Joseph Sparkling Red Disgorged 2017
From the Primo Estate website: “To create the JOSEPH Sparkling Red a hogshead of the ultra premium JOSEPH Moda Cabernet Merlot from every year since 1991 and Primo Estate Shiraz from 1989 is added to a...
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