Lost Buoy Sea Floor Sangiovese 2016
From McLaren Vale comes this nautically-themed sangiovese. Small vineyard, dedicated winemaker, no filtering or fining.
View ArticleKoltz DogDay Shiraz 2017
Feels like a more racy vintage for The Vale in 2017, well preliminary tastings point to this, anyway. I’ve said it before, but Pere Ubu’s ‘Breath’ my wine and music match here. It’s on as I type. “Now...
View ArticleKoltz The Pagan Shiraz 2016
Shiraz grapes dried on racks and pressed back into the wine, or something like that.
View ArticleBrash Higgins Lennon Vineyard MCC Mataro / Cinsault / Carignan 2017
A new wine from Brad Hickey. Feel the freshness.
View ArticleBattle of Bosworth Heretic 2017
Organically grown blend of touriga nacional, graciano and shiraz. Low alcohol. Touriga nacional (at 61% of the blend) makes up the lion’s share.
View ArticleShottesbrooke Vineyards Estate Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
You certainly can’t argue with the value on offer here.
View ArticleRichard Hamilton Centurion Shiraz 2017
Centurion Shiraz. Grown on vines planted in 1892 – that is, they were 125 years old at the time of vintage. All into French oak, hogsheads and vats. Fair to say that this is one of the lesser reliable...
View ArticleJericho S3 Shiraz 2017
“The aim for this was to make an easy drinking style. So the fruit was handled to achieve this from harvest through to bottling. Light on oak, light on alcohol but with the big flavour of McLaren Vale...
View ArticleThistledown Sands of Time Grenache 2017
Giles Cooke MW and I held hands and sang “If I Could Turn Back Time” while we tasted this in the privacy of my home. Sadly I couldn’t find my torn black tights to complete the scene. Anyway, this...
View ArticleMollydooker Carnival Of Love Shiraz 2016
I haven’t caught a Mollydooker wine in so very long, but as part of the Wine Australia immersion in the United States last week, there was a Mollydooker sales table at the gala tasting, so I dived into...
View ArticlePrimo Estate Joseph Angel Gully Shiraz 2016
Single vineyard shiraz from a site above the town of Clarendon.
View ArticlePrimo Estate Joseph Nebbiolo 2016
Primo Estate makes particularly rich, ‘red-blooded’ reds – complete with lavish oak, more often than not.
View ArticleSawa Sawa The Rouge 2017
Well, here’s one for the news reel. It’s a blend of Blewitt Springs, Mount Barker and Wilyabrup fruit, orchestrated by Western Australia’s LS Merchants and South Australia’s Vanguardist Wines....
View ArticleTintara Blewitt Springs Shiraz 2015
Blewitt Springs and shiraz. Always a combination worth looking out for.
View ArticleTintara Reserve Grenache 2016
Good to see top-grade wines back under the historic Tintara name.
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