The Other Wine Co Grenache 2018
The back label describes this wine as “fresh, vibrant & spicy”. The back label doesn’t lie.
View ArticleWoodstock Shiraz 2014
Woodstock tends to fly under the radar but the cellar door makes for an excellent visit.
View ArticleDodgy Bros Juxtaposed Cabernet Franc 2017
Magnum P.I on the label, from back in the days when people watched TV shows on commercial/free-to-air channels. I like Cabernet Franc, very much, but it’s a tricky grape to get right.
View ArticleHeart Wines Ruby Rose 2018
Made from organic grenache by Pete Fraser/Yangarra with love from Heart & Soil’s wonderful Pollard family.
View ArticleMcCarthys Orchard Little Lady Lala Nero d’Avola 2017
I always like a wine named for a dog, and this one is in honour of the family canine. I had a flatmate whose parents named her after their family dog prior to her birth, in its memory. Quite the thing...
View ArticleMcCarthys Orchard The My Coco Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
My Coco indeed, had me straight in mind of coconut, and lo, there it is in the oak profile of the wine in scent and flavour. Suggestive, or what! This wine comes from 55-plus year old vines in the...
View ArticleMcCarthys Orchard The Dawn Rose 2018
Grenache grapes here. Good thing in rose, me thinks. From a mixed agriculture farm in McLaren Vale. An early pick wine, for rose production.
View ArticleWoodstock Cabernet Sauvignon 2015
A traditional McLaren Vale cabernet if ever there was one.
View ArticleYear Wines Fiano 2018
Fiano from the Vale. Wild ferment, left on some lees, mixture of oak barrels and some stainless. Fresh but quietly complex. ‘From a winemaking perspective it is interesting’, says winemaker Luke Growden.
View ArticleYear Wines Sausage in Bread 2018
No sulphur, no additions, a mix of grenache, syrah, cinsault and mataro. Summer wine. The ‘label’ is a hand-drawn, line drawing of a sausage on a flat piece of bread. Bunning’s wine.
View ArticleYear Wines Serge Mataro Syrah Grenache 2017
All fermented separately, but then brought together for some magic. Year Wines are reliably good drinking.
View ArticleLino Ramble Vinyl Shiraz 2018
Great to see avant garde producers pricing wines for accessibility and ease of drinking. Kudos. These are typically good wines too. Hello!
View ArticlePrimo Estate Zamberlan Cabernet Sauvignon Sangiovese 2017
“Newly fermented young Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon is pumped over the dried grape skins from the JOSEPH Moda for additional fermentation. The wine is then pressed and barrel aged.” Oak used is...
View ArticleJoseph Sparkling Red Disgorged July 2018
Of course one of the standard bearers for sparkling red in Australia. Combines mature and younger wines to create the whole, with many parcels (up to and including 40-year-old wines) added together to...
View ArticleFox Creek Vixen Sparkling Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc NV (23)
From batch NV23, it seems. Thanks for that detail on label, good people of Fox Creek. Shiraz is joined by cabernet sauvignon with some cabernet franc in the mix.
View ArticleGemtree Small Batch Pet Nat 2018
Everybody’s doin’ a brand new thing now/come on baby, do the petillant naturel. Fun loving grenache pet nat from the organic/BD stalwarts of McLaren Vale. I lost a third of the bottle to gushing, but...
View ArticleDune The Empty Quarter 2017
Mataro, Shiraz, Grenache, and Montepulciano. Nice name for a wine. It could star Bryan Brown, or one of the equally ruggedly handsome Lloyd boys.
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