Posted: June 9, 2017
Beautiful buttery caramel bouquet with typical fish oil and tea leaf nuances. The stylish palate has lots of age but also exhibits a lovely freshness.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
Gorgeous caramel, butterscotch, molasses and tea leaf characters on the nose. Luscious palate with lingering toasty caramel flavours balanced by tannins and alcohol.
Comments Off on 919 Reserve Collection Riverland Classic Muscat NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A very good vintage port style with excellent spirit lift to the nose and nicely integrated fresh fruit and clean spirit.
Comments Off on 919 Limited Release Riverland Vintage Fortified 2009 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Both age and freshness on the nose and palate has clean spirit seamlessly integrated with elegant fruit and nutty oak.
Comments Off on 919 Reserve Collection Riverland Classic Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Powerful flor yeast aromas; nutty and fresh with a bone dry palate that is elegant but also full of flavour with a drying finish. Excellent aperitif style
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Posted: June 9, 2017
Big and rich with some great aged/rancio characters. Raisined aromas lift off the nose. The excellent sweet palate is perfectly balanced and layered with fresh oak and bitey spirit.
Comments Off on Lauriston Show Muscat NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A very good young wine with a lifted nose and a lovely palate that’s uniquely Rutherglen brown muscat.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
A wine with lovely intensity, fullness and age. Loads of rancio characters lift off the nose and the palate offers a big mouthful of intense toffee and chocolaty/mocha flavours.
Comments Off on Morris Rare Old Premium Rutherglen Topaque NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
An elegant style with medium amber hues and excellent green tinges. It is loaded with fresh oak, drying tannins and warming spirit with good rancio/Hessian like age.
Comments Off on Shaw Family Vintners Ballast Stone Old Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
An excellent lighter style of tawny that offers easy drinking and is showing some great aged/rancio flavours supported by some excellent warming spirit.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
A top wine with fabulous spirit and sherry-like characters on the nose and an elegant palate with good level of rancio without being over the top. Lovely drying finish.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
Dark and deep and showing extreme age and therefore high volatility. It has fabulous rancio and spirit and fresh young oak with excellent flavours length and dry finish.
Comments Off on Seppeltsfield Para Rare Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A classic botrytis style – lemony characters are layered with apricot elements. Great acid.
Comments Off on Margrain Botrytis Selection Martinborough Chenin Blanc 2014 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A very attractive, very sweet wine ideal to serve with the sweetest of desserts. This late harvest wine exhibits lovely zesty fruit wrapped in creamy complexity.
Comments Off on Giesen The Brothers Marlborough Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc (375ml) 2012 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A beautifully complex, but wonderfully youthful, botrytis riesling that has excellent fruity aromas and zesty citrussy flavours.
Comments Off on Hunters Dessert Wine Marlborough Riesling 2014 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A lifted bouquet and great length of apricot like botrytis flavours.
Comments Off on Tamburlaine Reserve Organic Noble Chardonnay 2013 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Quite elegant with the botrytis sweetness nicely balanced by lemon green like varietal characters and has a long lingering acid finish.
Comments Off on Yealands Estate Single Vineyard Awatere Valley Marlborough Noble Sauvignon Blanc (375ml) 2014 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Simple, youthful and fruity. It appears very young and has a touch of tannin.
Comments Off on Morris Black Label Rutherglen Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A beautifully authentic vintage port with good fruit and genuine vintage port flavours and overall structure. Heady spirit with drying tannins and a long clean finish.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
A lovely dry, steely, austere wine. “Top colour”, commented one judge. Has wonderful complexity of aged rancio characters and nutty warmth. A classic Aussie style
Comments Off on Morris Mia Aged Amber Rutherglen Apera NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A classic commercial wine – true to style with genuine sweet fig and cold tea like characters on the nose and palate. Excellent freshness.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
A youthful number with excellent colour, sweet lifted aromas and some very concentrated varietal flavours on the drying palate.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
Amazingly powerful and intense aromas and flavours here. It has endless sweet raisined fruit layered with coffee, chocolate and toffee elements.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
A big rich Christmas pudding of a wine that’s deep amber in colour with a lovely lift of mocha on the nose and great fruit, oak and nice nuttiness on the palate.
Comments Off on Morris Cellar Reserve Rutherglen Grand Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A gorgeous incredibly rich and viscous style showing great age and rancio characters that are layered with developed toffee and raisin-like elements.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
Very deep green hues with wonderful marmalade and fig like aromas and a delicious complexity of fruit, wood age and tannins on the lusciously flavoursome palate.
Comments Off on Morris Rare Liqueur Rutherglen Topaque NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
This wine has it all – it is rich and complex and seamlessly balanced with great rancio characters, nice wood influence and excellent fruit creating super concentrated flavours.
Comments Off on Morris Rutherglen Grand Liqueur Muscat (500ml) NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Quite youthful with nice bitey spirit and very good, genuine, muscat flavours with a pleasant warming finish.
Comments Off on Morris Rutherglen Classic Liqueur Muscat NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Excellent green hues with yellow tints. A bouquet is very lifted with a lovely concentration of toffee/raisin-like characters all of which are echoed on the palate.
Comments Off on Morris Rutherglen Classic Liqueur Tokay NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A big style with excellent development and lovely creamy/malty harmony obvious on the palate which shows a good deal of oak dryness.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
Warm, clean and elegant with genuine flor characters. The long palate shows lovely dryness and exhibits a delicate touch of apple-like nuances.
Comments Off on Morris Pale Flor Rutherglen Apera NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A lovely wine with zesty sweet apricot fruit and a clean acid finish.
Comments Off on Penfolds Cellar Reserve Barossa Valley Viognier 2014 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Very deep colour with an elegance of fruit characters on the nose with some nice drying spirit on the perfectly balanced palate.
Comments Off on Baileys VP140 Vintage 2012 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A real Rutherglen classic with lovely fresh muscat fruit blended with dry berry-like characters. The palate is sweet but with lovely complexity and an excellent drying tannic finish.
Comments Off on Baileys Founders Series Classic Muscat NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A bigger more viscous liqueur style that shows nice freshness. Excellent colour with attractive toffee/butterscotch characters.
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Posted: June 9, 2017
Fine, restrained and delicate with a lovely lifted bouquet and a fantastic palate that starts sweet and finishes perfectly dry from the spirit and rancio.
Comments Off on Saltram Mr. Pickwick’s Rare Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A huge wine with excellent tawny hues and green highlights. Lovely rancio and spirit lifts off the delightful nose. Has a superb palate with an excellent drying spirit bite to it.
Comments Off on Penfolds Grandfather Rare Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Light, simple and well structured tawny with good oaky dryness.
Comments Off on Penfolds Father Grand Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A sweet, fruity and quite youthful tawny with a lighter spirit driven nose and drying finish to the palate.
Comments Off on Penfolds Club Reserve Classic Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Complex nose; hints of rancio. Freshness on the palate gives the wine great drinkability.
Comments Off on Wolf Blass Yellow Label Australian Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A clean and elegant tawny with good warming spirit and nice drying finish.
Comments Off on Wolf Blass Red Label Australian Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Young, simple and genuine muscat with an excellent balance of fruit, coffee and chocolate characters with nice oak dryness.
Comments Off on Saddler’s Creek Wines Exclusive Muscat NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Very sweet but it is balanced by some lovely complex fruit characters with the slightest of hair oil like nuances in the mouth.
Comments Off on Saddler’s Creek Wines Supreme Botrytis 2013 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Creamy malty aromas and a very sweet and simple but attractive flavour profile.
Comments Off on GMH Sweet White South Australia Noble (375ml) 2010 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A delicious complexity of apricots laced with nutty characters obvious on both the nose and the seamless palate..
Comments Off on Pertaringa Autumn Harvest Adelaide Riesling Gewurztraminer 2013 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
An attractive and complex wine with lovely amber hues and apricot/marmalade elements on the nose and palate.
Comments Off on Dog Ridge Noble Rot Semillon Zibibbo McLaren Vale Noble Blend (375ml) NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
Dark creamy liqueur like nose and big sweet Vegemite flavours with balancing spirit.
Comments Off on Banderra Estate Lucien Central Ranges NSW Tawny NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A commercial style that is clean, elegant and simple and is a touch sweet.
Comments Off on Banderra Estate Cream Central Ranges NSW Oloroso NV / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A lovely limey nose and great length of delicious citrus based flavours.
Comments Off on Reillys Cane Cut Clare Valley Riesling 2013 / 0 View / June 9, 2017
Posted: June 9, 2017
A delicate wine with sweet citrus fruit balanced by some powerful lemony acidity.
Comments Off on Bass River 1835 Gippsland Ice Riesling 2014 / 0 View / June 9, 2017