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St Anne’s Bluegrass Tawny NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

A sweet simple style with lots of young oak and nice toasty, chocolaty/coffee bean characters.

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St Anne’s Foundry Fortified NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

A classic, attractive, ageing tawny style. Muscat characters mingle with toffee and nutty elements.

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GMH South Eastern Australia Noble Sweet White 2016

Posted: April 20, 2017

Lovely bouquet of melon fruit, figs and marmalade. Complex fruit flavours on the luscious palate with zesty acid to balance.

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Hand Crafted by Geoff Hardy Australia Muscat NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

Excellent depth of green/golden hues with delightful chocolaty toffee and fig aromas. Sweet and rounded in the mouth with a biscuity texture and aged flavours of caramel and fruit cake.

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K1 by Geoff Hardy Adelaide Hills Autumn Harvest Riesling 2016

Posted: April 20, 2017

Elegant botrytis nose; toasty, honeyed and citrussy. Generous luscious flavour profile.

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Pertaringa Rampart McLaren Vale Vintage Fortified 2015

Posted: April 20, 2017

A rich vintage style with a vibrant red licorice and spicy raspberry bouquet. Good length and texture to the firm sweet palate.

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Lake Chalice Sweet Beak Marlborough Late Harvest Riesling 2015

Posted: April 20, 2017

The nose is a zesty complexity of honeyed, perfumed and floral fragrances. Attractive sweet fruit palate. Good acid balance.

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Saint Clair Godfrey’s Creek Reserve Marlborough Noble Riesling (375ml) 2013

Posted: April 20, 2017

Pungent tropical fruit characters layered with some citrus and hints of apricots. Some sweetness but good acidity.

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919 Wines Limited Release Vintage Riverland Fortified 2006

Posted: April 20, 2017

A powerful hit of Ribena and chocolate-like aromas and the beautiful aged nose. Palate offers a big mouthful of intense brambly flavours. Nice acid line. Sweet on the finish.

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919 Wines Limited Release Vintage Riverland Fortified 2009

Posted: April 20, 2017

Delightful perfumed style. Excellent colour. Black tea and cassis fragrances with licorice notes. Rich mouthcoating cassis fruit flavours. Great acid/tannin balance.

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919 Wines Limited Release Vintage Riverland Fortified 2013

Posted: April 20, 2017

Lovely intensely rich berry fruit and chocolaty aromas and flavours. Perfumed lift to the nose and beautifully soft in the mouth.

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919 Wines Classic Riverland Muscat NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

Great nose; all Christmas cake, raisins and toffee. The palate is a good complexity of oak and luscious sweet muscat fruit and has an overall elegance to it.

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919 Wines Classic Riverland Topaque NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

Slightly malty hints to the cold tea, rose petal and Turkish Delight bouquet. Great intensity and freshness on the palate with luscious sweet flavours and excellent fruit complexity.

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919 Wines Classic Riverland Tawny NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

A classic with nutty caramel aromas and flavours, hints of orange peel, great oak and aged complexity.

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919 Wines Reserve Pale Dry Riverland Apera NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

Excellent spirit use here and still shows a good level of fruit. Creamy and nutty in the mouth with crisp clean acid length.

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919 Wines Latin Collection Ruby Riverland Fortified NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

A well made fruity ruby style with nice balance of aniseed with dark plums and licorice characters. Easy drinking.

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919 Wines Latin Collection Lambada Riverland White Fortified NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

A light muscat nose with hints of cold tea and fish oil and lovely toffee/muscat flavours.

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Buller Wines Calliope Rare Rutherglen Frontignac NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

A very old, luscious and seamlessly balanced style with great freshness and a rich concentration of chocolate, prunes and Christmas cake like characters.

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Buller Wines Calliope Rare Rutherglen Muscat NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

Powerful nose of caramels and floral fruit with nice nuttiness. Syrupy sweet palate has great length and freshness, good fruit, great age and more of the nutty notes.

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Buller Wines Calliope Rare Rutherglen Tokay NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

A huge somewhat extracted style with great old toffee aged complexity but has obvious young fresh oak characters. Malty toffee bouquet and chocolate truffle flavours.

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Buller Wines Calliope Grand Rutherglen Tokay NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

Turkish Delight and cold tea fragrances lift off the nose. A lovely freshness and complexity of sultana-like fruit fills the mouth with flavour. Sweet on the finish.

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Buller Wines Calliope Grand Rutherglen Muscat NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

Excellent combination of aged characters with good level of freshness. Lifted sweet floral nose and rich sweet malty flavours.

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Buller Wines Fine Old Victoria Tokay NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

Quite youthful with an excellent complexity of malt and butterscotch on the lifted nose and hints of rose petal. Oily textured palate; long and balanced with malty/sultana flavours.

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Buller Wines Fine Old Victoria Muscat NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

Floral, raisined aromas and lolly sweet fig-like characters and nutty fruit cake flavours on a sweet viscous palate.

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Yaldara 20 Year Old Barossa Valley Tawny NV

Posted: April 20, 2017

Chocolaty bouquet laced with prunes, spices and licorice characters. Generous rounded palate rich with fruit cake and licorice-like flavours. Great rancio. Very drinkable.

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