Posted: March 7, 2023
An attractive leafy spicy nose showing a touch of tar and has a mouth-watering inky/herbaceous palate softly structured with drying tannins.
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Posted: September 3, 2022
An interesting and funky charcuterie-like style with tight acid and silky tannins.
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Posted: September 3, 2022
Red fruit aromas with a savoury edge and minty notes. Long, lean palate but with well-integrated sweet varietal fruit.
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Posted: July 21, 2022
Stalky red berry bouquet with a gum leaf lift and inky fruit palate.
Comments Off on Whistling Kite Biodynamic (ACO) Riverland Mencia 2020 / 0 View / July 21, 2022
Posted: April 14, 2022
Minty dark berry bouquet and some interesting spiciness to the blue fruit palate; some astringency.
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Posted: December 3, 2021
Pleasant perfumed sweet cherry/berry nose and palate. Still very young with soft tannins.
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Posted: December 3, 2021
Attractive dark briary/leafy fruit that is nicely framed by the gravelly tannins and fresh acidity.
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Posted: December 3, 2021
A complex and nicely maturing wine with sour cherry and cough syrup-like fruit characters. Shows good use of oak, has soft tannins and a high level of acid.
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Posted: December 2, 2021
Brooding blackberry and black olive nose and a dense youthful palate with a tannic finish.
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Posted: December 2, 2021
Nutty, earthy and inky nose and soft red fruit palate; some leafy notes.
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Posted: November 30, 2021
Vibrant red currant aromas with hints of strawberry jam and a long well-structured strawberry fruit/vanillin oak palate.
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Posted: November 30, 2021
Very drinkable simple style. Hints of roses on the nose and great persistence of dark floral berry fruit flavours.
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Posted: November 30, 2021
Deep red wine with a vibrant perfumed red berry fruit bouquet and lovely dark and juicy red fruit flavours on the warming palate. “Very drinkable!”
Comments Off on Whistling Kite (ACO Certified Biodynamic) Riverland Mencia 2019 / 0 View / November 30, 2021
Posted: April 8, 2020
A light bright complexity of both sweet fruit and herbaceous characters.
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Posted: December 10, 2019
Purple fruit fragrances and a firm assertive tannic palate with spicy plum flavours.
Comments Off on d’Arenberg The Anthropocene Epoch McLaren Vale Mencia 2018 / 0 View / December 10, 2019
Posted: November 7, 2018
An oak driven wine with jammy sweet berry characters underneath held together by juicy acidity. 3-5
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Posted: November 7, 2018
Resinous red fruit notes to the nose and simple youthful mixed berry palate with some spiciness and gentle acidity. 3-5
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Posted: May 2, 2018
Fruit focussed with fresh aromatic herbal/blackcurrant aromas and interesting flavours. A pasta wine!
Comments Off on d’Arenberg The Anthropocene Epoch McLaren Vale Mencia 2017 / 0 View / May 2, 2018