Posted: December 2, 2021
A still amazingly youthful, fruit driven style with lovely flow and balance of pretty pear and stonefruit varietal characters. The acid backbone ties it all together.
Comments Off on Gralyn Estate Reserve Margaret River Chardonnay 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Bright purple savoury/meaty oak driven style with tight tannin structure.
Comments Off on Gralyn Estate Reserve Margaret River Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Extremely bright and vibrant for its age. Lovely peppery blackcurrant fruit characters with classy oak and some leathery-like maturity. 5+
Comments Off on Gralyn Estate Reserve Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Spicy leathery nose and intense prune-like flavour richness to the palate.
Comments Off on Reillys Dry Land Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Rich fig-like bouquet and generous varietal fruit flavours seamlessly layered with spicy oak.
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Posted: December 2, 2021
A dense powerful inky fruit cake of a nose with a dark heavy black fruit palate.
Comments Off on Ten Miles East Adelaide Hills Saperavi 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Stewed ripe fruit nose with meaty highlights. Palate has interest, complexity, harmony and length.
Comments Off on Ten Miles East Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A menthol lift to the blueberry bouquet with an aged mocha/caramel-like flavour profile.
Comments Off on Totino Adelaide Hills Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Still has a youthful freshness of passionfruit, melons and citrus with good line of acid.
Comments Off on Cockfighter’s Ghost Single Vineyard Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
An intense cedar chest of oak with varietal fruit sitting underneath and nice drying tannins.
Comments Off on Chateau Mouton Rothschild Pauillac France Bordeaux Blend 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A very concentrated and complex wine but still a tad closed with a subdued cigar box of a nose and an elegant and tightly structured palate.
Comments Off on Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac France Bordeaux Blend 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A classic style of cabernet – good depth of purple, lovely ripe cassis fruit and grainy tannins.
Comments Off on Firetail Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A very big, old school, blockbuster of a wine. High alcohol and drying tannins.
Comments Off on Kurtz Family Vineyards Boundary Row Barossa Cabernet Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
An elegantly structured wine with powerful oak, sweet fruit and lots of acid.
Comments Off on Swings & Roundabouts Wildwood Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Big chocolaty lift to the nose and a huge and complex concentration of cassis and blueberries on the lively and warming, but elegant, palate.
Comments Off on Bec Hardy Wines Pertaringa Tipsy Hill McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Sweet spicy fruit fragrances and fleshy tannic palate starting to develop nicely.
Comments Off on Reillys RCV ‘Moonvine’ Clare Valley Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Full bodied, ripe and chocolaty varietal with attractive savoury elements.
Comments Off on Reillys Dry Land Clare Valley Merlot 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A rich chocolaty style of cabernet – quite oaky with good line of acid.
Comments Off on Beresford Estate McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
An oak dominated chocolaty cabernet, but it also has the fruit to handle it.
Comments Off on Leconfield Coonawarra ‘The Sydney’ Reserve Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A big oaky wine with sweet ripe fruit sitting underneath and ripe tannins.
Comments Off on Château Mourgues du Grès Terre d’Argence Rouge (EcoCert) Costieres De Nimes France Shiraz Grenache 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Interesting wine; lovely creaminess. Quite dusty aromas with a soft, pretty, balanced palate.
Comments Off on Ara Resolute (BioGro NZ) Marlborough Pinot Noir 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A well-made wine with a lively lychee and citrus bouquet and a very attractive varietal fruit palate with balancing acidity and lovely complexity developing.
Comments Off on Konrad Dry (BioGro NZ) Marlborough Riesling 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Bright complex oak driven wine with lovely freshness of berry fruit.
Comments Off on Greystone (Biogro NZ) North Canterbury Pinot Noir 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A floral/menthol style of cabernet that is flavoursome, well-structured and ageing well.
Comments Off on d’Arenberg The High Trellis McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Full bodied complex wine with generous weight of spicy plum varietal characters.
Comments Off on Whistling Kite Riverland Sparkling Petit Verdot 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A powerful full-bodied style with a stylish complexity of pears and honeysuckle.
Comments Off on Famille Hugel Classic Alsace France Pinot Gris 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Sweet/spicy fruit fragrances and developing fruit flavours. High acid. Moderate oak.
Comments Off on Arlequin Barossa Valley Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Blue fruit fragrances with a violet-like floral lift and a firm, weighty and soft tannin palate.
Comments Off on Grounded Cru Inc McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Lolly-like aromas with a floral lift and nice oak on the palate that supports the fruit well.
Comments Off on Grounded Cru Cru McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A generous, straightforward, chocolaty wine with hints of date and cola characters.
Comments Off on Hastwell & Lightfoot 38 Days McLaren Vale Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Eucalypt/peppermint characters on the nose and a malty oak driven palate.
Comments Off on Morgan Simpson Row 42 McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Complex dried fig-like aromas with a lean cool climate style palate.
Comments Off on Ekhidna Wines Bin 8 Fleurieu Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Red fruit bouquet with a leathery edge and a spicy lift. Elegant palate in the savoury spectrum.
Comments Off on Ekhidna Wines Bin 8 Fleurieu Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Brooding briary berry bouquet with quite a gravelly tannic palate.
Comments Off on Ekhidna Wines Fleurieu Malbec 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Soft full-bodied wine, some bottle age developing with flavours of cherries, coffee and walnuts.
Comments Off on Ekhidna Wines She Viper McLaren Vale Grenache 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
An interesting savoury/meaty style layered with red fruits and herbs with developing complexity.
Comments Off on Ekhidna Wines She Viper McLaren Vale Grenache Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A savoury style with dark fruit characters, vanilla notes, generous chewy tannins and some bright acidity.
Comments Off on Ekhidna Wines She Viper McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Slightly ethereal and complex red and blue fruits edged with dried herbs and a fine tannin spine.
Comments Off on Ekhidna Wines Whole Bunch McLaren Vale Grenache 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Interesting fruity aromatics and a flavoursome, savoury and spicy rhubarb palate.
Comments Off on Ekhidna Wines Back Block McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Savoury blue fruits laced with woody spices and some secondary elements developing.
Comments Off on Ekhidna Wines Linchpin McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A lovely lifted varietal fruit bouquet and a generous briary fruit palate with chewy tannins.
Comments Off on Grandeur Wellington Gen 62 McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Nose has a chocolaty/cola complexity with sweetness running through the fruit palate.
Comments Off on Grandeur Wellington Gen 69 McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Confectionery fruit fragrances and a chocolaty palate with a core of red fruit.
Comments Off on Pertaringa Tipsy Hill McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
The blue fruit nose has a perfumed lift of violets and lavender with generous chocolaty licorice flavours.
Comments Off on Pertaringa Yeoman McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
A dense bouquet of dark fruits, cherry cola and licorice with a generous, sweet and chewy palate, quite savoury and showing good tannin profile and integration.
Comments Off on The Old Faithful McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Dark, ripe and brooding with forest floor-like edge to the blue varietal fruit. Chewy tannins and tart acid.
Comments Off on The Old Faithful Café Block McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Dark brooding fruit and truffle-like aromas with a dense, generous and slightly shaded fruit palate.
Comments Off on James Busby McLaren Vale Shiraz 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Subtle peach bouquet and an elegant seamlessly balanced palate.
Comments Off on Briar Ridge Briar Hill Single Vineyard Hunter Valley Chardonnay 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Very attractive bright fragrant aromas. A tight palate with good drive and persistence of lemon/citrus flavours.
Comments Off on Colmar Estate Orange Brut Rosé 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Pale yellow semillon that is ageing beautifully. Good length, weight and balance of citrus fruit characters with a developed toasty lift and nice acid backbone.
Comments Off on Coolangatta Estate Wollstonecraft Shoalhaven Coast Semillon 2017 / 0 View / December 2, 2021