Posted: April 4, 2017
Full ruby, with strong, ripe plum, spice and dried herb flavours, seasoned with smoky oak (16 months in French barriques), excellent complexity and a firm finish. $40
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Lively, youthful, aromatic wine with concentrated, citrusy, limey flavours, hints of apricot and nectarine, and a slightly sweet, mouth-wateringly crisp finish. Enjoyed by all judges. $20
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Mouthfilling, ripely flavoured wine with good acidity and tropical fruit characters, showing very good freshness and depth. $25 (A, UK)
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Fleshy, mouthfilling wine, fermented with indigenous yeasts and lees-aged for six months in French oak casks. Rich and harmonious, with strong, tropical fruit flavours, fresh and generous. (One judge scored it five stars). $30
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Youthful, crisp and tightly structured, this is a full-bodied wine with generous passionfruit and lime flavours, very fresh and punchy.
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Already delicious, this deep ruby red is fragrant and supple, with fresh, generous cherry, plum and spice flavours. Matured in French oak barriques, it’s full of charm, with some aging potential.
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Posted: April 4, 2017
This appetisingly crisp, mouthfilling wine has strong, ripely herbaceous flavours, showing a touch of bottle-aged complexity. Drinking well now but also ageworthy, it is sweet-fruited and tightly structured, with a lingering finish.
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Finely textured, with a persistent finish, this is an instantly attractive wine. Hand-picked and made in a medium style (28 grams/litre residual sugar), it is still fresh and youthful, with concentrated, ripe peach, pear and spice flavours. Best drinking mid-2016+.
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Still very youthful, this fragrant, estate-grown wine was hand-harvested and fermented and matured for over a year in French oak barriques (25% new). Concentrated, with vibrant, peachy, citrusy, slightly biscuity flavours, woven with fresh acidity, and finely integrated oak, it…
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