Posted: June 16, 2017
Weighty, fully dry style with youthful, ripe stonefruit flavours and hints of pears and spices. Rich, finely textured wine, already drinking well.
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Posted: June 16, 2017
Very pale pink blend of merlot (principally) and syrah, fermented to full dryness in old French oak barrels. ‘Serious’ style, mouthfilling, with peachy, spicy flavours, hints of strawberry and apricot, and good complexity. Best drinking mid-2015+.
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Posted: June 16, 2017
Very fresh lychee, rose petal bouquet and very delicate citrus/floral palate with good flavour intensity and fresh zesty acidity
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Posted: June 15, 2017
Light fruit nose overlaid with walnuts. Interesting peachy palate developing toffee notes.
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Posted: April 26, 2017
Aromatic, fresh and lively, this youthful, light-bodied wine was hand-picked at 19.8 brix and made in an off-dry style (7.3 grams/litre residual sugar). Racy, with very good depth of lemon/lime flavours and a slightly minerally thread, it’s well worth cellaring;…
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Posted: April 26, 2017
Already delicious, this enticingly floral and supple red was hand-harvested at over 24 brix, fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured for 10 months in French oak barriques (25 per cent new). Bright ruby, it is sweet-fruited and savoury, with cherry,…
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Posted: April 26, 2017
Leafy dark fruit bouquet with hints of toffee-like notes. Big rich palate with excellent balance between the lovely ripe fruit and well handled oak and showing savory bacon notes. 5+
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Posted: April 26, 2017
The nose has moss-like elements and cherry wood with a lovely lift of floral varietal fruit. Long, firm palate with the fruit carrying across the whole length of the palate. 5+
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Posted: April 5, 2017
A classic pinot with genuine varietal fruit characters. Lovely lifted spicy fruit aromas and a wonderful complex varietal palate that’s more savoury than sweet and finishes cleanly.
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Posted: April 4, 2017
A dense but very approachable style. Interesting clove-like characters to the nose which carry through to the grippy blue fruit palate.
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Tight light oaky nose and a warm and creamy palate with some citrus characters and good use of oak.
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Posted: April 4, 2017
A powerful wine; tight and young and needs time. Loads of oak obvious on both nose and palate but freshness of berry fruit underneath.
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Fresh youthful citrussy bouquet; a tad restrained. Good palate richness and nicely weighted varietal fruit with lovely crisp, fresh acid to balance.
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Posted: April 4, 2017
Sweet gooseberry fruit style with a hint of rock melons on the nose and a very flavoursome, seamlessly balanced, varietally pure, palate.
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Posted: April 3, 2017
Elegant wine, fully barrel-fermented, with a fragrant, mealy, slightly biscuity bouquet. Full-bodied and fresh, with vibrant, ripe fruit flavours, a subtle oak influence and good length.
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