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Pike and Joyce Descente Sauvignon Blanc 2022
$25.00Jeremy’s score 92/100Pure and expressive, with a voluminous and very faintly herbal bouquet of gooseberries, passionfruit, lychees and cassis. Long and generous, with a pure, fruit-focused palate moving down a fine, powdery spine, it finishes with pleasing length of varietal flavour and refreshing acidity. Terrific value.
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Pike and Joyce Descente Sauvignon Blanc 2023
$25.00Jeremy’s score 90/100A finer, leaner and more austere expression of this variety from a cooler season whose bright and faintly herbal fragrance of gooseberries and lychees reveals nuances of cassis and passionfruit. Textural and shapely, with a pleasing length of restrained but lively fruit, it culminates with a lemony and fainty briny finish. Think of shellfish and tapas.
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Pike and Joyce Innesti Nebbiolo 2021
$40.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Scented with faintly musky, peppery aromas of raspberries, redcurrants, red cherries and dark plums lifted with sweet floral notes and backed by nuances of graphite and a faint meatiness. It’s supple and medium-bodied, extending a fine length of red fruits down its fine spine of drying tannins, finishing with freshness, balance and a savoury aspect.
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Pike and Joyce L’optimiste Shiraz 2022
$40.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Spicy and savoury, this is a soft, smooth and unctuous expression of a cooler climate shiraz whose bouquet steadily reveals aromas of redcurrants, raspberries, blackberries and fresh cesary oak backed by faintly herbal, menthol-like notes. Moderate in weight, its structure takes time to emerge, but provides adequate balance and composition for medium-term cellaring. Charming and elegant, with a mouthwatering finish.
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Pikes Il Premio Sangiovese 2021
$75.00Jeremy’s score 92/100A youthful and measured sangiovese whose fragrance of blood plums, redcurrants and eastern spices precedes a youth, restrained palate of medium weight. It’s stylish and fine-grained, with a pleasing length of faintly sour-edged berry/cherry/plum fruit that is wrapped in a typically brisk acidity and will build richness with bottle-age.
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Pikes The EWP Reserve Shiraz 2021
$75.00Jeremy’s score 96/100Heady, musky aromas of blackberries, dark plums, cassis and redcurrants are knit with superb, faintly gamey cedar/mocha oak and lifted by notes of spice and cracked pepper. Long and seamless, its pristine, gentle core of faintly sour-edged blood plums, blackberries and cassis is finely knit with chocolatey oak and fine, pliant tannins likely to build extract with time. It’s a polished northern Rhone style, finishing with great balance and savoury qualities. Exceptional.
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Pikes The Merle Riesling 2022
$55.00Jeremy’s score 96/100A heady bouquet of lavender, lime and lemon becomes more mineral as the wine breathes in the glass. Typically long and supple, it reveals a luscious, pristine core of piercing citrus flavour that moves down a fine, slatey palate towards savoury and almost briny finish of minerals and green apple acids. It will evolve superbly.
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Pizzini Sangiovese Shiraz 2022
$23.00Jeremy’s score 88/100Spicy and enticing, with a bright, alluring bouquet of red berries, blood plums, redcurrants and fresh floral notes. Juicy and supple, with a smooth, fruit-driven presence of flavour, it finishes fresh and spotlessly clean. A delicious afternoon quaff or even a red you could easily chill at a barbecue.
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Pra Soave Otto 2021
$42.00Jeremy’s score 91/100Bright aromas of apple blossom, minerals and kaffir lime precede a finely textured, slatey palate whose pristine core of melon, stonefruit and apple skin extends towards a refreshing and vivacious finish of focused acidity. A finer, leaner Soave that’s perfect over summer.
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Range Life Garganega 2023
$26.00Jeremy’s score 94/100A brilliant young white that talks perfectly of its variety, the heart and soul of Soave. Enticing aromas of pear, apple skin, mint and sage precede a mouthwatering palate whose juicy, creamy and finely textured core of flavour extends long and lively towards a refreshingly zippy finish of lemon, lime and pear. There’s an appealing briskness, purity and vitality about this wine, which is by some margin the finest Australian garganega I have tasted. In fact, when I first came across it, I thought it was European.
