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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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Pizzini La Volpe Nebbiolo 2024
$35.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Deeply perfumed with spicy scents of rose petals, raspberries, red cherries and a whiff of oak, this round, generous and juicy young nebbiolo unfolds a mouthfilling core of raspberries, maraschino cherries and strawberry-like fruit that extends long and vivacious down a fine, sandpapery spine before being wrapped in a savoury finish of vital, refreshing acidity. While it’s young, give it a little time to breathe if you can.
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Pizzini NV Prosecco NV
$24.00Jeremy’s score 91/100Full of fruit and flavour, this crunchy, crackly young prosecco opens a bouquet of pear, apple skin and dried almonds and delivers a long, generous core of flavour that extends with excellent length, drive and freshness. There’s a hint of tangy saltiness about its dry-ish finish that helps serve its typical purpose at the start of a meal.
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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.
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Raventos i Blanc de Nit Rosado 2020
$65.00Jeremy’s score 93/100A dash of monastrell contributes the blush to this deluxe Cava, whose creamy, smoky and biscuity bouquet of positive small berry fruit and dried flowers reveals charmingly meaty and oxidative undertones. It’s crackly and crunchy, with a mouthfilling presence of fruit extending long and generous down a chalky palate towards a lingering dry and savoury finish.
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Renzaglia Sangiovese 2024
$37.00Jeremy’s score 92/100Powerfully aromatic, musky and spicy, it unfolds a briary bouquet whose scents of blackberries, cranberries and blood plums reveal fiery, earthy nuances and a whiff of red flowers. It’s long, mouthfilling and hits the varietal bullseye with a palate of translucent clarity and elegance that drives down and fine, gravelly spine before finishing with a classically refreshing acidity. A true delight that’s as expressive and Tuscan-like as it is stylish and measured.
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Rob Hall Full Moon Vineyard Chardonnay 2024
$43.00Jeremy’s score 93/100A finely crafted Yarra Valley chardonnay that finds pleasing middle ground between the provision of ample fruit and flavour with some genuine style and shape. Bright aromas of peach and melon backed by creamy, nutty and faintly buttery oak reveal nuances of coriander and mineral. Its palate commences round and generous, extending long and medium in weight before tapering towards a focused finish of mouthwatering acidity.
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Rochford Hill Road Syrah 2021
$42.00Jeremy’s score 92/100An elegant, medium-weight, sweetly fruited and textural Yarra shiraz with some powerful St Joseph-like qualities. It’s musky, meaty and spicy, with dark plum and dark berry aromas lifted by a whiff of cracked pepper. Backed by a fine, powdery spine, it’s long and savoury, fleshing out with more richness of fruit with extended time in the glass, finishing with suggestions of charcuterie meats and mineral. If you’re drinking it young, aerate it well.
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Sanguine Estate D’Orsa Shiraz 2021
$70.00Jeremy’s score 94/100A sumptuous Heathcote shiraz whose brightly lit bouquet of dark berries, plums and chocolatey oak reveals smoky undertones of roasting meats and bramble. Smooth and seamless, delivering a concentrated expression of dark plums, blackberries and redcurrants, it’s tightly knit with fine-grained oak and framed by a chewy extract of gravelly tannin. Despite its richness and generosity, there’s more than an element of Rhone-like style about this wine, which finishes with lingering sour-edged fruits, earthiness and a savoury aspect.
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Sanguine Estate Progeny Shiraz 2022
$26.00Jeremy’s score 90/100A shapely, medium to full-bodied shiraz whose heady, wild and peppery scent of blackberries, dark plums and a whiff of chocolatey oak is lifted by a note of eastern spice. Long and complete, its penetrative expression of dark plums and berries knits with chocolate/cedar/vanilla oak, is underpinned by fine drying tannins and finishes with lingering notes of licorice.
