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Pewsey Vale Vineyard Prima 24GR Riesling 2024
$29.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Scented with fresh red apple skin, musky white flowers, a whiff of honey and a hint of lemon blossom, this long, textural and complete young riesling artfully balances its clearly evident sweetness with a combination of texture and acidity. Its drive of apple, pear and lime flavour finishes fresh and mouthwatering. The perfect al fresco wine for summer. There’s a hint of oiliness that’s likely to become more pronounced with time.
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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 94/100An expressive and measured sangiovese whose deep fragrance of blood plums, redcurrants and eastern spices precedes a deeply ripened, handsomely oaked but restrained palate of medium to fullish weight. It’s stylish and fine-grained, with a pleasing length of faintly sour-edged berry/cherry/plum fruit wrapped in a typically brisk acidity. It’s now building richness and weight as it develops 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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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.
