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Albino Rocca Barbaresco Ovello Vigna Loreto 2022
$170.00Jeremy’s score 97/100A supremely stylish, complex and alluring nebbiolo whose opulent perfume of briary red and black fruits is lifted by alluring floral scents and laced with notes of mineral and spice. Medium to fullish in weight, it’s long and fine-grained, supported by a firmish spine of spine of fine, drying tannins before finishing fresh and savoury. Ready to enjoy now or over the next two decades. A stunner.
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Best’s Great Western Bin No. 1 Shiraz 2021
$27.00Jeremy’s score 92/100A fine, elegant, charmingly perfumed and expressive young Great Western shiraz laced with musky aromas of red berries and plums, mulberries, cracked pepper and a whiff of dark chocolate. Medium to fullish in weight, it’s ripe and forward, extending after breathing to unfold a long, tight-grained and complete palate of faintly meaty, spicy red and black fruits, finishing soft and gentle. Likely to become more savoury and expressive with age, it presents the purity and expression this region is known for.
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Best’s Great Western Merlot 2024
$45.00Jeremy’s score 92/100A supple, fine and seamless merlot whose vibrant aromas of dark cherries and berries are lifted by scents of dark flowers, minerals and a whiff of spearmint, and gently backed by cedary oak. Supported by pliant, firmish and drying tannins, it’s pristine and translucently clear, with a vibrant core of cherry/plum fruit driving long and gentle toward a lingering finish that will become more savoury with time. This is the first release under this label for almost 20 years and while I wouldn’t normally associate Great Western with merlot, I feel there’s something pretty special happening on the Best’s vineyard.
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Best’s Great Western Young Vine Pinot Meunier 2025
$45.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Deeply scented with red cherries, raspberries, musky spices and red rose petals, this alluring and artfully made young meunier is perhaps the finest yet released under this label. There’s a round fleshiness about the alate and its delivery of plush, perfectly ripened dark red fruit and an artfully integrated spine of crunchy tannin that provides the perfect springboard for the vibrancy of its fruit. Underpinned by a note of red licorice that becomes more emphatic towards the finish, it’s long, savoury and delightfully wrapped in soft but refreshing acids.
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Brand’s Laira Blockers Cabernet Sauvignon 2024
$22.00Jeremy’s score 91/100A polished, plush and varietally expressive young cabernet whose densely packed aromas of cassis, mulberries, dark plus and cedar/chocolate oak precede a long and sumptuously flavoured palate whose pristine core of ripe fruit is underpinned by a fine, firmish spine of slatey tannins. There’s just a hint of mint and menthol about this fine Coonawarra red that should continue to develop in the bottle for at least a decade.
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Champagne Laherte-Frères Les Beaudiers Rosé de Saignée 2018
$175.00Jeremy’s score 96/100A stunning rosé Champagne made exclusively from a small pinot meunier planting around 60 years of age. Its bright perfume of rose petals and strawberries precedes a generous, round and stylish palate of pleasing concentration, balance and length. Underpinned by a fine chalkiness, it extends long and savoury, finishing dry and mineral.
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Champagne Larmandier-Bernier Latitude Blanc de Blancs NV
$140.00Jeremy’s score 95/100A beautifully measured, stylish and savoury Champagne (100% chardonnay) whose alluring bouquet of yellow flowers, creamy yeasty notes, white peach and a hint of mineral is evolving some toasty, buttery aspects. It’s superbly long, finishing with a refreshing and almost bone-dry finish of brittle, but tightly knit acidity.
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Chateau de Rayne Vigneau Sauternes 1986
$280.00Jeremy’s score NR / 100A warm summer following a cold winter and cool springtime has delivered a beautifully mature and complex dessert wine right in the window of balance between development and freshness.
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Chateau Langoa Barton Grand Cru Classe 2019 (375 ml)
$95.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Laden with intense dark berries, cherries and plum-like fruit knit with classically cigarboxy oak and supported by a fine, silky extract, this elegant and flavoursome St Julien is scented with dark flowers, dried herbs and cedar. Impressively long, measured and sumptuous to enjoy now, but with the ability to age long and gracefully.
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Chateau Margaux Cabernet Blend 1983
$3,100.00Jeremy’s score 98/100An exercise in balance and finesse, this is a classic Margaux that delivers a truly exceptional bouquet of smoky, cigarboxy and underbrush, with a long, silky and red-fruited palate that seamlessly extends forever. One of the highlights of this spectacular vintage.
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Chateau Mouton-Rothschild Le Petit Mouton (Formerly Le Second Vin) Cabernet Blend 1993
$340.00Jeremy’s score NR / 100 -
Craiglee JADV Shiraz 2021
$50.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Given a splash of around 2% viognier – which adds to the floral nature of its perfume as well as the flesh and roundness of its palate – this is an elegant, savoury and mineral shiraz of medium weight. It’s spicy, peppery and musky, with a floral lift to its wild aromas of dark cherries and berries. Supported by a fine, powdery spine, it’s soft and generous, extending long and balanced towards a lingering savoury finish.
