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Cannibal Creek Sauvignon Blanc 2022
$40.00Jeremy’s score 94/100Few drinkers of serious Australian wine are even aware of this very Loire-inspired expression from Gippsland in Victoria. Scented with floral notes of lychees, gooseberries and passion fruit backed by meaty, waxy and nougat-like aromas, it’s luscious and layered, long and gentle. Underpinned by minerals and marzipan, it finishes long and savoury with lingering notes of cured citrus and a bright acidity.
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Castle Rock Estate Porongurup Riesling 2024
$32.00Jeremy’s score 94/100Penetrative, heady scents of iris, lavender, pear and apple skin are lifted by a whiff of lime. Forward and juicy, with a luscious core of ripe fruit that drives long and focused down a pithy, almost crunchy backbone, it culminates in a lingering finish of racy, refreshing acids. A fine expression of this benchmark wine.
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Champagne Forget-Brimont Brut Premier Cru NV
$80.00Jeremy’s score 95/100A stylish, complex and layered Champagne whose smoky bouquet of brioche, citrus, nougat and nutmeal reveals a hint of mineral. It’s round and creamy, long and crackly, with a pleasing pinot noir-driven palate of small red fruits backed by developed meaty and yeasty notes extending towards a lingering finish of lemon and grapefruit nuances. It’s clean and almost savoury, bordering on dry.
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Clarnette Viognier 2022
$36.00Jeremy’s score 90/100A spicy scent of white peach, apricot and tangerine lifted by musky, floral aromas precede a long and very restrained palate whose shape and restraint present an appealing alternative to the more oily and coarse expression of many viogniers. It’s savoury, dry and lively – a positive match for many sweet and spicy Asian dishes.
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Corymbia Rocket’s Vineyard Chenin Blanc 2022
$32.00Jeremy’s score 92/100A luscious, mouthfilling white of medium weight whose deep, heady perfume suggests white peach, melon, honeysuckle plus a whiff of spice and dried herbs. It’s long and smooth, with a creamy core of fruit underpinned by a fine, powdery texture and finishing with a refreshing,frisky acidity.
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Corymbia Rocket’s Vineyard Chenin Blanc 2023
$32.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Simply delicious, this beautifully balanced, creamy and layered chenin blanc reveals a faintly smoky and waxy bouquet of green melon, white peach and creamy, nutty, nougat-like undertones. It’s luscious but far from heavy – delivering a creamy, nutty core of white peach, melon and apple that extends long and generous down a fine chalkiness towards a mouthwatering finish of soft, measured acidity.
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Corymbia Rocket’s Vineyard Tempranillo Malbec 2022
$42.00Jeremy’s score 94/100I love what Rob Mann does to craft this exceptional wine from his family’s mature Swan Valley site. Wild, briary and floral, laced with black and blue berries, redcurrants, dark chocolates and blood plums, it reveals a hint of dried herbs. Fullish to medium in weight, its wonderful length of juicy, vivacious black and blue fruits is framed by a firmish, drying extract, finishing long, mineral and savoury with a lingering note of licorice. Since its inception, this label has totally reset the bar for Swan Valley red wine.
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Coulter C1 Chardonnay 2022
$34.00Jeremy’s score 94/100A stylish, flavoursome modern chardonnay whose emphasis on bright grapefruit, white peach and melon-like fruit is deftly backed with restrained oak and nutty, creamy, nougat-like yeast-derived influences. It’s long and focused but has a ripe core of fleshy flavour, extending with translucent brightness and intensity down a fine, slatey spine towards a crisp, focused and refreshing finish. Watch it build with time.
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Coulter C3 Pinot Noir 2022
$34.00Jeremy’s score 93/100An elegant, supple pinot of medium to fullish weight whose musky, floral fragrance of red cherries, redcurrants, blood plums and sweet cedar/vanilla oak reveals notes of paprika-like spice and chocolate. It’s long, gentle and evenly paced, with layers of bright fruit and oak knit with a faintly gravelly, mineral spine, finishing with freshness and balance. Pleasingly savoury; a little reminiscent stylewise of Tollot Beaut.
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Coulter C3 Pinot Noir 2023
$34.00Jeremy’s score 90/100A bright, perfumed young pinot whose musky aromas of raspberries, cherries and rose petals reveal a hint of citrus oil and spice. It’s long and supple, with a village Beaujolais-like weight, with a juicy core of fruit supported by fine, powdery tannins and a hint of dusty oak, finishing with a vivacious acidity. Likely to build richness and depth of the next couple of years.
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Dal Zotto Pucino Prosecco NV NV
$25.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Vibrant and frisky, with a fresh perfume of pear, apple skin and citrusy notes before a long, crackly palate whose pear, apple and lemony flavours reveal a hint of nuttiness and savoury quality. A summer afternoons’ wine.
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Domaine Faively Joseph Faively Bourgogne Rouge Pinot Noir 2021
$59.00Jeremy’s score 92/100Typically flavoursome, well-structured and reliable, this regional level Burgundy presents a spicy, floral expression of pinot noir laced with notes of raspberries and red cherries backed by notes of underbrush and blackcurrant. Firmish and drying, with pleasing fruit weight, it’s long and complete, with a lingering savoury finish.
