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Peccavi Syrah (Formerly Shiraz) 2022
$55.00Jeremy’s score 94/100While Margaret River doesn’t immediately spring to mind as a region ideally suited to shiraz, Peccavi has a long history of crafting savoury, Rhone-inspired expressions of this variety of genuine class. This vintage reveals a musky perfume of cassis, raspberries and blueberries knit with smoky cedar/vanilla oak and lifted by scents of cinnamon, white pepper, violets and red flowers. Smooth and seamless, its succulent core of translucently clear fruit knits perfectly with a fresh oak interface, finishing with style and lingering flavour.
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Peccavi The Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
$150.00Jeremy’s score 97/100Peccavi’s top level cabernet bucks the Australian trend, for it’s based on quality and purity of expression rather than additional ripeness, oak or extract. A heady, essential perfume of cassis, redcurrants, raspberries and dark plums backed by suggestions of dried herbs, minerals and blueberries is deftly supported by gentle cedar/cigarboxy oak. It’s plush and luxuriant but emphasises purity and elegance as it glides down a pliant but chalky spine of grainy tannins, culminating in a lingering finish of remarkable length and balance.
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Peccavi The Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$150.00Jeremy’s score 98/100Simply an astonishing, classical and perfectly balanced cabernet revelling in its style and power. Its bouquet is saturated by with fruit and florals as pristine, concentrated scents of cassis, dark plums and black cherries are tightly knit with cedar/cigarboxy oak and lifted by sweet scents of violets and dried wild herbs. Underpinned by a firmish, powdery spine of drying tannins, its luscious, mouthfilling core of vivacious fruit extends tightly ordered and complete towards a lingering, dry and faintly mineral finish. Exuding class and finesse, it’s emphatic but controlled, flaunting its artful integration with excellent polished oak. A Queen Mary (reference the liner) of a cabernet, and one of the finest from Australia in decades.
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Peccavi The Estate Merlot 2021
$150.00Jeremy’s score 97/100A superb, firm and assertive, genuinely Bordeaux-like merlot revealing a perfect balance between fruit and structure, oak and texture. Deep aromas of dark, ripe cherries, dark plums and fresh cedary oak are lifted by scents of dark blue and black flowers, revealing notes of mineral and gravel, cigarbox and blood plum with breathing. Initially quite fine and silky, its long, smooth and polished palate delivers remarkable plushness and texture, becoming firmer with time in the glass. Driving long and complete, it’s a remarkable marriage of varietal purity and flavour, with everything in perfect place to cellar for decades.
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Peter Lehmann Hill & Valley Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$25.00Jeremy’s score 90/100A fine, balanced and elegant Barossa cabernet whose deep cpre of juicy ripe fruit is knit with cedar/vanilla oak and supported by a fine, drying backbone. Scented with violets, blackberries and cassis, it’s medium to fullish in weight, very approachable right now and will certainly age well over the next four to five years.
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Peter Lehmann Hill & Valley Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
$25.00Jeremy’s score 90/100A fine expression of Barossa Shiraz whose juicy aromas of black and red berries, fresh cedar/chocolate oak and five spice reveal nuances of licorice and bitumen. Round and generous, its rich core of blackberry and cassis-like fruit is underpinned by a firmish chalkiness, finishing long, balanced and with a lingering note of licorice. Great value.
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Peter Lehmann Hill & Valley Eden Valley Riesling 2024
$25.00Jeremy’s score 91/100A youthful, bright and punchy riesling deeply scented with lime juice, pear and green apple skin. It’s smooth, round and generous, with a pristine core of juicy citrus flavour extending long and approachable over a fine chalkiness towards a crisp and refreshing finish of tightly focused acidity.
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Peter Lehmann Stonewell Shiraz 2005
$650.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Deeply flavoured, this firmly structured, ripe and astringent shiraz reveals a briary, spicy bouquet whose deep scents of mulberries, dark cherries, blackberries and smoky vanilla/cedar oak are backed by nuances of dark olives. Brooding and deeply layered, with dark plum and berry flavours underpinned by drying, sinewy tannins, it is likely to flesh out with more fruit sweetness and roundness in the years ahead.
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Peter Lehmann Stonewell Shiraz 2018
$100.00Jeremy’s score 95/100A deep, measured and elegant Barossa shiraz whose complex and faintly meaty bouquet of blackberries, cassis, redcurrants and blood plums reveals fresh, faintly chocolatey cedar/vanilla oak lifted by suggestions of cracked pepper, eastern spices and baked earth. It’s long and complete, unfolding a charming drive of flavour underpinned by firm, fine tannins and building towards a lingering finish of dark fruit, licorice and a suggestion of roasting meats.
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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 Beurre Bose Pinot Gris 2023
$28.00Jeremy’s score 92/100A punchy, ripe pinot gris whose musky bouquet reveals intense aromas of lychee, pear, apple skin and white flowers. Initially juicy and generous, it becomes more shapely down the palate, moving with crunch and texture towards a mouthwateringly brisk and zesty finish.
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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.
