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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 2020
$150.00Jeremy’s score 98/100Either the best or the second-best Australian merlot ever released. I’m uncertain which because I’ve given it the same score as the 2018 edition of the same wine, but haven’t tasted them together. Either way, Australian wine should celebrate that it has a merlot able to punch it out with all but the very finest from Pomerol. Deeply perfumed, with heady layers of violets, dark cherries, blueberries, mulberries and dark plums tightly knit with cedar/cigarboxy oak, it reveals nuances of musk, dark chocolate and mineral. Fullish to medium in weight and underpinned by a firm, gravelly spine, its core of faintly sour-edged fruit and meaty, briary complexity drives long and sumptuous towards a lingering, stony and savoury finish. It flaunts its varietal purity, polish and finesse. Perfectly ripened and pristine, it’s artfully balanced and ready to enjoy. Or to open anytime over the next 30 years or more.
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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 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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Peter Lehmann Wigan Riesling 2017
$45.00Jeremy’s score 96/100A benchmark Eden Valley riesling whose faintly oily aromas of lime, lemon tart, musky spices and white Turkish delight reveal suggestions of minerals and a whiff of smokiness. It’s long, sumptuously fruited and mouthfilling, with a superb core of citrus and apple skin fruit that extends down a gentle slate/mineral/bathpowder spine towards a fresh, faintly saline finish of refreshing acids and a lingering smoky mineral note. Great persistence and balance; set for the long term.
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Peter Lehmann Wigan Riesling 2019
$49.00Jeremy’s score 97/100A definitive, glorious Eden Valley riesling now beginning to show the benefits of genuine bottle-age. Moving into a pale-ish golden green, its heady perfume of white flowers, lime and lemon reveals some buttery, toasty and honeyed development, with suggestions of waxiness, smoke and mineral. Superbly long and focused, its round and fleshy core of vibrant fruit extends down a fine chalky undercarriage towards a mouthwatering, steely finish that’s perfectly dry, mouthwatering and even a shade saline. Enough to set me off to Pambula for a bag of oysters…
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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.
