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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 2022
$35.00Jeremy’s score 89/100Just a delicious, easy-paced and medium-bodied nebbiolo with a spicy, floral bouquet of raspberries, redcurrants, citrus oil and a whiff of cola. Supported by fine, drying tannins, it’s soft and gentle, with plenty of flavour and a lively acidity to finish. Likely to build over the next year or so, and a wonderful red for an outside lunch.
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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 Pinot Grigio 2025
$24.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Bright, musky aromas of lemon blossom, pear and green apple skin with a whiff of spice precede a generous, creamy and finely textural palate whose pleasing length of fruit drives long and shapely down a drying, faintly mineral backbone towards a lingering finish wrapped in fresh lemony acids. Very generous, pure and pristine.
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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.
