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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.
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Provenance Golden Plains Pinot Noir 2024
$35.00Jeremy’s score 92/100A fully ripened, compete and finely balanced Victorian pinot whose heady, musky scents of dark cherries, strawberries and gentle cedary oak reveal nuances of tomato stalk, cinnamon and briar. Underpinned by a fine, firmish spine of mineral tannins, its pristine core of vivacious fruit fills the mouth with layers of flavour and texture, extending with freshness and brightness towards a lingering finish of red licorice and a hint of molasses. Gently wrapped by a soft acidity, it’s heading towards a savoury style and is ready to enjoy now or over the next 2-5 years.
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Range Life Garganega 2023
$26.00Jeremy’s score 94/100A brilliant young white that talks perfectly of its variety, the heart and soul of Soave. Enticing aromas of pear, apple skin, mint and sage precede a mouthwatering palate whose juicy, creamy and finely textured core of flavour extends long and lively towards a refreshingly zippy finish of lemon, lime and pear. There’s an appealing briskness, purity and vitality about this wine, which is by some margin the finest Australian garganega I have tasted. In fact, when I first came across it, I thought it was European.
