Fragrant and flavoursome, this medium-bodied pinot from Tasmania’s Tamar Valley is scented with vibrant aromas of cherries and raspberries and unfolds a long, vivacious palate supported by a fine slatey backbone and wrapped in a refreshing acidity. It’s delightful, savoury and ready to enjoy.
Pretty and perfumed, with a youthful bouquet of raspberries, beetroot and earthy notes lifted by musky spices and floral notes. It’s elegant and medium-bodied, long and gentle, with a smooth core of fruit supported by a gentle spine of powdery, faintly mineral tannins, finishing soft and savoury with a lick of slate.
Heady, meaty and powerfully aromatic, it’s laced with blackberries, Morello cherries and cedar/chocolate oak, lifted by exotic scents of eastern spice and blue flowers and backed by musky, meaty notes. Medium to fullish in weight, with a fine, gravelly backbone neath its powerful expression of dark berry/cherry fruit, it’s artfully knit with oak, extending stylishly towards a savoury finish. It’s an outstanding wine that becomes firmer and more granular with time in the glass, suggesting it will build considerably with bottle-age.
Ripe and mouthfilling, this juicy, gntreous riesling unfolds a musky bouquet of lemon and lime, guava and red apple skin. Underpinned by a fine powdery spine, its vivacious palate moves smooth and seamless towards a brightly lit, dry and refreshing finish.
Exemplary, stylish and rather Old World, it’s medium to fullish in weight with genuine resemblance to quality St-Joseph. A musky, floral bouquet of cassis, blackberries, redcurrants and cedar/chocolate oak backed by suggestions of baked earth and licorice is lifted by eastern scents of five spice and cinnamon, plus a whiff of potpourri. There’s a hint of menthol as well. Long and layered, with a generous, gravelly palate, it’s dry and textural, with a lingering savoury finish. If you’re drinking it young, give it plenty of aeration first.
Complex and savoury, with a musky, floral perfume of bright red and blue berries, small red flowers and fiery eastern spices with earthy undertones. Medium in weight, it’s long, smooth and supple, with an evenly paced palate wrapped in fine, powdery tannins, culminating in a licorice-like, savoury finish.
An elegant, ethereal shiraz that opens up ever so slowly to reveal a spicy fragrance of raspberries, strawberries and chocolatey oak before a gentle palate whose juicy presence of cherries, berries and blood plums overlies a very fine spine of powdery tannins. Let it breathe if you’re opening it young.
A fine, restrained and elegant Hunter shiraz whose heady, musky and floral aromas of small black and red berries reveal faintly ferrous undertones of cedar and mineral. Medium in weight, it’s long, gentle and supple, with a lively, sour-edged core of raspberries, blood plums and boysenberries underpinned by very fine tannins and wrapped in a racy acidity. It finishes spicy and almost savoury, with an emphasis on red licorice, black and blue fruit.
Classically fine, shapely, taut and elegant, with a faintly floral bouquet of lemon and lime backed by chalky mineral notes and a whiff of melon. Long and very persistent, it’s pithy and flavoursome, punctuated by a refreshing acidity and finishing with a briny minerality.
Wild and floral, this intense, pristine tempranillo unfolds heady scents of black, red and blue fruits backed by a hint of dark chocolate. Medium to fullish in weight, it’s piercingly flavoured with translucently clear fruit framed by fine, silky tannins and wrapped in a vivacious, frisky acidity.
Deeply flavoured, with layers of fruit, oak and gravelly texture tightly knit and artfully balanced, this is a complete, polished and stylish expression of a richer South Australian shiraz. Scented with musky aromas of spice and cracked pepper, dark plums and cherries, blackberries and cedar/vanilla oak, it reveals notes of dark chocolates and minerals. Carrying a handsome coating of newish French oak with ease, it drives long and generous towards a savoury, faintly mineral and licorice-like finish.
Richly flavoured, with a pleasing presence of melon, white peach and lemony character backed by creamy, nougat-like notes and some gentle, faintly smoky oak, it’s now revealing some buttery and toasty development. It finishes long and generous, with a refreshing presence of soft but lively acidity.