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Serafino Tempranillo 2024
$24.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Well, who needs to go to Spain for a truly slurpable tempranillo at a friendly price? Serafino have been making this wine for some time, so it’s no surprise that they’ve created such an enjoyable wine from the 2024 vintage. Scented with violets, spice, blackberries, blueberries and dark chocolate, with a rich core of sumptuous fruit that rolls smoothly down a long, slatey backbone towards a fresh, lingering finish of dark cherries and a hint of licorice. Delicious indeed, right on the varietal money and ready to open.
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Shaw + Smith M3 Chardonnay 2023
$55.00Jeremy’s score 93/100A smooth, fluffy and flavoursome chardonnay whose faintly toasty fragrance of grapefruit, lemon, yellow peach and melon reveals nuances of vanilla oak, coriander and oyster shell. Medium in weight, it’s become more luscious with time in the bottle, delivering a restrained, creamy but brightly lit core of citrus, stonefruit and melon gently wrapped in soft acids and underpinned by a fine slatey texture. A very charming, complete and extremely gluggable expression of this wine.
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Shaw + Smith Sauvignon Blanc 2023
$35.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Punchy, ripe aromas of lychees, gooseberries and passionfruit backed by suggestions of cassis precede a juicy, penetrative palate whose mouthfilling core of flavour drives long and generous before being neatly wrapped in a taut, lemony acidity. A frisky, focused sauvignon blanc without a trace of the herbaceous aspects often associated with the variety.
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Shaw + Smith Shiraz 2021
$56.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Musky, faintly meaty aromas of redcurrants, blackberries, blood plums and faintly smoky cedar/vanilla oak reveal scents of tomato stalk, citrus oil and licorice. It’s medium to fullish in body, with a pleasing core of briary blackberry and dark plum-like fruit underpinned by a schuisty backbone of mineral tannins and overlying some youthful and herbal whole bunch ferment notes. I’m certain this Rhone-inspired shiraz will find pleasing balance in the coming 2-3 years, especially given the expression and quality of its fruit.
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Sir Paz Merlot 2019
$37.00Jeremy’s score 90/100This developing and varietally correct merlot unfolds bright aromas of redcurrants, blood plums and dark cherries backed by suggestions of cedary oak and dried herbs. Of medium to fullish weight, its charming core of flavour extends down a firmish, slatey spine, finishing quite dry and becoming more gravelly with aeration.
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Stoney Rise Pinot Noir 2023
$35.00Jeremy’s score 91/100Fragrant 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.
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Swinney Farvie Grenache 2024
$165.00Jeremy’s score 96/100An astonishing wine that needs time to deliver its very best, this is made from bush vines in Frankland River of around 30 years of age. A profoundly deep, heady perfume of rose petals, red and black cherries, blood plums and cranberries is backed by five spice, cinnamon and a whiff of licorice. Opening out to deliver a plush round palate entirely saturated with flavour but not primary, confection-like fruit, it unfolds layers of fruit that extend down a crunchy spine towards a mouthwateringly fresh and lively finish. Flaunting its style and balance, it easily soaks up oak leaves a lingering presence of red cherries, cranberries and licorice, wrapped in refreshing acids and finishing fresh and savoury.
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Swinney Farvie Syrah 2024
$165.00Jeremy’s score 96/100A stunning shiraz made in a serious, long-term northern Rhone style. Laced with heady scents of musky spices, cracked pepper and dark flowers, its deep core of bright black, blue and red berries and dark plums entwines around fresh, smoky/cedar oak with undertones of vanilla and dark chocolate. As it breathes it becomes more mineral and deeply layered. Underpinned by drying, crunchy tannins of genuine firmness, it’s superbly long and mouthfilling, delivering a powerful bur measured expression of pristine fruit that simply soaks up some showy oak. Looking even better a day after opening, it’s a superbly stylish, complex and balanced shiraz that finishes dark and savoury, with a mouthwatering acidity and a lingering note of black licorice.
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Swinney Grenache 2022
$45.00Jeremy’s score 92/100Pretty 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.
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Swinney Mourvedre 2022
$45.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Heady, 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.
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Swinney Riesling 2023
$37.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Ripe 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.
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Swinney Syrah (Formerly Shiraz) 2022
$45.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Exemplary, 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.
