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Scorpo Noirien Pinot Noir 2023
$38.00Jeremy’s score 92/100With a deepish colour and a heady, floral bouquet of red cherries, blueberries and beetroot backed by gentle cedar/chocolate oak and musky spice, this is a pinot of medium to fullish weight with plenty of richness and flavour. Its mouthfilling core of dark fruit drives long and fleshy down a spine of fine, crunchy tannins, finishing savoury with a lingering note of licorice. Scorpo’s third-tier pinot is better than many top level versions priced much, much higher.
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Scorpo Old Vines Shiraz 2020
$55.00Jeremy’s score 92/100A textural, elegant and perfume shiraz of medium weight that has far more in common with shiraz from the Rhone than what most people expect from Australia. Scented with a fiery, musky bouquet of eastern spices, redcurrants, raspberries and blood plums, it’s lifted a sweet floral perfume. With a finely textured, powdery spine, it delivers a gentle core of reserved fruit that will flesh out with bottle-age. LIke many other wines from this producer, it finishes with savoury, saline aspects. It needs a couple of years at least…
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Scorpo Pinot Noir 2020
$60.00Jeremy’s score 94/100It’s been pleasing to see the evolution of structure in this label over the years, and the 2020 edition delivers the drive, perfume and structure I now expect from this site. A heady, floral perfume of red cherries, blood plums, reveals a whiff of citrus oil ana mushroom. It’s long and fleshy, with a charmingly plump core of cherry/berry fruit that moves down a loose-knit spine towards a spicy finish of red licorice. Very reserved, but likely to build considerably over time.
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Seppelt Drumborg Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024
$45.00Jeremy’s score 96/100Without question the finest pinot noir from this stunning but marginal vineyard for red winemaking, this wine takes me straight to Burgundy. Heady aromas of rose petals, dark cherries, blood plum, redcurrants, musky spice and smoky cedary oak precede a genuinely ripened and beautifully weighted palate. Steeped in small dark cherry/berry flavours, it’s artfully layered with fine silky tannins and smoky oak in perfect balance. It’s long and vivacious, driving with elegance and precision towards a sumptuous and explosive finish that will become more savory with time. Australia’s new benchmark pinot beneath $50. It could easily command $100.
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Seppelt Limited Release Show Sparkling Shiraz 2012
$100.00Jeremy’s score 97/100Classic Great Western shiraz given the full Champagne treatment – one of the finest examples of Australia’s unique sparkling wine. 2012 delivers a vintage whose exceptional bouquet of mulberries, cassis, dark plums and dark chocolates reveals nuances of sous bois, mushrooms and cigarbox. Long, crackly and creamy, it delivers a vivacious core of blackberries, blueberries, cassis and dark plums underpinned by a fine chalkiness. Given crunch and texture courtesy its fine effervescence, it reveals a hint of sweetness that is finely balanced by tannins and acids. Superbly balanced, already complex, it’s set for the ultra long term.
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Seppeltsfield Barossa Shiraz 2021
$35.00Jeremy’s score 91/100Ripe and vivacious, with mouthfilling flavours of dark cherries, cassis and dark plums backed by chocolatey, cedary oak, this is a shiraz of medium to fullish body, but an approachable, gentle spine and a refreshing finish.
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Seppeltsfield Barossa Touriga 2022
$30.00Jeremy’s score 91/100An unctuous, delicious and densely packed red whose heady bouquet of dark flowers, dark chocolates, briar and licorice is lifted by scents of musk stick and Turkish Delight. Medium to fullish in weight, its mouthfilling core of flavour drives long and smooth down a crunchy spine of chalky tannins, finishing with a refreshing acidity.
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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.
