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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 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.
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Telmo Rodriguez Lugar Valbuxan Mencia de Paraje 2019
$75.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Complex 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.
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Thelema Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
$58.00Jeremy’s score 93/100A long, seamless and polished cabernet with some of the rusticity often seen in South African cabernet. Its deep, faintly meaty aromas of dark berries, plums and cedar/cigarboxy oak precedes a smooth core of cassis and red berry flavour supported by fine, tight-grained tannins. The wine takes a long time to breathe and to shed some reductive aspects – so I suggest double-decanting in its youth. Having watched it closely over a few days I have seen it steadily reveal its true purity and expression. It has the balance and structure to age gracefully.
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Thomas The Dam Block Shiraz 2021
$40.00Jeremy’s score 91/100An elegant, ethereal medium-bodied 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. As a four year-old it has fleshed out beautifully, easing into its spine of tight-grained tannins, extending long and stylish, finishing savoury with notes of fennel and redcurrant.
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Thomas The Dam Block Shiraz 2022
$40.00Jeremy’s score 91/100A 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.
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Thomas The O.C. Semillon 2023
$30.00Jeremy’s score 94/100Classically 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.
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Thomas The O.C. Semillon 2025
$30.00Jeremy’s score 94/100An excellent Hunter semillon that is, quite unusually in fact, wonderful to drink now and through the coming summer but will also develop great complexity and character in the bottle for a decade and more. Its intense, voluminous scents of lemon zest and white flowers reveal a whiff of chalk and mineral, while its mouthfilling core of pristine, translucently clear flavour drives long and crunchy towards a refreshing, dry and faintly saline finish. Honestly, if seafood is your thing…
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Tim Adams Ladera Tempranillo 2021
$40.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Wild 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.
