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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 Valbuxán 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 90/100An 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.
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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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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.
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Tim Adams Schaefer Shiraz 2018
$40.00Jeremy’s score 94/100Deeply 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.
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Tim Adams Semillon 2019
$25.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Richly 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.
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Tim Adams Skilly Ridge Riesling 2021
$30.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Very shapely and stylish, this dry and mineral riesling reveals faintly toasty, buttery aromas of lime juice and lemon with a hint of oiliness lifted by alluring floral notes. Its richly flavoured palate drives long down a slatey palate wound around a brittle, mouthwatering finish of lemony acidity.
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Tim Adams Watervale Cabernet Malbec 2018
$40.00Jeremy’s score 95/100A long-term, elegant and vivacious cabernet blend with a deep and faintly minty bouquet of cassis, violets, redcurrants and cedar/vanilla oak backed by hints of earth and minerals. It’s medium to fullish in weight, with a wonderful length of rich, bloody fruit driven by its low-cropped malbec which is defly balanced with oak, a powdery backbone and a refreshing acidity. Will develop superbly over time.
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Vallformosa MVSA Brut Cava NV
$25.00Jeremy’s score 89/100A chewy, round and generous Cava from Penedes in Spain, this smooth, creamy sparkling wine is long, dry and refreshing. With scents of spearmint and dried herbs, it wraps its lively core of peachy, custard apple-like flavour in a refreshing acidity. Terrific value.
