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Voyager Estate Chenin Blanc 2023
$28.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Marginally sweet, this smooth, generous chenin delivers typically varietal flavours of peach and melon with pleasing nutty and creamy complexity. It’s long and complete, spotlessly fresh and finishes off-dry.
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Voyager Estate Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2022
$24.00Jeremy’s score 87/100A typically herbaceous expression of Margaret River semillon with the gooseberry/lychee characters of sauvignon blanc backed by some creamy, nutty complexity. It’s generous and juicy.
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Wantirna Estate Amelia Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2005
$90.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Very stylish and shapely, presenting a lightly smoky expression of sweet berries, fresh vanilla/dark chocolate oak and undertones of dried herbs backed by very faint suggestions of mint and meatiness. Underpinned by firm, loose-knit dusty tannins, it’s long and harmonious, with brightly lit flavours culminating in a bittersweet finish. Tightly focused and finely balanced: a cellar style.
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Wantirna Estate Amelia Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2008
$90.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Simply a beautiful wine, exuding elegance and regional style. Scented with fresh cassis, mulberries and dark cherries backed by nuances of blackberries, tight-knit chocolate/cedary oak, briar and dark olives, it’s long and silky, supple and fine-grained. Its intense, pristine and almost sour-edged fruit moves seamlessly down the surprisingly firm palate, finishing with wonderful brightness and length. Certain to age gracefully.
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Wantirna Estate Amelia Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2011
$90.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Charmingly gentle, smooth and supple, with a delicate, dusty bouquet of light floral notes, sweet black and red berries and restrained cedary oak. It’s finely crafted, elegant and willowy, with a pleasing length of gentle fruit, reserved oak and supple tannins, finishing with fresh acids and just a hint of a green edge.
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Wickhams Road Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2022
$22.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Another pristine and varietal pinot noir from Wickham’s Road, the second label of Hoddles Creek. If you’re a regular drinker of pinot, this is the kind of wine you need on hand for those informal times you just need a hit of the grape. It’s perfumed and juicy, with a vivacious core of red cherries, raspberries and a hint of citrus oil, plus a fine backbone that gives it grip and presence.
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Wickhams Road Yea Valley Cabernet Franc 2022
$19.00Jeremy’s score 89/100A long, complete and even stylish cabernet franc whose vibrant but dusty perfume of raspberries, redcurrants and light cedary oak reveals a hint of dried herbs. Supported by a fine, gravelly spine, its vivacious palate of red and blue fruits fills the mouth before honing in towards a fresh and almost savoury finish.
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Wolf Blass Grey Label (Formerly White Label) Chardonnay 2021
$35.00Jeremy’s score 92/100A rich, flavoursome and buttery chardonnay whose ripe, primary aromas of grapefruit, white peach and spicy vanilla oak reveal a regional Adelaide Hills hint of custard. Round and generous, it’s rich and butterscotch-like in its youth, delivering mouthfilling fruit and smoky oak before finishing with brisk, tangy acids. A sleeper, and likely to develop considerably more richness over time. For those with a long enough memory, I’m told that the fruit comes from the same sites as the old Wolf Blass White Label Chardonnay.
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Wynns Coonawarra Estate Glengyle Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$80.00Jeremy’s score 96/100Very elegant and stylish, with the depth and structure suggestive of fine Saint-Julien. It opens with a dark, musly and mineral bouquet of cassis, blood plums and redcurrants lifted by heady scents of red and blue flowers and knit with cedar/mocha/dark chocolate oak. Supported by a fine, drying spine of firm tannin, its deep, beautifully poised core of blackberry, mulberry and cassis-like flavour extends with smoothness and polish towards a lingering savoury finish. Likely to build with time in the bottle, then age classically later on.
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Wynns Coonawarra Estate Michael Shiraz 2016
$130.00Jeremy’s score 94/100A finer and more elegant Michael Shiraz whose musky fragrance of dark berries, cassis, plums and briar knit tightly with measured cedar/vanilla oak and is lifted by exotic scents of spice and cracked pepper. Deeply flavoured and underpinned by fine mineral tannins, it’s long and vibrant, with a pleasing core of brightly lit small black, blue and red fruits wrapped in a lively acidity.
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Zema Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
$28.00Jeremy’s score 91/100Stunning quality and value here – this is a classically proportioned, riper and more assertive Coonawarra cabernet that will please many long-term buyers of the species. Deep aromas of cassis, mulberries, dark plums and chocolate/cedar/vanilla oak reveal earthy and gravelly undertones plus a whiff of mint and dried herbs. Underpinned by a firm spine of drying, ferrous tannins, it delivers excellent drive, richness and power – all in balance and without any suggestion of over-ripeness.
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Zema Estate Cluny Cabernet Merlot 2018
$25.00Jeremy’s score 91/100An elegant, measured Coonawarra blend of cabernet sauvignon and merlot whose vibrant aromas of cassis, dark cherries and raspberries are knit with polished cedar/chocolate oak. Underpinned by a fine, plaint texture of crunchy tannins, it’s long and evenly paced, finishing with a lively, measured acidity. Excellent value.
