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Corymbia Rocket’s Vineyard Tempranillo Malbec 2022
$42.00Jeremy’s score 94/100I love what Rob Mann does to craft this exceptional wine from his family’s mature Swan Valley site. Wild, briary and floral, laced with black and blue berries, redcurrants, dark chocolates and blood plums, it reveals a hint of dried herbs. Fullish to medium in weight, its wonderful length of juicy, vivacious black and blue fruits is framed by a firmish, drying extract, finishing long, mineral and savoury with a lingering note of licorice. Since its inception, this label has totally reset the bar for Swan Valley red wine.
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Corymbia Rocket’s Vineyard Tempranillo Malbec Blend 2023
$44.00Jeremy’s score 94/100Genius winemaking and a superbly managed site has created the best Swan Valley red in decades. Laced with fiery scents of paprika and eastern spice, its heady bouquet of dark violet-like floral notes, blackberries, dark plums, briar and dark chocolates reveals a hint of roasting meats. It’s sumptuous and bloody, long and mouthfilling, unfolding a smooth core of dark, perfectly ripened fruits framed by firmish fine tannins before finishing with softness, savoury qualities and a lingering note of licorice.
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Coulter C1 Chardonnay 2022
$34.00Jeremy’s score 94/100A stylish, flavoursome modern chardonnay whose emphasis on bright grapefruit, white peach and melon-like fruit is deftly backed with restrained oak and nutty, creamy, nougat-like yeast-derived influences. It’s long and focused but has a ripe core of fleshy flavour, extending with translucent brightness and intensity down a fine, slatey spine towards a crisp, focused and refreshing finish. Watch it build with time.
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Coulter C2 Sangiovese 2022
$34.00Jeremy’s score 91/100Earthy, faintly mineral aromas of dark plums, dark cherries, cedar/dark chocolate oak and gravelly undertones reveal suggestions of meatiness and licorice. It’s medium to fullish in body, with a juicy, fiery core of bright, faintly confectionary dark cherry, plum and berry flavours underpinned by fine, grippy tannins. True to variety, it finishes with some savoury, meaty aspects and a distinctive acidity.
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Coulter C3 Pinot Noir 2022
$34.00Jeremy’s score 93/100An elegant, supple pinot of medium to fullish weight whose musky, floral fragrance of red cherries, redcurrants, blood plums and sweet cedar/vanilla oak reveals notes of paprika-like spice and chocolate. It’s long, gentle and evenly paced, with layers of bright fruit and oak knit with a faintly gravelly, mineral spine, finishing with freshness and balance. Pleasingly savoury; a little reminiscent stylewise of Tollot Beaut.
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Coulter C3 Pinot Noir 2023
$34.00Jeremy’s score 91/100A bright, perfumed young pinot whose musky aromas of raspberries, cherries and rose petals reveal a hint of citrus oil and spice. It’s long and supple, with a village Beaujolais-like weight, with a juicy core of fruit supported by fine, powdery tannins and a hint of dusty oak, finishing with a vivacious acidity. Over the last 2 years it has developed really pleasing roundness, drive and softness, which remain underpinned by a fine cut of mineral tannins. It finishes with a really pleasing note of red licorice. Ready to enjoy now, but has 2-3 years of real excellence ahead.
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Coulter Rathmine SVY (Formerly C1) Chardonnay 2024
$37.00Jeremy’s score 93/100A distinct evolution in Chris Coulter’s chardonnay style, this fuller, rounder and creamier expression is based around ripe yellow peach, nectarine and lemon-like flavour tightly with toasty, vanilla and buttery oak influences. It’s scented with bright yellow flowers, lime and lemon, while its long and generous palate reveals nutty yeast-derived notes before finishing dry and tangy with a brisk, lemony acidity. Quite possibly the very chardonnay many flavour-deprived Australians are seeking, with a lingering core of ripe, buttery flavour.
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Craiglee Eadie Shiraz 2021
$47.00Jeremy’s score 92/100Deeply scented with spice and cracked pepper, this elegant and finely structured cool climate shiraz marries a pleasing depth of dark-fruited flavour with texture and length. Its intense expression of blackberry, cassis and dark plums is gently matched with cedary oak, extending long and shapely towards a lingering finish of licorice and pleasing acidity. It’s ready to enjoy now or any time over the next decade.
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Craiglee JADV Shiraz 2021
$50.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Given a splash of around 2% viognier – which adds to the floral nature of its perfume as well as the flesh and roundness of its palate – this is an elegant, savoury and mineral shiraz of medium weight. It’s spicy, peppery and musky, with a floral lift to its wild aromas of dark cherries and berries. Supported by a fine, powdery spine, it’s soft and generous, extending long and balanced towards a lingering savoury finish.
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Dal Zotto Pucino Prosecco NV NV
$25.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Vibrant and frisky, with a fresh perfume of pear, apple skin and citrusy notes before a long, crackly palate whose pear, apple and lemony flavours reveal a hint of nuttiness and savoury quality. A summer afternoons’ wine.
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Delamere Non-Vintage Cuvee NV
$39.00Jeremy’s score 94/100Bright, penetrative aromas of white flowers, apple skin, citrus zest and a hint of creaminess precedes a long, complete and finely balanced palate whose mouthfilling citrus and stonefruit flavours reveals suggestions of bakery yeast, grilled nuts and lemon. The bead is very fine and there’s a pleasing chalkiness beneath the palate, which finishes fresh and lemony. Very classy – the ideal aperitif wine.
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Domaine des Lises Crozes-Hermitage Rouge Vignes Franches 2023
$226.00Jeremy’s score 95/100A gentle, restrained and supple red made from Sérine, a selection believed to be an old type of Syrah (shiraz) from the northern Rhône. Its briary, faintly herbal bouquet of redcurrants, blueberries and dark cherries is lifted by musky, peppery aromas, while its ethereal, almost fragile palate, marries suggestions of underbrush with gentle, pristine fruit. Wrapped in a rather taut, almost sappy acidity, it is made from just six rows of fruit and matured in a single foudre (large format barrel).
