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Mr Mick Pinot Grigio 2023
$18.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Floral scents of musk stick and lychees precede a generous, pristine palate whose pristine fruit extends long and juicy towards a faintly briny finish of mouthwatering acids.
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Mr Mick Shiraz 2021
$18.00Jeremy’s score 90/100An exceptional wine at its price, this long, luscious shiraz unfolds a spicy bouquet of dark plums, blackberries and cassis knit with smoky, chocolatey oak and lifted by a whiff of cracked pepper. Supported by a fine, firmish spine, it finishes almost savory, with a lingering presence of dark fruits and licorice.
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Neldner Road (Formerly Powell and Son) Barossa and Eden Valleys Shiraz 2021
$50.00Jeremy’s score 94/100Musky, sweetly oaked aromas of cassis, blackberries, dark plums and dark chocolates are lifted by scents of cracked pepper and sweet spices, then revealing more wild blackberry and blueberry notes. It’s smooth and sumptuous, medium to fullish in weight, with an evenly paced expression of plump, vivacious fruit supported by a fine, chalky backbone and finishing with a savoury, almost saline aspect. Dominated by its charming Eden Valley component, it becomes finer and more elegant with aeration, delivering more length and mid palate flavour.
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Neldner Road (Formerly Powell and Son) Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019
$30.00Jeremy’s score 91/100Smooth and sumptuous, this generous, stylish Barossa shiraz leaves many of its more expensive competitors for dead. Wild, floral and faintly meaty, its fiery aromas of black, blue and red berries are underpinned by notes of blood plums, cinnamon and chocolatey oak. Fullish to medium in weight, steeped in fruit, it drives down the palate with depth and polish, finishing with softness and savoury qualities.
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Neldner Road (Formerly Powell and Son) Brennecke Grenache 2021
$275.00Jeremy’s score 96/100If Dave Powell has a signature for grenache, here it is. It’s a wild, heady, pungent and emphatic wine that needs either cellaring or significant breathing to deliver its best. Laced with dark flowers and musky spices, it’s steeped in dense aromas of dark plums, blueberries, licorice and bitumen, with star anise gradually appearing. Saturated with dense black, blue and red fruit that borders on bloodiness, it’s tarry and meaty with a hint of currant, driving forever towards a lingering and savoury finish of red licorice and dark cherries.
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Neldner Road (Formerly Powell and Son) Herrmann Kalimna Shiraz 2019
$150.00Jeremy’s score 96/100A steamroller of a northern Barossa shiraz – plush and densely packed with brooding tarry, dark berry, cherry and plum-like flavour smoothed out by chocolatey, coffee grounds-like oak and supported by an underswell of fine, kernelly tannins that become more mineral with breathing. Laced with dark pepper and exotic spice, it’s smoky and briary, unfolding notes of roast meats, boot polish and walnuts beneath its generous dollops of plush, fiery fruit. Its exceptional texture, structure and balance stamp it as a high-level Dave Powell wine.
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Neldner Road (Formerly Powell and Son) Kraehe Marananga Shiraz 2021
$750.00Jeremy’s score 100/100An opulent, heady, smoky and mineral bouquet of cassis, blackberries, redcurrants and blueberries is lifted by notes of cracked pepper, roasted chestnuts and dark flowers, all supported by the most remarkable of charry, tight-knit oak. There are also suggestions of eastern spices and old Puer tea. It’s impossibly intense and generous, but simultaneously fine and restrained, delivering an elegant, effortless presence of handsomely oaked vivacious dark fruits backed by notes of smoke, minerals and briar, all wound around a fine-grained spine of artfully integrated drying tannins. Ready to enjoy any time over the next 40 years, it’s nothing short of a masterpiece.
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Neldner Road (Formerly Powell and Son) Steinborner Marsanne 2023
$50.00Jeremy’s score 95/100An artful, luscious, deeply layered and Rhone-inspired marsanne whose waxy, creamy fragrance of honeysuckle, lemon nougat, yellow flowers and lime juice reveals notes of brulee, corindader, marzipan and mineral. Round and generous, it’s mouthfilling and beautifully weighted, with a smooth, creamy and toasty core that extends long and savoury towards a refreshing finish of mouthwatering acids. Keep this away from the kids.
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Neldner Road (Formerly Powell and Son) Steinert Flaxman’s Valley Shiraz 2021
$750.00Jeremy’s score 98/100A superlative and very Australian shiraz which unfolds a heady, deeply floral perfume of cassis, redcurrants, musk and raspberries tightly knit with cedar/chocolate oak and lifted by scents of rose petals plus a hint of spearmint. Fullish in weight, it’s piercingly intense, long and elegant, with a translucently bright core of pristine small red fruits framed by a crunchy, gravelly spine and wrapped in a mouthwatering, perfectly focused acidity. Gentle, supple and willowy, it’s an essay in harmony and balance.
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Ox Hardy Fiano 2023
$29.00Jeremy’s score 89/100A briny, round and savoury white from this southern Italian grape whose faintly herbal aromas of melon and citrus precede a juicy, fleshy palate with a pleasing core of creamy flavour that extends towards a soft, faintly saline and refreshing finish.
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Ox Hardy Grenache 2022
$30.00Jeremy’s score 94/100A deep, vivacious perfume of dark cherries, dark plums, blueberries and rose petals reveals notes of licorice and tar. Long, smooth and evenly paced, it’s generous and fine-grained, with a charming core of cherry, cranberry and blood plum-like fruit steadily becoming richer and more intense down the palate. Deliciously fruited, it’s underpinned by tight, sandpapery tannins. Delicious right now but likely to evolve very well.
