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Peccavi No Regrets Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2022
$25.00Jeremy’s score 90/100Very stylish and shapely, this is more of a Sancerre-like sauvignon than a WA fruit bomb. A faintly herbal expression of gooseberries, melon and a hint of lychee dextends long, round and flavoursome down a fine, chalky palate, finishing dry and almost savoury with briny notes of oyster shell and mineral.
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Peccavi Petit Verdot 2020
$55.00Jeremy’s score 92/100If ever you’ve been curious enough to explore exactly what petit verdot contributes to a Bordeaux blend, here is your opportunity. Lifted by a whiff of violet, it reveals a confiture-like bouquet of mulberries, cassis, dark plums and toasty vanilla oak. Effortless, smooth and creamy, its chocolatey presence of dark berries and cherries is framed by a loose-knit grade of grainy tannin. Like most reds made 100% from this grape, it’s for the short to medium term.
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Peccavi Sauvignon Blanc 2020
$45.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Made in a contemporary white Bordeaux style with contributions from both oak and semillon, it’s mouthfilling, tangy and savoury. A scent of guava, gooseberries and lychees backed by smoky suggestions of vanilla oak and creamy yeast-derived nuances reveals a whiff of musk and dried herbs. It’s long, luscious and refined, with a wonderful depth of fruit that drives over a pithy crunchiness towards a lingering finish that hints of brine and minerals. A terrific food wine and certainly a sauvignon blanc for adults!
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Peccavi Syrah (Formerly Shiraz) 2022
$55.00Jeremy’s score 94/100While Margaret River doesn’t immediately spring to mind as a region ideally suited to shiraz, Peccavi has a long history of crafting savoury, Rhone-inspired expressions of this variety of genuine class. This vintage reveals a musky perfume of cassis, raspberries and blueberries knit with smoky cedar/vanilla oak and lifted by scents of cinnamon, white pepper, violets and red flowers. Smooth and seamless, its succulent core of translucently clear fruit knits perfectly with a fresh oak interface, finishing with style and lingering flavour.
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Peccavi The Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
$150.00Jeremy’s score 96/100Peccavi’s top level cabernet bucks the Australian trend, for it’s based on quality and purity of expression rather than additional ripeness, oak or extract. A heady, essential perfume of cassis, redcurrants, raspberries and dark plums backed by suggestion of dried herbs, minerals and blueberries is deftly supported by gentle cedar/cignarboxyoak. It’s plush and luxuriant but emplashises purity and elegance as it glides down a pliant but chalky spine of grainy tannins, culminating in a lingering finish of remarkable length and balance.
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Peccavi The Estate Merlot 2019
$150.00Jeremy’s score 97/100High octane merlot indeed, from Australia’s finest label of this variety. Opulent aromas of dark cherries, plumcake and fresh vanilla oak lifted by heady aromas of red flowers simply shriek their varietal purity, while the sumptuously flavoured, long and polished palate delivers a pristine, international level of merlot expression without ever exceeding a medium to full-bodied framework. Framed by a fine grade of powdery tannins that become more firm and grainy with aeration, it’s gentle and refined, finishing long and pure. Made entirely from the lastest Bordeaux selection of merlot clones.
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Penfolds Bin 150 Marananga Shiraz 2016
$120.00Jeremy’s score 92/100Full to medium in weight, with a spicy, cigarboxy presence of sour-edged cassis, dark plums and chocolatey oak with a perfume of violets and five spice and undertones of roasting meats. Supported by firm, gravelly tannins, it lacks its typical core of intensity and finishes with a note of currant.
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Penfolds St Henri Shiraz Cabernet Blend 2010
$210.00Jeremy’s score 97/100Quite possibly the finest St Henri yet released. Superbly balanced, with a deep, spicy bouquet whose dense aromas of blue, black and blood red fruits are lifted by an alluring perfume of red and blue flowers, a hint of cracked pepper and backed by suggestions of smoked meats, minerals and graphite. It’s smooth and sumptuous, with a long, velvety marriage of unctuous meaty fruit wrapped around a fine, grainy backbone and underpinned by chocolatey, faintly tarry nuances. Delivering near-perfect adherence to style, it finishes with wonderful length and harmony.
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Peter Lehmann Hill & Valley Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$25.00Jeremy’s score 90/100A fine, balanced and elegant Barossa cabernet whose deep cpre of juicy ripe fruit is knit with cedar/vanilla oak and supported by a fine, drying backbone. Scented with violets, blackberries and cassis, it’s medium to fullish in weight, very approachable right now and will certainly age well over the next four to five years.
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Peter Lehmann Hill & Valley Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
$25.00Jeremy’s score 90/100A fine expression of Barossa Shiraz whose juicy aromas of black and red berries, fresh cedar/chocolate oak and five spice reveal nuances of licorice and bitumen. Round and generous, its rich core of blackberry and cassis-like fruit is underpinned by a firmish chalkiness, finishing long, balanced and with a lingering note of licorice. Great value.
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Peter Lehmann Hill & Valley Eden Valley Riesling 2024
$25.00Jeremy’s score 91/100A youthful, bright and punchy riesling deeply scented with lime juice, pear and green apple skin. It’s smooth, round and generous, with a pristine core of juicy citrus flavour extending long and approachable over a fine chalkiness towards a crisp and refreshing finish of tightly focused acidity.
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Peter Lehmann Stonewell Shiraz 2005
$650.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Deeply flavoured, this firmly structured, ripe and astringent shiraz reveals a briary, spicy bouquet whose deep scents of mulberries, dark cherries, blackberries and smoky vanilla/cedar oak are backed by nuances of dark olives. Brooding and deeply layered, with dark plum and berry flavours underpinned by drying, sinewy tannins, it is likely to flesh out with more fruit sweetness and roundness in the years ahead.
