Capital Wines Kyeema Vineyard Reserve Merlot 2011 (Canberra district) 13%, Screwcap, $48 I can't think of many eastern Australian vineyards where Shiraz and Merlot grow alongside each other and the Merlot is …
Capital Wines Gundaroo Vineyard Riesling 2013 (Canberra district)11.1%, Screwcap, $28 A new wine from a tricky vintage, this is sourced from a planting of Geisenheim clones planted in 1998 at Gundaroo …
Working With Wine: The Nebbiolo Sessions It's rare when you leave a large tasting and immediately start thinking about how much wine you can buy. Bu there I was, trawling through …
Catch Cry of Tasmania Pinot Noir 2013 (Tasmania)13.5%, Screwcap, $28 Another new release from the Grant Burge backed Vignerons of the World. This was wild fermented and made with minimal intervention …
Jamet Cote-Rotie 2010 (Cote Rotie, Northern Rhone, France) Cork, $180ish Do know what the best thing about this wine is? It's genuinely not that expensive. I mean, $200 odd is hardly cheap, but …
Manners Shiraz 2013 (Hilltops, NSW)14.5%, Screwcap, $45 I first met James Manners back in 2010 when he was a winemaker at Robert Oatley. At the time he was very proud to …
Snake + Herring Perfect Day Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2013 (Margaret River, WA) 12.5%, Screwcap, $23 Handpicked and whole bunch pressed; 68% tank fermented with full solids, 32% barrel ferment with wild yeast; …
Spring Vale Louisa Sticky Gewurztraminer 2013 (East Coast, Tasmania)9.1%, Screwcap, $22CD 375ml The sweet wine for Spring Vale and it's cleverly, utilising a little skin contact (a week apparently) and a …
Richmond Grove Limited Release Riesling 2012 (Watervale, Clare Valley, SA)12.2%, Screwcap, $23 Ahh memories. I can happily remember drinking much of this back in the early noughties just because it was …
Ten Minutes by Tractor McCutcheon Chardonnay 2011 (Mornington Peninsula, Vic)13%, Screwcap, $65 A top Chardonnay from the first whiff. It's perhaps a little more forward than the other '11 Ten Minutes …
Piccadilly Hills Chardonnay 2003 (Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills, SA)14.3%, $28 The PIccadilly Valley is, for my money at least, one of the best places in Australia to grow Chardonnay. It's …
Soumah Skye Blox Chardonnay 2013 (Yarra Valley, Vic)13%, Screwcap, $20 The Soumah wines are proudly pronounced as 'hand fashioned wines'. Nice words those, if a grammatical head-spin. This entry level wine …
