It’s that time again. Time to inspire me to spend more money on drinks, even though the WineArk cabinet can’t be closed properly and the Amex is maxed out.
So, what wine, beer, etc, have you been buying and drinking this month?
More Te Mata Awatea came home this month because it’s a delicious wine, as is the Domenica Chardonnay 2023. There was also a dip into Jean-Baptiste St Joseph, Eva Fricke Riesling + Thomas Braemore 2019, and all this wine buying means that I will need to sell wines or move my child out of her bedroom to make space.
What about you? What cases of wine are clogging up your loungeroom this month?
As for drinking, this month’s diet was largely beer but interspersed with some delicious tastes worth mentioning, like this superb Bekkers Syrah Grenache 2022 below. A richly textured red, it carefully treads the weight/savouriness path. Actually, all the recent Bekkers wines are enthralling.
Also in the Shiraz world, I really enjoyed the perfect 13.5% purpleness of this Pyren Vineyard Shiraz 2022. Glossy, plush, yet so even and composed, with that choc mint twist of the Pyrenees’ best. I still don’t know how much it is, but I love this style so much.
Finally, I stumbled on a very unexpected food/drinks mega match on the weekend that really deserves mentioning. A freshly shucked Sydney Rock oyster with a particularly grassy, super fresh Range Brewing DDH IPA. I know this is a very particular beer and a very particular pair, but hot damn, the herbaceous/snappy punch of the IPA just rocked the saline tang of the oyster like some myth.
By itself, the Range looked a bit too piney, and if I pressed, I would much rather drink a few of these wonderfully complex Kaiju Mutation Series beers instead. Again, this is a dank, slightly esoteric style of hop-forward IPA, but the flavour mountain climbed here is very high.
What about you? What have you been drinking this September?
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