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, and other refreshing liquids have you been buying and drinking this month?
A small selection of the latest ’23 Foradori releases came home this month, after I fell in love last month. There was also a final top-up of the excellent Kaiju Mutation Series Dank Lord Vol #3 West Coast IPA and the crisp and wonderfully defined Mountain Culture Kingston Flyer IPA, to interest anyone as foolishly enamoured with hop-forward IPA like me.
Meanwhile, Chablis week has just wrapped up at Merivale venues in Sydney, where the Bourgogne Wine Board launched a promotion to encourage people to pair Chablis with oysters. Full disclosure, that meant a free bottle of Julien Brocard 1er Cru Les Vaudevey Chablis 2022, which Mrs Ozwinereview and I emptied very quickly over a superb lunch at Berts (a fave local fine diner). I would have paid the full list price for what is a Chablis of sunny expression and the right amount of stony minerality too, even if it’s just a bit ripe to be ‘great’. I thought a Tyrrell’s HVD Semillon 2018 would be the perfect way to carry on from there, but it proved so achingly citrussy and tight (still) that it felt like a step in the wrong direction. Superior length and intensity, yes, but a Semillon better drunk as a ten-year-old (you’re better hooking into the 2017s now FWIW).
What about you? Drunk anything interesting this month?
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