It feels like anything but Riesling weather in Sydney this weekend and I can only feel for the producers at the Wine Island festival who would have endured three days …
Xabregas Mount Barker Riesling 2014 Essential stats: pH 3.08, TA 7.8g/L, RS 4.2g/L. There's a broadness in these 2014 Great Southern Rieslings that I'm not enamoured with. A warm year, producing chunky, …
Xabregas Mt Barker Shiraz 2011 (Great Southern, WA) 14.2%, Screwcap, $25 It's not hard to appreciate the savoury, evolved styling of Xabregas' wines. Much more complexity in every mouthful. Even this wine, …
Xabregas Mount Barker Riesling 2012 (Mount Barker)12.1%, Screwcap, $20 All about 'sweet fruit and natural acid balance'. Actually, if anyone can nail the sweetness balance of a Mount Barker Riesling it …
Two superb new Rieslings from WA's Great Southern Now here's a new name to look out for in the world of WA wine. Snake + Herring is the catchy label of marketer Redmond …
I'm in Shiraz mode today, with a suite of Shiraz and blends open on the bench. These two, however, I pulled out to taste separately (single blind) as I thought they …
