By the letter of my word, this post should wait until I’ve finished writing up the weekend’s Howard Park Riesling tasting, but as it’s more like a short series of thoughts, I decided to take advantage of my editorial supremacy and just get my thoughts out there. Normally while down in Margaret River, we end [...]
Showing signs of the warm vintage that took place in the Peninsula in ’06, this wine is crammed full of pretty red fruit flavours with attractive cherry and strawberry edges, all flanked by sandy tannins. Fashioned on the bigger, Australian fruit-forward pinot noir model, this is a very attractive drink-now or short-term cellaring prospect. Good [...]
I enjoyed the last bottle I had of this so didn’t let the chance to taste Miceli’s newest wares pass me by. Brilliant translucent ruby hue in the glass that smells very feminine and decidedly New World rather than Old: a generous dollop of rose syrup with strawberry and other red berry fruits. But in [...]
One night while we were in the Mornington Peninsula, I was put in charge of wine-buying for that night’s meal we were cooking up at home. Normally I like to try something new and local (preferably picked up during an afternoon of cellar door hopping) but with the local Liquorland the only bottle shop open [...]
Alluring varietally correct nose of sour cherries, fennel, hints of snapped twig, earth and rhubarb – a great combination of fruit and forest floor. Stunningly juicy palate full of all the flavours on the nose with and undercurrent of sour cherry helping the wine along. Fine, chalky tannins line the side of the mouth while [...]
While Punt Road today is now a fixture in cosmopolitan Melbourne, back in the 1850s, the quiet dirt road was home to some of Victoria’s first commercial vineyards. Today, these vineyards have been relocated to the Yarra Valley but the wines still bear the Punt Road name. Stylistically, this is right up my pinot alley: [...]
The third pinot release from this Hunter Valley winery using fruit sourced from the Tamar Valley in Tasmania. There’s a whack of cedar and an abundance of spice on the nose, but when revisited the day after, the oak influence had largely dissipated, leaving in its wake plenty of cherry and strawberry remnants. On first [...]