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Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Monday, 28 March 2011

Karra Yerta Eden Valley Riesling 2010

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If it was the reviews of this wine from Messrs Graham and Pringle that brought Karra Yerta to my attention and thus purchase the wine, it was an even more recent review from Chris Plummer that prompted me to pull it out from storage and crack it open..... From the get-go...

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Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Grove Estate Sommita Nebbiolo 2008

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A complex savoury mix of aromas greets you in the glass: struck match, rubber and leather.  It had me straight away. But these aroma give nothing of the incredibly smooth core in the mouth that then yields peripheral spice.  The spice just builds and builds...

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De Iuliis Aged Release Semillon 2002

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First up, bottle image: 'borrowed' from Tim Cohen over at 'Cooked & Bottled in Brunswick' - I hope he doesn't mind :) I'm just starting to appreciate the charms of good aged Hunter Semillon.  I picked this up retail for $20, I was trying to help Patrick Haddock...

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Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Thursday, 17 March 2011

Thierry Michon: Domain St Nicolas

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I recently had the pleasure of a quick business trip down to Sydney.  Naturally I left sufficient time to be able to take in a couple of the fantastic wine outlets in Sydney and it was at Fix St James where generous host/ owner Stuart Knox allowed this interloper to stay for a trade tasting of the wines of Domain St Nicolas.  Thierry Michon is the vigneron of Domain St Nicolas and was in...

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Monday, 14 March 2011

#BYOFavesBdayBash

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So the #BYOFaves crew got together again on Friday 11th March to share a few bottles of the good stuff and to celebrate the recent birthdays of NickOs and Ryn of Ryn & Cordie fame. There was no particular theme this time around with regards to wine, although there's always the general principle of less wank and more wine, something this wannabe wanker sometimes struggles with! Wine 1: Rockford...

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Friday, 11 March 2011

Dyson Wines Sangiovese 2010

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Dyson's first Sangiovese, off of vines 8-9 years old.  Entirely dry grown, no sprays applied at all.  All the fruit is hand-picked and stored to a temperature of 8 degrees before the magic happens in open fermenters. It's young and needs some time in the decanter.  Initiailly it was all twiggy and stalky aromas with some faint touches of rose and strawberry.  The palate showed...

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Cabinet Meeting: Capital Wines The Fence Sitter 2009 & Capital Wines The Abstainer 2010

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If you're into wine and twitter, you've surely heard of Capital Wines?  Tweethound Jenny Mooney has done an excellent job, in my opinion, of raising the profile of the Canberra region and championing the value of social media channels for wineries. The Capital...

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Thursday, 10 March 2011

Lucky Country Shiraz 2008

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An export order apparently fell through enabling Chalk & Cheese stores to stock this lovely glossy purple hued Barossan gem for $15. Immediate aromas of American oak offering up cedar and vanilla notes, with chocolate and jammy, fruity, plumminess in the background. Big...

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Monday, 7 March 2011

Grove Estate Wherehaveyou Bin MCB

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An easy drinking, savoury blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Barbera.  The wine in glass had me feeling pleasantly schizophrenic, offering in turn Merlot plumminess with Cabernet blackcurrant and cedary notes.  In the background there further lurked some...

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The Wine List

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A holiday in 2009 was a major turning point for me.  I finally managed to visit some of Australia's great wine regions and taste some of its great wines.  On that holiday, with my travelling companions, we took to photographing each day the wines that we consumed.  What follows is, hopefully, the full chronological list of the wines (full bottles only, not covering tastings at...

  

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Sunday, 6 March 2011

Witches Falls Classic Tawny

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I've already written at fair length about my visit to the Witches Falls cellar door.  It seems funny to think back to that weekend now, for it was the weekend immediately prior to the Brisbane floods.  It seemed like it hadn't stopped raining for months, we...

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Saturday, 5 March 2011

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Icely Road Rose 2009 Rosé

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Icely Road is a brand of Mayfield Vineyard, which is located some 10KM from the town of Orange. The wine, a blend of Sangiovese and Merlot, leads with aromas of delicate, not overtly pronounced, berry fruits which serve as an introduction to more of the same on the...

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4 Orange Rosé 2009

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The Orange wine region has two advantages: it has consistently produced a series of very good wines in recent years, and has an active PR business supporting it (David Cumming of Define Wine). ~ James Halliday, Wine Companion David was a crucial supporter of the...

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Tuesday, 1 March 2011

New Zealand In A Glass

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First up, I want to commend the organisers on a well put together event.  Each attendee was presented on arrival with a Riedel tasting glass, a bottle of water, pen, paper exhibitor list along with a full colour high-quality booklet listing all exhibitors with contact information.  Inside the event, there was plenty more water available along with bread, crackers and even some sandwiches...

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