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Wine review – Mount Majura, Murrumbateman, Ross Hill, Taylors, Ad Hoc

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Mount Majura Graciano 2015, Touriga 2015 – wines of the week Mount Majura vineyard, Canberra District, ACT $29 Winemaker Frank van de Loo’s latest releases show the impact of Canberra’s changing climate. “We’re picking earlier every year”, writes van de Loo, “but it allows us to explore varieties that might previously have been too late-ripening … Continue reading Wine review – Mount Majura, Murrumbateman, Ross Hill, Taylors, Ad Hoc →

Wine review – Greywacke, Soumah, Jacob’s Creek, d’Arenberg, Huntington Estate, and Tulloch

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Greywacke Pinot Noir 2013 Yarrum and other vineyards, southern valleys, Marlborough, New Zealand $40–$45 Marlborough makes its red specialty, pinot noir, mostly in the light and fruity, drink-now style. However, the area’s cool, sunny climate suits the variety and the best equal those of more glamorous New Zealand pinot regions like Central Otago and Martinborough. … Continue reading Wine review – Greywacke, Soumah, Jacob’s Creek, d’Arenberg, Huntington Estate, and Tulloch →

Penfolds Grange 2011 leads a blue-chip lineup

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The release of Penfolds wines on 15 October will create a great wave of publicity, intense retail activity and widespread consumer interest, especially in the heady prices. Are the wines worth their asking prices? Can buyers resell the wines profitably? Or, as has happened so frequently in the past, will auction prices fall below retail … Continue reading Penfolds Grange 2011 leads a blue-chip lineup →

Wine review – Blue Pyrenees, Jacob’s Creek, Mount Pleasant Elizabeth, Red Knot, Wolf Blass and Moppity Vineyards Lock and Key

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Blue Pyrenees Shiraz 2012 $14.95–$18 Blue Pyrenees vineyard, Pyrenees, Victoria Every so often a wine comes along that runs off the value-for-money scale. The latest, Blue Pyrenees Shiraz 2012, provided camp-fired comfort during a wintery outdoor party. The bottle sat unloved on the bar, ignored as other reds came and went. What turned people off; … Continue reading Wine review – Blue Pyrenees, Jacob’s Creek, Mount Pleasant Elizabeth, Red Knot, Wolf Blass and Moppity Vineyards Lock and Key →

Wine review – Mt Monster, Chapel Hill and Tyrrell’s

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Mt Monster Limestone Coast Shiraz 2013 $13–$16 The Bryson family owns two vineyards, totalling 170 hectares, at Padthaway on South Australia’s Limestone Coast, about an hour’s drive north of Coonawarra. By my estimate a vineyard of that size might produce around 120 thousand dozen bottles in a good year – fairly large production for a … Continue reading Wine review – Mt Monster, Chapel Hill and Tyrrell’s →

Wine review – Hardys and Soumah

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Hardys Chronicles “The Gamble” Limestone Coast Chardonnay 2014 $15.99 The press release sketches a tenuous connection between Hardys “The Chronicles” range and the company’s nineteenth-century founder Thomas Hardy. In fact, this is a thoroughly modern, realistically priced wine, made by people who also make one of Australia’s finest chardonnays, Eileen Hardy. Grapes are sourced from … Continue reading Wine review – Hardys and Soumah →

Wine review – Brokenwood, Jamiesons Run, Tahbilk, Four Winds Vineyard, Kangarilla Road and Montevecchio

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Brokenwood Quail Shiraz 2012 $100 McLaren Vale and Hunter Valley, South Australia and NSW On the back label, winemaker Iain Riggs notes the inspiration of Quail shiraz being the Thomas Hardy “Burgundies” of the 1940s and 1950s. Riggs wasn’t of drinking age back then, but you can be sure he savoured their magnificence decades after … Continue reading Wine review – Brokenwood, Jamiesons Run, Tahbilk, Four Winds Vineyard, Kangarilla Road and Montevecchio →

Wine review — Sutton Forest Estate, Jamiesons Run and Chalmers Montevecchio

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Sutton Forest Three Daughters Reserve Southern Highlands Pinot Noir 2010 $35 Next to MacDonald’s, Sutton Forest, Nick and Santina Lo Rosso offer a warm smile, good coffee and Italian cakes. They also offer their own wine. But many Hume Highway motorists want nothing more than the Lo Rosso’s hospitality and coffee, served by the open … Continue reading Wine review — Sutton Forest Estate, Jamiesons Run and Chalmers Montevecchio →

Wine review – Joseph Perrier, Wolf Blass and Taylors

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Joseph Perrier Cuvee Royale NV Brut Champagne $47.49–$49.99 This Dan Murphy import first arrived in Canberra in the mid 1970s, imported by local wine merchants, Farmer Bros (RIP). In the late 1980s Joseph Perrier NV sweetened the meeting of a Canberra Times Sunday editor with her soon-to-be husband. The couple toasted their wedding with it … Continue reading Wine review – Joseph Perrier, Wolf Blass and Taylors →

Wine review – Penfolds, Ross Hill, Mawson’s, Andrew Thomas, Angullong and Kirrihill

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Penfolds Bin 138 Shiraz Grenache Mataro 2012 $32–37 Barossa Valley, South Australia After the skinny 2011 vintage, Penfolds Bin 138 returns to fleshy, juicy form in 2012. Though cooler than normal, the vintage provided sufficient heat to ripen the grapes fully – at the same delivering bold, heady, fruity aromas. The proportions of each variety … Continue reading Wine review – Penfolds, Ross Hill, Mawson’s, Andrew Thomas, Angullong and Kirrihill →