Stunning Blend of Portuguese Varieties from the home Warre's, Dow's and Cockburn's! If they can't make a decent wine red wine from Port grape varieties no one can!
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If you love Yarra Yering’s Dry Red No.3 then this will take you to a happy place and at 1/4th the price! Made from three of the classic Port Varieties Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo) and Touriga France. In such a climate, table wine could easily end up over ripe. The Altano guy’s have made a wonderfully fresh, perfumed and lush wine. It’s the kind of read you can devour every day of the week.
AP Birks Wendouree Cellars produce some of the very few wines I’ll buy without tasting! The wines are something special. A celebration of an incredible old vineyard with plantings from the late 1800s. Tony & Lita are custodians of something truly special!
Central vineyard planted in 1898.
The Malbec is the best I've ever had from Australia. Malbec is a fickle variety that is a case of feast or famine. When flowering is poor so little fruit is realised that you can barely make a wine
This wine, along with Corzano e Paterno’s top of the line 100% Sangiovese ‘I Tre Borri’ were two of the first Chianti’s that that piqued my interest and demonstrated the potential of this beautiful variety.
Fresh zippy acid, red cherry, excellent tannins with a little playful grip and spice. Delicious. Grape first. Earthy profile with dark fruit of energy and vibrancy a little perfume floats over the top ~ violets me thinks. Layered delicious and vibrant an excellent comparison to
Grenache is Back Baby! ... and in Style! So many good wines coming out of Aus! 20 years ago making wines like these would have made you an outcast in McLaren Vale. Times have changed, and, I'm glad they have. Andre & Silena's Rayner Vineyard Grenache (Check out their review in 1min) shows a level of sophistication and rich core of fruit, perfectly balanced with the kind of quality tannins that you can only get from old vines, we're talking 45+ years.
Such focused & precise fruit with a lovely ripeness of plums, flowers & light hazelnuts. Full-bodied, velvety & polished. Very pretty finish. This Barolo comes from the homonymous vineyard of Monvigliero that can be properly considered the “grand cru” of Verduno village. This cru was first vinified in 2000 vintage and blended intothe Barolo until the 2007 vintage when this vineyard has been bought by the Scavino family and made as a single cru.
Great finesse and aromatic complexity, dist