A short visit to Longview
Estate Grown. Single Vineyard. These terms can be thrown onto a wine label as hollow, shallow marketing jargon. But when they’re on there for the reasons of passion and authenticity […]
Tag Archives: Shiraz
Monument Wines….
Monument Vineyard, not the first name that pops into your head thinking of Orange, NSW. But for every wine region’s Philip Shaw or Cumulus, there’s an equivalent of Monument. Passionate […]
d’Arenberg Icon Releases
Sometimes when you open the delivery, you know that sampling a new release wine isn’t going to do it justice. I call it “vinfanticide.” That is, consuming a wine too […]
Chapel Hill The Parson Shiraz 2011
Just found myself a scrap of a tasting note for one of Chapel Hill’s “entry” level or Foundation Range. A little remiss of me to not get the note posted […]
Scott…of the Adelaide Hills
I must admit, I knew little of Scott Winemaking until I saw a tweet from a friend, Tony Peters, saying how much he’d loved the Fiano. I got in touch […]
Mudgee…unearthing nuggets from the dirt.
Mudgee…An up and coming wine region? In terms of age, hardly. Mudgee has old vines and wineries like Oatley’s historic cellar door at Craigmoor. So why is it now just […]
Chapel Hill McLaren Vale Shiraz 2010
Super Serious. Not frivolous raspberry chocolate slurp juice. Deep. Serious. Spicy. There’s an awful lot of wine going on here. Deep garnet, again that spice on the nose hinting at […]
Clovely Estate Shiraz 2010
Queensland. Not the first state of Australia that comes to mind when you think of wine production. Certainly if you have the right soils and climate why shouldn’t you be […]
Stockman’s Ridge Outlaw Shiraz 2009
Stockman’s Ridge…you can be sure that if you follow them on Twitter, you’ll know all about the weather in their vineyard…They’re based in the Central Ranges/Orange region with 2 cellar […]
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