$30
The wine presents itself with a silvery hue in the glass, however delivers nothing less than a gold medal winning performance.
$40
95 points
We all need more German Riesling in our lives, and here’s a great offering from an outstanding vintage at a lip-smacking price. With 50g/L of residual sweetness, this is a pure, refined, medium sweet Kabinett from the Nahe region with a bouquet of lemon, lime, honey and figs. The palate balances fresh minerality and zesty [...]
$16
91 points
Good to see a bit of serious Chardonnay action at this price. “Koonunga and Hyland have always benefitted from the Chardonnays above them,” Peter Gago rightfully suggests. White peach and lemon fruit with a touch of those bacon fat and spice notes that usually only kick in much higher up the price tree. A touch of [...]
$40
95 points
It’s high and cold in Tumbarumba, you can see all the way to the summit of Kosciusko, and that’s a clue to why some of New South Wale’s finest Chardonnays are at home here. When I visited last year to taste them all, Bin 311 was the standout and the 2009 is the most nervy [...]
$34
93 points
From a single Piccadilly vineyard in the Adelaide Hills (which the label doesn’t reveal, although it should), this is a wine that speaks more of structure than flavour. “St Henri is more about texture and mouth feel than it is about fruit, and we hope that this might make a similar statement,” explained Peter Gago. [...]
$32
94 points
This wine will quickly become your new favourite dinner guest. Limes, lemons, and almost all of your favourite summer stone fruits are crammed into your glass to make for an excellent compliment to any seafood dish. The wine is propped up with tightly seamed acidity to bring together a clean and pleasant finish, both to [...]
$40
92 points
I love Riesling when it’s young and I adore it when it’s old, with all that toasty, nutty magic of the cellar. All the better when it comes pre-aged for you. At least, it would be if it were ready to go. There’s already five years of age in this bottle, but it needs more. [...]
$17
93 points
It took my panel a full three hours to judge just thirty-seven wines in the 2009 Riesling class at the Barossa Wine Show last year, to snickers of ridicule from neighbouring panels. That’s glacial pace by wine show standards but our panel chair David O’Leary (of O’Leary Walker fame) was adamant that we take our [...]
$32
95 points
Tyson rocked up to visit on a typical idyllic summer’s day on the Sunshine Coast earlier this year with 10 bottles of Hunter in his infamous wine carriage (bottle cooler on wheels). Suddenly my day got a whole lot better. This Tyrrells label was a standout for me, with an intriguing pale golden straw hue [...]
$35
96 points
Admittedly I am new to the wine scene and destined to be rash, but far out, this is the best Australian Sauvignon Blanc Semillon that I have ever tasted. On first impulse it reminded me of a wine that I tasted with Matthew Jukes in a back street bar in Soho, and might I add [...]
95 points