Check out those translucent red pink hues bending upwards at the meniscus, lots of purple hues in the young wine with the deeper dark well emitting little at all.
The … Read more
I couldn’t resist having another look at this wine, it’s been a big working week and I needed something special to console me. Across the history of wine production on … Read more
Just to reiterate from an earlier post … Wines from Toppers Mountain are the only non-Granite Belt GI wines that will be reviewed here.
In late April this year I … Read more
There are a few very good Malbecs on The Granite Belt. The Bungawarra 2018 made by Tom Battle is a great example, Ballandean Estate also produce one. Jeff Hardin told … Read more
Very dark colours in the glass and with a glowing purple and crimson perimeter and a little ruby coalescing its inner edge.
The bouquet is deep, dark, brooding and a … Read more
As a general rule The Granite Belt 2018 vintage produced very good fruit weight but not as big as some of the 2019’s and same applies to the tannins. However … Read more
Coloured like black cherries in the depths with a mixture of lighter cherries influenced wit some purplish hues at the edges. Red cherries, black cherries, other blackly coloured fruits and … Read more
We need to appreciate that the drought for all of its hardships has nevertheless made a wine like this possible. I had to do a double take when I checked … Read more
This variety is grown in Southern Italy where it’s known as “The Barolo of the South”. Based on this wine I’d suspect the Barolo comparison is based a little more … Read more
An unfinished product so I don’t even have a label shot but a wine very worthy of review even at this stage.
This wine has recently finished Malo but hasn’t … Read more
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