While not quite of the same calibre as the exceptional Tiers, this Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2018 is another solid Adelaide Hills Chardonnay. Tight and citrussy lemon butter style, the palate …
I'm in cleanup mode at the moment, sifting through the (physical) sample pile and my (digital) notes to tidy things up Kondo-style. While it's cathartic to delete some half-baked stories written …
Petaluma, the forgotten icon. Once, a long time ago, Petaluma sat right at the pointy end of quality Australian wine. Driven by the relentlessness of Brian Croser, Petaluma had a reputation …
Tapanappa Tiers Chardonnay 2017 Yes, this is an excellent vintage of Tapanappa Tiers Chardonnay. I almost finished a bottle as a solo drinker last week, even with other wines to choose …
Life is so much easier when you have a great vineyard. That's not to say that winemaking is easy, in any way. But it certainly helps when you start with the …
A few of the wines to have passed the tasting bench this month that didn't quite make it onto the full site. La Bise Adelaide Hills Pinot Gris 2016 From the Kozned …
Xanadu Reserve Margaret River Chardonnay 2014 Xanadu's run of great Chardonnay continues. This is superb modern Margaret River Chardonnay, of the type that makes people wax lyrical about Chardonnay from the …
Tapanappa's superb 2015 Tiers Adelaide Hills Chardonnay It's not hard to see the reasons why this 2015 Tiers Adelaide Hills Chardonnay is on point. A famous vineyard in the Hills (one of …
It’s that time of the month again – time to collate a range of wines that didn’t quite make the grade. Plenty opened this month, which is why this list is …
Penny's Hill The Minimalist Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2015 Minimalist by name, minimalist by nature. All Piccadilly Valley fruit, barrel fermented and then spends 8 months in 40% new oak. Interestingly this is …
View Road Wines Amelie 2011 (Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills, SA) 12.6%, Cork, $37 According to View Road's Josh Tuckfield with this wine is 'looking for texture and something to challenge the senses'. …
Piccadilly Hills Chardonnay 2003 (Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills, SA)14.3%, $28 The PIccadilly Valley is, for my money at least, one of the best places in Australia to grow Chardonnay. It's …
View Road Wines Chardonnay 2012 (Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills, SA)13.3%, Cork, $37 View Road Wines is the new winemaking venture of fellow blogger Josh Tuckfield (vino-review.blogspot.com). Of course I totally forgot that …
Yellowglen Exceptional Vintage XV Piccadilly Valley 2002 (Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills, SA) 12%, Cork, $49.99 Source: Sample www.yellowglen.com A rather more evolved beast than its younger brother, I applaud the winemaking merit here, though …
Michael Hall Chardonnay 2011 (Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills SA)12.8%, Screwcap, $40 Source: Samplewww.michaelhallwines.com After spending much of this week in Coonawarra (and drinking largely Cabernet, with the odd Shiraz or blend for …
Yellowglen Exceptional Vintage XV Piccadilly Valley 2004 (Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills, SA)12%, Cork, $49.95Source: Samplewww.yellowglen.com Welcome back Yellowglen. After nigh on a decade in the premium wine wilderness, Yellowglen has reentered the …
Grosset Piccadilly Chardonnay 2011 Grosset Piccadilly Chardonnay 2011 (Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills, SA) 13.5%, Screwcap, $57 Source: Sample www.grosset.com.au There is a certain level of precision found in the (non Riesling) Grosset wines that immediately …
Tapanappa Piccadilly Valley Chardonnay 2010 (Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills, SA)12.8%, Screwcap, $39Source: Samplewww.tapanappawines.com.au Tapanappa Chardonnay - Woah Sourced off younger, close spaced vines in the Tiers vineyard, this is effectively the second …
At 18, I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, slogging through physics and chemistry, so a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say, I discovered wine, and my life evolved with a unique dual focus - wine and environment.
Twenty years later and I spend my days wearing many (wine) hats, mostly as a writer, presenter and marketer.
I now judge at wine shows around the world, sit on the Australian Wine List of the Year awards panel and was once a Wine Journalism Young Gun (but baby that was years ago).
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