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 from. It's a delight. 2017 was …
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 best materials. Further, when you …
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 Vineyard in Gumeracha. Light pear …
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 region. There's a depth of …
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 the oldest), with a legend 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 longer than usual… Bremerton Langhorne Creek …
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 a quite fruity number, with …
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'. 100% Chardonnay, this is fermented …
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 the sort of place that …
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 Josh had made this and …
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 think this might have been …
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 good measure) this was a …
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 quality wine market, releasing a …
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 marks them as 'contemplation wines'. …
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 wine to the 'Tiers' Chardonnay …
At 18 I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, doing a degree that I didn't really like, and a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say I discovered wine, my uni degree morphed into something completely different and wine/beer took over my life.
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