For those unfamiliar with the brand, Kooyong are one of the top new generation wine producers on the Mornington Peninsula. Principally known for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, this is an estate marked by thoughtfully made wines …
Roaring 40s Pinot Gris 2015 Roaring 40s is the second label (of sorts) for Riversdale Estate. Making good wines under this label too. This Gris has 15g/l residual sugar and it works a treat - a …
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 …
I've been engrossed in moving house this month so less wine than usual. Will be rectifying that this week. Eden Road The Long Road Canberra Pinot Gris 2016 A 'ramato' style skin contact Pinot Gris from Team Eden …
Now here's a label you need to get onto. Juxtaposed is the new label of Wes Pearson, who's Dodgy Bros wines I've covered extensively in the past (have a squizz here for an example). With the Juxtaposed line …
It's that time again - time to roundup a selection of wines that didn't quite make it onto the site. Some because of time and space, others because they failed the grade, this January 2017 …
Tim Adams Clare Valley Pinot Gris 2016 Please Aussie wine world, send us more textural Pinot Gris and less flavourless Pinot Grigio. It's the right thing to do. Clare This Clare Gris is more like it. Just off-dry, …
It's that time again! These wines haven't quite made it into full review status this month. I'm a bit behind (living out of a suitcase does that), hence why this list is longer than normal. Ten Minutes …
It's that time again. These wines haven't quite made a full write up this month. Odds and ends... Sunshine Creek Yarra Valley Cabernets 2013 No back label. Feel the mystery! Not quite in the same realm as the …
What a pleasure to dive into the wines from a favourite producer. Just lust week it was the 2014 10X Chardonnay that inspired (with the Sauv Blanc one step behind), and now it is two Pinot mutations - Noir …
So Helen Masters of Ata Rangi dropped around last week, bringing with her a bagful of the latest releases. Never one to refuse an excuse to taste Ata Rangi with straight-talking Helen I naturally dived …
This comes from Robe, the town forever immortalised in this cheese ad. Pretty part of the world it is too, if isolated (a long and boring drive from Radelaide). Not known for its Gris/Grigio though, and …
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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