This is the third part of a look at rosé - one of the fastest growing categories in the Australian wine industry. Best to start here. While this is a roundup of 'the rest' what's most …
Following on from yesterday's rosé report, today I've pulled out four of the best pink wines to pass the desk recently. Four standouts in an ocean of simple, sometimes sweet, sometimes dry, often middling wines. Actually, …
I'm in the process of collating a whole swathe of recent rosé reviews at the moment, and while it's been depressing to see the sheer volume of middling wines, the rise of the category is …
Brand's Laira Old Station Coonawarra Rosé 2016 No idea of the variety here, but it comes in a Riesling bottle. Cabernet is my first guess. Coppery light orange coloured, this has a whisper of musk, a flash …
La Maschera Rosè of Granaxia 2016 Just one of a phalanx of new pink wines from the Hill Smith extended stable. Great packaging on this too. A blend of Barossa Grenache with a little Sangiovese. Light orange …
Jacob's Creek Le Petit Rosé 2016 It's not widely known, but Jacob's Creek has a fulltime sensory scientist on staff (or at least it did when I visited a few years back). By itself that's not unusual …
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 …
Old Jarvie The Charitable Nero d'Avola Aglianico Rosé 2016 Old Jarvie is the new label of Hither & Yon, with Old Jarvie the reference to Admiral John Jervis, whom the Gulf of St Vincent was named …
It's that time again. These wines didn't quite make it up onto the site in October... Yelland & Papps Devote Roussanne 2015 From Greenock. Wild fermented, basket pressed and matured in 29% new French oak. Unfined and …
Vignerons Schmölzer & Brown Pret-a-Rosé 2016 Mark my words, this will be the summer of rosé. The stats back up that observation, with a recent ALSA/IRI report suggesting the pink wine category is up 16% in 2015. While …
Soul Growers Soul Sister Barossa Valley Rosé 2016 'Dedicated to our soul sisters' which is cool. The colour is lurid pink as well, which is seriously fun. Lurid! It's a wine of juiciness. Strawberries and cream lollies …
Howard Vineyard Picnic Adelaide Hills Rose 2016 Now here's a Cabernet Franc based rosé from an Adelaide Hills based vineyard who know a thing or two about Franc. Lightly coloured and built around acidity and crunch, this …
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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