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JH 90. WINERY NOTE: It all starts with the vineyard, paying careful attention to pruning and the health of the vines. Cool climate vineyards enable the vines to produce rich flavours and characters over a longer growing season. Our Pinots have never been shy in colour and the 2018 vintage is no exception - gorgeous crimson red with a hint of purple. Aromas of cranberry, lavender, violet and herbs. The plate is supple with soft tannins, leading to a long, lingering finish. Closure: Screw Cap Perfect with cold tea smoked duck!

SELECTION Selection for this Chardonnay focused on premium fruit from the cool slopes of the Upper Yarra Valley , Gladysdale (Willowlake) and Wandin East (Barkala), with a touch of estate fruit from Coldstream. VINTAGE 2023 A vintage defined by cool, wet conditions, low crops and harvesting late into autumn. The resulting wines have great depth of flavour and vibrant, balanced acidities. WINEMAKING A traditional winemaking approach was used to produce this wine – handpicking and whole bunch pressing directly to 500 litre French oak puncheons for natural fermentation followed by a 9-month maturation on lees. TASTING NOTE Pale straw and...

The Oakridge 2023 Yarra Valley Pinot Noir has an immediate explosion of fruit aromas on the nose, with dark cherry, blackberry and pomegranate with elements of spice and toast adding complexity. The palate displays a lush and layered density of fruit with dark cherry and red berry flavours with plush fruit tannins woven in adding complexity. There is a soft yet bright acid line providing drive and length to wine before the classic fantail finish of a great Yarra Pinot Noir.

99 Points, James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com: (James Suckling #67 Wine of 2022) "The purity of fruit is really something else here, with currants and fresh flowers, such as violets and roses. Flower stems as well. Fantastic length and structure to the wine, with tightness and focus. Wonderful fruit. Graceful. A blend of 78% cabernet sauvignon, 8% merlot, 7% petit verdot, 6% cabernet franc and 1% malbec. Try after 2028." 08/22.   97-99 Points, Lisa Perotti-Brown, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "Winemaker Michael Silacci commented that usually the blends are finished in January or February after the vintage. This year,...

Jane Anson 97 points. James Suckling  98 POINTS "Blackcurrant and graphite, like lead pencil. So aromatic. Intense, perfectly ripe fruit. Full and polished with delicious fruit and tannins that melt into the wine. Rich, yet fresh. Better after 2027. (04/2023)"

Vinous Media 92 points. The 2019 Dogliani Superiore Bricco Botti is powerful, dark and maybe just a bit rustic, but also nicely balanced. Black cherry game, tobacco and scorched earth add layers of dimension to this brooding powerhouse Dogliani. SOMMELIER'S DESCRIPTION The Dogliani Superiore "Bricco Botti" by Pecchenino is one of the best Dolcetto currently on the market; very fine, crisp, clean and with a great character and personality. The cellar Pecchenino is a landmark in the Langhe, a cellar that has retained its connotation family passing on his farms from generation to generation. Today we find the brothers Attilio and...

AWARDS GOLD - 2026 International Wine Challenge GOLD - 2026 China Wine & Spirits Awards PLATINUM (97 Points) - 2023 Decanter World Wine Awards GOLD - 2018 Barossa Wine Show  GOLD - 2018 Canberra National wine show of Australia GOLD - 2018 Royal Melbourne wine show GOLD- 2018 Royal Perth wine show GOLD - 2018 Queensland Royal wine show   #PETER

"A focused and citrusy Coal River Valley chardonnay, pale straw in the glass, that is packed with ripe lemon, grapefruit, peach and nectarine fruits with hints of soft spice, vanillin oak, crème fraîche, white flowers and stone. Plenty of tension and steely mineral focus on the palate; the wine at first coils before releasing with lemon, grapefruit and poached pear fruits sliding gracefully to the finish line." 94 points. Dave Brookes Published 07 August 2024.   #FOGG

I love the 'R' designations on the Pressing Matters rieslings. From R0 for bone-dry to R139 for sweet, they are an indication of the RS in the wine. The R9, in theory, should teeter on that fulcrum between dry and off-dry, but that crystalline Tasmanian acidity tempers any sweetness and it appears dry. And totally delicious, with crisp green apple, citrus, stone, orange blossom, fennel and wildflower notes. Pristine, with velocity to burn. 94 points. Dave Brookes Published 07 August 2024   #FOGG

"The Produttori del Barbaresco 2020 Barbaresco Riserva Rio Sordo comes from an area that is further removed from the Tanaro River and has southwestern exposures. It shows a typical profile for Nebbiolo with rich fruit, a velvety mouthfeel and textural volume that is delivered with ample blackberry, blackcurrant and spice. The character of this wine is generous and rich. There is plenty of meat on these bones. 2026-2050" WA 94   #PIRA  

Trophy, Best Gin at Show, International Spirits Challenge 2015. Made in England. Almost half a pound of the finest Sloes are used to produce every bottle of this cold-compounded Sloe Gin, along with a merry band of botanicals, including Juniper Berries, Cinnamon, Coriander, Cloves, and Orange Peel. Marzipan, juniper, cinnamon and hot cloves. Citrus swirls in the background with aromas of freshly baked cake.

One of the (many) attractions to the field of Winemaking is that singular combination of art and science employed to craft each wine, every year. The Science is well defined, and the literature is continually being added to; the Art is not so easy to pin down. It is born of the individual winemaker and their Muse and exists in the heart; it finds its expression within the senses of the imbiber. This wine is the result of our Winemaker let loose to practice his Artistry on fruit from other sites within Central Otago.   Created from a single vineyard site high in the Dunstan foothills this Pinot Noir speaks with great eloquence of its...

Winemaker Note: Rockburn Twelve Barrels; the name says it all really. Every year we fill hundreds of French oak barrels with Pinot Noir, and every year I search for those individual barrels that most eloquently speak of site and season. We present the results of that search to you here with a wine that exhibits the attributes I enjoy most about Pinot Noir; subtlety, elegance and personality The 2022 Twelve Barrels Gibbston Vineyard Pinot Noir is a single vineyard wine displaying the elegance, power and grace generated by our Gibbston Back Road Vineyard site. Dark and concentrated, the Twelve Barrels displays...

  Sam Kim , Wine Orbit, 95 points. "Finely expressed and enticing, the bouquet presents nuances of wild strawberry, watermelon, crisp apple, and lemon peel. It's equally appealing in the mouth, delivering juicy fruit flavours with fine texture and bright acidity, finishing persistent and delectable. At its best: now to 2028."   Rockburn’s beloved Stolen Kiss Rosé 2025 is back, blushing and ready to steal hearts (and glasses) for its nineteenth dazzling season. Born out of a cheeky moment in 2006 when winemaker Malcolm Rees-Francis “stole” some Pinot Noir grapes destined for Rockburn’s...

"From a Swartland vineyard co-planted to Chenin Blanc and Palamino. Matured for 12 months in acacia and oak foudres. Top notes of hay and potpourri before pear and peach. Dense fruit matched by a good line of acidity, the finish pithy. Direct and surprisingly forceful – alcohol is 13.4%" Wine Magazine     #JS  

A blend of fruit from three sites and all planted with MV6. A gorgeous, light, bright crimson purple. This leaps out of the glass with its aromas of freshly picked cherries, blood orange and mountain herbs. The palate is moreish, energetic and fine boned. Super value, you'd be delighted if this was on by the glass at your local cafe or pub. 95 points. Philip Rich Published 09 September 2024

Cellar Door Price 95 aud. Deep crimson. Classic blackberry, mulberry dark chocolate aromas with black liquorice/ aniseed notes. Saturated dark berry fruits and fine chocolaty textures with underlying roasted chestnut mocha oak.  Finishes chocolaty firm with a lovely bitter-fresh chinotto freshness. Beautiful wine with superb richness and vigour. The bitter-sweet notes add tension and lengthen the finish. 2023- 2032. 97 points. Andrew Caillard, MW - Vintage Journal.   Huon hooke 96 points. James Suckling 96 points.  

Cellar Door price 95 aud. This Seppeltsfield Single Vineyard Barossa Grenache wine was fermented in the historic 1888 Gravity Cellar, gently extracting colour and tannin. This wine is a pure and fine translation of the Great Terraced Vineyard. Hand pruned and hand-picked from our icon vineyard on the Estate - Great Terraced Vineyard. Planted in 1855 and re-planted commencing in 1958. The wine exhibits weight, poise and refinement, it displays ripe raspberry and blackberry fruit with anise, cinnamon and a core of iron and graphite.  Matured in well seasoned French Oak Foudre’s and puncheons for up to 9 months. 97 Points awarded by...

“It’s a soft chardonnay with creamy, leesy characters as the palate’s main calling card before its zestier, zippier side takes over through the finish. Mellifluous for the most past, rushed with energy thereafter. Elegant..... 94 Points” Campbell Mattinson, Halliday Wine Companion, August 2020 (2019 Vintage. WINERY NOTE: The Mendosa clone creates rich, elegant Chardonnay and we selected this for our first Equilibrio. The wine is opulent, generous and composed with good oak integration all wound together with a citrus and nectarine, creamy freshness. The concept behind our Equilibrio range is to promote the very best...

Three clones (MV6, 115, D4V2) go into this single-vineyard blend. Matured in 20% new 500L French puncheons. A light, bright crimson. Fragrant with aromas of ripe strawberries, freshly picked cherries, a little rose petal and spice. This builds nicely on the medium-bodied palate before finishing with balanced, gently grippy yet silky tannins. Nicely done. 93 points. Philip Rich Published 27 November 2023

Wine Advocate 96 points. The 2020 The Standish Shiraz was made with fruit from the Laycock family vineyard, in Greenock. The first vintage was 1999. This vintage saw 30% whole bunches in the ferment. It offers notes of red dirt, a bit of blood, salted heirloom tomato and satsuma plum. This is concentrated, compacted, plush, dense and muscular, with notes of ras el’hanout, allspice, torched cinnamon and salted Dutch licorice. This wine is like playing "Magic Eye." There’s a lot going on, but if you relax, a pattern emerges and the detail becomes obvious for all to see. Within the fine but plushly tannic frame, there is...

65/ 35/ 2% pinot noir/ chardonnay/ meunier; 55/45% Tasman Peninsula/East Coast.   TYSON STELZER, HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION 2023 "The new-entry cuvée for the Fogarty Group's Tasmanian sparkling operation is crisp, fresh and fruity, built around cool, Tasman Peninsula pinot noir. Crunchy red apples, strawberries and lemons are the theme. Clean, precise and well put together, this is a well-balanced apéritif, more about fruit than texture or complexity. It will appreciate a little bottle age to build depth." 90 points.   #FOGG

DAVE BROOKS, HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION 2024 NV sparkling from 83/17% chardonnay/pinot noir from several Tasmanian growing areas (45/35/20% Tasman Peninsula/Coal River Valley/ Huon Valley); fermented in seasoned French oak, 46 months on lees. Light straw with an energetic bead and characters of green apple and citrus fruits along with creamy, biscuity tones and hints of white flowers, fresh brioche, grilled almonds, apple pastries and soft spice. Bright with a biscuity edge, a light gingerbread note and a creamy lemon curd note on the sustained finish. 93 points.   KEN GARGETT, WINE PILOT 2024, 94 points. The wine spent 46 months on...

VITICULTURE Sourced from two of the few Roussanne vineyards in South Africa, 40% from our vineyards on the home farm and 60% from our neighbour, this is planted in the Voor Paardeberg on well-weathered Perdeberg decompsed Granite soils. Trellised and spur pruned, this vineyard produced 4.2 tons per hectare in 2022. VINIFICATION Hand harvested, chilled overnight and whole-bunch pressed to avoid phenolics typical of this variety. Juice with a high solids content fermented in seasoned 300-litre Allier hogsheads and about 25% fermented in terracotta clay amphora, with partial malolactic fermentation. Maturation and batonnage sur-lie for 10...

Sourced from three sites, predominantly estate grown young Grenache vines, and two Sangiovese vineyards in the Seaview district of McLaren Vale, ‘Beautiful View’. Certified organic. COLOUR Pale salmon with pink hues BOUQUET Watermelon, strawberry, rose petal and a hint of violet. PALATE Bone dry, crisp and elegant with more savory notes than the bouquet suggests. The fine texture lengthens a harmonious and glossy mouthfeel.    #rose

From the Six Js vineyard in Steels Creek and planted in 1992. A superb bright, light crimson. Brian Conway has a way with gamay, and it shows in this vibrant wine. Lifted with its notes of freshly picked raspberries and cranberries that sit alongside some crushed pink peppercorns and dried mountain herbs. The palate is delicious with silky tannins rounding out a wine that can be served and enjoyed anywhere from 13–16 degrees, depending on the weather. 95 points. Philip Rich Published 19 November 2024.

JEB DUNNUCK RATING: 97 JEB DUNNUCK REVIEW: A ripe red color, the 2019 Brunello Di Montalcino is expressive of its place, with warming notes of licorice, black cherries, anise, cedar, and dark soil lifting from the glass. As it opens, it becomes purer in its fruit profile, shining through beautifully. Full-bodied, with ripe tannins and a savory slanting profile, notes of espresso and mocha float across the palate, filling it with purity of fruit and lovely concentration through its long finish. It’s a fantastic Brunello with a warming richness that can stand up to hearty winter foods and will be best enjoyed over the next 15 years....

An address ascending. Its GSM, the only one with the prerequisite rivets of savoury tannin, spice and Mediterranean aura in the country. This, its acolyte, is by far the best release of grenache here to date. Mercifully, devoid of eucalyptus. Cherry pie, pomegranate, persimmon, kirsch and a broad slake of star anise, dried thyme and lavender. Alan Varney understands the need for tannin, the pinion of compression and the inherent tension that comes with it, as much as the bulwark against fruit sweetness, something that comes a little too easy in this country. A rather fine wine at a very fair price. 94 points. Ned Goodwin MW Published 02...

Tim Atkin MW 94 points. Dido Blanc 2022  is a medium to full-bodied and aromatic white wine. On the nose, it features notes of green apple and peach, accompanied by a hint of citrus. On the palate, its passage is creamy due to its barrel aging, offering a smooth and pleasant texture. It is a balanced wine that combines freshness and body, ideal for those seeking a white with character and elegance. This wine is a blend of  Macabeo  (50%),  Garnacha Blanca  (40%) and  Xarelo  (10%). The grapes used for  Dido Blanc  originate from different estates situated in D.O. Montsant. Two of the estates...

Each presentation box contains 3 bottles, one bottle each of La Joie, La Muse and Le Desir 2019. LA JOIE (WA 99 points) The 2019 La Joie is an elegant expression that offers power, freshness and expressive, floral character. A blend of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot, it has a deep ruby color and opens slowly from black cherries and blueberries to accents of violets, ground coffee and licorice. The full-bodied palate has generous, grainy tannins, detailed, perfumed flavors and bright acidity, finishing with an alluring iron character. 2,500 cases were made. LA MUSE (WA 99 points) The 2019 La Muse is a...

Perfect conditions for this exceptional vintage: pine, sap, oak and incense.

Rare vintage. Antique gold. The perfect hygrometry of the Cutxan cellars influenced the aging of this eau-de-vie for a magical result: coffee, tobacco and a long finish.

Dark topaz.The nose is intense; notes of black truffle.In the mouth, very long sensation of rancio and smoked tea.

Limpid Armagnac, without roughness, all in subtlety: smoked, pine and liquorice.

Distinguished allure. The aging in oak barrels offers a balance with finesse. Vanilla and orange peel notes.

Golden blonde colour. The nose is vanilla with prune. The palate is sweet and persistent.

Golden colour, aromas of apples, grapes and tobacco.

Deep golden. A fragrance of pastry, yeast, beer and flavors of spices, cinnamon, nutmeg.

Made in Gidgegannup, Western Australia - the botanicals feature native plants such as wattle seed and bush tomato. Its cut with the crystal clear water of Margaret River. The Cutlass is warm, peppery and slightly spicy. The warmth comes from the cinnamon myrtle and the fact that it’s 52% ABV. Double Gold - San Francisco International Spirits Competition

Made in England from primarily African botanicals of Baobab Fruit and Cape Gooseberries - along with Corriander Seeds, Sweet Lemon, Sweet Orange, Angelica Root, Cassia Bark, Florentine Iris & Juniper Berries. The result is a distinctively smooth, whimsical & citrusy Gin.

Yann Durieux was winemaker for 10 years at Priere -Roch. This wine is light and aromatic, with a clean mouthfeel and a long finish. It is recommended to decant one hour before serving to fully release the flavor. It pairs well with a variety of foods, including grilled meats, mushroom dishes, and cheese platters. The wine is sealed with a cork, preserving the freshness and integrity of the wine.  

James Suckling 100 points Crushed dark berries are complemented by violets and underbrush with a gentle touch of tobacco. The sophisticated palate shows exceptional definition and polished tannins that are seamlessly integrated into a core of vibrant, restrained fruit. It’s all held together by a linear freshness characteristic of the vintage. This wine has depth, persistence and an incredibly stylish profile. Firm yet with an underlying tenderness. Beautiful now but will continue to evolve. Drink or hold.   Reviewer Name:  Jacobo García Andrade Review Date:  27th July 2025   Jane Anson 100 points. An...