No prizes if can guess which country this wine comes from. Deep purple-ruby in colour with a bouquet of blackberries, white pepper and an herbal note. Full-bodied and dry, it’s fruit-driven and not very complex but juicy and flavourful. Ideal for red-meat BBQs or whatever’s in your tucker bag, mate.
Clear, medium-deep mature garnet. Medium-intensity nose of blueberry jam, raisin pie, violets and some leather and varnish notes. On the palate, the cherry fruit still tastes fresh but a bit jammy. Nicely balanced but teetering on the edge of old age. Drink up.
Rubber and tar filters throughout this old-school Aussie Shiraz, labelled solely as Wine of Australia. Thick blackcurrants, cassis and black plum are all lifted by a sell [swell?] of acidity, but plummet to a shorter finish. Tannins are a bit gummy, and the reductive note grows the longer it is in the glass. Try with burgers for best results.
Ripe, sweeter blackberry, sarsaparilla and cassis are pierced with peppery thorns and cushy black berry fruit in this generous, perfumed Petit Verdot, an iconic highlight not just of Pirramimma’s portfolio, but a solid benchmark of PV everywhere. Gritty, tuggy tannins hug the plush black fruit, one streaming along the medium-bodied, velvet-lined palate and shown through a filter of anise and violets, and finishing with dark chocolate.
A blend of 53% Cabernet Sauvignon and 47% Merlot. Dense purple with a nose of cedar, blackcurrant and vanilla oak. Medium-bodied and dry, it’s very elegant, beautifully balanced and firm with good length. The perfect wine for lamb chops.
Dense purple in colour with a spicy blackcurrant nose perfumed with vanilla oak. Medium-bodied (surprisingly for the depth of colour), dry and elegant. Beautifully balanced, fresh and lively on the palate with a juicy blackcurrant flavour. A seamless wine.
Deep garnet with a pinkish tinge. Attractive medium-intensity nose, smells like a rum and raisin chocolate bar. Medium-bodied with crisp sour black cherry fruit and the classic Montepulciano bitter almond finish. An Italian vintner would be proud of this wine. Will improve for another year or so.