A must for all sweet wine lovers. Pale amber in colour with an intense nose of honey, dried apricot and barley sugar; full-bodied, sweet and unctuous but beautifully balanced with amazing length. Just a joy to drink.
A useful house wine. Deep purple-ruby colour with a cedary, blackberry, dark-chocolate nose; medium- to full-bodied, dry, smoky, savoury flavours of blackberries and blackcurrants with a vanilla oak note. Great value — a hamburger wine par excellence.
Deep purple-ruby in colour with a herbal, blackberry bouquet accented by a light floral and oak note; full-bodied, spicy blackberry flavour, good fruit in mid-palate with lively acidity and a liquorice note on the finish.
Stiffened with a splash of fortified wine, this one offers deeply scented spicy red and dark fruit on the nose with dark cherry and cassis on the palate. Somewhat sweet fruit character is reminiscent of Ruby Port. Well balanced and structured, it finishes with lingering cassis, bitter cherry and tannic grip. Interesting and approachable.
Sourced from "the gorgeous section" of 17-year-old vines, this was bottle 1482 of 2262 from Mount Barker in the Adelaide Hills and produced in a natural way by Taras Ochota and his wife Amber. Textured, perfumed dark plum, fine smoke and herbal brambled blackcurrant pulse with a taut acidity along fine, slightly grippy and cloudy tannins. Persistent violets dart in and out of the fresh palate, one that draws deliberately lazy along the medium body. Mineral salts vibrate along the lengthy finish. Whole bunch, without additions and rested 10 months in French barrique. This is as pure and patient view of cooler-climate Oz Syrah that you will find. Enjoy this beguiling wine over an evening.
A very affordable year-round sipper. Almost water-white in colour with an aromatic, orange-blossom nose that has a note of lemon rind; medium-bodied, off-dry, grapey Muscat flavour with enough acidity to balance. Good mouthfeel.
Medium yellow with a myriad of bubbles. Smells like a McIntosh apple decorated with a rose petal; also some peach and pastry-dough aromas. On the palate the apple changes to Granny Smith with lemon and melon accents. Nicely balanced acidity. Good value. Drink up.