This Pinot is more Beaune in style, due to the softer style and red berry-fruit qualities: cherries and raspberries. Add the flowers, cocoa, plums, very good length and supple tannins, and what you have is a real flatterer of a wine.
Ripe and warm strawberry jam fills the nose and leads the palate of this Yarra Valley Pinot, an area generally well suited to this heartbreak grape. Cherry gummies, perfumed raspberries, forest floor and fine pink peppercorn are supported by fine and ripe tannins, finishing with a flood of acidity, a stemmy grip and a whack of heat. Youthful and welcoming; enjoy with salmon burgers.
One of my favourite LBVs. Great depth of colour; a nose of mulberries, dried figs and milk chocolate with vanilla oak notes — flavours that enrich the palate.
A well-priced white Burgundy. Straw colour with a green tint; sour cream, apple nose; medium-bodied, deftly handled oak with minerally, apple and sour cream flavours.
Light straw yellow. Apricot and light honey with hints of grass and smoke. Slightly creamy texture, ripe fruit flavour, tame acidity. Finish is a bit loose but the length is good. Drink now with white fish or poultry.
Ruby/garnet. Red fruits notes, tea leaf, integrated oak. Fine taste, half-bodied, supple texture and great balance. The finish is very fruity, nice and elegant. Ready to drink.
This Malbec-led blend is sourced from vineyards in Lujan de Cuyo and Maipu. Warmly scented with red currant, red berry, subtle spice and a suggestion of oak, it shifts to blackcurrant and blackberry flavours in the mouth. Shows good overall balance and depth of flavour with moderate tannins and a splash of dark chocolate, finishing a touch short.