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Hochkirch Tarrington Vineyards Chardonnay 2022
$70.00Every wine from Hochkirch sits on a plane of extraordinary quality and great value. Beyond the tension, detail and sensual complexity, is a texturally beautiful, intricate and woven wine, all the threads coming together yet somehow separate. The 2022 Tarrington Vineyards Chardonnay is perfection and I defy anyone who says they don’t like Chardonnay not […]
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Grosset Polish Hill Riesling 2022
$75.00Pale colour, creamy yeasty, waxy, lemon-pith and blossom aromas, discreet and refined, tense and delicate in mouth; racy and lean, pared-back compared to the Springvale. Built beautiful perfumes as it sat in the glass. Tension is high, the wine is dry but supple and balanced, neither tart nor lacking acid, but harmonious. Long finish, needs […]
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Bondar Violet Hour Shiraz 2022
$30.00As always, Bondar’s Violet Hour Shiraz is handpicked from the Rayner vineyard. A blend of block vines, both young and old (some up to 70 years old). Wild fermented naturally with a high portion of whole-bunches and matured in older French oak (no new barrels were used this year). The wine spent six months resting […]
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Christian Moreau Petit Chablis 2022
$65.00From vines located at the top of the hill of Grand Crus only metres from the Grand cru Valmur and also this wine includes another very small 0.4 ha planting also at the crest of the hill of Grand Crus (just above Vaudesir) that the Moreau family have planted more recently. This wine shows amazing […]
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Colome Estate Malbec 2021
$45.00Colome’s Estate Malbec is always an exquisite colour and 2021 is no exception – deep, bright red with a magenta hue. It has aromas of black and red fruits including blackberries, blackcurrants, raspberries and cherries. Hints of spices and well-integrated oak are there too. Fresh and fruity on the palate with crisp acidity and velvety […]
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Christophe et Fils Vieilles Vignes Chablis 2021
$65.00Out of Stock
Coiled, cool and tense, a rockier road than the estate’s Chablis. Aromas of lemon, lime zest, gardenia, grapefruit and green apple. Full of tension, Riesling like in breadth and crystal cut acidity. Very refreshing, linear in shape, with just enough fruit to blunt the sword. Very long, the carry goes on and on with a […]
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Traviarti Mezzo Nebbiolo 2022
$45.00The 2022 Traviarti Mezzo Nebbiolo is from three sites, grown at different altitudes to produce a bright, rich and fresh rendition of Nebbiolo. 2022 is a cool and dry vintage, and this is certainly the best Mezzo to date. Classic notes of sweet cherry, raspberry, but also hedgefruits. Rippling and gripping, full of brightness and […]
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Walsh & Sons Burnside Chardonnay 2023
$55.00Lemon hued, with heady aromas of white peach, nectarine, curry leaf and oyster shell. The seaside vibes continue on the palate, where the tangy fruit and bright acidity harmonize with a slippery texture and ocean spray saltiness. Winemaker’s Notes Hand-picked and pressed straight to barrel. Natural fermentation. French barriques, 30% new the remainder 3-year-old. […]
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La Rioja Alta Vina Ardanza Reserva 2016
$120.00Savory and complex with dried orange peel, cedar and plenty of sweet spices, walnuts, caramel, dried mushrooms and pine needles. Shows maturity here, with a medium body and superb freshness. Incredibly long finish with lots of truffle and walnut. Lasts over a minute. Very complete now, but you can still hold it. 95 points – James […]
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Traviarti Chardonnay 2023
$50.00Aged in 600 litre Stockinger demi muids, it’s a testament to the richness and depth of fruit that the oak plays only a supporting role. 2023 is a cool, wet vintage and this is looking very Chablis-like, with its silky texture, mineral grip, oyster shell and long line of salinity. Medium bodied, rounder in shape […]
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Nocturne Single Vineyard Chardonnay 2022
$58.00This 2022 leads with gentle reduction, flinty complexity and loads of acid and fruit in the mouth. This is abundantly composed, vigorously svelte and polished while being authentic. You get salted peach, preserved citrus, jasmine tea, star anise, clove, cut fennel and a line of graphite through phenolics. This is a thoroughly exciting Chardonnay to […]
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Polperro Estate Chardonnay 2022
$55.00Chardonnay at its very best. Pure, unadulterated by winemaking vanities or cultural chip. Rich and full bodied. Stone fruits, lime, white flowers, cashew, smoke and spice. This sets the tone for the Polperro style, ample and generous, textured and round in shape. Utterly absorbing to taste and to drink with ripe acids providing scale and […]
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La Battistelle ‘Battistelle’ Soave Classico 2021
$40.00Despite being a single vineyard and not a blend like the Montesei, there are similarities. Wildly complex, with white flowers, honeysuckle, lemon zest, grapefruit, white peach, orchard fruits and mustard seed. Deep and focused with greater amplitude and a peacocks tail of flavour and texture. The palate is at once succulent and light on its […]
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Crawford River Riesling 2023
$52.00Very light, bright yellow colour with a haunting fresh fragrance of lemon-peel, lime juice and high-toned estery floral notes. The wine is tremendously intense and rich in the mouth, lifted in the core by a tickle of sweetness which niftily counteracts the quite high acidity. There is a firmness that stops just short of austerity. […]
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Place of Changing Winds Harcourt Syrah 2021
$55.00Tasting the No 2 and the Harcourt Syrah together, you are able to taste the estate’s DNA, the wines sharing many characteristics. Deeper in colour, extremely floral with lavender, violets and geraniums. The notes are darker, deeper and sweeter, with cassis, kirsch, star anise, herbs and cocoa. Rich, full bodied, voluptuous, baroque in lavish detail. […]
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Ravensworth Estate Sangiovese 2021
$45.00Alongside Fighting Gully Road, the Ravensworth Estate’s 2021 Sangiovese is the finest in Australia. Classic, intensely perfumed Sangiovese aromatics of cherry, cola, aniseed, violets, cassis, fresh earth, subtle smoke and tobacco leaf. Sleek and savoury, with intense fruit, medium bodied and chiselled frame. The tannins are deep and rich, the acidity buoyant and a feature […]
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Fighting Gully Road Chardonnay 2022
$50.00Quite different from the 2021 vintage, being more open and less structured. Very complex, with notes cashew, rockmelon, white peach, spring jasmine, butter white cherry and preserved mango. Succulent and luscious, the palate displays some darker yellow fruit, the acidity tightening the palate and applying a little more sinew and structure. A chardonnay lover’s chardonnay. […]
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Meadowbank Riesling 2023
$39.00Aromatic and open with Gardenia, lemon, saltbush, dried oregano, grapefruit, pawpaw and green mango. Rich and almost full bodied, indeed I’m not sure we’ve ever had a Tasmanian Riesling with such dimensions and depth as this. For all its size and opulent shape, it’s very focused and structured, the richness of fruit tensioned by minerals, […]
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Rieslingfreak No 2 Polish Hill Riesling 2023
$30.00This 2023 Polish Hill River Riesling delivers immediate complexity and generosity of fruit with mandarin skin, nectarine, pear and touches of stony spice providing an impressive start. Great volume of flavour to follow, gentle grip well placed and giving a serious feel supporting its density and shape through to a lengthy finish. Great overall tension […]
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Schafer-Frohlich Stromberg Riesling GG 2021
$180.00Out of Stock
98-99 points Stephan Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): “The 2021 Stromberg GG offers a bright and pure, enormously radiant and earthy/herbal bouquet of crushed porphyry rocks and concentrated Riesling berry aromas intermingled with iodine notes. Great purity mixed with intensity and complexity. Full-bodied, refined and enormously salty on the palate, this is a compact, fresh and challenging […]
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Schafer-Frohlich Felsenberg Riesling GG 2021
$160.00Out of Stock
Perhaps the most profoundly primal of the Frohlich GG Rieslings, a real statement of the stony, smokey, mineral, herbal, textural and tonic-esque grip. But aside from drama, there’s prettiness, with seasoning nettles, bergamot and clove. Without floral notes, but with a level of refinement that is unsurpassed by its peers. Citrus peel, preserved lime, grapefruit, […]
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Stargazer Pinot Noir 2022
$65.00Out of Stock
From the Palisander vineyard, only 0.5 of a hectare, planted in 2002. At twenty years the vineyard is mature and the wine is gaining richness year on year. Wildly complex, seductive, perfumed, brooding and sensual. The winemaking is entirely pragmatic, not ideologically dogmatic, teasing out the grandest qualities of the fruit. Red fruit compote; raspberry, […]
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Polperro Talland Hill Pinot Noir 2021
$100.00Very savoury to sweet, we come to the Talland Hill vineyard. The warmest of the Polperro single vineyards, but it has to be noted that it’s still a very cool site by any measure. Always the richest, curvaceous and dark fruited, the 2021 has yielded the finest release to date. Black fruits, violets, liquorice, cinnamon […]
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Place of Changing Winds Harcourt Marsanne 2021
$55.00Quite different from previous releases, being deeper, fleshier, more complex and textural. Marvelously aromatic, a fiery opal of colour and flavour. Pineapple, grilled nuts, lime, mandarin blossom, lees-ey, smokey, mango, pawpaw, guava and apricot. Rich and savoury, spicy and long, flavours flirting and flitting with time in the glass. Just wonderful. Waters Wine Co […]
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Place of Changing Winds Syrah No. 2 2021
$40.00Animated and floral, with whole bunches evident, but not defining. Compote of brambly fruit, lavender, mulberry, blackberry, rhubarb, cinnamon and clove. Cool and sleek, super bright, fresh and intense, the longer elevage seemingly to heighten the elements rather than dull them. Incredible detail, herb, spice and fruit, beautifully flowing, long, silky and fine, tannins al […]
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Chateau de Pibarnon Bandol Rose Nuances 2019
$90.00Light, brilliant orange. Expansive, mineral-accented blood orange, red currant and nectarine aromas are complemented by suggestions of succulent herbs, honey and lavender. Sappy, chewy and penetrating on the palate, offering densely packed red berry, pit fruit and floral flavors underscored by a vein of chalky minerality. Smoothly plays power off finesse and finishes minerally and […]
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