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Yangarra Old Vine Grenache Museum Release 2015
$45.00“From bush vines planted in 46, 50% whole-berries, wild yeast and kept on lees in used French oak for 10 months. So fragrant it’s breathtaking. To start, a whirl of perfectly ripe raspberries and red currants, patchouli and subtle Middle Eastern spices. The palate is tightly wound, with raspberry-like acidity, more pronounced tannins in the […]
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Moss Wood Margaret River Pinot Noir 2018
$65.00I have been fortunate in recent years to taste many bottles of this wine from the 1980s in masked lineups, each time (although less as time wore on) confounded as to their provenance. Moss Wood pinot noir has developed a reputation over the years for its capability to age gracefully in the cellar. Here, through […]
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JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spatlese Museum Release 2018
$105.00Pre-arrival due August The 2018 Graacher Himmelreich Spätlese is discreet yet deep and complex on the elegant and spicy nose that exhibits very fine stone fruit aromas. Round, lush and piquant on the palate, this is a crystalline, piquant, persistently salty and stimulating Himmelreich with fine tannins on the finish that add grip and a […]
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Tyrrell’s Vat 1 Museum Release Semillon 2009
$150.00Out of Stock
We tasted the 2005 museum release a couple of months ago, one of the greatest Vat 1’s ever made. So we had a benchmark, albeit a seemingly impossible high one, to compare the 2009 Vat 1 Museum Release. Tyrrells are now calling their museum release wine’s “Winemakers Selection”, but they are museum releases, so to […]
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JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese 2015 Museum Release
$125.00Pre-arrival due August “The 2015 Graacher Himmelreich Auslese displays a very clear, precise and flinty/smoky bouquet of perfectly ripe stone fruits and crushed stones, intertwined with lemon flavors. This Auslese is enormously mouth-watering, incredibly piquant and salty, with an endless flow of lush fruit juice and melting minerals. This is a great Riesling and a […]
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JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese GOLDKAPSEL Museum Release 2011
$230.00Out of Stock
Pre-arrival due August Pale golden yellow. Candied apricot, clove, nut oil and a touch of smoky botrytis on the nose. Creamy tropical fruit flavours are nicely accented by salty minerality. This impressively rich Auslese boasts a compelling finish animated by lemon curd and slate. 93 points, Joel B. Payne, Vinous Candied, spiced apple and overripe Persian […]
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Tyrrell’s Stevens Museum Release Semillon 2011
$85.00Aromatic and complex nose of custard apple, preserved lemon, lime and white flowers. Plush, fleshy, pulpy palate, white and yellow peach, apricot, nectarine and dried herbs. Texturally complex, beginning lanolin like, before firming up and becoming chalky. Remarkably youthful, and delicious to drink now, but has decades ahead. Classic Hunter River Burgundy and the finest […]
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JJ Prum Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Spatlese Museum Release 2018
$100.00Pre-arrival due August An intensely flowery nose suggestive of honeysuckle and decadent lily also exhibits exotic ripeness of banana. Site-typical apple, Bing cherry and cassis join in on the palate for a succulent riot of fruit to accompany still-profuse inner-mouth perfume, while bittersweet, faintly smoky nut oils serve for complex counterpoint. The feel is remarkably […]
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Clyde Park Block F Pinot Noir Museum Release 2017
$80.00The very definition of Pinot Noir, and the prettiest of the Clyde Park stable. But like all great pinot, pretty doesn’t mean light, or lacking in weight. In this case at least the opposite is true. Asian spices are woven with crushed mixed berries, red blue and black. Some cinnamon and cocoa powder creeps through […]
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Yangarra GSM Museum Release 2016
$35.00A 54/24/18% blend, wild yeast open-fermented, matured for 10 months in used French oak. Magical, deep crimson; as devotees of Chateau Rayas, and others from the Rhone Valley will attest, grenache has many faces, the most admired in that part of France, its serious, long-lived, complex and structured single varietal pose. But it’s usually in […]
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Clyde Park D Pinot Noir Museum Release 2016
$80.00The most generous of the pinots and despite the broad shoulders, is more approachable now. A cuddly nose of sweet red fruits, pastille black fruits, cocoa powder, nutmeg, cherry, raspberry and plum. Broad and fleshy on the palate with some oak spice, five spice and sweet fruits. The tannins are quite firm, but the fruit […]
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Clyde Park Block 2 Pinot Noir Museum Release 2016
$80.00This would bring a tear to the eye of any wine grower in Gevrey-Chambertin. Expressive with clove, bay and aniseed spice, blackberry, mulberry, plum and mixed red fruits. Muscular and angular with sinued flesh stretched taught across the frame. Intense palate, cut through with herbs, spices, tobacco, Serrano and summer fruits. Firm. The most exotic […]
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Clyde Park Block 3 Chardonnay Museum Release 2017
$80.00Incredible bouquet, as powerful as it is complex. Yellow peach, fresh hay, cashew, nougat, white flowers and honeysuckle. To this you could add many more as it is so multifaceted and evolves incredibly in just a short time in the glass. Tightly wound and dense, a very rare combination in Australian Chardonnay. Butter, struck match, […]
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Merlot 2017
$60.00Moderately intense merlot that has an impressive lightness and subtle power with blueberry, cedar, violet and a hint of wood-smoke. A seamless, smooth-textured red with a lengthy finish. Delicious now but with obvious potential. Drink 2019-2025. 95 points – Bob Campbell MW, The Real Review
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JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spatlese Museum Release 2015
$110.00Pre-arrival due August Prüm’s 2015 Graacher Himmelreich Spätlese is clear, intense and flinty on the nose, very precise but well concentrated; however, it is the most reductive of the Spätlese quartet. Round and piquant, with a stimulating fruit and salinity, this is a very well-defined, crystalline and straight Spätlese of great finesse and elegance. It […]
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Yangarra Ovitelli Grenache Museum Release 2016
$70.0070yo vines, hand-picked, 100% destemmed, 50% crushed, fermented in two 675l ceramic eggs, remaining on skins post fermentation for 140 days, no oak maturation. Peter Fraser says he can’t explain why eggs perform as they do, and (of course) nor can I. But I am sure you could not bypass oak in favour of stainless […]
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Rippon Mature Vine Pinot Noir 2012 Cellar Release
$165.00Direct from the cool dark cellars of Rippon, and at 10 years old this is drinking beautifully. It’s interesting to taste the estate’s DNA, with no perceptible style changes over the years. As always, an expression of vintage, and 2012 is considered great according to Nick Mill, owner/winemaker at Rippon. Red fruits, cherry, plum, strawberry, […]
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