Usual pale gold in colour, with sweet pineapple and a depth of classic oil on the palate, this is a Chardonnay I could keep returning to when I do want something classic and reliable.
Single vineyard is usually an indicator of quality. This is a wine from Moppity Vineyards in Young, a new wine region in NSW, from the winemaker Jason Brown.Monday, August 4, 2014
Sunday, August 3, 2014
2014 Cake Wines Adelaide Hills Rose
A Rose to add to Rose-lovers' lists: 2014 the Hills (SA) Cake Wines. A Grenache Pinot Noir. That mid-red, strawberry pink or tangerine/blood orange. It smells of milky apple, strawberry sugar or piquant pepper orange; on the palate just that little bit sweet, but ultimately dry through orange peel. Ten per cent of proceeds go to independent radio = go figure. And they select parcels of grapes etc. Found at the fab-O Bangalow Cellars.
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This is from their 'Artist Series', 'a light to medium bodied approachable range of wine'. Cake is 'a boutique wine producer, created in 2011 by young wine makers and young wine lovers. [Their] wine making team is based in Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills headed up by Tim Burvill'. The artist is Bennett.
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2012 Betty and Max Clare Valley Reisling
From the FabO Bangalow Cellars. The beautiful, clear gold of Reisling. And it smells of a strangely, even alien sweetness with a citrus lime/lemon. On the palate it's unexpected: a kind of drinkable/not so easily drinkable subtle citrus. A great Reisling, I think. But I may not return to it. Try harder, I implore, and I may be with you forever. Reisling can be astonishing. You just got to get there.
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