2014 Spanish Lovers Not Toreadors Ribera Del Duero Rosé

2014 Spanish Lovers Not Toreadors Ribera Del Duero Rosé's colour is very overripe-fruit red and it smells of late-picked strawberries too. It's dry and good with food. It's a kind of work-horse Rosé, too dry to be luscious. José Moro is the winemaker.

2015 Derwent Estate Rosé and 2015 Tasmanian Moorilla Rosé

The Tasmanian 2015 Derwent Estate Rosé is made from Pinot Noir grown on limestone soil. A little red boat is a feature on a relatively clean and elegant label. It's blood red in colour with strawberries and cream in its perfume. It's dry but nevertheless luscious on the palate, with strawberries and then some cream repeated. The 2015 Tasmanian Moorilla Rosé has a cheesy, milky perfume with red roses too. It's a beautiful pink-red colour underpinned with a soft salmon pink. Quite dry, but that softens with food.

2014 Bertaine et Fils Vallee de L'Aude Rosé

The 2014 Bertaine et Fils Vallee de L'Aude Rosé comes from the foothills of the Pyrenees. The label says it is the famous French style of Rosé: 'romantic and sweetly perfumed with elegant light berry flavours and lingering only on a soft, dry finish'. This is a deep salmon pink in colour, with musk in the perfume. There is a sense of sweetness on the palate but what I mean by this is: dry but cute. The label is done in old-style Parisienne block black print, as if from the 19thC, and looking newspaper-ish, on a big, square bordered white label.

2015 Philip Shaw Orange Pink Billy Saignée

The 2015 Philip Shaw Orange Pink Billy Saignée has a beautifully simple label in textured white paper with a pink 'Billy' in running writing. (Unfortunately there's a naked woman on the back, something like old French nudes – but not enough like them!) The label does not name the grape/s (which is annoying), except for 'the use of our best red', but the website info is that Shiraz and Merlot predominate, with small amounts of Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, coming from the Koolmooloo vineyard with an altitude above 900 m. It's tomato in colour, tinged by orange bronze. Orange is in the perfume, with cinnamon, and ending in strawberry. Very Marella jube in flavour. Not necessarily a great Rosé that'd I'd look out for again.

2014 McPherson Lucie's Promise Rosé

The 2014 McPherson Lucie's Promise Rosé is dry, although my drinking companion said fruity. However, I wouldn't repeat-buy it. McPherson wines are located on the Murray-Darling near Goulburn.

2013 Jospeh Chromy Gewürztraminer

Gewürztraminer is a variety that currently features in Tasmanian wines. The 2013 Jospeh Chromy Gewürztraminer is a clear pale lemon in colour with a fine orange perfume that also includes vanilla and marshmallow. On the palate, it's light but delicious. The label is a little affected, with a regal lion, fork-tailed which is the coat of arms of Bohemia. (Chromy fled Czechoslovakia during encroaching communism.) Otherwise, the label is simply elegant in black, white and gold. The 2015 Spring Vale Gewürztraminer is a beautifully clear pale lime-lemon in colour, and smells of pear with a tinge of coconut. In a tasting, it was dry. But in a larger gulp (sold in a ¾ bottle to be precise), it came across as a little sweet. My drinking companion said not, but, rather, fruity and spicy if anything. It would be good wine with quince paste, or marron which is a sweetish shell fish.

2015 Sigurd White Barossa Valley Blend

The 2015 Sigurd White Barossa Valley Blend by young winemaker Daniel Graham is a combination of Gewürztraminer (Springton), Marsanne (Lyndoch) and Gargenega or Soave (Mt Crawford). The mixture is well judged and finely balanced, which is proving to be a characteristic of Graham's wines (His Sigurd GSM is a fine, smooth wine). Wild fermented, and unfiltered/unfined, it's the most extraordinary colour: think medieval mead and, if you can hallucinate, you might think of pink. Further, you might think of a white-pink gold. The perfume is of toffee, jube, honey, maybe some caramel or even liquorice. And on the palate it's Scheherazade telling stories, not overnight but on a summer afternoon, with the smell of salt water from the Persian Gulf or Caspian Sea. This is an extraordinary wine, something of a revelation that is entirely about pleasure. Think of silken sherbet, gold brocade, white curtains shifting in the breeze, and you have the idea.