by Chris | 10 Apr 2009 | Australia, Cabernet, New South Wales, Red Wines
This great wine was tasted recently with slow cooked Greek lamb and potatoes and sliced mushrooms and gravy. A truly wonderful wine drinking superbly right now but will cellar for another 10 easy. This wine belies the 14.5% alcohol and indeed is refined, reserved and...
by Chris | 10 Apr 2009 | France, Sauvignon Blanc
Clos Des Blanchais from the appellation Menetou-Salon.Domaine Henri Pelle has its vineyards on the hillsides near the charming village of Morogues. This wine is near the top of the tree of their Sauvignon Blanc range. There is also a small vineyard in Sancerre where a...
by Chris | 7 Apr 2009 | Australia, Sauvignon Blanc, Western Australia
The Clairault Sauvignon Blanc is the wine of the week in today’s SMH. Huon Hooke writes: Clairault is one of Margaret River’s big improvers. Across the range, its wines show well in my tastings and this won a gold medal at last year’s Royal Adelaide...
by Chris | 24 Mar 2009 | Australia, Red Wines, Shiraz, South Australia, Uncategorized
The 2006 Heartland Directors’ Cut Shiraz is the wine of the week in today’s SMH. Huon Hooke writes: This is the flagship red of Ben Glaetzer’s Heartland range – a blend of Langhorne Creek and Limestone Coast grapes. It has a great deal of flavour and...
by Chris | 10 Mar 2009 | Australia, Riesling, South Australia, White Wines
The wine of the week in today’s SMH is the 2008 Peter Lehmann Eden Valley Riesling.”Peter Lehmann makes three rieslings: a cheapie Barossa riesling (about $11-$13) the Wigan Reserve (released a few years older) and this one, which is in the middle. It is...
by Chris | 10 Mar 2009 | New Zealand, Pinot Noir
The 2007 Craggy Range Calvert Vineyard Pinot Noir was last week’s wine of the week in the SMH. Huon Hooke wrote:From Central Otago’s Bannockburn district, this is just one of a clutch of outstanding single-vineyard pinot noirs from one of New...
by Chris | 28 Jan 2009 | Australia, Riesling, Victoria, White Wines
The 2008 Mitchelton Blackwood Park Riesling is the wine of the week in yesterday’s Good Living segment of the SMH. Huon Hooke writes …Mitchelton has proven over many years that its home in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley is a great place to grow riesling, and...
by Chris | 23 Jan 2009 | Uncategorized
In this article from Examiner.com Gerald McConway discusses how you just might be able to drink wine for free with your own home wine cellar …”If you are looking for an excuse to build a wine cellar, you just got it! If done properly, you can eventually be...
by Chris | 17 Dec 2008 | Australia, Cabernet, Red Wines, Western Australia
The 2005 Fermoy Estate Cabernet Sauvignon from Margaret River is this week’s wine of the week in yesterday’s SMH. Huon Hooke writes:Fermoy is next to Moss Wood and the vineyard is mature, so you might expect it to make great reds. I’ve often been...
by Chris | 9 Dec 2008 | Australia, Red Wines, Shiraz, Victoria
This week’s wine of the week in today’s SMH is the 2006 Summerfield Shiraz from Pyrenees. Huon Hooke writes:This is not a wine for everybody. If you have an aversion to American oak, look elsewhere. However, in its bold, full-frontal, uncomplicated style,...
