by Chris | 17 Jun 2021 | Australia
Pike’s 2019 Sauvignon Blanc Semillon is from the Polish Hill River region of the Clare Valley in South Australia. This Pike’s SBS is a really versatile wine to drink with some of the mildly spicy food we enjoy here in Penang. It has the citrus elements of...
by Chris | 2 Jun 2021 | Australia, Red Wines, Shiraz, South Australia
2018 Grant Burge Miamba Barossa Shiraz, 14.5 % Deep dark impenetrable red black colour, intense nose of pepper spice, plum and chocolate. Palate as above, ripe plums, chocolate, liquorice and slightly grainy but soft tannins become more integrated after the wine is...
by Chris | 11 Jan 2020 | Asia, Australia, Other
I’ve been using the Winesave Pro now for just on one year. in that time l’ve used not quite three canisters. I’ve been a wine collector, writer and consumer for many years, and now that we reside in the tropics I also mix a range of cocktails. What I have found with...
by Alison | 10 Jun 2018 | Australia, France, Pinot Noir, Shiraz, South Australia
NV Dhondt-Grellet Champagne Les Terres Fines, 100% Chardonnay Another boutique producer, this time from Cuis, and this time 100% Chardonnay. 30% of the wine is vin de réserve from a solera system started in 1986, disgorged 29 June 2015, zero dosage....
by Alison | 26 Sep 2016 | Australia, Red Wines, Shiraz, South Australia
Occasionally, if any of us have a wine of interest, a few of us wine loving Penangites will get together for a tasting. So here we were, Adrian, kindly offering his apartment, Choong and myself looking forward to three very notable wines: two significant 2010 Shirazes...
by Chris | 28 Aug 2015 | Australia, Chardonnay, Tasmania, White Wines
On the home page of the Freycinet Vineyard website I read this statement; Absolute dedication – no compromise. Inspired by the tremendous opportunities of the East Coast of Tasmania, Geoff and Susan Bull cleared the site in 1978, planted the first vines in 1979...
by Chris | 28 Aug 2015 | Australia, Cabernet, Red Wines, Western Australia
Colour – deep red/brick/crimson. Nose – soft, spicy, blackcurrant and plum. Palate – medium to full bodied, silky with blackcurrant and grippy tannins still present. A longish finish with some cassis, plum and spice.
by Chris | 31 Mar 2015 | Australia, Chardonnay, Tasmania, White Wines
Another wine kindly offered for me to taste by Stuart Robinson of Cellarmasters. This is a multi trophy and gold medal winner. Coal River is in the next valley north of the Derwent River valley and just a short drive from Hobart. For those wine collectors that...
by Chris | 23 Mar 2015 | Australia, Red Wines, Shiraz, South Australia
Kindly offered for me to taste by Cellar Masters, many thanks to Stuart Robinson of Cellarmasters. This wine won Gold at the Barossa Valley Wine Show in 2014 and was Cellarmasters Red Wine of the Year in 2014; it retails online at Cellarmasters at under $20. Colour is...
by Chris | 20 Jan 2015 | Australia, New South Wales, Semillon, White Wines
Tasted 19/01/2015 for no other reason that it is now 10 years old and I’m terrified of losing one. Six trophies and 18 gold medals seems like gorging, but it has earned every single one of them. This may be 10 years old but it could have been made yesterday; I have no...
