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...
by Chris | 5 Dec 2014 | Australia, New South Wales, Shiraz |
Here are some notes from an earlier tasting in September 2006. ‘Legendary winemaker, the late Maurice O’Shea founded the Hunter Valley’s Mount Pleasant winery in 1921. This wine is a tribute to Maurice O’Shea, a true visionary, who is acclaimed as one of Australia’s...
by Chris | 22 Apr 2014 | Australia, New South Wales, Semillon, White Wines |
Huon Hooke’s Wine of the Week in this week’s Sydney Morning Herald is this great bargain aged Semillon from McWilliams. Huon writes: ‘Hunter Semillon is one of the world’s greatest ageing white wines. Elizabeth is always released after some ageing (the 2012 and ’11...
by Chris | 19 Apr 2014 | Australia, New South Wales, Red Wines, Shiraz |
Could not wait to open another of these, just over one year since we tried the first. So what has changed? Now 12 months on, is the hype created by the rave reviews including Halliday’s 97 points, justified? Well in a word (actually two), emphatically yes. It is...
by Chris | 27 Apr 2013 | Australia, New South Wales, Semillon, White Wines |
I wrote about this wine after a tasting trip late last year to the Hunter Valley; but in a day of tasting so many wines, though this wine made me stand up and take notice, there was always another wine we needed to look at. So here we are now 11/03/2013 pulling one of...
by Chris | 14 Jan 2013 | Australia, New South Wales, Red Wines, Shiraz |
So what does velvet or silk actually taste like? Well a good place to start is by smelling and swallowing this wine. The bouquet is all sweet stewed plums and bright cherry fruit, with an overlay of rich vanillan oak, soft pepper spice and just a touch of beautiful...
by Chris | 10 Jan 2013 | Australia, New South Wales, Red Wines, Shiraz |
What does ethereal mean? The dictionary describes it thus; extremely delicate or refined, exquisite, celestial or spiritual. I’m going to hang that well used tag on the 2009 Moppity Vineyards Hilltops Shiraz. This wine has a small percentage of Viognier ...
by Chris | 12 Jun 2012 | Australia, New South Wales, Semillon, Shiraz |
On a bleak, cold, rain-sodden Queens Birthday holiday we set out to reacquaint ourselves with two of the famous Hunter S’s; Shiraz and Semillon. Well at least the foul weather kept the crowds away, most tasting rooms we had to ourselves, which means we get the...
by Chris | 26 Jul 2011 | Australia, New South Wales, Red Wines, Shiraz |
The wine of the week in the Good Living section of the SMH this week is the Phillip Shaw The Idiot Shiraz, Orange 2009. Huon Hooke writes: Phillip Shaw’s second ranked shiraz turned heads earlier this year in the Sydney Royal Wine Show when it won three...
by Chris | 14 Aug 2009 | Australia, New South Wales, Shiraz |
You know which your favourite wines are when you are always looking for an excuse to bring one out of the cellar for some dinner guests.This was tasted with said guests, and a seasoned webber roasted whole fillet of beef accompanied by a roast vegetable one-pot.The...
