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 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 | 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 Alison | 21 Dec 2014 | Australia, Red Wines, Shiraz, South Australia
Tasted 17/12/2014 for our wedding anniversary dinner; well, you need an excuse, and we found one. We had it with a simple Weber-cooked whole piece of mesquite smoked rump steak, asparagus, corn and roasted tomatoes; in truth what we had in fridge at the time. It...
by Chris | 21 Oct 2014 | Australia, Red Blends, Shiraz, South Australia
A blend of 55% Grenache, 25% Shiraz and 20% Mataro (Mourvedre), the 2005 was one of the last to be finished with a cork closure, but it is high quality cork and in perfect condition. Colour is deep dark brick red and showing some of its age. Nose shows the elegance...
by Chris | 30 Apr 2014 | Australia, Red Blends, Red Wines, South Australia
I have been an enthusiastic fan of Kim Teusner ever since I met him at a Teusner tasting about 10 years ago and discovered the wines that he crafts – and, yes, crafting is the way to describe how the wines are made. He continues to surprise me in the way that he is...
by Chris | 26 Apr 2014 | Australia, Red Blends, Shiraz, South Australia
It was Anzac Day, and the traditional dinner was sorted; roast lamb in the Weber with four veg and lots of rosemary, and just a hint of hickory to add another touch – ok not quite trad. The really tough job however fell to me; search the cellar for a truly fine iconic...
by Chris | 27 Sep 2013 | Australia, Shiraz, South Australia
A blast from the past; yes from way back in the days when we still used the appellation name of Hermitage in the Rhone Valley to describe our Aussie Shiraz. So here we go on its 20th birthday. I still have a bunch of these in the cellar but open them reluctantly as...
by Chris | 7 May 2013 | Australia, Semillon, South Australia, White Wines
Huon Hooke’s SMH Wine of the Week this week is this wonderful Semillon from the Barossa Valley. Huon writes … ‘This is simply a beautiful wine. Its low alcohol, un-oaked, early picked style does a good impersonation of a classic from the Hunter...
