by Chris | 19 Jan 2013 | Australia, Riesling, Victoria, White Wines
This is simply astounding and outstanding. There have been some rave reviews for the 2011 Bests GW Riesling including 97 points from James Halliday, and I managed to get a few before they disappeared. But I have to say I like the 2012 even more. It has a little more...
by Chris | 14 Aug 2012 | Cabernet, Chardonnay, Other Reds, Red Blends, Red Wines, Riesling, Shiraz, USA
A little off the beaten wine tracks of Napa, Sonoma, Russian River etc., this is the northernmost appellation in the Sonoma Valley. It is well worth a trip, however, as this is an area that produces some of the best PQR (Price Quality Ratio) wines in all of...
by Chris | 21 Jul 2009 | Australia, Riesling, South Australia
Wine reviewer Huon Hooke’s SMH wine of the week this week is the Pewsey Vale Prima Riesling 2008. Huon writes:’This is the alter-ego to Yalumba’s regular Pewsey Vale riesling. It’s a low-alcohol (9.5%), early-harvested, slightly sweet style...
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 | 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 | 1 Oct 2008 | Australia, Riesling, Tasmania, White Wines
The wine of the week in yesterday’s SMH is the 2007 Josef Chromy Botrytis Riesling. Huon Hooke writes:”This remarkable Tasmanian sweetie wasn’t out of place alongside $250 German and Austrian trokenbeerenausleses at a recent wine tasting, despite...
by Chris | 20 Feb 2008 | Australia, Riesling, Tasmania, White Wines
Bay of Fires Riesling, Tasmania, 2007 Huon Hooke’s Wine of the Week in the SMH 19/2/07… Bay of Fires is the Tasmanian winery of the Hardy group; Fran Austin is the winemaker. This riesling is a thrilling wine that really leaps from the glass. It is...
by Chris | 17 Jan 2007 | Australia, Riesling, Western Australia, White Wines
From Huon Hooke in this week’s ‘Good Living’ in the Sydney Morning Herald…If only more cool-climate Aussie winemakers would approach riesling this way and not be scared of a litle sweetness. Following the Germanic approach, this delectable (and...
