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Scented with anise and cocoa, turkish delights and musk, purple to the eye and on the palate, like an effusive winegum with assertive tannins and spiced, gamey oak. If the colour and initial mousse of this wine doesn't excite you then the audacious aromatics and gallant palate will inspire you to take up the challenge and get stuck into that second bottle.
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Rich and viscous, tangy squeezes of lime on the palate, a quenching acidity, which frames itself around the enticing fruit and enhances the synergy of the Nelson and Marlborough regional characters. Well developed flavours of currant, lychee and starfruit, honey and chalkiness, vigorously fruit driven, awash with complexity, impressive to the very end of it's long lasting finish.
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Virtue is it's own reward, this lofty, stately wine leads with provocative mint and musky aromas, punctuated by a palate that displays pure varietal expressions, plump with cherry and ripe dark fruit.
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Berry fruit flavours, crudité and varietal leaf behind a wafer of cocoa/ marshmallow oak, fresh and vibrant with a silky yet chewy tannic backbone.
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Orange blossoms and honeysuckle, rose petals and holiday season's mince, inspiring for it's complexity and sobering, lemon acids. A dulcet finish on an intriguing note of apricot and turkish delights.
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Soft liquorice tannins and lovely subdued oak are just the beginning, this star of the Frankland exudes bushels of lively fruit and wafts of elegant spice. Alkoomi slips effortlessly down the throat and into vinous splendour, defying all logic as it perpetually reveals layers of complexity with every glass.
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Top of the list for those who like to challenge their senses with foreign tongues and exotic cuisines. Superb just on it's own and unbeatable with grilled, very fresh fishes.
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Didn't quite make it to labelling, but streuth, this is an impressive Chardonnay with the tell-tale textures and imposing structure of quite an opulent wine. Lofty aromas of creamy custard fruit, cereal and spiced oak before a sumptuous palate of lemon curd, leesyness and drying, crabapple acids.
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Cuts across the stylistic norms, guava/ lychee flavours telling us 'I'm tropical', whilst the drying, tingly palate and ocean spray characters sing out 'I'm a cool maritime wine.' Well both are right, a refreshing drink in fine balance.
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ORIGINALLY ONE OF NEW ZEALAND’S FIRST VIRTUAL WINERIES, the Kim Crawford operations go from strength to strength. A meteoric ride to fame, establishing Crawford's credentials as an immensely gifted récoltant viticole. Kim Crawford excels at Sauvignon Blanc having scooped the ANZ Wine Awards, Royal NZ Wine Show, and service on Air NZ business class. "Displays classic characters of gooseberry, passionfruit, figs and a touch of herbaceousness, a rich and ripe, appealing Marlborough white, dashingly crisp and stylish with intense fruit!" -Wineweekly.com.au
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PENNY HILL'S PROPRIETARY RED BLEND, a cépage of equal components Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot for a wine which defines all the endowments of McLaren Vale. A fully engrossing palate is supported by showroom oak and the silkiest tannins, with lush fruit flavours in abundance. "The noblesse oblige of cabernet, merlot and shiraz in fine accord, all things to the right proportion, showing intimate balance. An overture of vigorous berry perfumes and flavours swell on a note of emotive tympani tannins, assuaged by a fugue of controlled, taciturn oak!" -Case4Claret.com
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RICHLY STYLIZED CABERNET, previously a winner of the Stodart Trophy. Crafted by the man who makes the Pepperjack, twice Jimmy Watson winner Nigel Dolan, Mamre Brook is a fully aromatic Cabernet exuding arousing perfumes of florals and vanilla. "Hands down, Australia's most hedonistically aromatic red. It tittilates the nostrils to fragrances of milk bottle and cedar, secondary impressions of violet and blueberry, all underpinned by the most persistent redolent essences of French vanilla and cinammon/ nutmeg oak!" -Wine Mag.com.au
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THE SIXTY YEAR OLD SHIRAZ VINES FROM GREENOCK WHICH ARE THE SOURCE OF ELEVENTH HOUR WERE READY TO BE UPROOTED DUE TO THE LACK OF YIELDS AND THE RELUCTANCE OF WINE COMPANIES TO PAY EXTRA FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY FRUIT. Following repeated requests by Massena for access to the grapes, the growers finally decided to stop the bulldozer and retain a small area of these vines at the eleventh hour. For cohorts of the Côtes du Rhône, think a warm season in Cornas meets Maxime Graillot’s Crozes Hermitage from the splendid Domaine de Lises
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