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SHIRAZ 12 Aug 2012 | 11:21 am
Penfolds Grange 2004 $650+; 14.3% alcohol; cork; tasted 20 Feb 09; 7 MAY 09; 1 MAY 10; 96+++ points Of all the Granges released in the modern era, this vintage is surely the most respectful of the w...
BICAL 12 Aug 2012 | 11:01 am
NEW! Luis Pato Vinhas Velhas 2010 $28; 12.5% alcohol; screw cap; tasted 9AUG12; 94 points Luis The Duck is the pointy end of Portugal. The notion of a winemaker from the source of most of the world’s...
TOURIGA NACIONAL 12 Aug 2012 | 09:02 am
NEW! Quattro Mano la Morada 2010 $25; 13% alcohol; screw cap; 310 cases made; tasted 3-5 JUL 12; 94+ points Quattro Mano is a wine-bent trinity more than a quartet: sommelier-cum-cooper Philippe Mori...
PENFOLDS GRANGE 2007 REVIEWED 5 May 2012 | 03:58 pm
The eve of vintage 2012: Peter Gago, far left, with Steve Lienert and the Penfolds winemaking crew, old and new, surrounding Thelma Schubert at Ray Beckwith's 100th birthday party at Kalimna Homestead...
ROSÉ 27 Jan 2012 | 08:54 pm
Castagna Allegro Beechworth Syrah Rosé 2010 $30; 14% alcohol; Diam cork; 95++ points This is like one of those people who radiate such cornflower-blue health that they make you feel sick. It’s ridd...
SPARKLING WHITE 25 Jan 2012 | 06:36 pm
Krug Vintage 1996 $500; drunk 25 APR 09; 98++ points Any duffer must agree with the Krug family when they call this vintage “extreme, eccentric champagne”. On another level, it’s that way because it...
GEWURZTRAMINER 25 Jan 2012 | 05:20 pm
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 NEW! McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant 1946/66 Hunter Valley Sauternes From a private collection; 10.2% alcohol; cork; consumed January 2012; 96 ...
SHIRAZ 23 Jan 2012 | 01:27 am
Penfolds Grange 2004 $650+; 14.3% alcohol; cork; tasted 20 Feb 09; 7 MAY 09; 1 MAY 10; 96+++ points Of all the Granges released in the modern era, this vintage is surely the most respectful of the w...
FIANO 22 Jan 2012 | 04:14 pm
NEW! Beach Road Langhorne Creek Fiano 2011 ($25; 13.5% alcohol; screw cap; tasted September and December 2011; 91 points) From the same brave Elliot Family Langhorne Creek vineyard that produced th...
GRECO di TUFO 22 Jan 2012 | 03:59 pm
NEW! Beach Road Langhorne Creek Greco 2011 ($25; 13% alcohol; screw cap; tasted September and December 2011; 93+ points) Jeez it’s good. Imagine a big ripe year Chablis with all that wet chalk in....
