2021 Bird in Hand Sauvignon Blanc Adelaide Hills, South Australia Cat’s pee can be detected at 50 paces and assails one’s nostrils with such force that no other odour is able to be perceived for days. Poorly made Sauvignon Blanc can do something similar. At its least offensive, it is flabby and insults the senses.Continue reading “Wine Code Breaker #395”
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Wine Code Breaker #394
2018 Protero Capo Gumeracha Nebbiolo, Adelaide Hills, South Australia Adelaide Hills is a remarkable region as it seems to have pockets that mirror some of the world’s great wine growing regions. Altitude and valleys create a landscape of microclimates that play with the coolness across the dry ripening periods. Add a bit of fog duringContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #394”
Wine Code Breaker #393
2018 Frankland Estate Shiraz, Frankland River, Western Australia Frankland River as a wine region is the one closest to a Mediterranean climate in the Antipodes. An inland area that experiences warm dry days and cooling nights. The soils are a blanket of gravel ironstone above the mattress of hills and river valleys. The beds dividedContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #393”
Wine Code Breaker #392
2019 Ravensworth Hilltops Nebbiolo, Canberra District The 15th of March is an auspicious day on our Gregorian calendar as it celebrates International Stab Someone In the Back Day, figuratively speaking. Harking back to less tolerant times, it is of course the Ides of March when Julius Caesar resigned to the smell of betrayal as theContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #392”
Wine Code Breaker #391
2020 Passing Clouds Pinot Noir, Macedon Ranges, Victoria Growing grapes in cooler to marginal areas is tricky business. Let’s face it, agriculture is a tricky business where you can be confronted with frost during bud forming, managing light into the canopy to help with ripening and preventing disease in the canopy itself. Add into theContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #391”
Wine Code Breaker #390
2019 Musk Lane Vineyard Nebula #2 Nebbiolo, Macedon Ranges, Victoria The Carina Nebula is the largest of the nebulae that adorn our night skies and is visible only to residents of the Southern Hemisphere. A complex system with many features, it is amazing we do not hear more of its wonders. The Eta Carinae, HomunculousContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #390”
Wine Code Breaker #389
2008 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz, South Australia Cellaring a single bottle of wine has its risks and rewards. Tasting it in its optimum drinking window is the spiritual experience that you are aiming for. Keeping it too long and you will be disappointed. Conversely, drinking it too young and you are regretful. And so,Continue reading “Wine Code Breaker #389”
Wine Code Breaker #388
2019 Fallen Giants Shiraz, Grampians, Victoria The Grampians dominates the township of Halls Gap in western Victoria. An imposing ancient sandstone mass with Dreamtime stories calling out the fallen giants that carved out the mountains, escarpments and ravines that the area is known for. And it is this landscape that provides a buffer to theContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #388”
Wine Code Breaker #387
2021 Granite Hills Riesling, Macedon Ranges, Victoria Burke and Wills set out on their remarkable, yet tragic, journey from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, facing their first challenge in the winter of 1860 when traversing the Macedon Ranges. This is a range that is dominated by granite outcrops that rise and fall 300 toContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #387”
Wine Code Breaker #386
2018 Oakridge Vineyard Series Henk Pinot Noir, Yarra Valley, Victoria The colour of a wine is seen as a marker of its quality. It can be enhanced through the winemaking process with a number of options available. Ultimately it will come down to the quality of the grapes. When it comes to Pinot Noir, thereContinue reading “Wine Code Breaker #386”
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