Wine & Spirit Insider October 2020

insiderthe wine & spiritAUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND October 2020 Issue 169 THE WINE & SPIRIT INSIDER IS A PROMOTIONAL GUIDE FROM THE LIQUOR TRADE TO THE CONSUMER. Winestate Publishing ABN 56 088 226 411 In this issue... New Releases & Best Value Buys Under $20

220 TASTED 125 AWARDED NEW RELEASES Lots of very youthful new releases here this time, with the judges H&L 'V' McLaren SAUVIGNON questioning whether a number of these would have performed Vale Vermentino BLANC better with a few extra months in the bottle. Something to 2020 HHH think about when you look at the results. Unfortunately \"current Very young fresh wine 22 TASTED economic decisions may be influencing winemaking decisions,\" with lemon/citrus-like 8 AWARDED said the judges. However, on a positive note there are more varietal characters and A bit of a struggle here than enough good to great wines in this tasting to satisfy good acidity. $30 with the Kiwi’s coming to everybody. the fore showing more Antiquarian Clare freshness and aromatics. SPARKLING Hollick Estates OTHER Valley Semillon The good Aussie wines The Bard Brut WHITES & Riesling 2019 HHH had elegance and good 4 TASTED Cuvée Coonawarra BLENDS Toasty citrusy style mouth feel while others 4 AWARDED Sparkling with some sweetness lacked varietal aromatics Chardonnay Pinot 9 TASTED balanced by the making dry white wines The judges described Noir 2017 HHH 4 AWARDED acidity. $55 rather than true varietals these as a nice group Cashew and green which is unusual for this of Sunday lunch wines. melon aromas with Disappointing! “Too FIANO most defined varietal. “Fresh, lively and easy rich ripe tropical fruit many wines here were drinking,” said one. flavours. $20 all bones and no flesh,” 5 TASTED Babydoll Chateau Yaldara said one judge. The 3 AWARDED Marlborough Bec Hardy Wines Adelaide Hills 2020s are too young for Sauvignon Blanc Premium South Sparkling now and will improve. Some good examples 2020 HHHH1/2 Australia Sparkling Chardonnay Pinot here with just a couple Attractive pungent NV HHH1/2 Noir 2016 HHH McGuigan Bin that were too thin and passionfruit fragrances Toasty nose and very Subtle citrus bouquet 9000 Hunter Valley lacked mouth feel. –very New Zealand. The rich and complex nutty/ with upfront yeastiness Semillon fresh, youthful and crisp toasty flavours with and tightly wound creamy 2020 HHHH H&L 'F' McLaren tropical fruit palate has a citrus fruit core and lemon palate. $50 Vibrant, well made, Vale Fiano a soft acid line. “Ticks subtle oak. $25 green hued wine with 2020 HHHH all the boxes!” said one flinty grassy/citrus nose Tropical notes to the judge. Bec Hardy Wines and crisp apple and lifted grassy citrusy Pertaringa Lakeside citrus flavours. Will age nose. Nice intensity of South Australia well. $20 passionfruit flavours. Sparkling NV HHH Good mouth-watering Pale wine with a fine Nodus Tollens acidity. $30 bead, floral/citrus nose Ferguson Valley and nicely focussed Arneis 2020 HHH Haselgrove primary fruit flavours. Funky figgy fragrances Alternative Series $17 with super passionfruit- McLaren Vale Fiano like varietal flavours on 2020 HHH the slightly oily palate. $28 Very young and fresh with “glimpses of potential,” said one judge. Just needs time. $24 Brown Brothers Winemakers Series King Valley Fiano 2019 HHH A lightly framed flora/ citrus driven wine with nice complexity developing. $25 78 The Wine & Spirit INSIDER

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NEW RELEASES Kaleidoscope ROSÉ The Ned VBBAEULSYUTSE Riot Wine Co South Aitkens Folly Tumbarumba Marlborough Australia Grenache Central Otago Pinot Chardonnay 21 TASTED Rosé 2020 HHHH Rosé 2019 (250ml Noir 2017 HHHH 2019 HHH1/2 8 AWARDED Very savoury style with Can) HHH Gamey black cherry Creamy peachy bouquet Generally a group of a lovely lifted berry Very flavoursome style aromas with a full with a spicy lift. Sound, dry wines with diverse bouquet and a delicate with interesting texture bodied palate that has clean and well balanced styles from the savoury sour cherry palate with and obvious musky-like genuine pinot characters palate with tropical to the simple fresh lovely fresh acidity. elements. $8 laced with meaty flavours. $22.99 fruit ones. “These are $18.99 elements. $38 Hirsch Hill Estate generally much improved PINOT NOIR Are You Game Yarra Valley from those of years Hollick Estates Strathbogie Pinot Chardonnay ago showing more The Rosada 14 TASTED Noir 2019 HHH1/2 2019 HHH1/2 complexity and more Limestone Coast 8 AWARDED A robust cherry and Nutty nougat nose with defined winemaking,” Rosé 2020 HHH1/2 A mixed result. “The cola driven nose and a lift of spices and a said one judge. A classic strawberry better wines had ripe savoury forest floor-like classy palate with lots of Koonara Emily May compote of a nose and varietal fruit with retained fruit flavours with oak in nougat and green melon Mt Gambier Pinot lifted varietal fruit palate vibrancy while some balance. $25 characters. $25 Noir Rosé sweet in the middle with were prematurely aged,” Taylors Promised Taylor Made 2020 HHHH1/2 a dry finish. $16 noted one judge. Land South Adelaide Hills Provence-like style of Australia Pinot Noir Chardonnay rosé with attractive Bec Hardy Wines Bream Creek 2020 HHH 2019 HHH1/2 varietal characters of Pertaringa Lakeside Vineyard Tasmania Good varietal aromas Complex creamy stewed strawberry South Australia Pinot Noir with a stewed note tropical/citrus nose and aromas and great palate Rosé 2020 HHH 2018 HHHHH and a complexity of red nice balance of fruit and length and balance with Subtle red fruited Super vibrant for a two- and blue fruit flavours. savoury characters on light savoury flavours. fragrances; lovely year old wine showing $14 the palate. $25 $20 upfront cherry berry a classic stewed Zilzie Liv Lighter Cat Amongst The flavours with balancing strawberry bouquet South Eastern Pigeons Barossa Mike Press Single acidity. $17 and a balance of sweet Australia Pinot Noir Chardonnay Vineyard Adelaide cherry flavours with 2019 HHH 2020 HHH Hills Pinot Noir Rosé Poetic Justice subtle use of oak and A light graceful style Slight prickly spicy 2020 HHHH Charlize Adelaide velvety tannins. $42 with developing melon nose with subtle Pretty wine with intense Hills Rosé 2020 HHH Yarra View White beetroot-like fruit oak and soft creamy strawberry and cream A riper style with wild Label Yarra Valley characters and savoury stonefruit flavours. $21 aromas and delicately strawberry-like fruit Pinot Noir tannins. $15 Chateau Yaldara Wild flavoured creamy characters and great 2019 HHHH Nodus Tollens Goose Adelaide Hills textured palate with high sugar/acid balance. $22 Nicely focussed cool Denmark Pinot Noir Chardonnay acidity. $12.99 climate black fruit 2019 HHH 2020 HHH fragrances and dark Spicy, slightly Intense oak driven brooding sweet fruit herbaceous characters aromatics and an oaky flavours. Good gravelly here with vanillin oak palate with grapefruit- tannic finish. $25.99 and chalky tannins. $28 like fruit underneath. $25 Yarra View Black Are You Game Label Yarra Valley Strathbogie Pinot Noir Chardonnay 2019 HHH 2019 HHH Intense sweet cherry Nutty buttery bouquet fruit with some charry with perfumed notes oak that has been used and lean and flinty citrus sparingly. $39.99 fruit flavours. $25 Aitkens Folly Haselgrove Central Otago Alternative Series Chardonnay McLaren Vale 2018 HHH Grenache Rosé Big soft and creamy old 2020 HHH school style with pungent Perfumed floral/ oak nose and honeyed fig raspberry bouquet flavours. $28 and delicate floral fruit Smith & Sheth CRU flavours. Nice crunchy Heretaunga Hawke's acidity. $24 Bay Chardonnay 2018 HHH A deep golden wine with developed aromas and a charry oak dominated palate. $50 80 The Wine & Spirit INSIDER

wine & spirit insider tasting OTHER RED Brown Brothers Hofer Family Wines Nick Haselgrove CABERNET VARIETALS & Winemaker's Series Langhorne Creek Blackbilly McLaren BLENDS BLENDS Victoria Tempranillo Lagrein 2019 HHH Vale Grenache Graciano Good depth of tart Shiraz Mourvedre 5 TASTED 11 TASTED 2018 HHHH1/2 mulberry aromas with 2018 HHHH 4 AWARDED 7 AWARDED Beautifully fresh a youthful fruit and nut- Bright purple hues, ripe aromatic berry bouquet like chocolate bar of a blackcurrant nose with Some good examples of Some excellent and super fresh tangy palate. $25 leathery notes and a complementary blending examples here of red cherry and blue robust strawberry and with the classic addition alternative varieties. fruit palate laced with Leconfield chocolate flavoured of merlot. “There is lovely velvety tannins. “High Coonawarra palate. $25 drinkability from some drinkability!” noted one Cabernet Franc Leconfield of the varieties showing judge. $25 2019 HHH Shanahans The Coonawarra retained freshness and Tamburlaine Organic Minty blackcurrant Barking Dog Barossa Cabernet Merlot vibrancy,” agreed the Wines Reserve bouquet. Quite a herbal Valley G.S.M. 2018 HHHH1/2 judges. Orange Cabernet palate with slight 2018 HHH Great colour here Franc 2019 HHH1/2 angular green edged A complexity of dark with bright leafy Tamburlaine Organic A well made youthful tannins. $30 liqueur-like fruit, gravelly blue fruit fragrances Wines Reserve and crunchy wine with tannins and balancing and very fresh minty Orange Malbec a balance of blue fruits, Minnow Creek oak. Drink soon. $23 blackcurrant flavour 2019 HHHH1/2 tobacco oak and violet- The Black Minnow profile with judicious Vibrant purple wine with like floral notes. $44 McLaren Vale MERLOT use of oak and masses dark fruit fragrances Smith & Sheth CRU Sangiovese of firm tannins. $26 and lifted florals. Palate Heretaunga Hawke's Cabernet Sauvignon 6 TASTED is very primary and Bay Cabernet Franc 2018 HHH 2 AWARDED Hollick Estates fresh with a balance of 2018 HHH1/2 A complex wine with Tannery Block blackcurrants, florals Bright red fruited savoury olive tapenade- A couple of bright Coonawarra and perfume and fine style with raisined-like like aromas and examples of merlot but Cabernet Sauvignon tannins in support. $44 sweetness and delicious flavours with chunky there were too many Merlot 2019 HHHH mouth watering acidity tannins. $22 wines in this flight Intense purple wine with and fine tannins. $50 showing green fruit loads of bright complex GRENACHE tannins. brambly fruit characters and oak in a supporting 5 TASTED Leconfield role. $22 3 AWARDED Coonawarra Merlot 2019 HHH Bream Creek Some nice examples Minty blackberry Vineyard Tasmania showing bright colours bouquet and an Cabernet Merlot and spicy flavours with abundance of varietal 2018 HHH good plummy depth. fruit flavours with herbal Herbal notes to the notes. $26 nose with dark flavours Chateau Yaldara on a lightweight palate Lily Ponds Barossa Mike Press Single with green edged Valley Grenache Vineyard Adelaide tannins. $36 2020 HHHH Hills Merlot Soft, supple and 2018 HHH Bunnamagoo Estate youthful wine. Bright Classy vibrant Central Ranges crunchy raspberry fruit blackcurrant varietal fruit Cabernet Sauvignon with a violet lift, some here with sweet vanillin Shiraz Merlot spiciness, fine tannins oak and fine tannins. 2016 HHH and soft acidity. $25 $14.99 A mature wine; an attractive mix of leafy varietal characters and secondary complexity. $24 JUDGES - DAY 2 Adam Clay Clare Dry Winemaker for Pirathon Winemaker at Wolf Blass Brett Smith Wines. Previously Wines for the past 13 years, Winemaker at Peter winemaker for Penfolds, specialising in cool climate Lehmann wines in the Lindemans and Taylors. Adelaide Hills wines. Judged Barossa Valley. Associate Has completed vintages at wine shows; Royal judge at the Barossa at Marchesi de Frescobaldi Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Clare, wine show and small in Chianti and Pellegrin in Barossa, Alternative – Mildura, winemakers shows California. Judge at the and Small winemakers (QLD). Has completed Alternative Varieties show shows. Has vintaged in AWAC course. Previously Cairns, Queensland Wine Mornington Peninsula and the a winemaker at Awards and Clare Valley Pfalz region of Germany. Lindemans and Penfolds. wine show. Has vintaged in California. The Wine & Spirit INSIDER 81

NEW RELEASES CABERNET MW Victoria SHIRAZ & Tamburlaine Organic SHIRAZ & SAUVIGNON Cabernet Sauvignon BLENDS Wines Reserve BLENDS 2018 2018 HHHH 2020/2019 Orange Syrah 16 TASTED Mature spicy black 2019 HHHH 28 TASTED 8 AWARDED currant aromas with a 17 TASTED Powerful hit of lifted 23 AWARDED A mixed group with a mouthful of sweet dark 12 AWARDED red fruit characters with A strong class of wines very solid pack of wines fruit and green olive chocolaty oak and big from a strong vintage. within those reviewed. flavours with obvious A solid and consistent fine tannins. “Will be “The wines show quite “A couple of good oak. Drink soon. $21.99 class of young wines that drinking well in the next fleshy palates,” noted the vintages particularly for Krondorf Founders are still “filling out” and ten years or more!” $44 judges. “The tannins are cool climate regions View Barossa are not overdone or over round and subtle yet firm giving riper fruit tannins Cabernet Sauvignon ripe. Hollick Estates enough for the wines to and less green fruit,” said 2018 HHHH Stock Route cellar well.” one judge. “Some of Secondary black olive Allegiance Wines Limestone Coast Krondorf Founders these offer good cellaring characters developing The Artisan Shiraz Cabernet View Barossa Shiraz potential but are also on the nose with a rich Reserve Barossa Sauvignon 2018 HHHHH great drinking now.” concentration of ripe Valley Shiraz 2019 HHH1/2 A very nice intense red dark fruit flavours. $26 2019 HHHH1/2 Smells of blackberries wine with a crimson Renmark Vineyards Leconfield 'The Attractive vanillin oak with a lift of aniseed edge. Big blackcurrant, Renmark Creek Sydney' Reserve aromas sitting on top of and mint and a peppery black olive and chocolaty South Australia Coonawarra blue fruit fragrances with plum palate layered with aromas and great power Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Sauvignon a peppery lift and cigar cassis fruit. $22 and freshness of earthy 2019 HHHH 2016 HHHH box-like oak dominating licorice fruit flavours. $26 Beautifully fresh style A smart complex style the complex chocolaty Bec Hardy Wines with minty blackcurrant with “personality” and palate. $60 Pertaringa Regional The Gate By fruit, subtle nuances still showing meaty Series McLaren Vale Shingleback of oak, fine grained cassis varietal fruit McGuigan Personal Shiraz 2019 HHH1/2 McLaren Vale Shiraz tannins and high with an abundance of Reserve Oldman Forest floor-like 2018 HHHHH acidity. $10.99 tannins. $35 Hunter Valley Shiraz characters on the nose Dense crimson wine Tamburlaine Organic Taylors Promised 2019 HHHH1/2 with a dark brooding with a nose that is a Reserve Orange Land South Australia Rich, inky and complex palate showing complexity of black Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Sauvignon style with lifted ripe prominent tannins. $30 plums, violets and oak. 2019 HHHH 2019 HHH black olive-like fruit The big inky palate A super vibrant lifted Red berries and black characters, some Chateau Yaldara – super vibrant - has cabernet with plum fruit olives on the nose with savoury oak and a The Wine Peddler attractive tannins and a verging on herbaceous, youthful savoury fruit big hit of tannins. Shiraz 2020 HHH long lingering acid finish. tobacco oak and long flavours and lovely oak. Showing good cellaring Young and fruity style $39.95 mouth-puckering $14 potential. $80 full of blackberry, tannins. $44 Atkins Farm mulberry and plum-like Langhorne Creek Pig In The House characters. $15 Cabernet Sauvignon Organic Cowra 2018 HHH Shiraz 2019 HHHH McPherson Lovely varietal Pretty plum fruit nose Family Andrew definition of black fruits with rhubarb-like notes McPherson VBBAEULSYUTSE and olives with black and a firm and simple bean notes and silky tannic palate with SEA Shiraz tannins. $16.95 boysenberry-like flavour 2019 HHH Mike Press Single profile. $25 Lifted plum bouquet Vineyard Adelaide with hints of licorice. Hills Cabernet Leconfield Spicy raspberry flavour Sauvignon McLaren Vale complexity with hints of 2017 HHH Shiraz 2019 HHHH oak. $14.99 Aromas in the leafy Earthy plum bouquet herbal spectrum with with malty oak Army Of Grapes simple leafy raspberry characters and a Frankland River fruit flavours. $14.99 chocolaty oak driven Shiraz 2019 HHH palate with good fruit Very cool climate style underneath. Needs – very Rhone-like with time. $26 lovely peppery fruit and subtle cedary oak. $23 Tamburlaine Organic Wines Reserve Nodus Tollens Hunter Valley Syrah Frankland River 2019 HHHH Syrah 2019 HHH A straightforward plum Lovely nose - smells driven shiraz with plenty like a rhubarb pie and of smoky oak sitting on has a palate sitting top and a huge tannin in the earthy savoury structure. $44 spectrum. $28 82 The Wine & Spirit INSIDER

wine & spirit insider tasting Hollick Estates Clarence Hill Nick Haselgrove Paxton Vale Wilgha Coonawarra Reserve McLaren Blackbilly McLaren Organics McLaren Shiraz 2018 HHHHH Vale Shiraz Vale Shiraz Vale Shiraz A big intense, 2018 HHHH1/2 2018 HHH1/2 2018 HHH beautifully structured An intensity of Satsuma plum aromas Savoury and spicy shiraz and well-balanced blackcurrant, plum and underscored with briary with an interesting mix shiraz loaded with chocolate aromas and notes. Powerful fleshy of earthy plums, salami earthy malty chocolaty a powerful mouthful of palate; good oak/fruit and pepper. $25 characters lifted by licoricey fruit with great balance. $25 floral/violet nuances savoury oak elements. Monterra Reserve Monterra McLaren and supported by good Has great potential with McLaren Vale Shiraz Vale Shiraz oak and acid. $65 time. $65 2018 HHH1/2 2018 HHH Nose like Cherry Ripe. Earthy blackcurrant Smith & Sheth James Haselgrove 10 Chains Smooth and slippery bouquet and nice CRU Heretaunga Futures McLaren Pemberton Shiraz in the mouth with savoury flavours on an Hawke's Bay Syrah Vale Shiraz 2018 HHHH blackberry flavour uncomplicated palate. $28 2018 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHH1/2 Super spicy and earthy depth and good use of Rich aromas of spicy Big, rich and nose with a solid palate oak. $50 SHIRAZ red fruits and some flavoursome with gamey ripe with mocha, spices John Hastings Cellar 2017 & OLDER dark cherry elements savoury bouquet and and licorice. “Very Reserve Barossa with a dash of pepper. hints of plums, spices northern Rhone,” said Valley Shiraz 12 TASTED A pretty palate, quite and pepper. Lovely one judge. $20 2018 HHH1/2 8 AWARDED youthful, with earthy complex red currant and Hollick Estates Bright nose with slightly meaty flavours and firm licorice palate. Drink Wrattonbully Shiraz raisined characters. Nice Some nice “drink now” tannins. $50 now. $70 2018 HHHH gamey palate with minty styles agreed the judges. Clarence Hill Mike Press Single Vibrant lifted aromas elements and assertive “These can also hold the Red Label McLaren Vineyard Adelaide with hints of rhubarb tannins. $80 line for future ageing as Vale Shiraz Hills Shiraz and violets. Big, well Vin Vale by well,” noted one. 2018 HHHH1/2 2018 HHHH balanced, chocolaty Shingleback A dense compote of Blue fruit nose with palate with a firm tannin McLaren Vale Shiraz rhubarb and blackberry pretty violet notes structure. $25 2018 HHH fruit fragrances layered and a hint of nutmeg. Shanahans Silence Plum aromas with a with spices and nutty Simple, well rounded is Golden Barossa nice earthy edge and a oak. Very oaky palate blackcurrant palate Valley Shiraz simple lifted fruit driven but there is great fruit with very fine tannins. 2018 HHHH palate. $15 weight to match. $40 $14.99 Ripe raisined fruit Clarence Hill fragrances with nutty Atkins Farm Adelaide Shiraz oak notes. Soft in the Langhorne Creek 2018 HHHH mouth with very spicy Shiraz 2018 HHH Nicely tempered peppery sweet fruit/oak Spicy nose with cherry blue fruit characters flavours. $30 notes and blackberry showing a violet lift and Brown Brothers flavours with raisined layered with interesting Winemakers Series secondary characters. gamey savoury Heathcote Shiraz $16.95 elements. $18 2018 HHH1/2 Atkins Farm A spice box of a nose Longhop Adelaide Minnow Creek McLaren Vale Shiraz with a dash of pepper Plains Shiraz McLaren Vale Shiraz 2018 HHHH and good persistence of 2018 HHH 2017 HHHHH A well structured wine blue fruits with firm oak A full-bodied shiraz with An intensity of full of spicy plum fruit tannins. $25 powerful chocolaty, chocolates and cherries with a dash of white prune and black fruit on on the nose with a lovely pepper and a hint of the nose and palate. floral lift and a palate that menthol with some solid $20 has a vibrant balance of oak. $18.95 Nietschke Jack blue fruit, cigar box oak, Barossa Valley good acidity and loads of Shiraz 2018 HHH tannins. $29 Ethereal spicy peppery nose and an oak driven palate with plum fruit underneath. $21 The Wine & Spirit INSIDER 83

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