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Craggy Range Kidnappers Crooked Brook Wines Normans Holbrooks Road Whistling Kite BiodynamicVineyard Hawkes’s Bay Western Australia South Eastern Australia Wine Rosé 2011Chardonnay 2011 Chardonnay 2011 Chardonnay 2011 A drier style with subtle,Grown near the coast at Te Plenty of everything here; Subtle musky confectionery floral red fruits and goodAwanga, this wine is a lightly floral, peachy fruit, spicy oak aromas and light, elegant palate acid backbone. Refreshingwooded style, fermented in and malo creaminess. $15 with dry white flavours. $9.95 and flavoursome. $20tanks and barrels. Mouthfilling,fresh and citrusy, with a very Crooked Brook Wines Normans Wine Company Whistling Kite Vineyardssubtle seasoning of oak, it’s a 0403 765 015 (08) 8524 5030 (08) 8584 9014good food wine – crisp, refined, [email protected] [email protected] www.whistlingkitewines.com.audry and sustained. $24.95 (NZD) www.normanswines.comCraggy Range Vineyards Ltd+64 6 833 [email protected] We are celebrating... you’ll find us in the 2012 Winestate Annual listings for Best in the State and Best Value for some of our wines. We are offering a $30 discount with any case purchase to Winestate Readers who would like to make a purchase from our website Discount Code: Winestate2012 *Valid to use until June 30, 2012 www.gardnersground.com.au And we’re certified organic! The Wine & Spirit INSIDER 151

TOP 40Blackbilly McLaren Vale Cooks Lot Mudgee & Haha Marlborough Moana Park Estate SeriesTempranillo Rosado 2011 Orange Pinot Noir 2010 Pinot Noir 2010 Hawkes Bay MerlotAttractive, salmon pink Malbec 2011wine with subtle aromas of A firm, lean and green pinot - One of the best sub-$20 pinotstrawberries and black fruits plenty of tannin. Burgundian noirs on the market. Grown This good, ageworthy red isfollowed by a long, well- in style. Needs time. $20 in the Awatere Valley (90%) a blend of Gimblett Gravelsbalanced, sweet fruit palate. $20 and the upper Wairau Valley and Dartmoor Valley grapes, Cooks Lot Wines (10%) and 40 per cent barrel- bottled unfined and unfiltered.Adelaide Winemakers (02) 9550 3228 aged, it is deeply coloured, with Full-coloured, it is sturdy, with0419 383 907 [email protected] fresh, vibrant plum and spice lots of fresh, plummy, [email protected] www.cookslot.com.au aromas. Mouthfilling, warm and flavour and a firm finish. Best supple, it shows. $19.99 (NZD) 2013+. Priced right at $20 (NZD). Fern Ridge Wines Moana Park Winery +64 6 834 3888 +64 6 844 8269 [email protected] [email protected] www.fernridge.co.nz www.moanapark.co.nz www.alfatek.com.au Phone: 0397205344 Let Temp Detector keep tabs on your liquid investment An affordable, intelligent device that keeps track of your wine storage temperature around the clock152 The Wine & Spirit INSIDER

Capel Vale Debut Western Draytons Family Wines Normans Holbrooks Road Cumulus Wines RollingAustralia Merlot 2010 Hunter Valley Merlot 2011 South Eastern Australia Central Ranges Cabernet Light and simple wine with lovely Merlot 2011 Merlot 2010Young, fresh and minty on sweet plum and herbal notes Ripe red berry aromas with athe nose with a similar palate on the nose and well-balanced, lift of lilacs and simple, spicy Subdued nose - slightand finishing dry. $17.95 flavoursome palate. $20 palate with firm tannins. $9.95 tobacco element. Smooth, firm, chocolaty palateCapel Vale Drayton’s Family Wines Normans Wine Company with good tannins. $18(08) 9317 2522 (02) 4998 7513 (08) 8524 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cumulus Wineswww.capelvale.com www.draytonswines.com.au www.normanswines.com (02) 8977 2800 [email protected] www.cumuluswines.com.auWinstate 178x68mm.pdf 15-Mar-12 10:14:36 AM C M Y CM MY CYCMY K www.greenpiper.com.au ~ [email protected] ~ Ph: +61 8 9756 7813 The Wine & Spirit INSIDER 153

TOP 40Legs Western Australia Normans Encounter Bay Totino Estate Adelaide Cumulus WinesCabernet Merlot 2010 South Australia Cabernet Hills Cabernet Rolling Central Ranges Sauvignon 2010 Sauvignon 2009 Shiraz 2010A pretty feminine winewith lovely perfumed Vibrant red currant varietal Estery Christmas cake Light lifted mix of berry andbouquet and confectionery, fruit, nice herbaceous edge, nose. Palate has power yet oak aromas and fresh, rich-sweet fruit palate. $5 seamlessly integrated with elegance with warming and balanced palate. A keeper. $18 the oak. 5+ $19.95 complex flavour profile. $19.95The Growers/Niche Wines Cumulus Wines(08) 9755 2121 Normans Wine Company Festival City Wines (02) 8977 [email protected] (08) 8524 5030 (08) 8349 1200 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.cumuluswines.com.au www.normanswines.com www.festivalcitywines.com.auBULLER WINES 3 e ds eVmicutomia’sWINEMAKERS SINCE 1921 win gi nsLangdon www.bullerwines.com.au [email protected] The Wine & Spirit INSIDER

Epsilon Barossa Red Knot By Shingleback Thomas K. Hardy Moana Park Estate SeriesShiraz 2010 McLaren Vale Shiraz 2011 Wines Family Tradition Hawkes Bay Syrah 2011 Shiraz 2009A real fruit bomb with Intense, dusty, young wine Fruit-driven style from thelovely blackberry and with good complexity of varietal The nose exhibits lovely Gimblett Gravels, full-coloured,molasses aromas and fruit, oak and tannins. $14.95 cashew-like oak aromas over with a fragrant, stronglypowerful concentration of youthful, licoricey fruit and varietal bouquet. Youthful,sweet, plum flavours. $20 Shingleback has a thick, dense and almost with very good depth of plum (08) 8323 7388 vintage port-like palate. $19.90 and black pepper flavours,Epsilon Wines [email protected] supple tannins and plenty+61 417 871 951 www.shingleback.com.au Thomas Hardy Wines Pty Ltd of personality. $20 (NZD)[email protected] 0411 191 043www.epsilonwines.com.au [email protected] Moana Park Winery www.thomashardywines.com.au +64 6 844 8269 [email protected] www.moanapark.co.nz The Wine & Spirit INSIDER 155

TOP 40Trinity Hill Hawkes Bay Buller Beverford Gold Dromana Estate Konrad Noble TwoSyrah 2011 Victoria Botrytis Semillon ‘I’ Range Late Harvest Marlborough 2010 (375ml) Arneis 2010 (375ml) Riesling Sauvignon BlancMedium-bodied, drink- Nose has delicate lemon Very sweet style with 2009 (375ml)young style, grown in the citrus expression with interesting rose petalGimblett Gravels and blended fine, elegant flavours and and lavender notes to Luscious, fruit cake-like aromaswith viognier (2%). Full- balanced acid/sugar. $19.95 the citrussy fruit. $15 and rich palate. Fruit still freshcoloured, with strong plum and vibrant. $24.90 (NZD)and black pepper flavours, Buller Wines Dromana Estategentle tannins and a fresh, (03) 9936 0200 (03) 5974 3899 Konrad Wines Ltd/Mount Fishtailsmooth finish. $23.50 (NZD) [email protected] [email protected] +64 3 572 4110 www.bullerwines.com.au www.dromanaestate.com.au [email protected] Hill www.konradwines.co.nz+64 6 879 [email protected] Issue 123 | May/June 2012Editor & Publisher Winestate Web Site electronic medium or machine-readable form without the express permission of the publisher. Every care isPeter Simic E-mail: [email protected] Justin Martin E-mail: [email protected] taken in compiling the contents of this publication, butManaging Editor the publisher assumes no responsibility for the effects Printing DAI Rubicon arising therefrom. ABN 56 088 226 411Lara Simic E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.distalliance.comAdministrationVicki Bozsoki E-mail: [email protected] Director Winestate Publishing Pty Ltd. WINESTATE is published seven times a year by Telephone (08) 8357 9277Renate Klockner E-mail: [email protected] WINESTATE PUBLISHING PTY LTD, Facsimile (08) 8357 9212Marketing Manager 81 King William Road, Unley SA 5061. E-mail [email protected] Copyright 2012 by WINESTATE PUBLISHING PTY LTD. Website www.winestate.com.auPeter Jackson E-mail: [email protected] This publication may not, in whole or in part, be copied,Tasting Coordinator photocopied, reproduced, translated or reduced to anyStephen Dean E-mail: [email protected] The Wine & Spirit INSIDER

Morris Classic Liqueur Morris Classic Morris Mia Fino Sherry NV Morris Black LabelMuscat NV (500ml) Tawny NV (500ml) Fresh, nutty complexity on Liqueur Muscat NVNose verging on molasses with Rich Christmas cake aromas the nose with touches of Ageing, raisined bouquet witha long, well-balanced palate and a complexity of flavours citrus and apples and some floral touches. Good fruit lengthshowing good VA lift, acid and with nutty, citrus elements. $20 phenolic notes. Beautifully on the sweet palate. $14warming, alcohol finish. $20 balanced palate - good length Morris Wines and density, and still showing Morris WinesMorris Wines (02) 6026 7303 some fruit. $12 (02) 6026 7303(02) 6026 7303 [email protected] [email protected]@morriswines.com www.morriswines.com Morris Wines www.morriswines.comwww.morriswines.com (02) 6026 7303 [email protected] www.morriswines.com The Wine & Spirit INSIDER 157

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aftertasteELISABETH KINGTapping into spigot technologyWE THINK of glass bottles as the time- and South America, waiters making recyclinghonoured way of serving wines. But to especially in Chile runs - cuts costs by up to 20the Romans, who pioneered the practice, and Argentina. Two of per cent. A win-win situation that allows barencasing wine in a glass was simply a the leading European owners and restaurants to pass the savingspackaging breakthrough. As generations manufactuers of wine on to the customers to boost business,of winemakers realised, wine bottles make kegs - Franke, from Germany, and Key especially during Happy Hours.wine taste and look better, and last longer. Kegs, based in the Netherlands - canThey even played a major marketing role by hardly keep up with local and global Pressurised nitrogen is often used to push theallowing the winemakers of different countries demand for their products. The idea of wine through a draught spout like beer. Thereto adopt what we would call signature looks wine on tap isn’t new, but the technology are cheaper gases but the end result is the- tall, thin bottles for German riesling and has progressed in leaps and bounds same - the wine is not exposed to oxygen andsquare-necked bottles for Bordeaux. since the 1980s and it’s even possible to can remain fresh for months. There’s no need offer quality wines. Sauvignon blanc and for sulphur dosing, either, when oxidation has Just as the basic broom didn’t change shiraz are two of the most popular varietals been eliminated. Unlike boxed wines, wine onmuch for hundreds of years until the available in Australia, although many bars tap comes out in top condition every time fromintroduction of nylon bristles, the technology are experimenting with “fashion” wines like the first glass to the last. As is often the caseof wine packaging also remained static pinot grigio and moscato. Pulling cider with an innovative delivery system, youngerfor centuries. Ruben Rausing, a Swede, has also become popular as the booming people who aren’t in awe of the romance ofcreated the Tetra Pak container for milk in success of the apple-based beverage the bottle are keener on the idea of wine onthe 1940s and today it is the most popular shows no sign of abating. tap. One of the most amazing experiences Ialternative wine-packaging container in the have ever witnessed of the runaway successworld. Since then we’ve seen a barrage of Serving wine on taps suits all interested of the concept was at the Two Urban Licksnew developments from Australia’s own parties, as it were. Bar owners love the fact restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia. Far from hidingbag-in-the-box through aluminium cans, that it heightens the awareness of wine the fact that they served wine on tap to themetal barrels, plastic bottles, aluminium as a drink for all occasions, prompting 20-something crowd, there was a 9m-highlaminate kegs and even test tubes, and one- an increase in sales. Staff appreciate the wine wall with 42 stainless steel barrels onshot plastic cups from France and the UK. concept because wine on tap makes for display. Whole Foods, the biggest retailer ofYet even though few restaurants and bars faster and easier service. Customers notice organic food in the US, has also installed wineboast that they serve wine on tap, as they that the wine on offer by the glass tastes on tap in leading stores and offers refillabledo with draught beer, the trend is sweeping fresher, and above all, the planet benefits containers to customers.the world from gastropubs in Melbourne to because wine on tap reduces the carbonthe bar area at grand slam tennis events footprint of the wine industry. Most restaurants and pubs are stilllike Wimbledon, now famous for its “Perfect hanging on to their corkscrews. Tap winesGlass” wine font display. Beverage dispenser Wine experts confirm that wine on tap is a will probably never move beyond easy-and ice-making equipment manufacturer, cheaper, fresher and greener way to serve drinking wines for quick consumption.Hoshizaki Lancer, worked on a major draught wines. Consider: in less-busy bars the glass But for a casual evening when you onlywine project with Foster’s recently and has of wine you order on a Saturday night could want a glass or two in a comfortableinstalled a large number of wine dispensing be poured from a bottle that was opened a atmosphere, wine on tap increases thesystems in hotels and restaurants in Sydney, couple of days earlier. Even a regular beer enjoyment for everyone. And lots of bottlesMelbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane. drinker would notice the vinegary overtones. don’t end up as landfill. Garbage cans remain free of corks, glass Wine on tap is going gangbusters and cardboard cases. And it’s also easierthroughout the US, where boutique and for restaurateurs to offer customers samplesindustrial-sized wine companies have of different wines at little cost.both jumped on the bandwagon. Spigotshave also become standard wine-serving Time and motion boffins estimate that allequipment in France, Germany, Italy, Spain this streamlining and efficiency - no hard- pressed bartenders spilling wines and nonext issue: The best of Bordeaux blends from around the globe. Plus, tastings of cabernet sauvignon, whiskies of the world and new release wines. Also featuring the fantastic McLaren Vale, Langhorne & Fleurieu, Clare Valley and Upper North Island (NZ) regions.162 W I N E S TAT E May/June 2012



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