Wine & Spirit Insider November December 2015

AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND the wine & spirit insider November/December 2015 Issue 144 COMPLIMENTARY COPY THE WINE & SPIRIT INSIDER IS A PROMOTIONAL GUIDE FROM THE LIQUOR TRADE TO THE CONSUMER. Winestate Publishing ABN 56 088 226 411 SOUTH AUSTRALIA THE WINE STATE In this issue... New Releases & $ Best Value Buys Under 20 OPEN THE DOOR TO PREMIUM WINE

134 TASTED 76 AWARDED NEW RELEASES Another excellent new release line-up with the most consistent SAUVIGNON PINOT GRIS/ results coming from a resurgent chardonnay class, excellent BLANC & GRIGIO cabernets and signature 2013 shiraz showing the strength of the BLENDS 4 TASTED vintage. Some nice alternative varietals also. 8 TASTED 1 AWARDED 3 AWARDED One nice quaffer - the The judges thought rest lacked character and SPARKLING OTHER WHITE Heritage Wines these wines generally flavour. 6 TASTED VARIETALS & Granite Belt lacked fruit character Yarran Riverina Marsanne Pinot Grigio with movement away 2 AWARDED 2013 HHH1/2 BLENDS Fresh lifted varietal from 'grassiness' but 2015 HHH A nice quaffer with a A couple of good quality 11 TASTED fruit bouquet and overdoing it. clean simple fruit nose proseccos. Forget the 6 AWARDED excellent depth of Bird in Hand and fresh crunchy apple peaches and cream palate. $14 rest! flavours on the well- Adelaide Hills The best showed structured palate. $22.50 Sauvignon Blanc Dal Zotto varietal characters which 2015 HHH1/2 RIESLING BEST L'Immigrante King is what alternative Cirami VALUE Firm, full, long and 10 TASTED Valley Prosecco Riverland BUYS balanced wine with 6 AWARDED 2014 HHH1/2 varieties have to deliver Albarino 2015 HHH herbaceous fragrances Big estery nose with fruit to set themselves apart Interesting style with and fresh fruit flavours. salad-like aromas and a from the dry whites. rich ripe fruit complexity A drink now style. $25 Strong class of \"beautiful long clean palate with an enhanced with some wines\", said the judges. alert acid finish. $36 Sandalford Estate feral notes. $15 Jane Brook Estate \"The best value white Reserve Margaret Shovelgate Vineyard Dal Zotto Pucino River Verdelho Sandalford Margaret River wine on the market,\" Vintage King Valley 2015 HHHH Winemakers Sauvignon Blanc said one judge. Prosecco 2014 HHH Light lifted lychee Margaret River 2015 HHH1/2 Clean simple style with fragrances and a fresh Classic White Punchy and complex Bird in Hand some complexity on the fruity palate showing 2015 HHH with interesting Clare Valley Riesling nose and soft creamy good balance and weight Punchy tropical aromas herbaceous nose 2015 HHHH1/2 palate. $23 of fruit with a good acid and zesty lime palate and good varietal A very light perfumed backbone. $25 with some oak and a flavours with a hint of note to the citrussy firm finish. $15 sweetness. $23 aromas. It's elegant Grand Casino and flinty on the palate Barossa Valley Fiano Spring Vale Tasmania Sandalford Estate with zesty lime juice Reserve Margaret 2015 HHHH Gewurztraminer River Sauvignon and apple-like flavours. An attractive lift of 2015 HHH Just needs time to settle fruit salad-like aromas Delicate rose petal Blanc Semillon down. $25 with a good length of freshness to the nose 2015 HHH creamy apple and melon and very light varietal A light simple quaffer flavours showing a hint fruit palate. $28 with a pungent punch of herbs. $26 of aromas and a confectionery sweet palate. $25 JUDGES - DAY 1 Stephen John Marcus Hoffer Kate Giles Owner/winemaker of Cellar Manager for Lloyd Director, Claritas Stephen John Wines. Brothers Wine & Olive Marketing and More than 30 years’ Company. Has vintaged at Sales & Marketing winemaking experience. Coldstream Hills, Yarra Valley; Wine Consultant. Has judged at Adelaide, at Sirromet, Queensland; Has vintaged in National, and Barossa McLaren Vintners and Classic Italy and judged at wine shows. Regular McLaren Wines. Associate Tall Timbers wine Winestate panellist and judge at the Adelaide Hills show in Western chairman of judges at the wine show. Previously three Australia. Winestate Wine of the years on Dan Murphy’s Year Awards. judging panel. 120 The Wine & Spirit INSIDER

wine & spir it insider tasting Crabtree Wines SEMILLON & Bird in Hand Grampians Estate PINOT NOIR Watervale Clare Adelaide Hills Mafeking Gold 10 TASTED Valley Riesling BLENDS Chardonnay Grampians 3 AWARDED 2015 HHHH1/2 5 TASTED 2014 HHHH Chardonnay A very classy wine with 3 AWARDED Very stylish number with 2014 HHH fresh lifted aromatics; all lots of oak. Toasty and Chablis-like with its Some good examples limes and lemons with a buttery on the nose, complexity of creamy here but they are few touch of spice. Excellent A small solid class creamy in the mouth fruit, light oak and crisp flavour depth and moving away from with a very complex acidity. $22 and far between. The showing lovely delicacy herbaceous characters. flavour profile. $42 good wines showed of varietal fruit. $26 Bellbrae Estate freshness, good varietal McPherson Wines Boobs Geelong Bird in Hand fruit and texture. The Bream Creek Two in the Bush Sunburnt Central Chardonnay Tasmania Riesling Adelaide Hills Victoria Chardonnay 2014 HHH rest were either over- 2014 HHHH1/2 Semillon Sauvignon 2014 HHHH A big \"Dolly Parton\" of extracted or lacked Lovely ripe lime juice Blanc 2015 HHHH1/2 Beautiful complexity to a chardonnay; a rich old depth of character. nose with toast and Very pale green hues the balanced fruit/oak Aussie style. $33 marmalade characters with lifted aromas of aromas. Great creamy Montara Jimmy developing. Loads of cut grass and tinned mouthfeel to the palate ROSÉ Black Grampians almond and apricot peas and hints of herbs. with good oak tannins Pinot Noir flavour on the elegant Palate has freshness and on the finish. $17.99 6 TASTED 2014 HHH1/2 palate with lots of fresh balance with excellent 3 AWARDED Spicy and elegant acidity to balance. $26 Taylors St Andrews grassy/herbal flavour Clare Valley with an excellent length. Great quaffer. $23 Some good quaffers to mix of raspberry and Crabtree Wines Chardonnay strawberry fruit, some Hilltop Vineyard Sandalford Margaret 2014 HHHH be had here. earthiness and lovely Clare Valley Riesling River Range Classic Attractive green hues texture. $20 2015 HHHH Dry White Margaret to this complex, yet Bird in Hand Lovely lift of lime and River Semillon elegant, chardonnay. Adelaide Hills Pinot St Erth Select lemon fragrances on Sauvignon Blanc Limes and oak on the Rosé 2015 HHH1/2 Vineyard Geelong the nose and a very nose and a long stylish Fresh, complex and Pinot Noir classy, firm, complex 2015 HHH oaky palate. $35 very interesting with a 2013 HHH Light and fruity on the and crunchy lime nose and fresh, softly strawberry bouquet and Advanced honeyed palate. $21.50 Heritage Wines fresh lively confectionery textured, green apple Reserve Granite fruit flavour profile. $25 aromas and a simple Robert Stein palate. $20 Belt Chardonnay lightweight palate showing some meaty Mudgee Riesling Shaw Vineyard 2014 HHH1/2 Yarrawood Tall Tales notes. $15 2015 HHH Estate Reserve Big complex barrel Yarra Valley Rosé Light, fresh and elegant Canberra District ferment style of 2015 HHH Bellbrae Estate Bird perfumed citrus style chardonnay with lovely An attractive, simple, Rock Geelong Pinot has some sweetness Semillon 2015 HHH aromas and offering dry style of wine with Noir 2013 HHH Broad complexity of with alert acid to tropical aromas with a huge mouthful of lots of fresh strawberry Huge herbal nose and a balance. $35 flavour. $36 characters. $19 tight, stylish appley long complex and spicy Montara Jimmy palate. Needs time. $35 Sandalford Margaret Howard Vineyard palate with a cola-like element. $36 Black Grampians River Range Picnic Adelaide Hills Riesling 2014 HHH CHARDONNAY Margaret River Rosé 2015 HHH Beautiful toasty 10 TASTED Chardonnay Very pale pink with a honeycomb-like aged 7 AWARDED 2015 HHH light confectionery nose characters with complex Simple tropical melon and clean simple palate; balance of sweetness bouquet with a fresh subtle flavours. $20 and acidity. $20 An excellent and exciting light and simple appley group. \"If you are after palate. $20 a great class of whites look at these again,\" enthused one judge. JUDGES - DAY 2 Stephen John Scott Rawlinson Mark Van Halderen Owner/winemaker of Senior winemaker Fleurieu Winemaker at Yalumba Stephen John Wines. Vintners & Boar’s Rock Wines. Formerly More than 30 years’ Winery. Former chief winemker in South Africa winemaking experience. winemaker Serafino for nine years plus French Has judged at Adelaide, Wines, McLaren Vale. vintage experience. National, and Barossa Previously winemaker with Judged at South wine shows. Regular Mildara at Jamieson’s Run African Veritas Show, Winestate panellist and and Wolf Blass. Associate Winemaker's Choice chairman of judges at judge at Canberra wine Awards, Wine Magazine the Winestate Wine of shows and vintaged in & Michelangelo Wine the Year Awards. Northern California. Awards. The Wine & Spirit INSIDER 121

NEW RELEASES OTHER RED GRENACHE CABERNET Sandalford Margaret Taylors Clare Valley River Range VARIETALS & & BLENDS SAUVIGNON & Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 HHH BLENDS 5 TASTED BLENDS Cabernet Merlot Very youthful and tannic 2014 HHHH1/2 with bright cassis fruit. 6 TASTED 2 AWARDED 13 TASTED An alert and classy Needs more time to 4 AWARDED 9 AWARDED number with an evolve. $19 The standouts showing attractive minty lift to A small but good class the excellence of Excellent class. the blackberry-like nose Montara Jimmy with some very powerful Black Grampians of Mediterranean grenache for blending, \"Cabernet is still king,\" varietal flavours on a very Cabernet Sauvignon varietals, and one French the others were just too said one judge. Both complex palate. $20 2013 HHH one, showing powerful, simple to rate. 2013 and 2014 are Bird in Hand Nest Complexity of rich fruit cake characters mixed well-handled flavours. Grampians Estate excellent vintages for Egg Adelaide Hills with blackberry jam and GST Grampians this variety and the Cabernet Sauvignon black pepper. Needs Bird in Hand Grenache Shiraz 2013 HHHH1/2 cellaring. $20 Adelaide Hills Tempranillo good fruit and good A wine with years ahead Nero D'Avola 2014 HHHH winemaking shows. of it. Great colour and Taylors St Andrews 2014 HHHH1/2 A fresh estery fruit Those that didn't make complex cedary/cigar Clare Valley Gorgeous dried fig and bouquet and a stylish the grade were too box nose. Super palate, Cabernet Sauvignon chocolate-like complexity palate that's complex, great structure, lots of 2012 HHH on the nose and light long and well-balanced. green and hard. oak but has quality fruit Hints of soy and spices cola/Sarsaparilla-like A great wine to serve at to balance it. $110 on the nose. Firm oaky characters on a palate lunch. $28 palate. Good food wine that's rich, long and for drinking now. $65 balanced with hints of Hemera Estate vanilla. $42 Single Vineyard SHIRAZ & Barossa Valley Bird in Hand G.S.M. 2013 HHHH BLENDS Adelaide Hills Big, rich fruit cake of a Montepulciano nose with a sweet and 30 TASTED 2014 HHHH1/2 spicy palate with soft 21 AWARDED An intense inky chocolaty flavours. $35 Christmas cake bouquet An outstanding class! and a complex tannic palate with great dark MERLOT & Great vintages from fruit flavours showing BLENDS 2013 and 2014 showing lovely spiciness and consistency across the freshness. \"Yummy,\" 4 TASTED was one comment. $42 2 AWARDED board with intensity of vibrant ripe fruit, Buller Wines great structure and Balladeer Rutherglen Small class with a complexity. Tempranillo couple of nice quaffers. 2014 HHH1/2 Dark strawberry bouquet Shaw Family Taylors Clare Valley with spicy/herbal notes Vintners Moonraker Montara Gold Shiraz 2014 HHHHH A beautiful wine offering and a lovely palate with McLaren Vale Merlot Rush Grampians Mollydooker excellent value for chocolaty plum flavours 2014 HHH Cabernet Sauvignon The Maitre'D money. A powerful and great tannins. $30 Fresh plum and spicy 2013 HHHHH McLaren Vale red berry fruit, hints of Rich ripe blackberry jam Cabernet Sauvignon and complex nose of Buller Wines leather and a dash of bouquet with nice touch 2014 HHHH classy blackcurrant fruit Balladeer Rutherglen white pepper. $17 of cedary oak. Beautifully Lovely brooding plum and great oak. Soft in the mouth with bright Cinsault 2014 HHH structured palate that and fresh oak bouquet. chocolaty fruit flavours. Light spicy berry fruit Taylors Clare Valley still shows excellent Beautiful chocolaty 5+ $19 aromas and a soft Merlot 2014 HHH freshness and great palate with great depth and uncomplicated Spicy and chocolaty on depth of classy varietal of the very rich varietal Currency Creek lightweight palate. $30 the nose with a simple fruit flavours. $25 fruit characters. $28 primary fruit palate. Estate Ostrich Hill $19 Taylors Jaraman Currency Creek Currency Creek Clare Valley Estate Eternal Shiraz 2014 HHHHH Cabernet Sauvignon Springs Currency Rich, ripe and chocolaty 2013 HHHHH Creek Cabernet with hints of fruit salad- Intense red colour Blend 2014 HHHH like characters on the verging on black and Lovely lift of cabernet nose and obvious oak - all showing powerful cassis/ fruit aromas with sweet of which is echoed on the cedary aromas. Fresh oak and hints of violets. slightly raw palate. Shows and tight in the mouth The palate is firm and great potential. $30 with intense yet elegant flavoursome. Needs flavour profile. $29 more time to shine. $30 122 The Wine & Spirit INSIDER

wine & spir it insider tasting Grampians Estate McPherson Wines Garden Gully Basilisk Central Vineyard Barrell Victoria Shiraz Block Grampians Mourvedre Shiraz 2013 HHHHH 2014 HHHH Complex nose with Amazing crimson/purple some great oak and hues with powerful elegant fruit aromas mulberry jam fragrances which is echoed on and great depth of the beautiful ripe rich flavour on an alert and chocolaty palate. This stylish palate. $17.99 is the complete “Best package. $50 McPherson Wines Don't Tell Gary McPherson Grampians Shiraz Barossa BEST Wines Curious VALUE 2014 HHHH BUYS South Eastern A full, firm and lengthy Australia Shiraz style of shiraz with Shiraz” 2014 HHHH1/2 lovely rich black and Excellent bright purple/ blue fruit characters red wine with a nose of and a well-structured rich ripe red berry fruits and very flavoursome and new oak. The well- palate. $23.99 structured palate has ripe red berry and tobacco Mistletoe Hilltops flavours. $14.99 Shiraz 2013 HHHH Strong wine with plenty of beautiful Cherry Ripe-like fruit layered with new oak. Complex aromas and flavours. Needs time. $24 Montara Gold Rush Grampians Shiraz 2013 HHHH Dense and peppery on the nose and a huge palate with plenty of sweet oak and rich fruit and barrel ferment complexity. $25 Grampians Estate Garden Gully Mals Vineyard Block 8 Pyrenees Shiraz 2013 HHHH Ripe rich cherry berry- like fruit layered with Mollydooker Two nut milk chocolate Left Feet McLaren characters and good oak Vale Shiraz Cabernet complexity. Good tannin Merlot 2014 HHHH structure. $35 Big rich chocolaty wine that has lots of Bellbrae Estate jubey blackcurrant fruit Bells Geelong characters, some nice Syrah 2013 HHHH spiciness and good A vanillin oak bomb of overall structure. $28 a wine that has barrel ferment complexity and Yarran Riverina some great varietal fruit. Heathcote Shiraz It is a soft and elegant 2014 HHHH shiraz. $36 A ripe black forest cake of a shiraz with fruit that is bright and fresh, the oak that is sweet and the tannins that are lovely and soft. $14 HEMERAESTATE.COM.AU The Wine & Spirit INSIDER 123

NEW RELEASES Mudgee Wines Old Bush Vine Mudgee Shiraz Cabernet 2013 HHH A simple wine with earthy notes, some green fruit and hints of herbs. Good tannin balance. $50 SWEET WHITES & FORTIFIEDS 3 TASTED 3 AWARDED Attractive solid class A new of sweet, after dinner, Aussie style wines. Australian Parous Barossa High Roller VALUE Mudgee Wines BEST Valley Shiraz Reserve South BUYS Durif Mudgee VP Australia Shiraz 2012 HHHH Colour looks mature and Grenache 2014 HHH 2014 HHHH Excellent purple wine. blend. it smells like a Cherry A well-made quaffer Lovely jammy nose and Ripe chocolate bar. The with simple lifted well-structured sweet flavoursome palate is confectionery fruit and and flavoursome palate. elegant and supple with tea leaf-like notes. $9 Drying finish. $20 DW Fox Tucker is a sophisticated, lovely texture. $40 yet refreshingly earthy new legal Bird in Hand “blend” created by the former Montara Chalambar Honeysuckle partners of the respected South Road Grampians Clare Valley Riesling Australian firms of Donaldson Walsh Shiraz 2010 HHHH 2015 HHH and Fox Tucker. A nose with leathery Simple citrus aromatics cigar-box-like aromas and a supple and simple Our bold new offering is built on a with a complex, oak- refreshing semi-sweet full-bodied foundation of vast general driven palate that is long palate. $25 commercial experience, yet overlaid and elegant. $70 with distinctive specialist expertise Hemera Estate K1 by Geoff Hardy in a number of key industries and Barossa Valley Adelaide Hills Autumn Harvest niche market sectors. Shiraz 2013 HHH1/2 Riesling 2015 HHH Lots of potential here Complex, rich and It’s a winning combination that with its great colour, allows every client who opens a intense ripe red berry honeyed aromas and an elegant, not overly “case” to get exactly what they fruit and spicy chocolaty sweet, palate with nice need. So whatever your business oak characters. $40 acidity. $20 or legal objectives, don’t hesitate to contact us. McPherson Wines McPherson BEST BUYS At DW Fox Tucker, every Family South VALUE client matters. Eastern Australia Shiraz 2014 HHH Parous McLaren An unusual style with Vale Shiraz Mataro a powerful toasty 2014 HHH oak nose and a solid Big jammy nose and a intensely flavoured tight palate loaded with L14, 100 King William Street palate. $10.99 very alert primary fruit flavours. $35 Adelaide SA 5000 Yarran Leopardwood p: +61 8 8124 1811 Heathcote Shiraz Montara Jimmy e: [email protected] 2014 HHH Black Grampians dwfoxtucker.com.au A simple but very Shiraz 2013 HHH attractive, one Stylish young wine with dimensional, wine with lovely rich Christmas COMMERCIAL | CORPORATE lots of ripe jammy fruit cake-like fruit and vanillin DISPUTES | INSOLVENCY | TAX | IP characters. $20 oak. Needs time. $20 EMPLOYMENT | WORKERS COMPENSATION SELF INSURANCE | PROPERTY 124 The Wine & Spirit INSIDER

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Syn Rouge Coonawarra Cirami Estate Riverland Overstone Hawke's Bay Sileni Cellar Selection Sparkling Shiraz NV Albarino 2015 Pinot Gris 2014 Hawke's Bay Pinot Gris 2014 Slightly earthy/forest floor Interesting style with rich ripe Solid, dryish wine, fragrances with rich fruit cake- fruit complexity enhanced medium-bodied, with fresh Medium to full-bodied, with like flavour complexity. $18 with some feral notes. $15 acidity and ripe, peachy a gentle splash of sweetness flavours, balanced for easy and good depth of peach, Leconfield Wines Pty Ltd Cirami Estate drinking. Good value. $13 pear and spice flavours, Phone: +61 8 8323 8830 Phone: +61 8 8583 5366 balanced for easy drinking. $16 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Sileni Estate Web: www.leconfieldwines.com Web: www.ciramiestate.com.au Phone: +64 6 879 8768 Sileni Estate Email: [email protected] Phone: +64 6 879 8768 Web: www.sileni.co.nz Email: [email protected] Web: www.sileni.co.nz The Wine & Spirit INSIDER 127

BEST VALUE BUYS - All under $20 Stoneleigh Wild Valley Toi Toi Marlborough Midnight's Promise James Estate The Wild Fermented Sauvignon Blanc 2015 Hunter Valley Estate Hunter Valley Marlborough Sauvignon Semillon 2014 Verdelho 2014 Blanc 2015 This tangy, medium-bodied wine is very fresh and lively, with A pleasing tightly packed Very appealing spirited Showing lots of personality. melon/lime flavours showing citrussy fruit package with lots of punchy tropical nose. A good The bouquet is punchy, with very good poise and depth. $18 promise but also offering good mix and length of tropical some complexity; the palate drinking right now. 5+ $18 flavours with well retained mouthfilling, very fresh Marlborough Wine Ltd t/a Toi Toi acidity. 3-5 $18 and vibrant, with incisive, Wines Midnight's Promise Estate & Wines ripe, tropical fruit flavours, Phone: +64 9 972 9498 Phone: +61 2 9235 3947 James Estate crisp, dry and lingering. $19 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 2 6547 5168 Web: www.toitoiwines.co.nz Web: www.midnightspromise.com.au Email: [email protected] Pernod Ricard New Zealand Web: www.jamesestatewines.com.au Phone: +64 9 336 8368 E: [email protected] Web: www.Pernod-Ricard-nz.com 128 The Wine & Spirit INSIDER

Tempus Two Hunter Gartelmann Jessica James Estate The Hugo Estate Grown Valley Verdelho 2015 Hunter Valley Estate Hunter Valley McLaren Vale Cuvee NV Verdelho 2015 Chardonnay 2012 Lovely bright looking wine with A light spicy style of sparkling fresh tropical/melon aromas Very inviting flinty fruit A lean Chablis-like style of wine with savoury overtones and and very youthful upfront salad bouquet. Nice texture with typical chardonnay aromas some minerally flintiness. $20 tropical palate. Shows plenty and flavours on the clean and flavours. \"Be great with of promise. 3-5 $17 tight palate. 3-5 $20 seafood,\" thought one judge. $18 Hugo Wines Phone: +61 8 8383 0098 Australian Vintage Limited Gartelmann Wines James Estate Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 8 8172 8333 Phone: +61 2 4930 7113 Phone: +61 2 6547 5168 Web: www.hugowines.com.au E: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.avl.com.au Web: www.gartelmann.com.au Web: www.jamesestatewines.com.au The Wine & Spirit INSIDER 129

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BEST VALUE BUYS - All under $20 Overstone Hawke's Bay Stoneleigh Wild James Estate The Estate Mt. Monster Limestone Pinot Noir 2014 Valley Wild Fermented Hunter Valley Cabernet Coast Shiraz 2014 Marlborough Pinot Sauvignon 2011 Bright ruby, mouthfilling and Noir 2014 Easy drinking style with quite supple red with fresh, lively, Dense berry aromas and intense fruit/oak aromas and plummy, slightly spicy flavours. Mouthfilling and smooth, it has flavours layered with earthy lovely soft earthy fruit flavours Fine value. (From Sileni.) $13 decent depth of fresh berry, notes and cigar box oak. $18 with tight tannins. $16.95 plum and spice flavours, showing Sileni Estate some savoury complexity. James Estate Morambro Creek Wines Phone: +64 6 879 8768 Best drinking mid-2016+. $19 Phone: +61 2 6547 5168 Phone: +61 8 8723 1065 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.sileni.co.nz Pernod Ricard New Zealand Web: www.jamesestatewines.com.au Web: www.mtmonster.com.au Phone: +64 9 336 8368 E: [email protected] Web: www.Pernod-Ricard-nz.com PUBLIC TASTING Friday 15th January 2016 - 6pm - 8.30pm - Hyatt Regency Perth Tickets $50 - Subscribers contact: [email protected] to claim a FREE ticket or for further details. 132 The Wine & Spirit INSIDER

McPherson Wines Curious James Estate The Estate McPherson Wines Highroller Reserve South Eastern Australia Hunter Valley Shiraz 2011 McPherson Family South Australia Shiraz Shiraz 2014 South Eastern Australia Grenache 2014 Good old style Hunter shiraz Shiraz 2014 Excellent bright purple/red with smoky oak dominating A well-made quaffer with wine with a nose of rich ripe the nose. The palate is soft An unusual style with a powerful simple lifted confectionery red berry fruits and new and elegant with berry cherry toasty oak nose and a solid fruit and tea leaf-like notes. $9 oak. The well structured flavours and a relatively intensely flavoured palate. $10.99 palate has ripe red berry and soft finish. 3-5 $18 Byrne Vineyards (SA) tobacco flavours. $14.99 McPherson Wines Pty Ltd Phone: +61 419 856 768 James Estate Phone: +61 3 92630200 Email: [email protected] McPherson Wines Pty Ltd Phone: +61 2 6547 5168 Email: [email protected] Web: www.byrnevineyards.com.au Phone: +61 3 92630200 Email: [email protected] Web: www.mcphersonwines.com.au Email: [email protected] Web: www.jamesestatewines.com.au Web: www.mcphersonwines.com.au AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND the wine & spirit Issue 144 | November/December 2015 Editor & Publisher Winestate Web Site electronic medium or machine-readable form without Peter Simic E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] the express permission of the publisher. Every care is Managing Editor taken in compiling the contents of this publication, but Lara Simic E-mail: [email protected] Printing DAI Rubicon the publisher assumes no responsibility for the effects Administration Website: www.distalliance.com arising therefrom. ABN 56 088 226 411 Vicki Bozsoki E-mail: [email protected] Graphic Designer WINESTATE is published seven times a year by Winestate Publishing Pty Ltd. Lisa McPike E-mail: [email protected] WINESTATE PUBLISHING PTY LTD, Telephone (08) 8357 9277 Marketing Manager 81 King William Road, Unley SA 5061. Peter Jackson E-mail: [email protected] Copyright 2015 by WINESTATE PUBLISHING PTY LTD. Facsimile (08) 8357 9212 Tasting Coordinator This publication may not, in whole or in part, be copied, E-mail [email protected] Madeline Willoughby E-mail: [email protected] photocopied, reproduced, translated or reduced to any Website www.winestate.com.au The Wine & Spirit INSIDER 133

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