Keith Tulloch Semillon 2010 (£12 Highbury Vintners, The Good Wine Shop, Noel Young Wines, D Byrne, Noble Green Wines) Interesting mix of the zesty lime & lemon and pithy greengage with more exotic tropical fruits like paw-paw and pineapple, all the while with an undercurrent of bracing, even briny minerality. […]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Torres Natureo Muscat 2009 (£5.99 Waitrose, Booths, Partridges, Soho Wines) Clean, fresh and grapey, but you get the feeling that there’s something missing – donut wine… C(-) Domaine Laroche Chablis St Martin 2009, Burgundy, France (£15.99 Liberty Wines) Classic Chablis, has the waxy lanolin and orchard fruit characters in balance […]
Assorted Whites – Chablis, Grüner Veltliner, Pinot Gris and a ...
Tulbagh Mountain Vineyards ‘The Raptor Post’ 2007, Tulbagh, South Africa (£10.99 The Wine Society Ltd, Berry Bros & Rudd, E H Booth & Co Ltd, Free Run Juice, Duncan Murray Wines, Peter Ballantyne & Co Ltd, Edward Oliver Inns, Delilah Fine Foods, Yorkshire Vintners, Vinoteca Ltd, deFINE Food & Wine, […]
South African Spicy Reds
In the last of five video interviews with elder statemen (and women) of the Australian wine industry that I’ve produced in the run-up to the annual Australia Day Wine tasting in London, here’s Tony Scherer of Frogmore Creek on Pinot Noir, organic viticulture and the variation in wine styles throughout […]
Tony Scherer of Frogmore Creek talks Tasmanian Pinot Noir
To coincide with his thirtieth vintage in the Clare Valley, Jeff Grosset (proud owner of the new, panther-like BMW M3 Coupé) has added a new Riesling to his excellent range.
Jeff Grosset introduces his new Riesling from the Clare Valley
The Australian wine industry is determined to communicate the message of regionality. And as anyone who has ever tasted widely will tell you, there’s a big difference between Shirazes from, say, the Hunter Valley, McLaren Vale and Beechworth. If you want proof, look at the Brokenwood portfolio. The winery is […]