Melva by KT
Watervale, Clare, South Australia. Riesling. Screwcap. Approx $A26.On the 1.11.11 my 1111 tasting note. The one with the pink polka dots. A curious wine. I wonder if it is the vintage or stylistic choice. Wild fermented and orchestrated by Kerri Thomps...
La Violetta das sakrileg Riesling 2009
Mount Barker, Great Southern, Western Australia. Riesling. 12%. Screwcap. Approx $A30.I cling to the notion that all actions have a reason and occasionally a meaning. With that pair of cognitive lenses, I tend to look at new labels and ask questions. W...
Wildcroft Estate Wild One Shiraz 2007
Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. Shiraz. 13.4%. Diam. Approx $A60.The back label and in particular this one line caught my attention - Grown on the estate and made by Phillip Jones at Bass Phillip.As to the package, it's the only bottle I've ...
Two small sips
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotio...
New wings
Recently tried: A 2008 Delatite Rielsing - some toasty development on the nose with the lime zest showing some petroleum. Quite fleshy in the mouth, some mid palate sweetness (probably apparent more than real) before a concluding twist of bitterness 88...
Tyrrell’s Johnno’s Semillon 2011
Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia. Semillon. 11.4%. Screwcap. Approx $A36.Bottle 1 of 11. Imprecise recollections of something distinct, clear and delicate. Flint, citrus zest and green bean, there is something powdery and blossom like about this. It's won...
McHenry Hohnen Burnside Chardonnay 2010
The McHenry Hohnen Farmshop on Caves Road Margaret River is superb. There are no expensive monuments, just wonderful produce (pork especially, but also oils), tempting food, amazing cakes (the rhubarb, pear and custard cake, not pictured is divine) and...
Cape Mentelle Chardonnay 2009
Margaret River, Western Australia. Chardonnay. 13%. Screwcap. Approx $A45.Compared to the Watershed Chardonnay consumed earlier in the day, this is paler, but of similar olfactory profile and shape. Struck match and an initial stink, before resolving a...
Watershed Awkening A1 Single block Chardonnay 2009
As much as I have favourites, each time I visit Margaret River, I try to stay somewhere new and try to eat and drink somewhere different. The Watershed restaurant has garnered generous praise and I had high expectations. The food is certainly well pres...
Older and larger
A dinner with old friends and the inescapable though impolite observation would be that some, myself included have grown in girth. What once was harder and tighter has become soft and loose. . . Curiously the wines consumed on the night were also old f...
