Barossa


Guigal Cotes du Rhône Rosé 2009, France (£9.99 Amps Fine Wines, Hailsham Cellars, Yorkshire Vintners, www.vintagemarque.com) Showing some mellow maturity, but its plummy, earthy orange and raspberry flavours tinged with vanilla, nuts and burnt sugar are rather appealing – rosé for white Burgundy fans. B+ (Hey, Guigal, update your website! […]

Wine Tasting Video: Rosés Part II – from the Rhone, ...


A tasting of six wines from FindWine – nice sextet, and their videos aren’t bad either… Monte Schiavo Pallio di San Floriano Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore 2009, Marche, Italy (£8.99) Young, rich yet fresh wine, with juicy pear, guava and lychee flesh but also a stern, earthy, […]

Wine Tasting Video: Six wines from FindWine.co.uk




Jacob’s Creek Reserve Riesling 2010, Barossa (£9.99 Booths) Perky young wine, floral aromas plus a dusting of icing sugar, also lots of sappy citrus flavours and pithy minerality. Good now but has at least 5 years ahead of it. S- Jacob’s Creek Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2010, Adelaide Hills (£9.99 Tesco, […]

Wine Tasting Video: Jacob’s Creek’s new Reserve range


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. […]

Hunter Valley Semillon + a Barossa interloper


Recently dined with Stephen and Prue Henschke (not forgetting son Johann) at Vintners Bar & Grill in the Barossa. Henschke is best known for its red wines, but the whites – and the Riesling and Semillon in particular – are also splendid. And as you’ll see from this video, Prue […]

Henschke – a chat with Stephen and Prue