Alpha Domus AD The Aviator 2007, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand (~£30 McKinley Vintners) Complete, complex wine, with deep, dark berry, plum and blackcurrant flavours enhanced by an earthy, tobacco leaf character and a dense, almost savoury finish. Great combo of plushness with freshness, fine-grained tannins and great length, served the […]
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Domaine Castan Carignan Pays d’Hérault 2012, Languedoc, France (~£10.50 Smithfield Wine) Soft, sweet, clean and fresh, a touch of jammy dodger to the red cherry and raspberry flavours, hints of herbs and a chewy finish. Also a slightly peppery edge that speaks of reduction. B Domaine Castan Grenache Pays d’Hérault […]
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Duette Chardonnay 2011, Casablanca (£10.99 Highbury Vintners) Quite heady wine with rich pineapple chunk flavour and a dollop oak in there too. Good but a tad simple, with just slightly too much of an old-fashioned oily feel. B Lurton Hacienda Araucano Chardonnay Reserva 2011, Colchagua (£9.95 Tanners) Not the most […]
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Stonehaven Sauvignon Blanc 2012, Western Cape, South Africa (£7.99 The Co-op) One of those wines that grows on you. Young and sappy with decent pithy fruit, but it’s the stony mineral character that makes the strongest impression. B Fox Gordon Family Sauvignon Blanc 2011, Adelaide Hills, Australia (£11.99 Waitrose) Smells […]
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Errázuriz Aconcagua Costa Single Vineyard Syrah 2010, Chile (£19.99 Averys) Full bodied style, quite aromatic with notes of sage-tinted sausage meat and lavender, but there’s that tell-tale reduced blackcurrant pastille feel, and the finish is rather dry and lacking charm. B Wakefield Jaraman Shiraz 2009, Clare Valley/McLaren Vale, Australia (£16.99 […]
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Errázuriz Estate Pinot Noir 2011, Aconcagua, Chile (£9.99 Majestic) Good fresh strawberry and cherry flavours veering towards but never hitting the jammy, but let down by an excess of chocolate wafer-like oak – why? B(-) Villa Maria Private Bin Pinot Noir 2011, Marlborough, New Zealand (£11 Coop, Budgens, nzhouseofwine.co.uk, Matthew […]