McWilliams Inheritance Cabernet Merlot 2011
Rating: Eminently drinkable - 3½ stars!
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Ripe, curranty aromas with dashes of mint, violets and plum. A creamy cocoa palate with fluttering tannins and spotless finish. Not a genie in the bottle, but a seriously good quaffer, ample fruit with the essential ying and yang of good Cab-merlot.
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Totara Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2011
Rating: Highly agreeable - 4 stars!
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Characters that are at once tropical and market garden, brimming with melon and lychee, sweet peas with sage, grapefruit and mineral, flow from their genesis in the nose and infuse the palate, lingering through to a long and memorable finish.
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Watershed Shades Sauvignon Semillon 2010
Rating: Highly agreeable - 4 stars!
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Close your eyes and savour this, you'll be transported to a place of balmy nights and maritime breezes. Fragrant wafts of tropical fruit, gooseberry and lime from the sauv-blanc, complemented by subtle flint and grass from the semillon. Refreshingly crisp, an oh-so medium-dry table white, cannily crafted and very good drinking.
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Zeppelin Amelie Eden Valley Shiraz 2009
Rating: Not to be missed - 4½ stars!
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A delightful mix of currant, dark chocolate and plums with a lick of licorice, blackberry and leather spice on the nose. The palate is nicely proportioned with purple fruit flavours, mulberries and garniture of star anise. The sweet fruit flavours are balanced by savoury ripe tannins, culminating in a long clean acid finish.
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Krug Vintage 1998
Rating: Smooth as silk - 5 stars!
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Virtue is it's own reward, and whilst out of reach for most, this is a wine to deify simply on the basis of purity, it's kindness, and it's remarkable concentration of the most rare and sophisticated expressions.
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Redman Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Rating: Smooth as silk - 4½ stars!
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Mint and blackberry to the nose with lovely violet and creme de cassis. Enormous palate of dark pudding with plum, spice and cinammon oak, over precise, lengthy tannins.
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Cape Naturaliste Semillon Sauvignon 2009
Rating: Beyond reproach - 4 stars!
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Delicious and classically inspiring, dry and white, with breadth and fine grain textures, perfect for bringing out the best in food. An entrance of green vegetal and tropical bouquets precede a prodigious palate of sweet and dry attributes that's clean and complex. A beautifully choreographed drink-now style to accompany fresh crab.
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Yellowglen Sparkling Leila
Rating: Congenial, recommended - 4 stars!
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Made to measure bubbly for dinner with the girls or soiree with hors d'oeuvres, music and friends.
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Schild Estate Semillon Sauvignon 2010
Rating: Highly agreeable - 4 stars!
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A thoroughly integrated bouquet of seamless fruit and flint sublimates into a wave of coalescing characters on the palate, a swell of cumquat, lime and nettle, nifty mineral and a tidy, satin finish.
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Totara Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2011
Rating: Decidedly delicious - 4 stars!
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Characters that are at once tropical and market garden, brimming with melon and lychee, sweet peas with sage, grapefruit and mineral, flow from their genesis in the nose and infuse the palate, lingering through to a long and memorable finish.
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Second Nature Sauvignon Blanc 2012
Rating: Eminently drinkable - 4 stars!
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Blond and beautiful, bang for your buck, a whoosh of south seas fruit and green pastures awaken the senses for shrimp, shucked oysters and crustacea.
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Ta_Ku Sauvignon Blanc 2011
Rating: Smooth as silk - 4 stars!
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Rich with alternating layers of herb and fruit complexity, Ta_Ku flows effortlessly along the palate before resolving on a lime, lemongrass and lychee filled finish.
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Andrew Garrett Chardonnay 2008
Rating: Class, desirability - 4 stars!
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Good length of stonefruit, attractive chalk and tangelo, an easy to appreciate Chardonnay with a light complexity of stewed apples, nectarine and nuts, with a finish that’s stylish and dry, preparing you for the next sip.
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Oxford Landing Merlot 2010
Rating: Smooth as silk - 3½ stars!
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This soft, silky Merlot is brimming with plum and cherry, the fleshy tannins lead to a soft finish with lingering flavours of red berry and spice.
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Four Sisters Chardonnay 2009
Rating: Engaging, pleasant - 4 stars!
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Oh how you've grown, I can take you out to dine with some of the most sophisticated faire, but prefer us at home alone with chicken pasta and TV.
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