Clare Valley

Catlin Glenco Red Label Shiraz 2016 (RRP $30 WM $27.90)

$27.90

The 2016 Red label Catlin Shiraz is from a single vineyard in Macclesfield. It was picked in several parcels and fermented in several small fermenters. It was mostly crushed and destemmed with some whole bunches being added. This wine was wild fermented and spent some time on skins post ferment. It was then matured in French oak for approx 11 months. It displays great flavours of plums and raspberries. It has firm tannins with out being big and finishes with a lovely acid line. This wine is eminently drinkable now, but will continue to improve for the next five years and beyond. It displays a spectrum of tightly coiled fruit from blueberries and plums with underlying subtle spice.

Vintage                         2016
Grape variety               100 % Shiraz
Region                          Adelaide Hills, Macclesfield , Australia
Winemaker                   Darryl Catlin
Closure                         Stelvin
Alcohol (ABV)               14.0%
Acidity                           6.04  g/l
Residual Sugar             0.34  g/l
Wine pH                        3.64
Oak                               Approx 30% new French oak.

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Catlin Molly Mae Riesling 2018 (RRP $20 WM $16.90 )

$15.90

Vintage: 2018
Grape varieties: 100 % Riesling
Region: Clare Valley , Australia
Winemaker: Darryl Catlin
Closure: Stelvin
Alcohol (ABV): 12%
Acidity: 7.46  g/l
Residual Sugar: 1.76  g/l
Wine pH: 2.91

The dry grown grapes where picked and pressed with no additions and  free run juice was taken (no pressings used) and no sulphur was added at any stage during this whole process. This would allow the grapes to drop any phenolic flavours. The juice was then let to naturally ferment with no yeast being added over a 4 week period at around 14 degrees. It fermented to dryness over this period and no malolactic fermentation took place. Minimal sulphur was added and the wine was then left to sit on its yeast lees to develop mid palate weight for 4  months. This developed complexity and weight.

After this period, the wine was filtered to the bottling line.

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Catlin The Harvester Shiraz 2016 (RRP $20 WM $18.90)

$18.90

The Harvester is named after Harvey the winery and vineyard dog. He comes up to the winery most days and has a life that would be the envy of most dogs.

The 2016 Harvester Shiraz comes from the Bimbadeen Vineyard in Clare. It is a rich style that oozes juicy fruit and firm tannins. The Shiraz was wild fermented with natural yeast, left on skins post ferment and then gently pressed to French oak to mature for approx 10 months. It shows some spice and dark fruits that continue through the wine.

Vintage                            2016
Grape varieties                100 % Shiraz
Region                             Clare Valley, Australia
Winemaker                      Darryl Catlin
Closure                            Stelvin
Alcohol (ABV)                  14.0%
Acidity                             6.3  g/l
Residual Sugar                0.5  g/l
Wine pH                           3.57
Oak                                  Approx 20% new French oak balance old FO

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Dog Ridge AWAY GAME Riesling Clare Valley 2018 (RRP $28 WM $23.90)

$23.90

It really is like a sport sometimes.  Making specialised wines does take a fair bit of practice, the right gear, a game plan, buckets of luck and often the desire to travel and challenge thy neighbour on their patch, with their rules and their foreign conditions....... the dreaded 'Away Game'!

Who said we can't do what they do really well?

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Gaelic Cemetery Celtic Farm Riesling 2019 (RRP $25 WM $20.90)

$20.90

This wine comes from three different blocks on the vineyard and the intention is to make a wine in the modern Australian Riesling style – crisp, dry and fresh.

It has typical Clare Valley Riesling citrus characters of lemon and lime.

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Gaelic Cemetery Celtic Farm Shiraz/Cabernet 2018 (RRP $25 WM $20.90)

$20.90

Deep red in colour, the wine displays ripe satsuma plum and blackcurrant, a little chocolate and a hint of cedary French oak.

The palate is quite rich but retains a degree of elegance with its balanced acidity. It also has a good depth of juicy, fleshy dark berry fruit.

A really attractive Clare red blend which will repay medium term cellaring.

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Gaelic Cemetery Premium Cabernet Malbec 2018 (RRP $48 WM $42.90)

$42.90

Deep red colour as is the norm with the wines from the Gaelic Cemetery Vineyard. This wine possesses intense blackcurrant / redcurrant and mulberry-like aromas along with some subtle cedary notes.

The palate is warm, firm and structured, but retains the elegance that we expect to see in Cabernet based wines from Clare.

It will take several years in the cellar to reveal its undoubted potential. Very good cellaring proposition. Try with grilled lamb backstraps.

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Gaelic Cemetery Premium Riesling 2019 (RRP $38 WM $30.90)

$30.90

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Gaelic Cemetery Premium Shiraz 2018 (RRP $48 WM $42.90)

$42.90

Dark red/garnet with complex aromatics of blueberry fruit, aniseed with youthful violet / floral notes.

A fresh and enticing palate featuring red cherry fruits, blueberry tart and a long lingering finish.

Oak flavours are background highlighting the varietal Shiraz characters but bringing together a fine granular tannin structure that will allow the wine to develop slowly over time.

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Gestalt Tessera Clare Malbec 2018 (RRP $30 WM $27.90)

$27.90

A dramatic bouquet with raspberry, lavender, dried redcurrant and potpourri, jostling for position with mace, cumin, and coriander seed. The silky, rich palate opens with a burst of juicy berries and finishes spicy. Blueberry, blackberry and blackcurrant yield to anise and mocha, with spices loitering around all the while. A wonderfully slurpy entry resolves to a precise, grippy finish. Yum.

Tessera

A Tessera (plural Tesserae) is one of the small pieces of stone, glass or ceramic that comprises a mosaic. Tesserae are anonymous fractions of a design, and once disassembled, a mosaic cannot be reassembled on the basis of the form of its individual pieces. Malbec – the ‘black wine of Cahors’ – has spent much of its life as a small piece in more famous blends, including Bordeaux. Here though, the drama and beauty of the Tessera shines on its own.

Vineyard

Malbec has a chequered past in Australia, although Clare is one of the few places with a reputation for producing wonderfully dark Malbec bursting with brambly fruit, alluring violet perfume and firm, grippy tannin. The Malbec for the 2018 Tessera from Armagh is no exception. Located 4km northwest of the Clare township, the undulating Armagh vineyard sits on red-grey loam at an elevation of 400m. Solid rainfall in late January and early February together with generally mild conditions through to the end of Summer underscored the quality of the 2016 Clare vintage, including our Armagh Malbec.

Winemaking

The Malbec was hand-harvested in mid-March, bunch sorted, then divided into 2 treatments for vinification using wild yeast. 20% of the Malbec was subjected to carbonic maceration, spending 4 weeks in a small closed fermenter. For the other 80%, a small portion of whole bunches were included in a warm ferment that had 7 days of extended maceration. Both treatments were basket pressed, settled in tank, then transferred to small, fourth-use French oak barrels. The wine was matured for 16 months before the final blend was assembled, then bottled without fining or filtration.

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Ministry of Clouds Riesling 2020 (RRP $32 WM $28.90)

$28.90

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Mount Horrocks Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 (RRP $48 WM $39.90)

$39.90

Refined, elegant and super-stylish. Limited release, single vineyard and organically grown.

Tasting Notes

Classic cabernet colour – deep and dark.

Also intense is the aroma: black currant, leaf and stylish oak. Concentrated black and red berry fruits are wrapped around vibrant tannins, and supported by really smart oak integration. A hedonistic wine with a generosity of fruit that belies great depth and length. Has a big future ahead yet drinks brilliantly now with a juicy beef steak.

Keep to 15 years if you wish.

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Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut 2020 375ml (RRP $39 WM $34.90)

$34.90

Tasting Notes

Pale white gold.
Effusively fragrant floral and ripe citrus tones. The very definition of perfumed. A very elegant release of Cordon Cut: delicate, yet intense and with incredible length of flavour.
Juicy ripe lemons and limes with vibrant acidity balancing the sugar intensity. Long on flavour, the refreshing acid structure rounding out what is a terrific release that will continue to build further with time in bottle.
Minimum ten year cellaring potential..

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Mount Horrocks Nero d'Avola 2018 (RRP $40 WM $34.90)

$34.90

Less new oak is used to maintain its juicy palate.

Tasting Notes

Bright red with lifted, generous red berry fruits.

Bursting with cherry and other red berries, lively spice and a crisp, tangy edge. So fresh and zippy, with typical ‘Italian’ minerality, gentle but firm tannins and long-lasting fruitiness on the palate.

Dangerously more-ish. Enjoy now to five to eight years.

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Mount Horrocks Riesling 2020 (RRP $34 WM $29.90)

$29.90

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Mount Horrocks Rose 2019 (RRP $28 WM $24.90)

$24.90

The juice is allowed just two hours skin contact time to get that beautiful blushing pink hue and a little extra flavour. Fermented dry, this wine looks and tastes of spring. Ideal over lunch, or as Stephanie says “the perfect afternoon tea wine”.

Tasting Notes

Blushing pink – a little deeper this year.
Lifted red berry fruits with a hint of musk.
Vibrantly fruited, crisp and crunchy with appealing strawberry, raspberry, ripe pear and white peach notes dancing across the palate which has a citrus-fresh structure and delightful texture and length. Simply delicious.

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Mount Horrocks Semillon 2019 (RRP $34 WM $29.90)

$29.90

Tasting Notes

Very pale white gold.
Dried wildflower and lightly stewed apple over nuanced spicy oak. Crisp, lightly savoury, lemony Semillon with texture and length. Layered and flavoursome yet relatively light and bright for what is a wood-aged white, the pristine fruit shining through on the finish, balanced by chalky acidity. Sips nicely on its own but truly shines with grilled white fish or poultry.
Worth cellaring through to 2028.

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Mount Horrocks Shiraz 2017 (RRP $45 WM $39.90)

$39.90

Tasting Notes
Deep crimson-purple with youthful edge.

Pretty red fruits with vanillin spice –  more restrained and stylish, compared to the 2015 Blueberry & spice, velvet textured, vibrant fruit cloaked in classy oak.
This is succulent and juicy, generously flavoured and with mouth puckering fine tannins. Stylish new world shiraz that stands out for its appealing mid-weight texture – refreshing in our world of big-boned beefy Australian reds.

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Seraph's Crossing Venus and Mars Shiraz 2012 (RRP $37 WM $29.90)

$29.90

Almost impossibly lavish, the 2012 Venus and Mars Shiraz stretches credulity to breaking point vis à vis how much flavour one can actually get into a wine.
With a nose that has a monumental perfume to it (try it, and you'll see what we mean) of roasted blackcurrants, more blackcurrants and the aroma that you get when you coat a ham with brown sugar, stud it with cloves and bake it, this wine is entirely built for pleasure.

After more than four years in barrel (and it needed it, it really did, to tame it) it has utterly absorbed its (40%) new oak and is chock full of wonderfully fresh and vibrant purple and black fruit, with the whole cut through, balanced and made more complex by warming spice and rounded tannins. Absolutely a catholic wine, it'd appal any good puritan.

285 dozen and 100 (individually numbered) magnums bottled.

Vineyard: Watervale
Altitude: 430 metres
Harvested: 29th March
Vinification: Whole berries, natural yeast, 18 days maceration, pressed to oak, aged on lees, no racking, no fining, no filtration.

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Seraph's Crossing Venus and Mars Shiraz 2012 MAGNUM (RRP $75 WM $59.90)

$59.90

When do you get a quality wine in MAGNUM at the same price as two single bottles...Never! This will last for decades if you can be patient.

Almost impossibly lavish, the 2012 Venus and Mars Shiraz stretches credulity to breaking point vis à vis how much flavour one can actually get into a wine.
With a nose that has a monumental perfume to it (try it, and you'll see what we mean) of roasted blackcurrants, more blackcurrants and the aroma that you get when you coat a ham with brown sugar, stud it with cloves and bake it, this wine is entirely built for pleasure.

After more than four years in barrel (and it needed it, it really did, to tame it) it has utterly absorbed its (40%) new oak and is chock full of wonderfully fresh and vibrant purple and black fruit, with the whole cut through, balanced and made more complex by warming spice and rounded tannins. Absolutely a catholic wine, it'd appal any good puritan.

285 dozen and 100 (individually numbered) magnums bottled.

Vineyard: Watervale
Altitude: 430 metres
Harvested: 29th March
Vinification: Whole berries, natural yeast, 18 days maceration, pressed to oak, aged on lees, no racking, no fining, no filtration.

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Vickery Watervale Riesling 2020 (RRP $23 WM $18.90)

$18.90

Colour
Pale straw with slight green hues.

Aroma
Prominent Watervale aromas of lime leaf and lemon curd. Hints of ginger with floral notes, rose and ocean spray.

Palate
Crisp acid with a chalky texture, smooth midpalate fruit sweetness with some grassy notes on the finish. Lime and lemon sorbet, hints of nutmeg and spice, good intensity, juicy and buoyant.

Food Match
Vietnamese chicken, roasted coconut, peanuts and lime.

Cellaring
As with all Vickery Rieslings, this wine will be bright and fresh in its youth and will reward careful cellaring for 7 - 10 years.

Alcohol
12.5%
TA
5.97 g/L
RS
0.7g/l
pH
2.97

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Woodvale Mount Oakden Pinot Gris 2020 (RRP $25 WM $19.90)

$19.90

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Woodvale Soul Garden GSM 2018 (RRP $25 WM $20.90)

$20.90

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Woodvale Watervale Riesling 2020 (RRP $25 WM $19.90)

$19.90

A classic single vineyard Watervale Riesling from another top Clare Valley vintage. The cool and dry conditions over harvest and the vineyards 475m elevation slowed down the ripening process, intensifying the fresh lime and citrus notes, crisp natural acidity and linear palate length.

Hints of tropical fruits are also present in a wine brimming full of character and regional flavour.

A wine that will benefit from at least 20 more years in the cellar.

Acl : 12.5%

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