Champagne Beaumet’s value recipe succeeds again. The non-vintage wine has a delicate floral aroma, with lightly nutty ferment notes adding …
→ moreCava, Spain’s famous sparkling wine, can polarise tasters due to its rustic qualities. This example has lemon curd, honey, herb …
→ moreThis label from the Foley Family Wines stable has been a quiet achiever with pinot over recent vintages. A lighter …
→ moreThis Pisa-grown pinot wins its way to your heart with structural finesse. A fine tight line of tannin and acidity …
→ moreA great-value aperitif, perhaps with smoked-salmon blinis. Pinot gris enters the sparkling equation alongside chardonnay here. It has white peach, …
→ moreIf one wine in our Cuisine shiraz tasting summed up the appeal of this great Australian wine type, it would …
→ moreThis Sandpiper offers much more than many similarly priced reds. Berry jam, fruitcake and dry herb notes with a light …
→ moreA real surprise packet that seems to rely less on fruit sweetness than it once did, which is a good …
→ moreKoonunga Hill has been a well-priced example of the famous Penfolds red-wine style for nearly 40 years. The 2012 follows …
→ moreThe panel dubbed this wine the “classic retro”, in recognition of its golden-peach and vanilla-bean flavours. “That fruit is delicious …
→ moreSteve Smith was taken with this wine’s papery, mineral texture, resembling white Burgundy. Citrus, vanilla, roasted white nuts, gunflint and …
→ moreDe Vine in name, divine by nature. This lemon-coloured wine has developed beautifully, thanks to sensitive oak handling and well-ripened …
→ moreNo fault lines that the panel could detect – just a steady flow of sweet lemon zest, fresh ginger and …
→ moreAttractive struck-match scents usher in an exotic array of flavours, rock melon and orange peel among them. “Very well-managed aromas”, …
→ moreNothing showy about this 2013; it is a restrained yet focused package. Classy aromatics – flintiness and limes – lead …
→ moreThe vicar has chosen well (again), but should be told to put this one aside for a year or two, …
→ moreAnother fine buy from a fine vintage, this wine represents yet another stylistic gear change. Biscuit, cedary spice, grapefruit and …
→ moreYou get a lot for a modest outlay from this settled, very together Hawke’s Bay chard. Marzipan, citrus and hints …
→ moreThis very drinkable style is well stocked with ripe melon and citrus flavours, overlaid with warm, rich toast and butterscotch …
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