Author: malliemcg

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Nose – Hints of multi grain toast with a lemon or lime butter with the ever tiniest whiff of nutmeg and cinnamon. Palate – explosion of little bubbles, nice sour apple with citrusy flavours and the yeasty notes that one would expect from a “methode traditionelle”, slight nuttiness ending with a wonderfully refreshing acidic crispness…

Opening the screwcap on this 04 there was a wonderful explosion of fruit. However I’ve left it to sit in the decanter these past 45 minutes. The nose in the glass has all sorts in it – lots of mint, some bbq hot rocks with fat burning on them and a wopping amount of alcohol.…

Coming from 109 year old vines in the McLaren ?Vale region of south Australia I’m expecting good things from this wine.?Fairly tight nose. Some deep red fruits showing through the alcohol – plums and the like.Colour is extremely deep red almost purple.A whole heap of oak is here, not much fruit showing through. Somewhat disappointing.…

Dark red berries on the nose, black currant (cassis) is there too along with smoky tannins overlaid on a subtle sweet/pepper mint (mentholy) which is just intoxicating along with hints of freshly cracked black pepper. Buried somewhere in this nose is a little liquorice or molasses. Oh what a nose job this wine has –…

From the Cahors region in France, this red drop is made up of 79% Auxerrios 13 % Merlot 8% Tannat From what I’ve been able to determine in the Cahors region Auxerrios would be known as Malbec in the rest of the world. No idea when its good to drink (or if its way past…

decanted 15 minutes before trying Fruity nose – hard to pin down – its definitely sweet hints of liquorice even a little menthol (think fishermans friend). Colour is deep red/purple in hue fading to hints of brown on the rim of the glass. Initial peppery spice on the palate followed up by nice clean red…

Hailing from Italy this primativo has an interesting colour – not particularly intense – somewhere near ruby in colour, with a dash of red delicious – you can see your fingers through it in a tilted glass.\ The nose has hints of dark berries, overlaid on a subtle forest floor with a new road running…

Inky purple/red in colour a nose that is dominated by the 14.5% alcohol content, very subtle black currant beneath that sitting on top of very faint asphalt. Weird nose. Tempted to leave it and give it more air and hope it develops over time, then again, I also want to hook into it and try…