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Wine Reviews September
TEN MINUTES BY TRACTOR Estate Pinot Noir 2012 Mornington Peninsula, Victoria RRP $46 Ten Minutes by Tractor have been around a good number of years now and by golly do they keep on performing. Based on...
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Wine Reviews October
2014 GEMBROOK HILL Pinot Noir 2012 Upper Yarra Valley, Victoria $55 Gembrook Hill is a family owned property run by the Marks family since 1983 and located in the hills of the upper Yarra Valley....
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Wine Reviews November
2014 RUGGERI Argeo Prosecco DOC Brut NV Veneto, Italy RRP $28 A celebration amongst family and friends calls for a fun bottle of bubbles. Fortunately I had a pretty good excuse this month as one...
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Wine Reviews December
2014 THICK AS THIEVES Pinot Noir/Gamay 2014 Yarra/King Valley, Victoria RRP $28.99 Reflecting is something we tend to do at the end of the year. After the Christmas buildup we brace ourselves for a...
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Wine Reviews March
2015 VIRGONA Salina Bianco 2013 Sicily, Italy $35 Google “The Aeolian Islands”. Go on, I dare ya. I myself have not ever been, but the images are enough for me to know that I would like to spend some...
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Wine Reviews April
2015 FRIENDS OF PUNCH Denton Vineyards Shiraz 2012 Yarra Valley, Victoria RRP $28-32 Whoever decided to make a wine label that doesn’t actually tell you very much knew how to attract the curious...
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Wine Reviews May
2015 UNICO ZELO Dolcetto ‘Cherry Fields’ 2014 Clare Valley & Adelaide Hills, South Australia RRP $23 I first came across winemaker Brendan Carter when he was still a student back in 2011. We...
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Wine Reviews June
2015 BRASH HIGGINS ‘MRLO’ Merlot 2014 McLaren Vale, South Australia RRP $37-40 I like that Brad Hickey, an American winemaker, made this Merlot. Why is that, do you ask? Back in 2004 there was an...
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Wine Reviews July
2015 PITTNAUER Pitti 2013 Burgenland, Austria $23 It is winter, it is blooming cold and sometimes you just need a red wine to make everything okay. Enter the Austrians and their medium-bodied red grape...
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Wine Reviews August
2015 DORMILONA Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 Margaret River, Western Australia $32 Introducing Dormilona Cabernet Sauvignon – a wine made from a blend of two biodynamic and organic vineyards in Yallingup in...
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Wine Review September
2015 BILLY BUTTON ‘The Versatile’ Vermentino 2015 Alpine Valley, North East Victoria $25 There are some people you meet in life and just go, “Yep, they’re onto it.” Such was the case when I met Jo...
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Wine Reviews October
2015 SANTOLIN Nero d’Avola 2014 Heathcote, Victoria RRP $31 I once wrote a blog post (back in 2012 when I had time for that sort of caper) about the importance of Italian grape varieties to the...
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Wine Reviews November
2015 UNICO ZELO Chopsticks ‘Spice Blend’ 2015 Riverland & Adelaide Hills RRP $22 It was only back in Autumn that I reviewed a different Unico Zelo wine. What can I say, the winemaking team of...
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Wine Reviews January
2016 GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS Riesling 2015 Heathcote, Victoria $37 Look closely at this label. Amongst the delicate sketches of snakes, animal skulls, snails, funghi and leaf matter, there lies...
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Wine Reviews March
2016 QUARTZ HILL Viognier 2014 Pyrenees, Central Victoria RRP $32 “Oh my, that’s delicious!” exclaimed my sister-in-law at dinner. I had just poured her a glass of the Quartz Hill Viognier and she...
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Wine Reviews April
2016 FARR RISING GAMAY 2015 Geelong, Victoria RRP $38 I was a big Kath & Kim fan back in the day. I always thought that if they were able to get past their love of drinking Car-don-nay (aka...
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Wine Reviews May
2016 GIRLAN 448 Rosso 2014 Alto Adige, Italy RRP $28 After watching the escapades of my parents who are currently holidaying in northern Italy, I can safely say from their pictures that the Dolomites...
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Wine Reviews September
2016 S.C.PANNELL Aromatico 2015 Adelaide Hills, South Australia RRP $28 Have you ever gone to an Asian restaurant, ordered or BYO’d a white wine you normally enjoy and yet found it bland when...
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Wine Reviews October
HITHER & YON MONASTRELL 2015 McLaren Vale, South Australia RRP $23.99 The prize for one of the most eye-catching labels should go to Hither & Yon, a winery run by the Leask brothers in McLaren...
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Wine Reviews November
SAVE OUR SOULS Sangiovese 2015 Yarra Valley, Vic RRP $26 Friends and business partners, Jason Searle and Bill Downie, have long been producing wine under their Save Our Souls label. Only recently have...
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