Oliver’s Taranga Mencia 2025
G 92
This is always a delightfully inky pigmented wine that pours like a dream, a sliver of sunlight in the glass and it sparkles. A mix of brambly black fruits and pops of red cherries. Some lilac and old-fashioned florals. Liquorice allsorts and poppy seed. It’s rounded with soft tannins and a plushness that shines this vintage. With a bit of time, grip builds and this makes for a wine that could handle stewed meats or sticky bbq sauce-like dishes. Drink now–2028 Penny’s Hill Yeenunga Shiraz 2023 G 92 52-year-old bush vines lie in a horseshoe contour in the Seaview sub region. This is the first release of the Yeenunga Shiraz and is matured for 16 months in barrel. Smoked Christmas cherries, rust and sapote fruit. Some cola and sweet vanilla bean spice. A halo of sweet cedar and maple. Blackberries appear more forward on the palate and its dense oak spice saunters in at the sides. Plenty of intensity and sweet spice, one for those who love the smell of classy barrel rooms and black berries
compote. Drink now–2032 Pertaringa Understudy Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
G 92
Here is a wine you’ll find familiar for its intensity of blackberries and kirsch notes, followed by its graphite traces and clipping of cigar. There is creeping ivy and rosemary stem, a middle palate succulence and tannins nipped and tickled nicely to frame the wine. It’s quite the classy number that is drinking very well now and still has 6-8 years in the cellar to watch those spices unfold. One for the slow braised red meats. Drink now–2033 Sherrah Fiano 2025 G 92 Pretty and floral. Sunflowers, honeysuckle and yellow peach. Some tropical pineapple and piña colada vibes, all the freshly squeezed lemons. This follows the ease and breezy line, crunchy with nice tropical flesh on its high-wired line of acidity. A touch of cashew cream on the finish adding some body and a little richness. Drink now–2027 The Battle of Bosworth Chardonnay 2025 G 92 White nectarine, kernel and lemon curd. There is a meadow of flowers, and some fresh linen. The palate is linear but with the flesh of juicy pears and an oatmeal creaminess. This ticks the boxes for all styles of Chardonnay drinkers; its zesty enough to keep it tight-wired but generous and round as well. A very good value wine. Drink now–2028
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