Bosward Wines Bosward Barbera 2024
G 94
Medium-deep crimson. Lovely boysenberry espresso aromas and flavours. Buoyant and spicy with abundant dark berry fruits, roasted coffee notes and long chalky firm tannins. Drink now–2032 Henschke The Nurturer Carignan Blend 2024 G 94 Medium crimson. Intense and perfumed raspberry, apricot fruit salad, violet aromas. Pure, supple and round with intense raspberry pastille, apricot, hint marzipan flavours and fine loose-knit chalky tannins. Minerally finish. Not a wine for ageing but a really lovely early drinking style with extraordinary pure fruit aromas and flavours. Drink now Irvine Wines Grand Merlot 2019 G 94 If the Old Vine Shiraz took us into heavy bottle territory, this might just be the heavyweight champion. Serious stuff and a case of this will save you a trip to the gym. This is generally recognised as Australia’s finest Merlot, vintage after vintage. For good reason. Merlot was incredibly popular at one stage, before the Sideways effect turned that into a train wreck, but that story has been told so many times, we won’t revisit it here. A garnet hue, there are notes of plum pudding, mushrooms, both red and dark berries, dried herbs, raspberries and leaf litter on the nose. This is energetic and absolutely full of life on the palate. A sleek texture, fine acidity, excellent balance, a lingering finish and silky tannins all combine to elevate this into a seriously good wine. Under cork. Drink now–2035. John Duval Wines Annexus Mataro 2023 G 94 Medium-deep crimson. Raspberry, hint boysenberry aromas with ferruginous notes. Medium concentrated and pure with ample red and black fruits, sinewy firm, slightly rusty tannins and underlying liquorice, roasted walnut notes. Drink now–2030 Levrier Wines by Jo Irvine Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc 2019 G 94 Deep crimson. Buoyant and expressive with attractive dark berry dark chocolate aromas and flavours, underpinned by cedar/ mocha notes, Grainy firm finish. Drink now–2032
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