Taylors Limestone Coast Clare Valley Shiraz 2020 $18 This is a classic South Australian style crammed with boysenberry, dark cherry and sweet, peppery plushness. It oozes bright berryfruit and violet aromas and boasts a mouthfeel that’s soft, warming and mellow with saucy, plummy notes and hints of dark chocolate to finish. Dangerously easy to drink … Read More
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Pikes The Merle Clare Valley Riesling 2018
Pikes The Merle Clare Valley Riesling 2018 $39.99 Wow – this iconic South Australian riesling is whipcrack dry, snappy, crunchy and loaded with lime on the nose and palate. Laced with green apple and masses of crushed shell minerality, it’s a style that Pikes have perfected to the point that this is now one of … Read More
Koerner Clare Valley The Clare 2020
Koerner Clare Valley The Clare 2020 $48 Hands up if you’ve ever tasted a blend of 51% cabernet sauvignon, 15% cabernet franc, 12% malbec, 12% grenache, 9% carignan and 1% sciacarello. No? Me neither. From the evil genius brothers, Damon and Jono Koerner (winners of the 2019 Young Gun of Wine award) comes this sultry, … Read More
Taylors Clare Valley Merlot 2018
Taylors Clare Valley Merlot 2018 $19.99 Smooth, plum-saturated and crammed with cherry and soft pepper and cocoa characters on the nose and palate, this is a warm, juicy, easy-like-sunday-morning red wine that will wow the crowds. South Australian merlot isn’t something we see a huge amount of here in NZ, which is a shame because … Read More
Taylors Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
Taylors Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 $19.99 I’m a huge fan of the colour-coded temperature sensor on the back of the bottles of Taylors wines because in New Zealand we’re shockers for drinking our white wine too cold and our red wines too warm. Cabernet Sauvignon is at its floral, spicy best between 16 – … Read More
Claymore Superstition Reserve Clare Valley Riesling 2018
Claymore Superstition Reserve Clare Valley Riesling 2018 $29.99 Sourced from old vines growing in Watervale, one of South Australia’s premier riesling sites, this wine erupts with green apple and chalky, limestone and lemongrassy aromatics and shows lipsmackingly lime-laden dryness on the palate. Clean, crunchy-fresh and injecting a mouthwatering succulence into your smacker. http://www.winecentral.co.nz
Claymore Voodoo Child Clare Valley Chardonnay 2018
Claymore Voodoo Child Clare Valley Chardonnay 2018 $25.99 Cast your eyes past the slightly morbid pin-sticking pic on the label and get your nose stuck inside the glass instead, then you’ll be met with a whiff of lemongrass and white peach, white pepper and lime. Grown in a non-irrigated (dry-farmed) site in Watervale in the … Read More
Claymore Wines Dark Side of the Moon Clare Valley Shiraz 2018
Claymore Wines Dark Side of the Moon Clare Valley Shiraz 2018 $29.99 Sourced from Claymore’s dry-farmed, non-irrigated Watervale and Penwortham vineyards, this is cool-climate shiraz that’s soft, elegantly structured and shows delicate berryfruit, spice and earthy intensity in the mid-palate. Impressively structured, fine-grained tannins, a smoke and graphite-like core, white pepper and blueberry complexity and … Read More
Taylors Jaraman Clare Valley + Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
Taylors Jaraman Clare Valley + Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 $33 Utilising fruit from both Coonawarra and the Clare Valley has injected banging spices on the nose, yet soothing, soft textures in the mouth. Deeply perfumed with pepper, menthol, bay, plum, cocoa and cherry, then following up with all those elements replicated on the flavour-front, this … Read More
Taylors St Andrews Clare Valley Riesling 2016
Taylors St Andrews Clare Valley Riesling 2016 $45 If you’re looking for a punch in the face of lime, lemongrass, crunchy apple and squint-inducing zestiness – then you’ve come to the right place. This 2016 St Andrews is incredibly dry and elegant and demonstrates an ultimately sophisticated riesling from old vines growing in one of … Read More
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