Cassandra Charlick

Australia

Journalist and Communications Specialist at Freelance

Freelance wine + travel writer, TV presenter and songstress. Follow me on IG and Substack to travel through the wine glass with me. #earnyourvino

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Articles

Moss Wood Ribbon Vale Elsa 2024

2 days ago | winepilot.com | Cassandra Charlick |Angus Hughson

94+ $77.78 Drink by: 2025-2035+ Pillowy and nougatine on the nose, with marzipan and vanilla bean laced apricot, custard apple, feijoa and pear skin. Tropical honeydew melon follows with a tint of lemongrass and baked hay. Plenty of fruit sweetness and buttery malolactic notes on the palate, which balances Sauvignon’s bright acidity nicely. Vanilla brioche, silken poached pear and an opulent, creamy mouth-filling silkiness, finishing with a crunched dried herb note. The oak tannins are...
The Other Wine Co. Pinot Gris 2024

3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Cassandra Charlick |Angus Hughson

91 $28 Drink by: 2025-2028 Adelaide Hills fruit fermented on solids in foudre, old oak and stainless steel prior to four months on lees. Pear skin, custard apple, pretty spring florals, nashi pear, a dusting of spice and a shake from the salt shaker round out a perfumed nose. It’s the texture on the palate that really lifts this up a notch, with oak and fruit solids providing a complex weave to cushion the fruit.
Singlefile Philip Adrian Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Cassandra Charlick |Angus Hughson

95+ $100 Drink by: 2025-2045 Well, this is a spectacular opening. Plush and pillowy on the nose, there’s no shortage of intensity. Cedar, crushed aniseed, dried violets, black fruits, dusty redcurrants, and some tightly knitted black tea spice. There’s slatey tension, and of course plenty of tar and inky liquorice lacquer. The fruit can hold it though, and expresses itself clearly through the well charred Burgundian oak. The real star is the structure.
Singlefile Single Vineyard Mount Barker Riesling 2024

3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Cassandra Charlick |Angus Hughson

Skip to content Envelope Instagram Facebook Home > Singlefile Single Vineyard Mount Barker Riesling 2024 93 $35 Drink by: 2025-2035 A nose that draws you in with toasty hints of melted butter and honey, jasmine, roast lemon, and vadouvan and curry leaf spice. Sitting in the savoury spectrum, yet on the palate, it giggles with red apple skin, hints of toffee apple, candied lemon and toasted barley.
Singlefile The Pamela Riesling 2023

3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Cassandra Charlick |Angus Hughson

96 $45 Drink by: 2025-2045 Bottle 3165 of 3582. Fruit for this exquisite West Aussie Riesling is from the Misery Hill vineyard in Porongurup. Granite soils and elevation equate to fruit purity coupled with plenty of mineral intensity. The nose is luscious yet slick, like water condensation on a chilled guava. There’s tropical florals, honeysuckle, lime juice, feijoa and green mango, along with oodles of crushed quartz on the nose.
Singlefile Rosé 2024

3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Cassandra Charlick |Angus Hughson

Singlefile has a great reputation and with good reason. Across the board, their wines are consistently well-made from excellent fruit. The feeling you get from the first bite into the first just-ripe white peach of the summer? Captured here perfectly. A little slate frames peach blossom, spring hay and peach-laden frangipane tart. Focused and taut line of acidity frames the ever-so-slightly lush orchard spectrum, a hint of prosciutto, finishing with a rock salt crunch underfoot.
MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Springs Chenin Blanc 2023

3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Cassandra Charlick |Angus Hughson

Presents with a brilliant golden hue in the glass, this is Roussanne, a variety that suits the Barossa Valley. Made... One of the more impressive Savvys to have come across the tasting bench for some time, this was harvested in... Okay, so you’re looking for value for money and quality. Well, this little number is hard to beat. It’s medium... From the start this chardonnay has been set for its staying potential. Yet at the same time its early years...
MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Springs Rosé 2024

3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Cassandra Charlick |Angus Hughson

94 $39.50 Drink by: 2025-2029 A field blend of Grenache, Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chenin Blanc, from the sandy soiled Blewitt Spring Vineyard first planted in 1939. There’s plenty going on here, opening with a savoury nose filled with cured meats, a bit of baked earth, cherry blossom, wood spice, wild strawberries, bacon fat, dried cranberries, crushed raspberry, apricot flesh and a flinty minerality.
St Hallett Sacred Ground Shiraz 2021

3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Cassandra Charlick |Angus Hughson

93 $95 Drink by: 2025-2030 Purple fruit, lush and dense, yet sitting in more of a mid-weight category than some of the bigger wines of this region and the historical style. Brooding with wild raspberry pip, dried violets, and tar. Varnishy oak on the nose holds up to the fruit and the plush palate and abundant tannins, whose grip is softened with a swish black velvet cloak. Plenty of dried herbs – thyme, rosemary, underbrush and red baked earth.
Howard Park Jeté NV

1 month ago | winepilot.com | Cassandra Charlick |Angus Hughson

91 $44 Drink by: 2025-2028 47% Chardonnay 43% Pinot Noir, 10% Pinot Meunier, 30 months on lees and extra brut. The nose opens with oyster shell, lemon bath salts, white dried florals and lavender. It’s a lovely wine with fine phenolics and delicacy. Sourdough autolytic notes are not too fierce but toasty and have a dry, mineral finish. There’s a bit of tart shell too, dried herbs, lime zest, white pith and chalkiness on the palate. A succulent nature, with plenty of refreshment and lots to...