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  • 3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Jeni Port |Angus Hughson

    94 $43 Drink by: 2025-2036 Cabernet remains the great strength of the Stella Bella portfolio, a wine of easy elegance and class. Comes at you all approachable and generous while retaining a firm structure while leaving something in the tank for later (like the second day after opening). Delivers an impressive scent in blackberry, black plum and black cherry fruits framed in Aussie bush notes, earth and cedary oak. Runs smoothly, easily across the palate while retaining structure meshing...

  • 3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Jeni Port |Angus Hughson

    94 $43 Drink by: 2025-2036 Cabernet remains the great strength of the Stella Bella portfolio, a wine of easy elegance and class. Comes at you all approachable and generous while retaining a firm structure while leaving something in the tank for later (like the second day after opening). Delivers an impressive scent in blackberry, black plum and black cherry fruits framed in Aussie bush notes, earth and cedary oak.

  • 3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Jeni Port |Angus Hughson

    92 $41 Drink by: 2025-2029 If a wine can be described as perky, this Shiraz fits the bill. Red fruits shine on the bouquet in plum, black cherry, loganberry and cassis with star anise, baking spices, earth and briar. It’s all there in a lovely display of bright, fresh – and perky – Margaret River Shiraz on the palate, finely structured and just a little restrained as a two-year-old. It’s got further ageing on its mind with tannins sinewy, earthy and still firm.

  • 3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Jeni Port |Angus Hughson

    95 $100 Drink by: 2025-2043 A big price tag, a top vintage and a wine that comes finely layered and complex. It’s a youngster, that much is also sure, and will blossom with more time in bottle cementing itself as a serious and seriously good Margaret River Cabernet. Pristine fruit fills the scent in blackberry, cassis with blueberry, violet florals, leaf and briar. The palate is built on a core of super fine tannins, running dry and gossamer fine. How does the winemaker do that?

  • 3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Jeni Port |Angus Hughson

    Mountadam made their name with Chardonnay and this is a cracking value wine that follows the family line. It is... Feel the richness and width. Grey Label Chardonnay combines Adelaide Hills’ usual sunny citrus fruits and bright personality with some... The fruit for this wine comes from five vineyards in the Barossa, with the oldest vines dating back to 1854.... Wonderfully taut and fresh belying its five years in bottle. Citrus salt, lime pith, and an aldehydic nuance of ripe...