Tom Kline

1 week ago | winepilot.com | Tom Kline |Angus Hughson

The wine enjoys extended skin contact before a year and a half maturing in French oak barrels, and subsequently resting... The big mover at Moss Wood in recent years has been their chardonnay. In the last five years it is... According to the label, this wine is sourced from the producer’s oldest cabernet vines, planted 35 years ago. That means... A fine Eden Valley Riesling from an excellent vintage. The colour is a shining green/gold while the nose gives us...

1 week ago | winepilot.com | Tom Kline |Angus Hughson

This is sourced from 0.88 hectares of 52 year-old bush vines planted in a horseshoe contour at 170m elevation. 30% whole bunch with 14 days on skins before maturation on lees in a combination of concrete eggs and French puncheons for eight months. 14% abv. 251 dozen made. This is exciting from the outset with lifted cherry pit and saline minerality upon opening, followed by a wonderful warm sand earthiness that’s quickly offset by sweet pops of raspberry coulis and rhubarb.

1 week ago | winepilot.com | Tom Kline |Angus Hughson

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon Yet another example of just how good, and what brilliant value, reds from this most underrated of regions can be.... At our recent Grenache Shootout The Barossan Grenache did very well, picking up a Silver Medal, so good to see... Castellero (within the Barolo commune) is a high-density vineyard planted to ancient Nebbiolo clones (Michet, Rosè and Lampia) in 1978....

3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Tom Kline |Angus Hughson

Deep flint and curry leaf reduction mark the opening, followed by baked apple with cinnamon, subtle woodsmoke, butter, grilled peach, vanilla bean and preserved lemon. Some butter pastry and toast notes with air. It’s deep set and powerfully complex. The palate is full bodied and textural but masterfully cut by grippy phenolics and firm fruit power. Baked apple, pastry dough, cinnamon, nectarine, and preserved lemon are buoyed by a pithy grapefruit lift.

3 weeks ago | winepilot.com | Tom Kline |Angus Hughson

Ulithorne has a long established reputation for quality McLaren Vale wines, even if they have been small quantity production levels... One of three Chateaux in the Entre-Deux-Mers under the auspices of vigneron Sebastien Petit. Les 5C represents the five red... 100% Garnacha taken from 70-year-old vines rooted in granite soils at 850 metres in El Real de San Vicente. There’s... It’s rare to see a Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon of such youth looking so complex, so elegant.