Tom Kline

3 days 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 days 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.

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

92 $35 Drink by: 2025-2035 This is strikingly pithy, zesty and fresh from the outset. White grapefruit pith and lemon balm kick off the aromas, followed by mandarin zest, talc, wet stone and a faint glimmer of lemon thyme. It’s classically pure and citrussy, causing a Pavlovian-like salivation. The palate is textural but tart with a zesty shot of Makrut lime leaf, lime skin, grapefruit, talc, lemon-in-water and mandarin pith.

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

The prestige release in the Castle Rock Pinot trio, this shows how the grape has gone from curiosity to contender... Out of a north-facing, single block east of the Hahndorf township, this wine deftly carves a path between richness and... Clover, Lilies of the Valley, crab apple and nashi pear. Honeydew melon, celery heart and lime juice. Almond milk creaminess,... Greg Clack is the current winemaker at Chain of Ponds learning from the wisdom of the Estate’s founder Neville Falkenberg....

5 days ago | winepilot.com | Tom Kline |Angus Hughson

“Red meat’s perfect partner” is the back label claim. 100% American oak. Made by Hamish MacGowan. Old leather, black plum, blackberry, sweet clove, pepper, meat, mint. It’s deep, dark and brooding. The palate has a cooling feel, perhaps more lifted than the nose suggested. Sweet clove, leather, blackberry, plum, pepper and meat sit high in the mouth before an anchoring of firm powdery tannins that pull the leather and black fruits to a finish of medium length.