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FESTIVE IDEAS YULE LOVE TO GIVE OR GET
FRENCH connection: a great dropfor a really memorable Christmas Wc22Nov10 David Ellis IF this is the year you’ve reason to treat yourself to some of the best of French Champagne with the Christmas turkey, give serious thought to a bottle of Champagne Taittinger’s 2004 Brut Millésimé. This is a wonderfully flavoursome drop with aromas of […]
RAINS NO DAMPENER FOR HUNTER’S MARGAN
Wc27Sep10 GO exotic with this and a sautéof white beans, Spanish morcilla,scallops and picada David Ellis ASK most winemakers in the Hunter Valley about the 2008 vintage and they’d more than likely tell you it was one they’d happily forget about – except Andrew Margan who got the fruit for his White Label Shiraz Mourvedre […]
HUNTER ALMOST HOMES IN ON THE GRANGE
Wc13Sep10 David Ellis POINT scoring with Grange:here’s a worthy investment IF you move quickly, you’ve still a chance to grab a bottle of a Shiraz that when reviewed in this year’s The Big Red Wine Book scored just one point below the most famous Shiraz of them all, Grange. Wine critic Campbell Mattinson and wine […]
O’SHEA STELLAR SHIRAZ A STAR ACT
SPECIAL occasion wine to sharewith a classic prime rib Wc16Aug10 David Ellis A STELLAR vintage in the Hunter Valley in 2007 has resulted in a stellar wine for McWilliam’s with one of their flagship reds, the Mount Pleasant Maurice O’Shea Shiraz from that outstanding year. First created in 1987 in honour of the legendary Mount […]
MARGAN WHITE LABEL – MADE TO IMPRESS
Wc28June10 david ellis BACK in 2003 Hunter Valley maker Margan decided that with an outstanding vintage they’d launch a new White Label range of wines that stood out from the rest, and that being from generally smaller single vineyards such wines would be made only in small batches. And wisely they decided that in years […]
PRIMO’S LA BIONDINA A FUN LITTLE BLONDE
Wc29Jun09 A ZINGY white to enjoy year-round with fish and seafoods is Primo Estate’s La Biondina, a 100 per cent fun-blonde Colombard from South Australia’s Adelaide Plains. First created by Joe and Dina Grilli a near-ten decades ago, this zesty drop was blended for several more-recent vintages with Sauvignon Blanc, but for the 2009 makers […]
TINTILLA’S “SUPER TUSCAN” HUNTER RED
Wc23June08 YOUR FREE WEEKLY WINE COLUMN for week beginning June 23 2008 david ellis ANYONE with a love of Italian food shouldn’t look past TintillaEstate’s 2006 Catherine d’M Sangiovese Merlot, a “super Tuscan” fromfather and son winemaking team Robert and James Lusby who were thefirst to plant Sangiovese in the Hunter Valley thirteen years ago. […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: Rosemount Show Reserve 2006 Chardonnay
ONE FOR LUNCH: The 2006 vintage in the Hunter Valley got off to a good enough start with cool and dry conditions, but a burst of heat in December and January reduced crop sizes… which in fact resulted in high quality fruit for makers like Rosemount, whose Show Reserve 2006 Chardonnay is loaded with stonefruit […]
WINE OF THE WEEK: McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant Philip Shiraz
ONE FOR LUNCH: IT’S over forty years since wine buffs experienced their first encounter with McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant Philip Shiraz, and in all those years they’ve certainly lost none of their enthusiasm for this great wine. Sourced from several Hunter Valley vineyards, it rewards with wonderfully sweet and soft red current fruit flavours, and classic […]
HUNTER’S LITTLE TASTE OF ITALY
THE Hunter Valley’s Little Wine Company has released a wonderfully drinkable Sangiovese under its 2005 Olivine label… a flavoursome yet light and food-friendly “Little Taste of Italy” made from the same red grape variety as the classic Chiantis of Italy’s Tuscany region. Suzanne Little who oversees red wine production at the family winery says Sangiovese […]
