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Best New Releases from Australia (Jul 1999)

Full ruby. Superripe aromas of roasted plum, saddle leather, smoked meat, mint and oak spice. Huge, thick and sweet; extraordinarily ripe but supported by firm, ripe acids. Really suffuses the palate with sweet fruit. Explosive aftertaste features roasted berry, leather and woodsmoke notes and uncanny sweetness. Showing extremely well today but built to age.

The Best New Releases From Australia (Jul 1998)

Saturated, opaque ruby. Perfumed, multidimensional aromas of blackberry, cassis, woodsmoke, game and oak spice. Amazingly thick and sweet in the mouth, but ripe acidity and deep spiciness gives clarity to the flavors. A real powerhouse, with fruit of steel. Finishes with huge, tongue-coating tannins, very complex berry, meat and oak flavors, and great length. Superb…

Best New Releases from Australia (Jul 2001)

Deep ruby. Knockout nose combines black fruits, spices, espresso, meat and gunflint; very syrah. Tightly wound and unevolved, with black fruit, licorice and pepper flavors currently dominated by the wine oak element. Dense with extract but quite closed; doesn’t yet show the sweetness of the Piggott Range bottling (or the ’98 Astralis, for that matter)….

The Not So Wild West: Margaret River in the Groove (Sep 2022)

The 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon from Cape Mentelle continues the long history of fine age-worthy wines from this esteemed winemaker. It is robust and powerful with deep blackberry and blackcurrant fruit aromas showing chocolatey richness and graphite complexity all wrapped up by a rich vein of new oak. Great density on the palate follows thanks to…

The Best New Releases From Australia (Jul 1998)

Ruby-red. Black cherry, smoke and fresh mint on the nose; distinctly Rhone-like. Shows some distinctly green notes, including a suggestion of fennel seed. Finishes with tongue-dusting tannins and very good length. This comes across as more French than Australian in style.

New Releases from Australia, Part 2 (Sep 2009)

Inky purple color. Explosively perfumed bouquet of blackberry and blueberry liqueur, licorice, fruitcake, incense and dried violet. Lush and creamy but penetrating, offering sweet, extremely powerful boysenberry and blueberry flavors, molten tannins and a sexy note of candied flowers. Refuses to let up on the finish, which echoes the sweet blueberry note and leaves spice,…