This is a stunning Australian nod to the wines of St Emilion on Bordeaux’s right bank, a compelling blend of two red grape varieties that often take a back seat but shine here with waves of flavours gently cascading onto …
Author: Winsor Dobbin
Source: Winsor's Choice
Date: Jul 2024
This is a stunning Australian nod to the wines of St Emilion on Bordeaux’s right bank, a compelling blend of two red grape varieties that often take a back seat but shine here with waves of flavours gently cascading onto …
Author: Simon Hughes
Source: Max Crus Wine Commentator
Date: Jul 2024
Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard (Wrattonbully) Merlot Cabernet Franc, 2019, $90.
This is about as fashionable as merlot gets, however, just because you have money, doesn’t mean you have taste, in which case buy this to cover it up. Scrumptious red wine …
Author:
Source: Qwine Reviews
Date: Jun 2024
Absolutely brilliant. A captivating and detailed wine with veneers of interest peeling back with ease, give this Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard Merlot Cabernet Franc some time and you’ll be rewarded. Three days of tasting certainly highlighted that.
From the last hot …
Author:
Source: Qwine Reviews
Date: Jun 2024
The synergy and fusion captivate with this Tapanappa Whalebone Cabernet Shiraz. Joy and pleasure seep through every pore. A wine that evolved fabulously over three days of tasting, it’s one to tuck away, that’s for sure.
From the last hot …
Author: Jeni Port
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Jun 2024
A great Aussie classic blend meets a Goldilocks kind of vintage – not too hot, not too cold – and the result is one mighty delicious wine. Bounces in ripe fruit highlighting the beauty of both grapes in black plum, …
Author: Jeni Port
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Jun 2024
Question: do you plan to drink this Wrattonbully red soon? If yes, then some advice. It needs air – a lot of swishing of air in the glass or, better still, a decant – and then watch it open. While …
Author: Angus Hughson
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Jun 2024
This 2019 Cabernet Shiraz is quite a different beast from the Merlot Cabernet Franc from the same vintage showing more poise and finesse with red currant, cedar and earthy tones prominent. Again a strong heart of tannins is the key …
Author: Angus Hughson
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Jun 2024
This broody and densely packed 2019 Merlot Cabernet Franc is exceptional and offers up muscular aromas of meat stock, blackberry and graphite with a strong backbone of new French oak. That density continues on the palate with a firm tannic …
Author: Campbell Mattinson
Source: Halliday Wine Companion
Date: Jun 2024
Blend of merlot and cabernet franc. Some wines just put you at ease, from the outset. The volume of fruit here matched to the sure swagger of tannin speaks in no uncertain terms of the quality on offer. This is …
Author: Campbell Mattinson
Source: Halliday Wine Companion
Date: Jun 2024
The effect of Shiraz on this blend is significant. It’s a wine threaded with herbal, tobacco-like graphite and mint notes, and structurally it feels very cabernet too, in that the tannin has a strictness to it. But then the mid-palate …
Author: Gary Walsh
Source: Wine Front
Date: Jun 2024
Blackcurrant, redcurrant, hazelnut and chocolate (praline), a fair amount of mint, sage and bay leaf adds perfume, along with some spice and cedar oak. It also has a dusty amaro-like quality, which I like. Medium to full-bodied, dusty and peppery, …
Author: Gary Walsh
Source: Wine Front
Date: Jun 2024
Lots of liquorice, mint, black fruit, camphor, cedar. Medium to full-bodied, lots of black fruit and mint, tobacco laced, with grainy tannin grip, shows some warming alcohol, but pulls cool and long on the finish, albeit a little grainy and …
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Source: Wine Worth Writing About
Date: Jun 2024
Deep red ruby with a finely woven and complex nose of violets, orange zest, macerated strawberry and dried cherry tomato, black fruits, fig leaf, mint tea, savoury undergrowth, tobacco, cedar and crushed gravel minerality.
In the mouth it’s juicy, but …
Author:
Source: Wines Worth Writing About
Date: Jun 2024
Deep ruby with a beautiful nose of potpourri, a touch of lemon rind, raspberry licorice, brambly berries, cassis, bayleaf, thyme, Sicilian olive, roasted beef, pencil shavings, cedar and a sanguine mineral quality.
In the mouth it’s dry, elegant, finely structured …
Author: Ray Jordan
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Jun 2024
…This is a 55% merlot and 45% cabernet franc blend made in a similar way to the cabernet shiraz. The colour is low intensity with bright crimson purple hues. The aroma shows superb black fruits, and dark plum with a
Author: Ray Jordan
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Jun 2024
…Elegant, refined and stylish. The fruit comes from down at Wrattonbully and is taken up the winery in Piccadilly. Both varieties are kept separate during the fermentation and maturation stages before blending after 17 months in barriques. Bright crimson hues
Author: JamesSuckling.com
Source: James Suckling
Date: Dec 2022
A juicy red with dried flowers, ripe strawberries and cedar. Some leather and tobacco, too. It’s medium-bodied with fine tannins and a tangy and fresh finish. Drink now or hold.
93 points
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Author: James Halliday Top 100
Source: The Australian
Date: Nov 2022
James Halliday’s Top 100 wines for 2022 have been revealed!
We are thrilled to announce our 2019 Foggy Hill Vineyard DEFINITUS Pinot Noir has made the prestigious list.
2019 Foggy Hill DEFINITUS Pinot Noir
Bramble, briar and black tea …
Author: Angus Hughson
Source: Wine Pilot
Date: Sep 2022
The 2019 vintage of Definitus is a highly seductive release bursting with fruit flavour, particularly in the dark fruit spectrum. There is a delicious and powerful blend of dark cherry and fruits of the forest that offer quite a forceful |
Author: Campbell Mattinson
Source: The Wine Front
Date: Aug 2022
There’s a lot of spice here, and autumnal effects, and general savouriness/earthiness in there with the fruit. I thought at first that it was peddling a bit too hard, but strangely enough the wine seemed to tighten and become more |
Author: Tim White
Source: timwhite.com.au
Date: Aug 2022
Exotic, dense, sapid smelling. Iced white peach kernel. There’s a just-milled Egyptian Gold flour fruitiness about it. So, so dense. Plenty of fruit concentration evident on the palate too, although the flavours themselves are reserved and primal — like the …
Author: Huon Hooke
Source: The Real Review
Date: Jul 2022
Medium depth of colour, still bright and fresh with a tinge of purple at the rim. The bouquet is spicy, whole-bunchy and quite complex, forest-floor and root-vegetable nuances chiming in with the red fruits and finished with a twist of |
Author: Gary Walsh
Source: www.winefront.com.au
Date: Jun 2022
There’s a lot of spice here, and autumnal effects, and general savouriness/earthiness in there with the fruit. I thought at first that it was peddling a bit too hard, but strangely enough the wine seemed to tighten and become more |
Author: Max Crus
Source: www.maxcrus.com.au
Date: May 2022
You don’t often see the winemaker mentioned on the front label, but with Brian in charge, why wouldn’t you? It’s astonishing two wines from the same vineyard could be so different, yet still so lovely. This is superior, bountiful pinot |
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