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Date: Sep 2025
Refined and pure, with floral and minerally aromas of wild raspberries, dried strawberries, hibiscus, rose petals and crushed river stones. The palate is delicate and refined, with fine tannins, bright acidity and a crunchy, saline finish. Elegant and perfumed. Drink or hold—screw cap. Reviewed August 2024.
94 Points
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Date: Sep 2025
Refined and delicate, with aromas of sliced lemons, flint, grapefruit and yeast. The palate is mid-weighted with a rounded mouthfeel and bright acidity. A well-balanced yet restrained release from a low-yielding vintage. Drink or hold. Screw cap. Reviewed August 2025.
94 Points
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Date: Sep 2025
There’s so much tension and purity, with restrained aromas of grilled lemons, gunpowder, flint and white orchard fruit. The palate is mid-weighted with a great core of fruit, lovely underlying freshness and bright acidity, with a minerally and fruit-driven finish. A delightful, classy Chardonnay. Drink or hold. Screw cap. Reviewed August 2025.
96 Points
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Date: Sep 2025
This is excellent, with so much clarity and precision. Aromas of minerals, struck match, grapefruit, flint, crushed stones, white orchard fruit and talc. The palate is tightly wound, with vivid acidity, generous underlying power and saline and yeasty notes. Delicious now, but the core of the fruit will evolve for years to come and only grow in complexity.
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Date: Sep 2025
A beautiful release here; 15% whole bunch, nine months in French oak, 30% of which was new. Elements of struggle, the cooler-than-usual vintage and minute yields have contributed to a concise and certain wine. Prismatic red fruits cast light over the depth of spice and umami complexities, a little truffle, a little master stock, and just-ripe red plum.
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Date: Sep 2025
Class, elegance and dangerously silky, what a superb and precise Pinot Noir from Tapanappa.
A wine that is measured with a terrific line of detail from a cool and low-yielding vintage, the longer it sits in the glass, the more it reveals its secrets. It opens with scents of orange peel, dark cherries and dried strawberries that flow onto an expressive palate.
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Date: Sep 2025
Aromas of rose petal, forest floor, and dark cherry combine on a seductive bouquet. Length of palate is a strong point, as are the fine tannins and almost subliminal oak. Reviewed September 2025.
5 Stars
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Date: Sep 2025
This is quite a structured and intense pinot noir from this cool vintage. The colour is quite pale but that can be deceptive as the aroma explodes with a mix of florals and strawberry before you delve into a palate that, while medium weight, has a driving intensity and power. The oak and tannin regime holds it tight and firm,
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Date: Sep 2025
Planted in 2003 to clones 115 and 777. The block is called Definitus, which is certainly a more lively name than, say, Block 28. It’s screwcap sealed.
Strawberry, dried herb and flowers, mint, cedar and spice. It’s medium-bodied, lightly poached red fruits, a bit of a porcini umami thing, a firmness to some chamois-like tannin,
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Date: Sep 2025
⚖️ – Fairly priced for such a unique and well made Aussie Pinot
🕰️ – Drinks beautifully now, but its complexities emerged with 12hrs of airtime. No issues holding this for 5yrs +
Clear ruby with a gentle orange hue and a complex nose of dried rose, violets and wattle with salted plum,
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Date: Sep 2025
Wonderfully autumnal, this is a Tapanappa Foggy Hill Pinot Noir with soul, depth and a comforting embrace. It’s an excellent wine, hands down. From a vineyard planted 350 metres above sea level to the 777 clone, it saw eight months in French oak (33% new).
Winemaker Brian Croser says the 2024 vintage will go down as one of the smallest crops in his 56 vintages,
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Date: Sep 2025
Made in a year so cold that only the clone 777 fruit ripened sufficiently, this wine is a marvel of delicacy as opposed to lightness. The nose shows delightfully perfumed cherry with a positive herbal edge. The finely structured palate is both silky and long. It’s delicious now, but it will be interesting to track its development.
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Date: Sep 2025
This was a very cool growing season that produced very low crops, and yet the wine has triumphed. It’s a subtle medium-bodied pinot with bright, vibrant colours of red and purple. On the nose is a mix of strawberry conserve and spices. While the palate delivers a sweet, succulent core of fruit that finishes with a dry savoury,
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Date: Sep 2025
I have a weather station in my back yard. Last August there was 33.55 mm of rain for the whole month with an average temperature of 16.4c. In 2025, less than halfway through we are sitting at 294.38 mm of precipitation, with an average temperature of 13c. I just wanted to give you a little Brian Croser style data for the terroir of the Inner West of Sydney.
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Date: Sep 2025
Citrus tang, quince, touch of leesy curds in the background. Palate is chock full of stonefruit, grapefruit acidity, quince.
There’s a lovely unison between integrated oak – giving some foundation for the wine – and acid tension, giving flow and length.
It feels incredibly at ease with itself, a delight to drink now,
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Date: Aug 2025
There’s a slot in the Australian Wine and Drinks Review fridge where I always like to keep a classic white wine. Something for drinking, not tasting, that I’m going to enjoy drinking at any moment if I feel like it. Not a ‘break in case of emergency’ wine, but more ‘I’m thirsty and don’t want to fuck around’.
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Date: Aug 2025
London is to see a selection of Australia’s top Chardonnays go on pour next week, as the country continues its State by State series, showcasing its finest wines according to source.
Hoping to show the UK trade “how far Australian Chardonnay producers have progressed in the last decade”, according to organiser Amelia Jukes, the lineup will feature “beautifully balanced wines with freshness,
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Date: Aug 2025
Australian Riesling might make up just 0.5% of the nation’s wine exports, but it’s managing to carve out its own distinctive niche due to its freshness, moderate alcohol content and fruit purity, writes Kathleen Willcox.
Aussie Shiraz will likely never have to worry about Riesling stealing its crown when it comes to volume.
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Date: Aug 2025
Surrounded by unparalleled views of the London skyline, the great and the good of the wine world joined to toast Decanter’s 50th anniversary at a spectacular evening full of history, highlights and, naturally, a host of iconic bottles. Content Director Tina Gellie reports on a landmark occasion.
More than 200 of the wine world’s movers and shakers raised a collective glass on 9 May to toast
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Date: Aug 2025
As I enter the third decade of the 100 Best Australian Wines, and as every year passes, top-class Australian fine wines continue to improve and impress with their staggering diversity and deliciousness.
As always, this is a body of work I have spent many months putting together ahead of a very different and unique kind of launch.
» Read more about: 100 BEST AUSTRALIAN WINES 2025 – Matthew Jukes »
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Date: Aug 2025
Exquisite close-planted Chardonnay. Chardonnay that melts your mouth – along with any resistance you might have to its charms – and provides sublime carriage of flavour. Stonefruit, frangipane, grapefruit acidity. Subtle hints of ginger spice – particularly in that long and ebbing length of flavour. Layers of texture, a slight nutty aspect, both a creamy cashew but also with bight of roasted hazelnut.
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Date: Jul 2025
Medium deep garnet to ruby rim still there. Still fresh with a core of berry fruit: black, boysen and blue. White pepper, powdered cocoa, cedar and vanilla still offering some winemaking influence. There’s a hint of development with nori sheet/beef stock umami, steel and earth underneath that prevailing primary profile. There’s rose petals, brewed tea and just rained on Aussie bush (eucalyptus).
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Date: Jul 2025
Deep garnet with a soft velvet rim. Aromas complex and calm: rose petals, drinking cocoa and cassis with blueberries and raspberries, blood plum, new leather, cedar, a small amount of rosemary (leaf and flower), a touch of vanilla, graphite and black tea. There’s an ancient quality to the wine, evoking the soils that have given it life.
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Date: Jul 2025
Full and bright ruby colours in the glass. Blueberry, crushed sage and violets on the nose. Medium to full bodied, dark fruits sit in the core with Chinese five spice adding lift and detail to the flow. Fine-grained tannins carry good length and keep the finish in focus.
93 Points
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