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White

2019 Seppelt Chardonnay Drumborg Vineyard

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4/18/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 93 points

Classy. Great flavour. It’s filled out now. Excellent drinking.

Top class, cool climate Chardonnay. Getting up there with Grand Cru burgundy.

13%, screwcap.

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Red

2016 Bodegas Luberri Rioja Monje Amestoy Reserva

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4/15/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 90 points

There is some refreshing fruit in here but currently it’s a strong, textual, youthful reserva.

14%, cork.

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Red

2011 Château La Lagune

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4/14/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 92 points

Good colour with a wee hint of browning at the very rim.

I guess I wasn’t in the mood for it last time. This is fresh, sort of modern, but it’s a claret drinker’s vintage and this has very attractive (depending on your mood!) green tobacco notes.

Further development over the next 3-5 years is probably going to be very worthwhile, a lot of return for short-term cellaring.

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Red

2010 Tim Adams Shiraz The Aberfeldy

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4/14/2024 - ProfByron wrote: 90 points

There is a prettiness about this, clear fruit, even ever so slightly floral, and clean winemaking with a touch of oak sweetness.

It’s a pity that the alcohol isn’t lower, it upsets the balance.

14.5% (or more), screwcap.

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Red

2011 Domaine du Colombier Crozes-Hermitage Cuvée Gaby

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4/13/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 92 points

Very healthy bright colour.

Smells like a tin of smoked oysters, not unpleasant. Tastes gamey but a core of good Shiraz fruit. Soft, peak maturity.

Again I have to remark how impressive this is given the drizzling grey Summer of 2011 in France. As in Bordeaux and the Loire, rabbits were pulled out of hats by some producers.

Drink now.

13%, cork.

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White - Sparkling

2012 Pierre Gimonnet & Fils Champagne Special Club Grands Terroirs de Chardonnay

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4/12/2024 - ProfByron wrote: 90 points

Quite golden. Serious, not exactly savoury but close to it. I wasn’t expecting this level of austerity, given the vintage and the prestige blend.

Traditional cork.

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Red

2008 Château Dauzac

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4/11/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 91 points

I was just about to write that while this is good I suspect it won’t blossom but rather become increasingly savoury and dour but then I noticed my tasting not from 2 years ago. OK it does seem to be blossoming.

When will be peak drinking? I’d still hedge my bets and keep checking over the next few years.

But for now… yes it’s pretty classy. But match carefully to mood, food, and get the temperature right.

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Red

2012 Domaine Pavelot (Jean-Marc et Hugues) Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru La Dominode

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4/8/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 91 points

Fresh, varietal. Nice but you’d like to think that the New World can make wines of this standard and style at lower prices. Or maybe I’m wrong, must do a comparison tasting.

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Red

2015 Deep Woods Estate Cabernet Merlot

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4/8/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 91 points

Rather delicious. Young, serious, but still delicious.

Deep Woods make good wine.

14%, screwcap.

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White

2021 Collector Wines Chardonnay Tiger Tiger

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4/7/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 91 points

I’m raising my assessment of this wine. The acid is electric. Exciting drinking now.

12.9%, screwcap.

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Red

1992 Turkey Flat Shiraz

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4/5/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 92 points

Crumbly cork.

Surprisingly dark colour.

1st night added acid was a bit too prominent. 2nd night, lovely mature Shiraz not particularly complex but in no way showing its 32 years! Extraordinary.

14.3%, cork.

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White

2014 Margan Sémillon

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4/5/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 91 points

Quite developed, petrol. Very different from my memory of Tyrrell’s Belford of the same vintage.

Enjoy now.

12.5%, screwcap.

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White

2017 Tyrrell's Sémillon Vat 1

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4/5/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 92 points

I enjoyed this very much. Youthful but fine, some lovely vanilla flavour buried under the lime.

Will live a very long life.

11.5%, screwcap.

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Red

2010 Yalumba The Signature

 Barossa Valley Cabernet-Shiraz Blend, Red Blend more
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4/5/2024 - ProfByron wrote: 87 points

Surprisingly dark.

Somewhat muted nose.

Sweet vintage port like! Very much so. Right down to the touch of raisins. Interesting but be warned!

Cork, 13.5% claim which is obviously wrong, Yalumba have terrible record of alcohol claims.

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Red

2011 Cape Mentelle Cabernet Sauvignon

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4/3/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 93 points

Hmm, interesting, more developed than expected. Ever so slight brick red to brown edge gives it away. And then slightly stewed fruit on the nose but in no way prune like.

I’d so guess this was Bordeaux under cork not Margaret River under screwcap. 13.5% alcohol may be part of the equation.

It’s rather fine, complex.

2011 the drought continued in WA (whereas rain made a sad vintage for South Australia). I’m thinking this is less about vintage and more about the winemakers wanting to pull back from over opulence.

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Rosé

2021 Dudley Pink Bay Rose

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4/1/2024 - ProfByron wrote: 85 points

Hmm, pleasant for a glass but there is a reason why hardly anyone makes rose out of Shiraz.

13%, screwcap.

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White

2019 Curly Flat Chardonnay

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3/31/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 92 points

Such a lot of nice flavour and only 12.7% this is certainly no lean mean Chardonnay. Quality fruit driven, oak in check.

Bright gold colour, suggests fair bit of skin contact during wine making, and it tastes it.

Drink now. Not for further cellaring but then again it will certainly survive a few more years.

Screwcap.

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Red

2007 Château du Tertre

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3/30/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 92 points

Next to the 2008 this is noticeably more syrupy. Quite a surprise. Alongside some classic aged character. Green tobacco and cigar box mixed.

Tannins are more obvious, less rounded than the 2008.

Altogether a more exciting wine, though it I expect it will be under-appreciated by most.

13%, cork.

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Red

2008 Château du Tertre

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3/30/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 90 points

Nice nose. Quite classic.

Dark, savoury fruits. It has warmth and softness but the black bible leather flavour makes this a bit stern. Needs food.

Good wine. More like St Estephe (at least in the old days) than Margaux.

13%, cork.

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White

2018 Thorn-Clarke Riesling Sandpiper

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3/29/2024 - ProfByron wrote: 89 points

Much awarded but I found it rather hard, austere.

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Red

2017 Stella Bella Cabernet Merlot

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3/27/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 91 points

Such a pretty floral Cab/Merlot. Fine flavours, a bit young for me but I think this will mature reasonably quickly by Margaret River (or Bordeaux) standards. And will hopefully retain its class.

Certainly better than most Cru Bourgeois medocs.

Tannins are fine but not plentiful. Acid is bright and bouncy, too much so at present, but they calm down with breathing.

On the 2nd night it’s considerably more savoury.

14%, screwcap.

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Red

2001 La Rioja Alta Rioja Gran Reserva 904

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3/24/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 91 points

Needless to say this is a very mature wine now. Some bottles will be better than others.

Even so at minimum I’ve found it to be a balanced gentle wine with considerable length.

12.5%! Cork.

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Red

2009 Blain-Gagnard Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos St. Jean Rouge

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3/23/2024 - ProfByron wrote: 90 points

Light colour. Slightly spritzig (Good elastic cork).

Straightforward but proper Burgundy aromas.

Same for palate. A pretty style not meant for aging. Drink now!

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Red

2006 Bouchard Père et Fils Volnay 1er Cru Clos des Chênes

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3/23/2024 - ProfByron Does not like this wine: 83 points

I should have listened to my advice to “drink now” 9 years ago!

Today it’s a plain slightly oxidised old red.

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White

2008 Peter Lehmann Sémillon Margaret

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3/22/2024 - ProfByron Likes this wine: 90 points

Good but not in the league of a top Hunter semillon with similar bottle age.

Screwcap, 11%

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