Adelaide trip

Adelaide and the surrounding environs
Tasted Thursday, July 26, 2018 - Sunday, July 29, 2018 by chatters with 317 views

Introduction

Went on from Dunkeld to meet visit KC's home town and spent a few days pottering around…

Flight 1 - Bracket one - Hahndorf Hill (9 Notes)

After a happy encounter with the Zsa Zsa Zweigelt at an otherwise disappointing supper a while ago this seemed like a good reason to swing off the road into the Adelaide Hills

Flight 2 - Bracket two - HellBound (3 Notes)

Nice little scruffy underground Wine Bar with a good list and a Coravin.

  • 2017 Adelina "Field Blend"

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Clare Valley

    (7/26/2018)

    Brambly, pretty, zesty acidity, soft tannic burr, a little apple, wild strawberry, fresh, easy and constantly evolving in the glass. Now it's showing graphite and pencil shavings. Really interesting and enjoyable.

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  • 2017 Architects of Wine Lagrein

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/26/2018)

    bloody, meaty, muted black fruits; plums over berries, juicy acidity, medium minus intensity gritty tongue coating taninns, wet with muted fruit. Bit simple. <shrugs>

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  • 2014 Gérard Mugneret Vosne-Romanée

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Vosne-Romanée

    (7/26/2018)

    Earthy, red and black berry, sweet spice, a touch of cedar and stalks. Juicy and, for me, a little sour and sharp for Vosne Romanee. More berry and cherry, gritty and slightly chalky tannic grip across the mid-palate, medium plus length. Hmm.

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Flight 3 - Bracket three - MotherVine (9 Notes)

Bit of a poshy la-la wine bar but, again, with a very good list of interesting wines and, impressively, offering tasting pours (15ml) of all of the wines by the glass and, again, some Coravin options.

  • 2017 The Pawn Fiano The Sicilian Defence

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, Langhorne Creek

    (7/26/2018)

    Pear, greengages, slightly herbaceous, chalky minerality. Softly juicy, pear, nasturtium and a bit of something tropical like guava and lychee. Simple, medium length, uncomplicated and undemanding.

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  • 2015 Bellwether Vermentino

    Australia, Victoria, Central Victoria, Heathcote

    (7/26/2018)

    gamey, savoury, cheesy, nashi pear & green apple. In the mouth it's juicy, tightly savoury, chewy, fruit more subdued here, textual, slight bitterness on the back palate, finishes dry. Interesting

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  • 2018 Rieslingfreak Riesling No. 4

    Australia, South Australia, Barossa, Eden Valley

    (7/26/2018)

    dusty spice, slight wild ferment, green apple, lemon and lime. Juicy, zesty acidity, lime over green apple, long, quite textured. Pleasant.

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  • 2016 Corduroy Chardonnay

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/26/2018)

    Butter, coconut, cream, toast, a little chicken with herbs, not much fruit and so it proves on the palate, lacks acidity, lots of wine making but not much fun.

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  • 2017 Familiar Creature Mataro

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

    (7/26/2018)

    leathery and herbaceous with slightly baked black plums, blackberry and cream backed by cinnamon spice. Baked, illusionary sweet, black fruits and sweet spice. Barely discernible tannins; a whisper of a burr on the mid palate. Alcohol warmth is less intrusive than the Pinot

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  • 2017 Adelina Dolcetto Eternal Return

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/26/2018)

    Very perfumed fruit, a little gym bag, I call whole berry (not bunch) and wild ferment. Juicy tending to zesty acidity, slight red berry fruit, talc textured tannins. Not much going on but balanced and rather nice none the less.

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  • 2016 Thistledown Grenache Thorny Devil

    Australia, South Australia, Barossa, Barossa Valley

    (7/26/2018)

    Warm cherry pie, red earth and baked spice. Slight cream, baked red cherry pic, with four textured tannins, some spiced alcohol warmth and really travels long on the palate. Kind of nice.

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  • 2016 Joh. Jos. Prüm Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel

    Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer

    (7/26/2018)

    Ripe apples, stone fruit, slight lemon and lime, a little sulphur. Juicy, sweet, still exceedingly young and, well, still pretty glorious, ripe apple and custard apples, mineral. Long. Lovely. Wonderful.

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  • 2016 Vella Wines Pinot Noir Dirt Boy

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/26/2018)

    Toast married to stalks, spiced and earthy, ripe red berry. The stalks and toast are reversed on the palate, juicy, spiced and slight warm and sweet red berry fruit. Balanced. Not massively long but pleasant, though it finishes a little warm.

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Flight 4 - Bracket four - Penfolds (10 Notes)

Visited the Penfolds tasting room at Magill Estate and had a lovely chat about Adelaide Hills wineries, wine bars, Chablis producers, Australian chardonnay to taste against Grand Cru Burgundy, and bottle shops.

Flight 5 - Bracket five - National Wine Centre of Australia (7 Notes)

Disappointing exhibition offset by great tasting room

  • 2016 Dodgy Bros. Grenache Juxtaposed

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

    (7/28/2018)

    Red berry, strawberry, sweet spice, a little herbaceous lift. On the palate, the juxtaposition between slightly sour acidity and sweet frit is quite unpleasant. Finishes with some chalky tannin and alcohol heat. Nah.

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  • 2016 After Five Wine Co Grenache

    Australia, South Australia, Barossa

    (7/28/2018)

    medium minus intensity aromas of roasted red berries, a little earthiness and spice, juicy, savoury re berry fruit, quite broad with gritty tannins but retains a certain freshness. Nice

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  • 2016 Samuel's Gorge Grenache

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

    (7/28/2018)

    Slight volatile notes, red berry fruit is ripe and spiced, a little vanilla and cream. It's a little boiled sweets with a little too much acid, talc textured tannins dry things out and leaves alcohol heat in the mouth.

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  • 2016 Next Crop Wines Red

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/28/2018)

    Lordy! Smells like the stalky muck I make!! Appalling…

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  • 2016 JC's Own Rock: it

    Australia, South Australia, Barossa, Barossa Valley

    (7/28/2018)

    savoury toasted red berry and strawberry underpinned by meaty, slight hoppy notes with peppery spice, On the palate red berries, spice, gritty, grippy, drying tannins beats the fruit and the spice to the ground but does let them crawl out of the room. Very young. Compelling. Very good for me.

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  • 2016 Izway Aglianico Angelo

    Australia, South Australia, Barossa, Barossa Valley

    (7/28/2018)

    sightly confected, dense, plums, a smidge of almost stalky herbaceousness. Muted earthy spice. Juicy, wet, that slight stalk note is here as well, dilute plum fruit, plenty of chalky tannic grip. Pretty average.

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  • 2016 Lethbridge Wines Sagrantino

    Australia, Victoria, Central Victoria, Heathcote

    (7/28/2018)

    Gamey, quite animal, earthy, slightly volatile top notes over quite pretty red cherry with a touch of white pepper. Juicy acidity, gritty tannins, fruit is a little lost beneath this but does show pretty cherry. All travel long. Very young and has potential...come back in five years?

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Flight 6 - Bracket six - Lunch at Bistro Blackwood (6 Notes)

couldn't get in to (or afford) Orana so settled for the bistro - started with pearl barley and hock soup, roasted beets & vitello tonnato then had steamed snapper (all of which was superb) and lamb osso buco (which was slightly underdone)

Flight 7 - Bracket seven - Terre a terre tasting (3 Notes)

I wanted to pick up some odds and sods from other producers from East End Cellars and Terre a Terre were showing their wines so I had a quite taste whilst they put my order together

Flight 8 - Bracket eight - Shaw and Smith (12 Notes)

Popped into the rather splendid S&S tasting room so that KC could see the current vintage. I made notes so that I could see how contrary my palate was…yup, it's contrary...

  • 2018 Shaw and Smith Sauvignon Blanc

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/29/2018)

    Passion fruit, sweet, gooseberry, slight grapefruit…on the palate grapefruit, underpinned by passion fruit on the palate, does what it says on the tin.

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  • 2018 Shaw and Smith Riesling

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/29/2018)

    Struck match, medium minus intensity aromas that are floral, with apple, slight grassy notes…in the mouth it's tangy, zesty with slight green apple, fresh, quite round rather than front to back of mouth. Young but yum.

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  • 2016 Shaw and Smith Chardonnay M3 Vineyard

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/29/2018)

    toast, butter, slight hazelnuts, slight lemon, peach, white fig. A touch more citrus on the palate but otherwise similar flavours to the nose.

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  • 2016 Tolpuddle Vineyard Chardonnay

    Australia, Tasmania, Coal River

    (7/29/2018)

    slight toast, a little butter, perfumed, slight lemon, cedar. On the palate it has zesty acidity; quite juicy, toast, butter and slight lemon. Hmm.

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  • 2017 Shaw and Smith Pinot Noir

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/29/2018)

    Cherry, strawberry and ashy stalks, slight sweet spice, a little alcohol prickle. In the mouth it has juicy acidity, slight stalky, gritty tannins, similar fruit, young. Easy.

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  • 2015 Shaw and Smith Pinot Noir

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/29/2018)

    From Magnum. Cedar with stalks, cream, cherry, strawberry, sweet spice. Juicy, quite muted on the palate, tannic grip. Not much fruit I wonder how long it's been open?

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  • 2016 Shaw and Smith Pinot Noir Lenswood

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/29/2018)

    From Magnum. Polished, cedar, cherry, perfumed floral notes. Stalks again but, for me, integrated. Juicy and fleshy, cherry, plenty of tannic grip. All travels exceedingly long.

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  • 2018 Shaw and Smith Grenache The Other Wine Company

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/29/2018)

    Jubey red berry and herbaceous notes, clean, palate is very much the same, soft acidity and tannic. Clean, well made, restrained, drunken, lunch wine.

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  • 2015 Shaw and Smith Shiraz

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/29/2018)

    Cream, pepper, muted toasted blackberry. A slightly more spiky version of the magnum but with a smidge of leather. Juicy, spicy, very slight reductive on the palate. Blackberry, drying, grippy, flour textured taninns. Hmm

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  • 2015 Shaw and Smith Shiraz Balhannah

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/29/2018)

    Blackberry, slight stalks, peppery spice, a little orchard fruit note, meaty and earthy elements. On the palate it's juicy with peppery spice backed by slightly toasted blackberry marred to drying four textured tannins. Good

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  • 2012 Shaw and Smith Shiraz

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/29/2018)

    From Magnum. Leather, cream, peppery spice, slightly oxidised, a little blackberry fruit but quite muted and there is some alcohol heat here. Leathery, juicy, tight, chewy tannins are all over the palate with cedar, slightly black fruits and a little peppery spice poking their respective heads up above this wooden rampart. Hmm.

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  • 2015 Shaw and Smith Shiraz

    Australia, South Australia, Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide Hills

    (7/29/2018)

    From Magnum. Cream, peppery spice, muted, toasted blackberry. In the mouth it's peppery with jubey spice, muted blackberry and toast. Gritty tannins and a little alcohol heat. Opened too long I suspect as it's a bit flat.

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Flight 9 - Bracket nine - Coriole (8 Notes)

Headed over to McLaren vale to check out some more wine. This was rather disappointing...I'd hoped for a better experience...

  • 2017 Coriole Chenin Blanc

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

    (7/29/2018)

    Lemon, slight green apple and bees wax. Sharp acidity, slight honey, lemon, not as textured as I'd have expected, some mid-palate grip.

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  • 2018 Coriole Piquepoul

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

    (7/29/2018)

    Apple, a little wet clay, juicy tending to sharp acidity. A little apple. Very lightweight, fresh.

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  • 2017 Coriole Fiano

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

    (7/29/2018)

    Slightly funky herbaceous notes, slight peaches and apple. Sharp acidity, apple, a little gritty burr on the mid palate. Medium length.

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  • 2013 Coriole Chenin Blanc The Optimist Reserve

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

    (7/29/2018)

    Lemon, a little honey, bone dry, juicy, muted citrus, tiny smidge of honey, again a little skinny.

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  • 2017 Coriole Sangiovese

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

    (7/29/2018)

    Cherry, slight tobacco leaf, juicy, fleshy, savoury, cherry, slight cream, silky tannins, balanced, well put together with a little bitterness on the finish.

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  • 2017 Coriole Nero d'Avola

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

    (7/29/2018)

    meaty, black hued fruit, more of the same on the palate, a little black tea, coffee, grippy, drying tannins.

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  • 2017 Coriole Dancing Fig

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

    (7/29/2018)

    Red berry, slight peppery spice, slight tobacco leaf. Juicy but dense, initially and plenty of talc textured tannins and finishes with alcohol heat. Hmm

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  • 2016 Coriole Shiraz Sparta

    Australia, South Australia, Fleurieu, McLaren Vale

    (7/29/2018)

    Blackberry, meaty, a little pepper spice. On the palate, blackberry, plenty of gritty tannins that dries things out, leaving alcohol heat on the finish.

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Flight 10 - Bracket ten - Chapel Hill (11 Notes)

Another swing by winery visit…good polished wines but rather interesting, nice single site options...

Closing

Phew, lovely holiday in Adelaide. High points were the CS's own and Adelina wines.

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