September 16, 2023 - Very honeyed and spice-racked. Some toastiness and only mild viscosity. Crunchy green apples and complexity. Picked it as a Chardonnay at first...
November 27, 2022 - Oxidised.
December 31, 2019 - Honey and concentrated jam.
November 10, 2019 - Great wine. Terrible cork. Fruit completely stripped by TCA. Dead.
December 19, 2015 - Excellent, classic, 10.6% alcohol.
Colour: green tinged light golden hues, very clear and bright
Bouquet: citrus, some soapy character, nutty
Palate: citrus, rich fruit still, some passion fruit and feijoada, full bodied long clean acid finish. amazingly fresh fruit for age. Toasty character indicated on label not evident.
December 2016
June 13, 2015 - Excellent, brilliant and classic, really opens out well after a couple of hours breathing out of the the fridge. 11.6% alc.
Colour: dark yellow
Bouquet: intense and rich citrus, with honeyed overtones
Palate: as bouquet, full bodied, but very fresh, with good long clean acid finish. Interestingly the finish gets longer with breathing. Great mouth feels, with luscious creamy texture.
June 2015
April 1, 2015 - Coravin fun - 2014 Christmas remainders + (My place, parramatta, sydney): Weeping cork. From Coravin. Medium minus intensity aromas of wet socks, slight meaty and musty notes over toast and honey…in the mouth the wine has high intensity searing acidity with very muted flavours of lime, honey, cream but really quite tart and finishes with some soggy dampness. Short and out of condition. Hmm. FLAW on this and the previous basis.
December 25, 2014 - Christmas Day 2014 (My place, parramatta, sydney): From Coravin. Slight citrus, honey, quite muted, and slight volatile notes. In the mouth the wine is quite sour but with honey notes. I suspect it is past its best and get's more vegetal with time. Not sure what to do with this one.
July 13, 2012 - Nice aged sem. The wine was deep golden, which indicated some slightly premature ageing, as previous bottles had been much more stable. Still, a delicious wine.
July 13, 2011 - Flavours of bottled lemon juice from concentrate with hints of honey and toast. Very clean; good acidity. Needed about an hour to open up. Interesting wine.