We didn’t dip our toe in the Piedmont pond, we leapt in, and splashed about. Maybe it was the likeness to the Pinot Noir grape and our love of Burgundy that tempted us? For me, it was Kerin O’Keefe telling the tale of Elio Alatre taking the chainsaw to his fathers old barrels in frustration….
Category: red wine
2011 Curly Flat Pinot Noir
There is something entirely pleasurable about a wine that defies a vintage. These outliers that impress despite natures attempts to bring them undone. It is even better when critics pan a wine and it responds by blossoming into something special. The 2011 vintage was considered a disaster in Victoria, the Macedon region no exception. Record…
2010 Domaine Bruno Clair Morey-Saint-Denis En la Rue de Vergy
Part 2 of the 2016 Melbourne throw back. If the Moric Blaufränkisch was a a rarity, it is fair to say we were well and truly down the Burgundy rabbit hole. These Bruno Clairs’ were imported by Bernie Smith at Two Ducks Fine Wines. Impressed with 1er Crus we grabbed a few bottles of the En la…
2010 Moric Blaufränkisch Reserve
Throw back to Melbourne, 2016. One weekend we decided to open the Blaufränkisch and Burgundy side by side. No real reason other than the 2010 vintage as a comparison. At the time I had no knowledge of Austrian wine and had never heard of the Blaufränkisch variety. I remain ignorant of Austrian wines and have only tried Blaufränkisch…
2018 Cantina Petrelli Primitivo
After the long Sunday lunch the weekend before, the three day hangover that followed, this weekend was supposed to be dry. We made it until Saturday evening. A fair attempt, but once cooking started in the kitchen, wine was required. I have very little experience with the wines of Puglia other than the occasional Primitivo…
Montaribaldi Rosso Dolce Birbet
The fifth wine of Sunday lunch. The complete line up- 2018 Domaine Saint Aix Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence Rosé 2014 Bodegas Alejandro Fernández Ribera del Duero Bodegas Condado de Haza Grupo Pesquera 2016 Château de Lestiac Bordeaux Supérieur 2016 Luigi Bosca Single Vineyard Malbec Montaribaldi Rosso Dolce Birbet Following the Malbec we had the Birbet. Wine tells…
2016 Luigi Bosca Single Vineyard Malbec
The fourth wine of Sunday lunch. The complete line up- 2018 Domaine Saint Aix Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence Rosé 2014 Bodegas Alejandro Fernández Ribera del Duero Bodegas Condado de Haza Grupo Pesquera 2016 Château de Lestiac Bordeaux Supérieur 2016 Luigi Bosca Single Vineyard Malbec Montaribaldi Rosso Dolce Birbet Following the Bordeaux we had the Malbec. I cut…
2016 Château de Lestiac Bordeaux Supérieur
The third wine of Sunday lunch. The complete line up- 2018 Domaine Saint Aix Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence Rosé 2014 Bodegas Alejandro Fernández Ribera del Duero Bodegas Condado de Haza Grupo Pesquera 2016 Château de Lestiac Bordeaux Supérieur 2016 Luigi Bosca Single Vineyard Malbec Montaribaldi Rosso Dolce Birbet Following the Crianza was the Bordeaux. This wine was…
2014 Bodegas Alejandro Fernández Ribera del Duero Bodegas Condado de Haza Grupo Pesquera
The second wine of Sunday lunch. The complete line up- 2018 Domaine Saint Aix Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence Rosé 2014 Bodegas Alejandro Fernández Ribera del Duero Bodegas Condado de Haza Grupo Pesquera 2016 Château de Lestiac Bordeaux Supérieur 2016 Luigi Bosca Single Vineyard Malbec Montaribaldi Rosso Dolce Birbet Following the Rosé was the Crianza. The nose is…