Category Archives: White Wine – Australia

Devils Corner, Chardonnay 2016, Tasmania

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Tasmania makes some excellent wines but there are not often seen. Chardonnay, love it as a Burgundy or not as a new world wine. This is pretty good.

You get floral aromas and a creamy texture on the plate with flavours of citrus and grapefruit. Its fresh and youthful and very easy drinking. Decanter World Wine Awards gave this a Commended. Stingy in my view, easily a Bronze medal and possibly a Silver medal in the the right mood.

Have it with pork, salmon or tuna steaks or drink gentle to really appreciate it.  At AUD20 a bottle its good value.

Devils Corner, Chardonnay 2016, Tasmania

Devils Corner, Chardonnay 2016, Tasmania

Brash, Chardonnay 2017, Margaret River, Australia

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Its a bolder Chardonnay than some people will like. There’s aromas of ripe tropical fruit, lemon and oak, its quite heady. There are flavours of stone fruit and a creaminess but its a heavy Chardonnay, eps with the oak notes. The finish is pretty long but that’s not a big positive.

In some ways this is an Australian Chardonnay that so many people expect. I would have liked more subtle flavours and lots less oak. Maybe if we had left it for a few more years it would have got better?

At £15 a bottle there are better out there.

Brash, Chardonnay 2017, Margaret River, Australia

Brash, Chardonnay 2017, Margaret River, Australia

 

Coward & Black, Chardonnay 2017, Margaret River, Australia

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Aromas of ripe citrus, esp pineapple with added oak on the taste buds and a little oiliness. This is a full textured wine, yet it has a light lemon colour making you think that its going to be light and friskie. This is a great example of what Chardonnay can be. It got a bronze at the Decanter World Wine Awards in 2018 which I think was mean, for me silver, solid silver. Fantastic.

Coward & Black, Chardonnay 2017, Margaret River, Australia

Coward & Black, Chardonnay 2017, Margaret River, Australia

McGuigan, Reserve Shiraz and Chardonnay, Australia

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You get what you pay for! Yep.

McGuigan do some very nice wine but pay more than £10 otherwise you get this for about £7 and you are not doing your liver any good.

First the compliments, the Shiraz is red wine. Thats it. Flubby red fruit flavours, not much aromas, dry but quite light which helps when drinking this. The medals on the bottle, like the Chardonnay don’t come from what’s in the bottle but for the brand.

Chardonnay, citrus aromas which come through on the taste and is joined by grapefruit. Sharp and a but harsh. If you take this to a party, either don’t open it or open it last, pour it down the sink and claim everyone drank it and loved it.

Sorry McGuigan you  can do so much better

McGuigan Reserve Shiraz and Chardonnay, Australia

McGuigan Reserve Shiraz and Chardonnay, Australia

Plantagenet Omhar 2010 unoaked Chardonnay

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Looking through the wine fridge we came across this unoaked Chardonnay from Plantagenet, Western Australia. Nine years on and it’s still excellent. There are aromas of vanilla and a taste of oak, yet this is an unoaked Chardonnay! It could be an age thing or maybe a combination of the pear and citrus, answers on a postcard.

This is delicious, rounded, soft, smooth with subtle butter hints. You could make an xxx film on this wine and get an Oscar for it. At about £14 a bottle and a little waiting it’s worth buying and waiting.

Plantagenet 2014 unoaked Chardonnay

Plantagenet 2014 unoaked Chardonnay

Clare Valley Riesling – Aldi

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There are some great rieslings for under £10, Clare Valley in South Australia is coming up with some crackers, this one is not one of them.

So what is the issue with this wine. Well the label says “aromatic with citrus aromas of lime and hints of orange blossom. The perfect balance between complex fruit aromatics with refreshing minerality and zesty acidity”. There’s acidity for sure but the overwhelming flavour is green apple. I had the bottle over 2 days, I left the half finished bottle open for an hour, then pumped the air out and put the bottle in the fridge. The next day the green apple was still in there, maybe not quite as powerful, but still in bucket loads. 

Is this worth £6.99? well to some, yes. For me spend a few quid more and get a better wine.

Clare Valley 2017 Riesling from Aldi

Clare Valley 2017 Riesling from Aldi