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"For your pleasure
In our present state
Part false part true
Like anything
We present ourselvesThe words we use tumble
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Gravel hard and looseThere all night lying
With your dark horse hiding
Abhorring such extremes" - Bryan FerryCategories
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Category Archives: Mornington Peninsula
2012 Crittenden Geppetto Pinot Noir
Yet another unaffected wine from Rollo Crittenden with little standing in the way of letting the fruit tell its story. It’s from the Tuerong part of the Mornington Peninsula and the Port Phillip surrounds. Roughly the same treatment as the … Continue reading
2012 Garagistes Merricks Pinot Noir
A clear favourite for me over the 2012 Garagistes Red Hill Pinot Noir. Sumptuous yet increasingly savoury as it moves through its line. Sinewy architecture underlies the power. Framboise, dark cherry and plum are met by undergrowth and a hint … Continue reading
2012 Garagistes Tuerong Chardonnay
This offering from the Tuerong area of the Mornington Peninsula is big on character and flavour but not at all over the top. It does feel regional. It offers the same clarity of fruit as the 2012 Merricks Chardonnay but … Continue reading
2012 Red Claw Mornington Peninsula Chardonnay
Intelligent, crowd-pleasing Chardonnay. It’s not the first time Yabby Lake winemaker Tom Carson has pulled it off under the Red Claw label but this is an especially good release. Even more so when you factor in the price. A mouthful … Continue reading
2012 Garagiste Merricks Chardonnay
It may lack an x-factor but gosh there’s a lot of good things to be said about this Garagiste Merricks Chardonnay made by Barnaby Flanders. The fruit clarity is excellent, the oak in perfect harmony and the hint of lees … Continue reading
2012 Circe Pinot Noir
I was going to post notes on these Circe Pinot Noirs over eight days of tasting but neither Dan Buckle nor Aaron Drummond came to Brisbane and took me out for a souvlaki degustation. Oh well, as a wine writer … Continue reading
2012 Circe Hillcrest Road Vineyard Pinot Noir
The Hillcrest Road vineyard is where things all began in a practical sense for Dan Buckle and Aaron Drummond’s Circe wine project. It was planted in 1993 in the red volcanic basalt soils of the Red Hill district. The first … Continue reading
2012 Montalto Estate Pinot Noir
A blend from six vineyards across the Mornington Peninsula, three in the Main Ridge area and one each in Red Hill, Merricks and Tuerong. You’d not pick it as anything other than Mornington Peninsula Pinot either. Raspberry high tones with … Continue reading
2012 Montalto Estate Pennon Hill Pinot Noir
The 2012 Montalto Pennon Hill wines are affable, generous and flavoursome. They’re more about simple pleasures than complexity. Red cherries, strawberry and a slick of sweet raspberry with a polished sheen of oak. Crushed spice and vanilla. Fruit forward, varietal … Continue reading
2012 Montalto Estate Tuerong Block Single Vineyard Pinot Noir
Not my favourite of Montalto’s single vineyard Pinot trio but the reasons for that may of course draw others to it. Such is the nature of wine. The vineyard lies to the north of the other two sites. There are … Continue reading