Museum Class Sweet Only two wines entered into this class. The Brown Brothers Patricia Noble was one of my highlights of the tasting – beautiful balance, extremely concentrated and flavoured, good value as well as it retails for around $20 per half bottle. Brown Brothers Patricia Noble 2002 – 93/100 d’Arenberg “The Noble” 2002 – […]
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Museum Class Semi-Dry A class with just one entry and one good wine. Firstland “Marlborough” 2002 – 90/100
Museum Class Dry Thirty wines in this class with thirty tasted. Obviously some very good wines here with some of the better vintages having been kept back by wineries for museum stock. The newly branded Jacob’s Creek (formerly Orlando) Steingarten was very impressive across all three entered wines, with the 2002 vintage standing out and […]
2003 and 2004 Sweet The standout wine in this class was the Villa Maria “Reserve Noble” 2003 which was rich, intense and sweet with excellent length and balance. Ten wines on offer and nine tasted, varying from very good to very bad. All wines are from 2004 unless otherwise mentioned. Villa Maria “Reserve Noble” 2003 […]
2003 and 2004 Semi-Dry As you will probably note from the scores, I was generally unimpressed with this class. Nothing that stood out as being anything better than good. Ten wines in this class, and all ten were tasted. All wines are from 2004. Te Kairanga – 88/100 Villa Maria Clifford Bay “Single Vineyard” – […]
2003 and 2004 Dry The second largest class with sixty eight wines and I tasted through sixty five of them. All wines are from 2004 unless otherwise mentioned. Some good wines, but in general quite mediocre – can probably be put down to 2004 being an average year for Riesling in our two biggest quality […]
Current Vintage (2005) Sweet Only two wines entered in this class, which made it easy to try everything on offer! The Forrest Estate wine from New Zealand was very good, sweet honey and marmalade along with obvious botrytis influence but at the same time fresh and with enough acid on the finish to keep it […]
Current Vintage (2005) Dry The biggest class on show with 149 wines. Due to time constraints, I aimed to mostly try wines that had done well in the judging – hence the high nature of my scores in this class. From the 25 wines I tasted in this class, 2005 is going to be a […]
15 classes of Riesling featuring 338 entries from Australia, New Zealand, Germany and North America? $15 entry and you get to pour your own samples and you get to take home whatever half bottles that are left over at the end? All I have to do is drive 4 hours to Canberra? I’m there. So […]
I’ve written previously about a very special wine which was the Seppelt 1905 Para Liqueur Vintage Tawny and so I was obviously interested to try some of the other wines in the Seppelt fortified wine range, including the 1880 version of the same wine. The notes from the event follow … First Flight – DP […]