The 2004 Cuvée Prestige exhibits a terrific bouquet of spring flowers, honeysuckle, orange marmalade, peaches, and some lighter tropical fruits. Medium-bodied and filled with fruit yet structured, with good underlying acidity to provide freshness and focus.

A real sweetheart of a wine, the 2006 Gres St Paul Gipsy Rose exhibits a light salmon/pink colour in addition to a big, sweet, almost candied, raspberry, strawberry, and kirsch-scented bouquet. Medium-bodied, sweet ripe fruit on the attack, this is dry, and tasty, with fine intensity and flavour as well as a long mineral finish, it will provide pleasure over the next 24-36 months through 2010.

While this will not be a long-lived Muscat, for drinking over the next 2-3 years it is a splendidly perfumed, medium-bodied dry wine that is meant to be drunk before the meal or with Asian foods, it is not heavy despite copious quantities of ripe fruit, both the aromatics and flavours are of honeysuckle, spring mountain flowers and mineral notes. This really is a delicious, super-perfumed style of Muscat!

It appears I really am a push-over for a glass of great Muscat and the 2006 Grès St Paul Bohémienne is a real turn-on. These wines must be drunk within two or three years of bottling as most of their appeal is the delicacy and intensity of their huge, perfumed, fragrant noses. This wine offers up a smorgasbord of tropical fruits and lychee marmalade combined with spring flower garden scents. It is medium sweet, elegant, and ripe, with gorgeous balance and freshness.

The ruby-coloured 2004 Romanis exhibits spice and blackberry aromas. Light to medium-bodied and silky-textured, it offers sweet red fruit flavours in its easygoing yet expressive character.

The inky/ruby/purple-tinged, opulent, blockbuster 2003 Old Vine Blewitt Springs Shiraz offers up sweet scents of smoked herbs, blackberries, and meaty, earthy undertones all wrapped up in dark chocolate. Filled with flavour intensity as well as substance, this rich, full-throttle Shiraz will drink well for 7-8 years. This is a fruit bomb, yes, but there is so much more to this wine which only time will enable it to develop.
Independently reviewed by Price as the "World's Best" Syrah produced in 2003.

Bright medium ruby. Penetrating aromas of blackberry, blueberry, liquorice, pepper, and melted chocolate. Dense, sweet and aromatic in the mouth, with spicy vanillin and peppery nuances and a firm acid backbone. Finishes sweet, firm, bright and very long.

This Yarra Valley winemaker has crafted a really interesting bistro style red wine – Chianti style, easy drinking yet with a real quality dimension to it and a really good food match of a wine. Lovely fresh and a vibrant purplish red, the wine exudes dark berry fruit characters, along with loads of rich succulent juicy plum. Mouth filling plum glides effortlessly down the throat, lingering on and on.

The 2003 Shiraz/Viognier offers an exotic, flamboyant nose of dark raspberry, blackberries, sassafras, black pepper, floral honey and flowers along with supersweet berry and cassis flavours, wonderful intensity, richness, fruit, and glycerine. The long, sweet finish betrays no rough edges, a real fruit bomb, but with spice notes adding intrigue and style.

A huge, dramatic nose of Smokey bacon fat, jammy blue and black fruits is followed by a dense, full-bodied, layered wine crammed with ripe fruit. Its deep texture has now developed beautifully, sumptuous thickness, lushness, and admirable purity combine to give this full-bodied, flamboyant Shiraz a compelling character. I suspect there is more tannin than the wine is currently revealing. This is a mouth filling, gorgeously proportioned, well-endowed wine which is now drinking wonderfully well. Last Tasted April 2008