Medium gold with hints of copper. Broad shouldered, musky, leesy aromas of buttered apple and pear, with touches of caramel and toffee. Very rich and full, showing a depth and richness akin to an aged white Burgundy, with a chewy texture and powerful, ripe orchard (candied apple and smoked pear) together with pit fruit flavours.

Deep pink. Rich and complex on the nose, showing an array of red berries, cherry pit, fruitcake and pungent rose petal scents. Fresh, strikingly pure and spicy, with vibrant cherry and raspberry flavours deepened by notes of floral, honey and nutmeg. This has real size and a rich, chewy texture but it's also impressively balanced, with equal parts finesse and power. Finishes with an exotic spicy note and superb length.

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 18-24 months through 2009.

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!

This is one of the finest sweet Muscat I have ever come across. Produced from small yields of 20 Hectolitres per hectare of late harvest grapes hand picked and hand selected from botrytis laden fruit. This wine is beautiful, refined, elegant, precise, graceful and above all feminine. Pale straw in colour and light bodied as only Muscat can be, but with such exemplary focus, explosive aromatics of orange blossom, tinned peaches, old Grand Marnier Liqueur and liquefied pineapple, it defies belief. Containing 125 Grams of residual sugar per litre this awe-inspiring natural beauty conquers the palate, intensely flavoured and yet it is so light on its feet, with admirable acidity and exceptional balance. Truly great stuff, for an unbelievably low price.

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.

A tiny 2.4 hectare vineyard planted in light gravely soils some 30 years ago, Gres St Paul has made this wine from yields of only 20 hectolitres per hectare, the 2005 Cote Sud 100% Merlot that achieved 14.5% alcohol is an exuberant, flamboyant, modern-styled wine displaying an inky/plum/purple colour, a big, sweet, ostentatious bouquet of smoke, new oak, blackberries, and cassis, low acidity, a dense, chewy personality, abundant fruit and glycerine, and plenty of flesh covering its structural skeleton. Sadly, there are only 625 cases made of this gorgeous offering made for the world.

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.