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Blank Bottle Orbitofrontal Cortex 2016
Orbitofrontal Cortex is named after the part of your brain where conscious decisions are made. It's fair to expect great things with a wine made as the consciously selected best of the best....!
On the nose, we have layers of sun dried hay, tonnes of sweet conference pears, baked apples, even some fresh crunchy green apple acidity. It's an intricately put together number, but no fear, if you like your whites with texture, crunch, ripe fruit and with a story, then this is for you.
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Available for next /same day delivery White - 12.5% South africa - Western cape Grape: Chenin blanc,grenache blanc,semillon,fernao pires,clairette blanche
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Thorne and Daughters "Rocking Horse" 2016
This multi-regional white blend takes its name from the wooden rocking horse that John lovingly made for his daughters out of old oak barrel staves.
"John Seccombe has been producing some lovely, quite cerebral wines since his debut in 2013, cut from a similar cloth as his friend Chris Alheit (both winemakers are members of the Zoo Biscuit collective). These are not meant to seduce you with overt, conspicuous flavors. They are more textural, subtle wines whose attributes seem to creep up on you. Quantities are extremely small, but they are very reasonably priced considering the care and quality that goes into them." Neal Martin
Tasting note: Honeysuckle, sweet meadow herbs, pear and fennel. Leesy, creme anglaise and tangerine peel. Totally entrancing.
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Available for next /same day delivery White - 13% South africa - Swartland Grape: Chardonnay,chenin blanc,roussanne,semillon,viura,clairette blanche
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BK Wines 'Skin 'n' Bones' White, Adelaide Hills 2016
A new arrival from our favourite Adelaide Hills winery! This wine is 98% Savagnin (not to be confused with Sauvignon!), a lesser-seen variety whose best expression in its native France can be found in the Jura. The juice sits on its skins for one month before going into barrel for natural malolactic fermentation to occur. It retains wonderful freshness while delivering a fanfare of baked apples, honey-roast pears, camomile, dried apricots, orange peel, peaches and cream, and a decidedly herbal perfume of fresh oregano, sage and a hint of fennel. An uplifting, singing acidity adds brightness to the otherwise soft and round palate, making for a lip-smackingly good, dangerously gluggable summer gem. Resist the temptation to drink it all at once though - this wine demands good company and at leat one full evening of deep contemplation.
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Available for next /same day delivery White - 14% Australia - Adelaide hills Grape: Savagnin
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Condrieu 'Les Vallins', Domaine Blanc Christophe 2016
It's more restrained than the 2014 when we first encountered it, in Spring 2016, but with a few more months it will develop richer flavours. I think the 2016 is a finer wine than the 2014, and overall a better balanced wine, and its evolution will be slower meaning it will keep for longer.
Delicate at first, but as you swirl the glass the aromas of apricot, peach, herbs and pollen notes begin to come out and captivate. As it opens the fruits become more pronounced on the palate. The texture (think finest down pillow) and concentration, a bit like a fine Barsac, is sufficient that you feel the density in your mouth, the beautiful lingering stone fruit flavours. It will develop in richness and flavour over the next 12 months, but retain its freshness and purity. I'll be sneaking a bottle for Christmas but it will probably be at its best from summer 2018 for 2 to 3 years.
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Available for next /same day delivery White - 12.5% France - Condrieu Grape: Viognier
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low stock 11 units
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Kutch Chardonnay, Sonoma Coast 2015
'Killer' (Rajat Parr), 'Stunner' (Jamie Goode), 'Unmissable' (Richard Hemming) - the inaugural 2014 vintage of Jamie Kutch's Chardonnay was a unanimous, Coche-Dury referencing success. All critics were agreed that the man nailed it, producing a flinty, cool Sonoma Coast Chardonnay that hit all the right notes and then came on for a couple of encores and played them all perfectly again.
Here we have the 2015 and, by the beard of Zeus, he's done it again. Huge scores and avalanche of superlatives from critics; his reputation as the best Chardonnay producer in California more or less assured; and the wine itself - quite possibly flawless. What can one say? Clearly, whether it's Pinot or Chardonnay, Jamie Kutch is a winemaker to be reckoned with. This is electrifying Chardy. Yields were markedly low in Sonoma in 2015, so, as you can imagine, supplies are very limited, but it's worth going that extra mile for. In Cali terms, it's a pretty much in a league of its own.
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Available for next /same day delivery White - 12.5% Usa - Sonoma county Grape: Chardonnay
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