Category Archives: Shiraz

Sam Scapari may not be the most widely known of winemakers in Australia but you really need to find his wines and try them.  He knows what he’s doing and he knows how to treat good fruit. I have tried … Continue reading →

  I’m not quite sure how to put this.  Picking this wine was a great idea but difficult at the same time. A great idea because it is a damn good wine.  Difficult because, and only because, it was my … Continue reading →

I am one lucky duck.  Knowing I have to go to work tomorrow, I had to find something to drink that was a no fuss, no bother, grab-it-open-it-have-a-glass-with-dinner type of wine.  Tadaaah! True story this.  I walked into my wine … Continue reading →

I’m sure I would’ve have mentioned the talented winemaker, Rebecca Willson, at Bremerton by now.  I’m on their mailing list and get there wines delivered relatively regularly and drink the wines too regularly. This was in the last box that … Continue reading →

Switch on…now!!  That’s what the label tells you to do and precisely what happened when I opened then poured this wine.  No muckin’ about with this Barossa Shiraz I gotta say. Straight up it gives you what you would expect, … Continue reading →

  I tried find out what the middle initial stands for in S C Pannell but I lucked out.  I’m going to say, Collector.  Collector of awards. The fact his wine won the 2014 JWT and in 2015 he was … Continue reading →

The label tells you pretty much everything you need to know about this wine.  “Crushed 24/3/14, 50% whole bunch, wild ferment, 25 days on skins, into barrel (100% French oak with 17% new) 21/4/14 for seven months, out of barrel … Continue reading →

Let’s be honest.  Sometimes, when you pay $15 for a young Shiraz, your expectations are not high. They can be a thin, fruit bomb of a wine that hangs around as long as Clive Palmer in an administrators meeting about … Continue reading →

When it comes to the Australian wine industry there are some names that everybody is familiar with.  Seppelt is one of those names.  If you haven’t heard of them, you must be living in a Tibetan monastery (and probably wouldn’t … Continue reading →