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Varieties: Grenache 40%, Syrah 30%, Carignan 20%, Mourvedre 10%
Region: Costieres de Nimes AOC
Vintage: 2009
Closure: Cork
Colour: Ruby
Alcohol: 13.0%
Bouquet: Bramble, gravel and dry herb (bay leaf)
Flavour: Big body and even delivery of savoury flavours reflected in the nose. Gentle tannins rounded out this wine
Points: 87 (3+7+11.5+7.5+8+50)
Notes: Lovely wine to accompany our dinner last night. Most popular wine of the evening.
Not tried a wine from this region before. Bought for $15.57~280Kc four years ago
Varieties: Sangiovese 80%, 20% including Canaiolo, Colorino, Ciliegolo, Malvasia Nero.
Region: Chianti Classico DOCG
Vintage: 2010
Closure: Cork
Colour: Ruby
Alcohol: 13.5%
Bouquet: Dark bitter chocolate, sour cherry, a hint of vanilla
Flavour: Excellent. Dense. Great tannin. Some liquorice, driet fruit and savoury spice.
Points: Average 89 (534). My score 90 (3+8+12+8.5+8.5+50)
Notes: This came second in our Sangiovese tasting thanks to one member not liking the tannins in this and scoring it down. I thought it was the clear winner. This style is exceptional.
Varieties: Touriga 50%, Tinta Cao 30%, Tinta Amarela 20%
Region/G.I.: Barossa, Barossa Valley
Vintage: 2010
Closure: Screwcap
Colour: Garnat
Alcohol: 13.0%
Bouquet: Prunes, plum conserve (povidla) and vanilla
Flavour: Pleasant, elegant prune flavours with nice acidity. No real tannin and relatively short. Doesn't live up to the bouquet.
Points: 84.5 (3+8+10+6+6.5+50)
Notes: Interesting wine. Bought for $20~360Kc. Portugal blends bought grown in Mudgee, NSW are better
Variety: Sangiovese
Region/G.I.: Central Ranges, Orange
Vintage: 2014Closure: Screwcap
Colour: Cherry skin purpleAlcohol: 13.5%Bouquet: Straightforward sour cherry
Flavour: Sour cherry and some wet earth
Points: Average 87.67 (526 points). I graded 83 (3+7+10+6.5+6.5+50)Notes: 4th in our tasting. I thought this was the weakest of the wines we tasted with the caveat that wines were drunk fairly quickly so we really didn't let any of these open for an extensive period of time.
Variety: Sangiovese
Region/G.I.: North East Victoria, King Valley
Vintage: 2012
Closure: Screwcap
Colour: Cherry skin purpleAlcohol: 13.5%
Bouquet: Dusty, dry earth and sour cherry
Flavour: Nice length. A touch of tannin to finish with balanced sour cherry and some earthy flavours in the middle
Points: Average 87.83 (527 points). I graded 86(3+8+11+7+7+50)
Notes: 3rd in our tasting where the scores were fairly close. This was popular with all the punters.
Variety: Sangiovese
Region: Canberra District
Vintage: 2010
Closure: Screwcap
Colour: Brick Red
Alcohol: 12.5%
Bouquet: Earthy and faint cherry
Flavour: Earthy spice with distant fruit elegantly running through to a medium finish
Points: Average: 89.17 (535 points)
Notes: The winner of our Sangiovese tasting. I have now realised that this wine won a tasting of our wine group at the end of 2013 (when we had a different composition of members). I didn't think this was the strongest wine of the night and the group was split according to the amount of tannin each of us liked.
In the wine club this was a bargain $13.60 (~270 Kc).
Variety: Negro Amaro
Region/G.I.: Barossa, Barossa Valley
Vintage: 2010
Closure: Screwcap
Colour: Orange infused purple, with a particularly orange/brickish hue
Alcohol: 13.5%
Bouquet: Dark chocolate, sour cherry, (aromas of the candy "Cherry Ripe")
Flavour: Medium bodied and very even as the not really tanning to offer a taste inflection at the end. Instead, this is an interesting flavoured wine, which combines fruit that is surpassed by the almost medicinal-herb digestive like Jagermesiter or Beckerovka. There is a sourness and tautness holding this together nicely
Points: 85 (3+7+11+7+7+50)
Notes: I tasted and bought this a few years ago when touring the Barossa. The flavour is unusual and I'm not a fan of digestives, which is the flavour profile of this wine. Still, it is an interesting wine and something different. Bought for $24.60~440 Kc. Probably won't be buying more in future.
