Central Victoria, Victoria

Bindi

Original Vineyard Pinot Noir 2015

My last bottle of the 2015 Bindi Original Vineyard Pinot. Pale in colour - almost transparent. More savoury, mulchy, Sous Bois than the tasting note in 2021 but it is red fruited with raspberry notes. Fine tannins. I don’t buy much wine these days but I do try to buy Bindi most years. I just received a mixed 6 and put away a couple of bottles of the 2023 Original Vineyard Pinot into the cellar. — 6 months ago

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Mount Mary

Quintet Cabernet Sauvignon Blend 2015

xmas 2024 wine 6 — 9 months ago

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Bass Phillip

Premium Gippsland Pinot Noir 2018

Jeremy Shanker
9.3

Fourrier x Australia — 3 years ago

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Yabby Lake Vineyard

Single Vineyard Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir 2019

Good mid palate weight and purity. Red sweet raspberries get swamped in grippy acid and savoury notes. excellent balance. Good but not great p/q — 4 years ago

Tahbilk

Marsanne 2019

Don’t know how this one escaped my attention for so long, but I get why it’s so well loved. Ridiculous QPR. At the risk of both revealing my ignorance and offending everyone, I reckon this is the drink Stanley Dry White cask (a seminal drop in my existence, and fellow Australian cheapo icon) aspires to be. Whistle-clean citrusy drinker with intensity right round the edges. Cellaring a few of these from now on. — 5 years ago

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Bob McDonald

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@October Cleveland Tahbilk make 3 Marsanne cuvees. There is this one; the Winemakers Selection and 1927 vines in increasing quality and price. I bought 4 of each from the winery. They live for ages. You might find them at Dans as well.

19 Crimes

The Banished Dark Red Blend

Ritch oily smoothness😉 — 6 years ago

Dalwhinnie

Moonambel Shiraz 1998

Another 1998! This one was more dense, strong on the nose leaping out of the glass. Very surprising, vast palate. — 6 years ago

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Domaine Terlato & Chapoutier

Lieu Dit Malakoff Pyrenees Shiraz 2019

Herbal, dry, good acidity — tremendous value on discount ($7 a bottle!!). 89+….let’s say 90 to be neighborly. I should buy another case or two. — 6 months ago

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Giant Steps

Sexton Vineyard Chardonnay 2016

This wine was lost in my cellar for a couple of years until I found it a few days ago. As a 2016 I probably would have drunk this a year or two ago. Now at 9 years of age it is a wonderful Chardonnay with more complexity and intensity. More on the citric than stone fruit side. A good example of mature Yarra Valley Chardonnay. — 7 months ago

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I dream of losing bottles in my cellar@Bob McDonald !b😉
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@Peter Sultan 😉I was lucky Peter.

Bass Phillip

The Estate Pinot Noir 2016

My first 2016 BP Estate. Powerful red fruits with a whole bunch stalky element. A typical BP Estate with that stewed fruit rhubarb type character Similar to many other BP Estate Pinots I’ve had on Delectable from other vintages. — 3 years ago

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19 Crimes

Cabernet Sauvignon

Very good, sweet, and smooth — 4 years ago

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Victoria Red Blend

I really like this. Very easy to drink. — 5 years ago

Jasper Hill

Georgia's Paddock Shiraz 2013

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9.4

Currant and perfume on the nose with some vanilla and subtle saline minerality. Full bodied dark fruits, velvet on the tongue, great mouthfeel. Tight, moderately tannic, then a smooth prolonged finish.
(Opened on my dad’s 80th)
— 6 years ago

19 Crimes

The Uprising Shiraz Blend

Delicious this is one of my go to wines. Low tanning taste, with the perfect amount of sweetness for me — 6 years ago

Craiglee

Sunbury Shiraz 2006

This is a riper style than is normal for Craiglee which is usually quite cold climate peppery. This is full bodied showing blackberry, spice, liquorice and some black pepper. Always a reliable top quality Shiraz. The vineyard is just to the north of Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport in cool climate Macedon. Could see out the 2020s in the Cellar. — 6 months ago

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Doug Powers

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Sounds amazing!!

William Downie

Gippsland Pinot Noir 2021

Currently about 5 hours east of Melbourne in east Gippsland tasting this brilliant William Downie Pinot Noir. See several previous Delectable notes from earlier vintages. This wine manages to combine light to medium weight with medium plus intensity. Red fruited with Sous Bois. Downie is a gifted winemaker working in an excellent terroir for Pinot Noir. Would like to have more access to his wines up in Queensland. — 2 years ago

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Curly Flat

Pinot Noir 2017

It’s been a while between Curly pinots. Always a joy to open one, with fond memories attached along with the pleasure of the wine itself. Despite five years from vintage, this is still young and stern but elegant. Clear lines and structure, a spicy, cedary top note amongst red fruit and firm but soft tannins. Clean, I’d call it, plus whole bunch characters. Quality pinot undoubtedly, that should improve even more. — 3 years ago

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Giant Steps

Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2017

V17. Pretty good... opaque color. Smokey nose. Substantial black cherry fruit. Black pepper, chocolate and earthy finish. Nicely balanced . — 5 years ago

Paringa Estate

Peninsula Pinot Noir 2016

A good Pinot.
Options time for the last hooray of V20
— 6 years ago

Jorge Ordoñez & Co.

#2 Victoria Málaga Moscatel 2016

At Bull and Bear w Kellie epically delicious! Number 2! — 6 years ago