The Home of Renowned Tasting

I have not seen this label before but found the wine to be my style. The nose suggests that it has the full barrel ferment, time on lees and some solids treatment. It did open up quite a bit in the glass over the 24 hours that we had it open on the bench. Aromas of citrus, fresh bread a bit of mushroom and maybe a touch of grapefruit. The palate is quite tight and is exactly as the aromas suggest. The flavours linger for some time with the firm acid keeping the finish clean. A very well crafted wine.

Other vintages : 2007, 2005

One Response »

The Coborra State Forest is west of the Drumborg vineyard and its name serves an inspiration for this Seppelt’s label.

A pale straw in colour. Aromas on limes and lemons, minerals but not slately, looking a bit like a Riesling, except that there was also with some hard green fruits. The palate initially looked a little watery and almost grassy, but as it warmed it showed yellow fruits and minerals, and an elusive amalgamation of pears, melons and nectarines. Lovely structure and a dry finish followed by some pleasing lingering flavours in the mouth.

Other vintages: 2005

2 Responses »

Something from the cellar for a change and this time it’s the swan song for cabernet sauvignon from the cool cool climate of SW Victoria. I bought a dozen of these about three years ago and still have quite a few left to go.

Aromas of sweet blackcurrant, chocolate dipped cherry, truffle, mint and cigar box. A refined medium bodied palate with cool climate characters and flavours of blackcurrant, truffle, tobacco and cedar. It is light and fresh yet there is still depth and concentration here. Tannins are firm and fine grained. Refreshing finish of good length. It has borderline DMS characters for sure (tinned corn/truffle) but I find them attractive in this wine. A most civilised dinner claret and a lovely change of pace.

2 Responses »

Well I have been out and about over the past few days, generally enjoying myself immensely, as I generally try to do and have sampled a splendid range of wines including - 04 J.M.Brocard Montmains, 03 Faively Clos du Beze, 98 Mount Pleasant Henry, 95 Houghton Jack Mann, 00 Lake’s Folly Red, 05 Mollydooker Carnival of Points, 04 Diamond Valley Estate Pinot, 86 St Henri, 86 John Riddoch, 96 Penfolds 386, 96 Lindemans St George, 97 St Henri and finally the 98 Penfolds Yattarna. I thought this wine might be going nowhere but it was going somewhere … ‘get into my belly!’

Pale gold colour. Aromas of oatmeal, nuts, spice, a little cream and melon, citrus fruit. Lovely savoury smelling wine. On the palate a fine dry wine with a most attractive slippery glycerol mouthfeel. It has flavours of oatmeal, spice, melon, lemon and minerals (quite salty too). In short, a savoury complex adult tasting chardonnay and an excellent one at that. Very good length too.

10 Responses »

I have lots of riesling to get through but for some reason I seem to keep putting the tasting off and opening something else. Maybe I am finding it hard to get inspired by riesling. Perhaps I am going through the opposite of the so called riesling revival? Anyway I thought that it was high time I opened this.

Very pretty and open with aromas of flowers, talc, tangerine, orange and lime. On the palate fresh with clean orange, lime, mineral salts and flowery flavours. Squeeky and dry with mountain stream purity. Unlike many young Drumborgs this is not like kissing a mirror (to quote one of my favourites) and is reasonably approachable now. Finishes clean and long with quartz like acidity. Did someone mention a riesling revival? This is a beauty.

24 Responses »

Almost two years since I last tried this wine, and it was time for another. Initially secondary characters dominated, but it opened out nicely with plums, blackberries, earth, coffee/mocha, tobacco leaf and wood spice – a good one to sniff and contemplate. The palate showed more of a red currant character, with earth and tobacco, and a slippery silky smoothness. The tannins are fine and resolved. This is a wine that doesn’t try to hide its origins - it is all Cabernet and not a dry red. At its peak now for me, so I’ll be finishing my stash off asap, but has a few more years in the tank.

8 Responses »