Jack Rabbit White Zinfandel Blush 2010 has lots of strawberry fruit on the nose and on the palate. A great quaffing wine for all year round!
Jack Rabbit White Pink
Inniskillen Icewine, recognised as one of the world’s great wines, is a gift from the winter to wine lovers. Harvested at the pinnacle of Canada’s crisp winter, the grapes are naturally frozen on the vine and picked when the temperature drops below -10˚C. Only a few drops of the luscious nectar can be extracted from each bunch, which is expertly guided through fermentation to achieve the rich and alluring speciality known as Icewine.
The finest and highest brix Vidal grapes were selected for this vintage, which displays ripe peaches and apricots on the nose with overtones of marmalade and candied brown sugar. With intense fruit flavours on the palate, the wine’s ample natural acidity is softened with a creamy vanilla note afforded by oak aging. Perfect on its own as a dessert, or an excellent match to fresh fruit, rich pate or fine blue veined and cream based cheese.
Inniskillin Vidal Oak Aged Ice Wine from Canada
Sol de Mayo Cabernet Sauvignon is produced from grapes from the high altitude vineyards of the Mendoza region of Argentina, this Cabernet Sauvignon is dark in colour and bursting with blackcurrant and raspberries on the nose. The fruit follows through to the palate to give a medium bodied wine with rounded tannins giving a medium length. It is a great wine for drinking with pasta or tomato based stews.
Sol de Mayo Cabernet Sauvignon from Argentina
Cranswick Estate Shiraz 2009 is 100% Shiraz, with yields kept at 4 to 5 tons per acre to maintain maximum fruit concentration. Fermented on lightly toasted French oak to integrate soft oak flavours. Stored in new French oak for 4 months prior to bottling. Cranswick Estate Shiraz 2009 is a medium bodied, deep red wine packed with blackberry and autumnal fruit. Typically Australian this bold Shiraz shows enticing black pepper and hints of spice gently cloaked in soft tannins. Enjoy on its own or serve with rich red meats or mature hard cheeses.
Great Shiraz from Cranswick Estates
Ukuva iAfrica U-Tube Salsa Blend is a dry red wine from the Paarl region of South Africa. The winemaker, Miles Mossop has produced an unique blend that is aromatic with dark roasted spices and dried herbs. Bitter chocolate and black pepper lends depth to this warm, juicy, round and supple blend of mourvedre, pinotage, petit verdot, merlot, shiraz, malbec, grenache and finally, cabernet franc. Great with grilled steak, lamb and rich tomato pasta dishes. Watch the alcohol with this one!
Ukuva iAfrica U-Tube Salsa Blend great for festivals
Cask Strength Single Malt Irish Whiskey is a fantastic peated Irish malt that will knock you for six. A gentle yet intense peat presence on the palate, this is a brilliantly balanced dram that Islay fans will adore.
Connemara Cask Strength Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Jose Cuervo Tequila Reserva de la Familia great tequila
Jose Cuervo Tequila Reserva de la Familia was introduced in 1995 to celebrate the 200-year anniversary as the world’s leading producer of tequila. Each bottle is handmade, numbered, dated and sealed in wax. Every year the Cuervo family commissions a different Mexican artist to design the new collectable box for Jose Cuervo Tequila Reserva de la Familia. Jose Cuervo is the largest selling tequila brand in the world. Only 17,000 bottles of Reserva De La Familia are produced each year, in collectors boxes designed by Mexican artists. This Extra-Anejo tequila is aged in oak barrels for an average of 3 years. The final blend includes Tequila from reserves aged over 30 years. Only the estate’s finest 10-year-old agaves are hand-selected. Only the most flavourful inner portion of the agave’s pina (heart) is used. Vibrant, with a full, mellow flavour combines floral, agave, vanilla and Cognac-like flavours.
BOX DESIGN WILL VARY.
Only 600 cases of Double Love Trouble were produced from cult winemaker Col McBryde. Made from a blend of tempranillo (50%) and shiraz (50%). The tempranillo is from 9 year old vines in the Adelaide Hills whereas the shiraz hails from 32 yearold vines from Clare Valley.Double Love Trouble has rich red berry fruit flavours on the palate with a kick of spice from the shiraz,beautifully balanced with a long finish.
14.5% Vol.
Double Love Trouble from Some Young Punks
Some Young Punks epitomise the best of New Australia. The punks consist of Col McBryde (voted Australia’s Young Gun Winemaker of the Year), Jen Gardner (self confessed nerdy yeast expert) and thirdly Nic Bourke. Like most amongst the new breed of interesting, young winemakers in Australia they aren’t moved by porty Shiraz and seek instead a sense of place and restraint in the wines, influenced by the best of the Old World and the New. Col McBryde is as unimpressed by flash-in-the-pan medal-winners that are short on provenance as he is by being hide-bound to the Old World, and carves his own niche. Yet being media savvy and having a sense of humour allows this ironically quietly-spoken but earnest bunch to market themselves outrageously and to bring a fresh approach to labelling. Expect to see increasingly alarming label sported by increasingly interesting and wholly unique wines.
Col McBryde at the Bridgewater Hall
Watch our blog for more on Some Youg Punks soon.
La Umbra Merlot Rose 2010 is a vividly juicy wine, with succulent aromas of red berries and exotic fruits and a luscious finish. Enjoy it with chicken and salads or as a very pleasant quaffer by the glass.
Try La Umbra Merlot Rose soon.