Archive:February 28, 2015

February 28
Between 5 Bells Heathcote Red Wine 2013

An interesting label you say? Yes it is. An interesting blend? Double Yes.

These guys do not do things by halves and certainly not weighed down by convention when it comes to blending. Nero d’Avola, Chardonnay, Riesling and Negreoamaro. Yep. All in one blend. And no SO2. That’s the funky stuff. But you know what? It really works and tastes awesomely tickityboo.

The nose starts with bright blueberry that slowly takes on a more tart complexity with blood orange citrus poking through. The palate starts pretty much the same way as the nose with clean and bright fruit up front which slowly evolves in to a dry garden herbage; think fennel.

All in all, a ripping wine. $37

A very unusual blend indeed

A very unusual blend indeed

February 28
If a Wine was an Album

Bindi Macedon Ranges ‘Dixon’ Pinot Noir 2013 & Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’

Seeing this is the first post on the store blog I think it should be on two of my favourite things; Bindi and Springsteens ‘Born to Run’.

This particular Bindi is the newly labeled ‘Dixon’ (nee Composition) and tells the story of Michael Dhillon’s Mum’s family and how they settled in Gisborne back in the 1800’s. But it is the wine that we are here about. Possibly the best Pinot Noir I have had from the top block at Bindi (with exception on a new wine being released later this year). To say this wine complex is quite simply lazy. born to runThis wine is complex but it’s the way it flows from nose to palate. A beautiful mix of tart red and black fruit, and spice and perfumedixon pn on the nose, the wine opens up in the palate with more spice – subtle cardamom primary – and mouth watering texture that belies it’s youthfulness. Beautiful.

So if the Bindi Macedon Ranges ‘Dixon’ Pinot Noir 2013 was an album it would be ‘Born to Run’. Like the wine, the album tells a story. It’s a love story, a drama, a fight for your-life-get-out-of-dodge page turner, ‘I want to die with you Wendy on the streets tonight in an ever lasting kiss.’

Seriously, how awesome is that. $54

February 28
We have a website!!!

Its taken a while, but here it is, our very new squeaky clean website. Better start writing about the blah blah’s then…