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2006 Shelmerdine Cabernet Sauvignon

November 9, 2010
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A wine that does everything you’d require it to, Shelmerdine‘s Cabernet Sauvignon is a formidable beast worthy of the name Cab Sav and living up to all the expectations of strength and structure you’d have for such a wine from Australia – a land where they certainly know how to breed a hearty red. A [...]

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2004 Monte Schiavo Conti Cortesi Conero Rosso Montepulciano

October 19, 2010
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I just want to kick things off here by holding my hands up and saying ‘Yes, I am a racist – I am predisposed to dislike Italian wines‘. Truly, I don’t know whether it’s a problem with me or a problem with them. My introduction to the wine world was primarily through the big flavours [...]

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Nostros Reserva 2009 Pinot Noir

August 25, 2010
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Nostros apparently means “ours” in Spanish, so the fact that these Chileans decided to name their wines thus is vaguely reminiscent of Alan Partridge‘s “mildly cretinous”

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