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Jacob’s Creek Shiraz Cabernet

January 16, 2012
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I don’t remember the vintage of this bottle, and the photograph I took on my phone isn’t detailed enough to remind me. But I suppose the point of any given Jacob’s Creek wine is that the year of bottling, weather conditions during grape growth and whether or not Belgium had a government when the harvesting [...]

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Ladies who Shoot their Lunch 2009 Shiraz

November 4, 2011
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I first came across the Ladies who Shoot their Lunch Shiraz at a Naked Wines tasting about a year or so ago. At the time I was knocked out by the complexity of the wine. I was accustomed to Australian Shiraz that was all about big, gobby mouthfuls of fruit. But this wine was something [...]

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SPAR Butterfly Dreaming Grenache Shiraz Mourvèdre

October 17, 2011
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It’s not often I have the distinct pleasure of shopping for my wine in SPAR, and I say that without a trace of irony. As far as smaller supermarket retailers go, my sporadic visits over the years have found SPAR to be a surprisingly viable wine-buying destination – especially the relatively rare larger model known, [...]

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If You Like Shiraz, Try These…

October 3, 2011
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Shiraz, or Syrah as it is also known, is one of the most popular red wine grapes in the world. It delivers a heavyweight red wine packed with characteristics of pepper and spice. The grape is known as Shiraz in Australia. Australian Shiraz is robust and powerful, full of black fruit and with a velvety [...]

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Willow Bridge Estate Black Dog Shiraz 2008

August 30, 2011
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Australia is constantly surprising me nowadays. First it was Mac Forbes’ Syrah and now I have been introduced to a new wine region of SW Western Australia, the Ferguson Valley. The Ferguson Valley is located between Perth and the renowned wine region, Margaret River Valley.  It’s here where you will find Willow Bridge Estate. The [...]

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Porcupine Ridge Syrah Viognier 2009

August 24, 2011
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Continuing with my animal-on-the-label-theme here, you wouldn’t expect to choose a Porcupine as the most endearing or glamorous animal to represent a bottle of wine. It seems as if everyone is getting in on the act though and the more exotic the animal on the label the better the chances of someone saying “Ooh, look, [...]

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Shiraz – Australia’s Most Popular Grape?

August 4, 2011
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Ask any red wine drinker which grape they would most associate with Australia and the answer would almost certainly be “Shiraz“. This big blockbuster of a red wine grape has become synonymous with the Australian wine industry, despite the fact that it only started being taken seriously in the 1990s. Until the 1990s the Shiraz [...]

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Sula Vineyards Nashik Shiraz

July 26, 2011
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I bought this bottle on a recent visit to Cambridgeshire - from my favourite county wine shop, (the only one I know, to be fair, but it has a tremendous range), J Wadsworth Wines. If I’m honest, I was expecting novelty above quality; the only Indian wine I’ve tried before was an admittedly pretty decent Chardonnay in [...]

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Mac Forbes, 2007 Yarra Valley Syrah, NOT Shiraz….

July 25, 2011
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Blind tastings are always tricky: especially nowadays where winemakers are pushing the boundaries of what can be done with grapes in widely diverse regions of the world. So it was with a bit of trepidation when Le Meurice sommelier Estelle Touzey asked me what I thought she had poured for me recently at a blind [...]

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Manley Shiraz 2007

July 18, 2011
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This wine has been lurking in my box from online retailer Naked Wines for some time now. Not that I’ve been putting it off drinking it for fear of a wack wine, more like I’ve been waiting for the right occasion to do it justice. At £12.50 it’s more than I usually spend on a [...]

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Arabella Shiraz 2010

April 28, 2011
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I’ve been a fan of rich, spicy and  flavoursome Australian Shirazes for a while. When you’re relatively new to the world of wine, their strident flavours and  intoxicating nature are easy to notice and, if you’ve a taste for it, easy to love. More recently I’ve been exploring different avenues grape wise, paying attention to subtleties [...]

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