PICARDY CHARDONNAY 2008
FRIDAY, SEP 4 2009 BY GARY WALSH
We’ve since sold the house with the rock wall, as featured in the bottle shot, but I like to bring it back every now and then. Its stony presence has appeared in all my reviews of Picardy Chardonnay, and so has become something of a tradition. Price is going up and so it should - it’s one of Australia’s best Chardonnays.
Cashew cream, grapefruit, spice with some richer peach and melon fruit underneath. There’s a touch of wildness and funky barrel ferment here too that lends additional complexity. It’s fine, flinty and tight - a wine of precision and impeccable balance with a dry finish that’s long citrussy and spicy. If you know Picardy Chardonnay you won’t be disappointed with this release.
Rated : 95 POINTS
Tasted : Sep 09
Drink : 2009 - 2016 |
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AUSTRALIAN WINE COMPANION
Dated Tasted July 09
Picardy Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc 2007
Bright colour; amost attractive and fragrant wine with fresh cassis notes giving a juicy cast of the palate, supported by fine tannins and quality French oak.
Drink 2025. 94 POINTS |
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Tasted: Jun 09
Strikes me when I taste this (second time around now, first was in January for BRWB) that this is a Shiraz made like a Pinot, which also strikes me as a good thing. This is my pick of the 2007 Picardy red releases.Red fruit dominant (cherry and raspberry) with a shake of pepper and meaty complexity - vanilla oak present and correct, but well in the background. It’s medium bodied, nutty and savoury with a pleasing sense of dryness and freshness. Exemplary balance and a fair old lump of finesse…and something of a bargain too.
Rated: 94 Points
Drink: 2009 – 2017 |
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By CAMPBELL MATTINSON AND GARY WALSH
Picardy Shiraz 2007 Release
The kind of wine that encourages you to drink more red wine - not that we need any encouragement! Peppery, red and blackberries, fresh, meaty and stylish. In the mouth the balance is the thing - no alcohol heat, purity, fine tannins and a long finish. It's complete, and it's very good.
DRINK: 2009-2016
SCORE: 94 |
HUON HOOKE, Good Living, June 30, 2009
Picardy Pinot Noir 2007
From the Pannell family’s Pemberton vineyard, a lovely, light-bodied, fine-boned pinot with strawberry and red cherry aromas. Smooth and easy on the palate, its intensity belies its lightness so it even goes with steak. Fragrant, stylish, delicious. Now to four years.
Score: 92/100
Food: Roast quail |
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