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Yard Dog

Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 in Australia Red, Import Red, Red, Wine

Tasting notes::
A luscious array of dark berry fruits, hints of lavender and dried spice
Color:
Medium purple with violet around the rim.
Bouquet:
Pure fruit driven style with notes of cedar and lead pencil.

Hardys Nottage Hill Cabernet/Shiraz Blend

Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 in Australia Red, Import Red, Red, Wine

Deep red. Ripe plum and blackcurrants with spice and cigar box oak undertones. Smooth with the mouth filling palate displaying generous sweet, ripe plum andbright red berry fruits. This wine is well balanced with integrated spicy oak, fine tannins and length of fruit on the finish

Tarot Grenache

Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 in Australia Red, Import Red, Red, Wine

Alpha Box & Dice Tarot Grenache

Bright ruby. An intensely floral nose features red berry preserves, rose, jasmine and candied licorice. Juicy and perfumed in the mouth, with a silky touch to the intense raspberry and floral pastille flavors

Cooralook Pinot Noir

Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2011 in Australia Red, Import Red, Red, Wine

2009 Cooralook Pinot Noir

An elegant Pinot Noir that exhibits aromas of fresh strawberry, raspberry and red cherry. This well structured wine with soft middle palate leaves you with a velvety silk mouth feel

2009 Layer Cake Shiraz

Posted on Monday, February 1, 2010 in Australia Red, Import Red, Red, Wine

Highly concentrated black fruit dominated by blackberries, black cherries, crushed black currants, huckleberries, intense dry extract and gobs oflayer-cake melted licorice. The midpalate reveals even more spices with underlying aniseed, supple tannins and minerals going into a powerful and long finish that has tons of fruit and vanilla-laced oak references to the end.

Hope Estate “The Ripper” Shiraz

Posted on Monday, February 1, 2010 in Australia Red, Import Red, Red, Wine

Huge berry fruit, spicy nutmeg and chocolate characters fill the palate.  The oak is well balanced with acidity leading to a long finish of persistentthe-ripper fruit, fine grained tannins and cool climate mint notes.  A full bodied wine.