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9.6

Delish, el cheapo from costco, refreshing espesh after a night shift — 3 months ago

Lauren Willis

9.0

🥂✔✔ a favourite from Dal Zotto — 5 years ago

Lorry Henny

9.0

A very pleasant well balanced wine that displays subtle fruit and mild tannins.
— 6 years ago

Johnno Harris

9.2

Big and bold. Delicious! — 7 years ago

Bob McDonald

8.9

An Australian Sangiovese made by an Australian Italian Family. Not particularly Sangiovese like the real deal but it does have cherry, dark chocolate and aromas of decayed matter. I recall Peter Scudamore-Smith MW saying on our Tuscan trip that he didn’t think there were any top Quality Australian Sangioveses made mainly because we are using the wrong clones. Australian Sangiovese seems to be a work in progress. Had another bottle 56 weeks later on 26th March 2020 with similar notes although showing more varietal characters this time of skins, earth and leather. — 7 years ago

Brett Davis

9.0

Good solid wine , plum star anise taste in there 👍🏻 — 8 years ago

greg

8.9

A great wine from the best terroirs of the Douro valley, on the north-east of Portugal. The usual tri blend of grapes that gives the wine a delicate, complex and persistent bouquet. Powerful pepper and ripe plums on the nose, yet deliciously elegant and balanced. Aldi €7.49 bargain. — 9 years ago

Lauren Willis

9.0

🍷✔️✔️❤️ accidentally cellared until 2025, yum — a year ago

Ron from VA

9.1

In our binary world- this is a feminine format. Pinot weight and body with East Coast fruit expression. Nice aromatics couple with punchy acidic flow. The type of plummy acid that make the mouthfeel “float” with a grace more impactful than the actual fruit. Compelling, especially with the right cuisine ;) 1 bottle remains - target 2026? 91 pt because it’s NC and relatively weighted — 5 years ago

Connor Smith

9.5

#Nebbiolo is a surprisingly rare grape. Even in its native Piedmont, it accounts for only 8% of vineyard land. There are fewer than 100 hectares planted in the United States. 🕵️‍♂️🍇
Over 80% of prewar Italian immigrants came from Sicily and Southern Italy. Piedmont was the wealthiest and most politically dominant region. But if fortunes were reversed, could Nebbiolo have taken Primitivo/Zinfandel’s place as a grape relatively uncommon on the boot but dominant in California? 🤔🇮🇹🇺🇸
Probably not. The Nebbiolo vine is *not* for beginners. It flowers early and ripens late, making it susceptible to both spring and autumn frosts. It loves the occasional fog bath (some say the name is derived from ‘nebbia’, Italian for fog ☁️☁️☁️) but is prone to the mildew that may result from such humid conditions. Its fussiness would make Pinot Noir blush: it demands southwesterly exposure, a proper gradient, constant sun above, and fog licking at its toes. #diva
Sound anything like California’s Central Coast? 🌅
In the Santa Maria Valley, where the East-West Transverse Range bends back into the North-South Coastal Range, it’s possible. Vineyard selection still requires extreme discretion - an eye like @JimClendenen’s, perhaps.
Jim began the Nebbiolo program at the legendary #BienNacido vineyard in 1994. Production is small, but if you track down his “The Pip” Nebbiolo, it will only run you about $30. You’ll believe anything is possible when you have real California Nebbiolo of this quality come wafting out of the glass at you! 🙌🙌
🏞.“The Pip” is named after Jim’s old cellar dog Pip, a border collie. So it only seemed right to include one of our own pips! 🐈 — 7 years ago

Bob Colman

9.0

Dumb to start with but as it list it’s chill it opened up to become a soft peach, textural, tongue wrapping delight. — 8 years ago

Heath Bradby

9.1

Lovely. Quite rounded, and frighteningly drinkable. — 8 years ago

Tony

9.8

Perfect with pizza and meats — 9 years ago

Lauren Willis

9.5

🍷✔✔ a favourite white — 3 years ago

Jodi M

9.9

Just a gorgeous wine. Perfect Saturday afternoon drinking. — 4 years ago

Lauren Willis

9.0

🍷✔✔ nice smooth red — 5 years ago

Timmo Rol

8.9

Bowen Home - clean, full of minerals and fruity apple and pear balance — 7 years ago

Cara Swinden

10

Made cocktails with this berries and guava juice — 7 years ago

Andy Thomson

9.0

Clean crisp and fruity. — 8 years ago

with Cheryl

Craig Mitchell

9.0

Lovely floral nose and lime meringue flavour. — 9 years ago