2007 Touriga Nacional
Touriga Nacional is a dense, black Portuguese grape that grows perfectly in the tough, bleak country of the Bremer Delta near Langhorne Creek. Being a port grape, it has lots of swarfy gunmetal, licorice and juniper berry character - and very fine neat tannins. Despite its amazing complexity, it is ready to drink quite early in its life: it’s bone dry red for hearty meat entrees and main courses in the Iberian/Mediterranean style.
Click here for full tasting notes in PDF format.
2004 Cabernet Sauvignon
Flavours of blackberry and boysenberry are complemented by some spicy cloves and eucalypt in this very flavoursome and enjoyable Langhorne Creek wine. The palate is long, rich and full of sweet fruit and oak. There is great weight, length and balance in this Cabernet.
Click here for full tasting notes in PDF format.
2005 Cabernet Sauvignon
Flavours of mulberry and dried fig are complemented by aromas of nutmeg in this very flavoursome and enjoyable Langhorne Creek wine. The palate is long, rich and full of sweet fruit and oak. There is great weight, length and balance in this Cabernet.
Click here for full tasting notes in PDF format.
2007 Touriga Rosé
Touriga Nacional is the most revered grape of Oporto, Portugal, where it’s used to make vintage port. Its amazing depth of flavour and colour, and its forceful natural tannins make it perfect for full-flavoured rosé, as its boisterous character can be trapped without too much forced extraction. In other words, you get great flavour without even trying.
Click here for full tasting notes in PDF format.
2006 Touriga Rosé
This bright, vivacious drink is full of health and cheer. It reeks so much of maraschino cherries, raspberries and cranberries that you could be forgiven for thinking you’d just walked into a lolly shop. But taste it, and immediately you
realize this is adult lolly indeed. It’s quite dry, yet the sheer cheekiness of the
fruit gives an illusion of sweetness. Its acid is taut and natural, guaranteeing a
long life in the bottle, and the tannin is velvety and puckery, custom-built by
Bacchus to set all your salivaries flowing. It makes you hungry. And thirsty.
Perfect for smoked mackerel fresh off the coals, kippered herrings, or sardines.
Bouillabaise. Or sheep’s cheese on rye with Spanish onion rings and capers.
Click here for full tasting notes in PDF format.
2005 Touriga Rosé
Rosé. Not Rose B. There’s nothing sweet, simple or
pink about this wine. The grandest of all the grapes of Oporto, touriga just happens to make the most complex, gritty, adults-only pale dry
red for drinking young, chilled. Especially when it’s grown on the moody Bremer delta on Lake Alexandrina. Which is where we took it when
it snuck in from Portugal. But watch out. It runs off quick. It likes to play with fish.