![]() Michael Kaye continues to strive to make wines that are unique while also interesting. The Fayat is an AWESOME WINNER, while the Meyney may come around, otherwise, it is still a solid wine. ![]() However, we missed the 2020 Chateau Fayat and the 2020 Chateau Meyney. The 2021 vintage was tough in Australia and these wines show Richie’s drive and passion! Looking forward to even more stuff!! Missed Bordeaux Winesīetween my Royal Wine tasting and the rest of the wines that Avi and I tasted, we covered most of the 2020 vintage in Paris, in Nov 2022. I thought the two Shiraz, imported by, were solid entries into the Kosher US market. I loved discovering the Aziza in Australia, some 13 years ago! I missed Richie that day, but I made up for that many times afterward. My interest and love for all things Harkham is well known. A shockingly large number of EVEN scores, which could have snuck into POOR/BAD, and only 8 POOR/BAD. We have 19 WINNER scores and a few GOOD/GREAT scores. Still, many of these notes are from KFWE in Los Angeles, so it does represent a proper distribution, IMHO. or POOR/BAD QPR scores! This is not because things are getting better as much as I am selectively picking wines to taste recently. This post differs though, this is the first time I have seen so few N.A. Thankfully, no matter how much garbage and pain I subject myself to, we are still blessed with quite a few wonderful QPR wines out there. It has been four months since my last QPR (Quality to Price Ratio) post and many people have been emailing me about some unique wines I have tasted and some lovely wines that are worth writing about. So, without further ado, the 62 wines I tasted over the past few months. Either the price or the quality pushed them to this level. This post has 19! Also, we have a shockingly high number/percentage of EVEN QPR score wines, 26 to be exact. The small batch open ferments were carefully plunged and pumped over for 10-15 days to extract colour, flavour and tannin structure, then pressed to new and mature French oak puncheons, where they were nurtured for 12 months prior to blending and bottling.First off, this is not the largest roundup I have written – there is a larger one from October 2021. ![]() 40% was used as whole bunches while the remainder was delicately destemmed and fermented using 100% indigenous (wild) yeast. Grapes were hand picked and selector harvested at optimum flavour and sugar equilibrium. The powdery tannins are firm yet velvety, like the soft glow of embers in a fire pit, and the finish is long and satisfying, with a subtle hint of juniper and rosemary lingering on the palate. There's a dancing brightness to this wine, which belies its incredible depth of flavour concentration without being inky or heavy. Rich flavours of boysenberry, plum, and black cherry mingling with hints of savory spice and a subtle earthiness. There are also subtle hints of candy characters from the bunches used during fermentation, adding complexity and depth. The is a heady scent of musk, boysenberry, and purple fruit straps, accented by fragrant notes of juniper, rosemary blooms, and a hint of sandalwood incense. ![]() This wine is an aromatic feast for the senses. Vintage was well spread out with fine days through most of March allowing us to choose when to pick and preserve stunning, natural acidity. We had a lovely cool summer, which helped ripening happen nice and slow, just the way we like it. Crazy Melbourne type weather blew a lot of the flowers away before they could turn into fruit… but less fruit, more quality and coming off a bumper 2021 vintage it helped balance things out. Budburst was a breath of new life after a long cool Winter and conditions were ideal up to flowering where things went a bit haywire. Well, you thought 2021 was good but I bet you hadn’t heard about 2022 yet! With most of the country experiencing extreme La Niña conditions, in McLaren Vale we were hit with the lucky stick and enjoyed plenty of soil moistening rain through the winter but no extreme events.
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