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94+++ POINTS
Phillip White, The Independent Weekly
Year: 2010
Editorial: Brian Light makes this beauty the old way, with wild yeasts, lotsa lees, some old oak, and the best handpicked old vine Chenin that Lulu Lunn and Drew Dowie grow on the deep Semaphore sands of Blewett Springs. It's still grainy, like an old Bunuel movie, but finer and less agricultural than the 2006, which I pointed equally, but has the same propensity to age for decades. It has the perfectly pithy dry finish that makes the drinker
feel starved for fresh char-grilled seafood, and the darned thing sits in your mouth like a belligerent squatter, long after the eviction order has been issued. A new benchmark! (2008 Vintage)
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"I'll happily call this a new benchmark in Australian Chenin Blanc"
Jeremy Pringle, wine writer
Year: 2009
Editorial: Utterly beguiling nose of spiced apple, lemons, bread and a little bit of cheese. It doesn't slap you around the head but the aromatics are compelling and insistent. And soft.
I'll happily call this a new benchmark in Australian Chenin Blanc and look forward to its release. (2008 Vintage)
Reference: winewilleatitself.blogspot.com/
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93 POINTS
The Advertiser Top 100 Wines
Year: 2009
Editorial: "this wine has been built to show a complexity most Australian chenins do not achieve. A lively natural acidity complements white stone fruits, hazelnut and pear with an underlying creaminess." (2006 Vintage)
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"one of the few adventurously styled Chenin Blancs in Australia"
Julian Coldrey, Full Pour
Year: 2009
Editorial: "Excellent drive and continuity of line through the after palate, through to a finish that is impressively long. A really interesting wine." (2008 Vintage)
Reference: www.fullpour.com
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94+++ POINTS
Phillip White
Year: 2009
Editorial: "This is the best Australian chenin yet made. It’s complex, elegant, acidulous, bone dry white wine of seriously royal breeding." (2006 Vintage)
Reference: www.drankster.blogspot.com
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"A really worthwhile wine and one I'm glad exists."
Julian Coldrey, Full Pour
Year: 2009
Editorial: "full, intense fruit flavours that nonetheless sit within a tight, textural, minerally context. Good impact on entry with immediate flavour and mouth-watering (natural) acidity. A really worthwhile wine and one I'm glad exists." (2006 Vintage)
Reference: www.fullpour.com
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“Bright primary fruit characters in all their glory"
David Sly, SA Life Magazine
Year: 2008
Editorial: “Bright primary fruit characters in all their glory—green pear, white peach and a squeeze of lime juice” (2006 Vintage)
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"a beauty"
Kerry Skinner, Illawarra Mercury
Year: 2008
Editorial: “a beauty with upfront citrus and pear flavours, nicely balanced oak, lively acidity and a crisp, dry finish” (2006 Vintage)
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91 Points
Ken Gargett, Courier Mail
Year: 2008
Editorial: (2006 Vintage)
