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Kumeu River

Kumeu Village Hand Harvested Chardonnay 2025

The Farewell—last stop, Birdies. Home for Pizza, wine, movie. #BitterSweet #BetterTogether — 2 months ago

McGuigan

Hand Made Langhorne Creek Shiraz 2017

Very nice nose, deep flavours of chocolate and a little bit of raspberry go well together.
This is a big flavoured wine with both the acid and tannin to let it last much longer, and thus will cellar for more years.
— 3 years ago

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The Funkadelic Syrah 2016

Fun and exciting - dad brought for thanksgiving. Having with green Chile stew. — 5 years ago

Dave RostkerBrian Broxson
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Reserve Levitation Syrah 2017

Nice value — 6 years ago

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Slow Press

Monterey County Chardonnay

Medium yellow color. Tropical and vanilla on nose. Oak With something I can’t distinguish.. maybe some salinity? Bright pineapple. Then rich buttery creaminess. Slight vanilla into an oak finish. Slightly dry — 6 years ago

The Lane Vineyard

Block 14 Basket Press Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2016

Full Strawberry nose with white pepper. Taste juicy red berry front settles down to a wash blueberry. Then at back of mouth intensity starts with flavour of roasted red peppers done over oak coals and finish cleanse of eucalyptus.🍷 — 7 years ago

Press Run

Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon 2011

Very good. Great bouquet, flavor and finish. Worth the $16. Definitely a repeat purchase. — 8 years ago

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The Conjurer Cabernet Sauvignon Blend

We enjoy this wine. Smooth and tasty. — 4 months ago

Rockford

Basket Press Barossa Valley Shiraz 2020

Another amaaazing wine here in Down Under. The Basket Press only available to the ‘in’ members of Rockford winery. Rich flavors expressing from beginning to end in layers of dark, ripe fruits but firmly anchored by well rounded, soft tannins that carried the experience to a long lingering, pleasant finish. We had lunch with our friend who happened to ‘in’ 😊 with Rockford hence our opportunity to taste this wine and share it with other friends who had been admiring Rockford wines for 40 years. — 3 years ago

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Ira Schwartz

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@Jan de Weerd are they still bottling single vineyard Shiraz in great years?
Jan de Weerd

Jan de Weerd

I am not sure Ira. I think they produce the basket press every year, selected from several barrels from different vineyards. I don’t think they are all estate vineyards either. But, again, not sure. Fantastic wine however. They are also making some fun wines using Alicante Bouchet, like a red ‘white’ wine and then use the pressed skins to coferment with a Grenache/Mourvèdre blend to give it a nice spicy tanniny backbone and call it the ‘frugal farmer’ 😁
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Jan de Weerd

@Ira Schwartz forgot to tag you. Cheers!

Cigar Box

Old Vine Hand Harvested Malbec 2018

Easily drinkable Malbec. Dry with a smooth finish and low acid. Will buy again. — 6 years ago

Layer Cake Wines

One Hundred Percent Hand Crafted South Australia Shiraz 2015

like a neighbor with a seductive surprise...
like strawberry on a summer evening...
its like wow, where did you come from...
is that juniper is smell...oh who cares?
great wine...
— 7 years ago

Sleight Of Hand Cellars

Upland Vineyard The Sorceress Grenache 2015

Visited the winery in Walla Walla and this wine is a winner with full strawberry aromatics and solid acidity. Can use more time in the bottle but is hard to resist drinking now. Well made from quality fruit. — 8 years ago

Hand Work

Red Wine, Tempranillo

I enjoyed this reasonably priced wine. — 8 years ago

Cigar Box

Old Vine Hand Harvested Pinot Noir 2020

Clear, medium ruby in color with a garnet rim; on the nose, it's clean with pronounced primary and secondary aromas of cherries, hibiscus, and wood smoke; on the palate, it's dry with medium acidity, low tannins, medium alcohol, medium body, and pronounced primary and secondary flavors of raspberries, dried leaves, and cranberries with a long finish. This wine is complex and intense. Overall, I rate this wine as very good. — 9 months ago

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The Spellbinder Red Blend 2017

These are crafted with such elegance.

Straw berries and slight Smokey tones, a nice nose.
After. 4 hour decant, this is a medium bodied Claret, with a elegant fruit, berry and pit. Solid backbone, small tannins, yet enough to complete this. The acidity straightforward, and long.
— 6 years ago

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Love the decanter!
Trixie

Trixie

I concur with Sharon. Artistic decanter.

Rockford

Hand Picked Eden Valley Riesling 2017

This was crispy and fresh with a fairly acidic finish. — 7 years ago

Jeff RoachJennifer Hesse
with Jeff and Jennifer

Bird in Hand

Sparkling Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir

Loistava viini seurusteluun. — 8 years ago

Sleight Of Hand Cellars

Black Rock Vineyard The Magician's Assistant Cabernet Franc Rosé 2016

Somm David T
9.2

A little Rosé magic from Sleight of Hand on Christmas Eve. The Magicians Assistant Rosé is one of better Rosés I had recently. On the nose; pink rose petals, beautiful fragrant soft minerals, powdery chalkiness and lean fruits of; watermelon near the rhine, cherries, strawberries & pink grapefruit w/ a touch of sugar. The mouthfeel is medium, rich and a touch gluey. The palate fruits match the nose. Minerals that grip softly, just the right amount of powdery chalkiness, pink roses, watermelon Jolly rancher, perfect round acidity and an elegant, balanced finish. Merry Christmas everyone ! May it be joyous! 🎁🎄❄️⛄️🥗 — 9 years ago

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