Karina Conkrite

9.5

Super tasty, very grassy, grapefruity, mineral forward. — 5 months ago

Daniel P. Drake

8.9

The wine I have opened is the 2021 Goose Island South Island Sauvignon Blanc. From Upper Moutre, New Zealand.

On the nose there is lime, grapefruit, tangerine, gooseberry, honeydew melon, grass, herbal notes and minerality.

On the palate is grapefruit, white peach, lime, jalapeno, herbaceousness and flintiness.

This wine is light to medium bodied with a fresh clean mouthfeel medium + acidity that leaves you with a long citrus mineral finish. We now have 3 1/2 days until Christmas and everyone has all their shopping done. Please stay safe and healthy on these days before Christmas. Nostrovia! 🥂🥂🥂🥂 — 2 years ago

Michael Seely

9.3

Very age-able Chardonnay that is a full but balanced. Palette This 15 is delightful. — 4 years ago

with Jeff and Joe

Chris Bomba

9.5

2012 Iris. Wonderful bottle to save and have this evening. — 5 months ago

Jan A

9.2

Rioja night, horse saddle leather, acidity — 3 years ago

Jonas Johansson

9.1

Great with Calamari — 4 years ago

Michael Seely

9.2

2011, a cool vintage, lower alcohol, demonstrative acidity. Beautiful with poached halibut in Thai lime sauce and Chardonnay. — 5 years ago

with Jeff and Joe

Sean Lyons

9.5

I hate to say it, but this stuff really is a higher class of vodka. No off, medicinal notes. No cloying artificial sweetness. It just tastes like the cleanest, purest spring water was made magically alcoholic. — 2 years ago

Nina Zie

9.5

Semidry. Really enjoyed. — 3 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.0

See several previous tasting notes for this wine. This was made back in the day when Hunter Valley reds had strayed from their medium bodied, savoury, sweaty saddle origins to being riper and more full bodied like a South Australian Red. This was declared in a speech by Chief Winemaker at the time, Jim Chatto, at a dinner I attended at the winery. Also plenty of oak still evident at 15 years of age. I prefer the original Hunter Valley style which Mount Pleasant has wisely reverted to utilising the wonderful old vine fruit at its disposal. Tasted again 35 weeks later on 26th March 2022. Nothing to add to the note here. A Hunter Valley wine trying to look like a South Australian wine back in 2006 with ripe fruit and oak. Thankfully HV reds have returned to the medium weight savoury long living style that Maurice O’Shea made in the 1950’s. — 3 years ago