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I rarely venture outside the Barossa but the wines from Jasper Hill in Victoria and Roman´s wines from McLaren Vale are two exceptions. Astralis in its best renditions has always great structure and backbone. Tannic, firm and definitely the most Côte-Rôtie-like of the big Aussie guns for a ...

Chris gouging? He harvested grapes enough for a whopping 80 cases this year - and it still sells for much less than HoG. If it was not for consultancies, the wine would not exist at all.

Greetings from Europe / fts70

Have had too few, but another vote for Ngeringa.

Greetings from Europe / fts70

Worth mentioning from a European perspective is that there are four blue-chip wines that you can always find cheaper here than at cellar door: The Laird, Grange, Hill of Grace and Mount Edelstone. On the other hand I have never seen a Greenock Creek sell for less than twice the price at CD! Greeting...

1997 Henschke Mt Edelstone fully mature, soft with a mix of complex fruit structure and tertiary development. The flavour profile just develops in the mouth and it is almost a shame to let go and swallow. Really? Not bad for a 1997, the conditions were not great and the last Hill Of Grace I had was...