These wines just slipped down a treat, good drinking for a random Tuesday evening. I didn’t report the tasting in detail, but the Sorg VT was clearly the best wine we tried at his place when we were there in the summer. His other offerings were either boring or faulty – so many were simply oxidised and past it…
Lunch yesterday was a real treat for the Elitistreview team. Not only because we were dining at Hawksmoor, London’s best meat restaurant, nor due to the array of ambrosial wines we had to ingurgitate, but most definitely because we were dining with our favourite Australian winemaker, the distinctly charming Mac Forbes, and his delightful UK agents…
The start of the week can be a difficult time, so the Woolwich team decided to ease its passing with a few glasses of wine.
Semillon 2007, Moss Wood
This has a very grassy nose, seems very like its oft-blended companion Sauvignon Blanc on a quick sniff. There is some waxy fatness to it as well, which is more Semillon in character…
It appears an ’06 made it into our allocation of Mac Forbes, we decided to compare and contrast with the ’08.
Pinot Noir Coldstream 2006, Mac Forbes
I love the colour, it is very pale which I know would put some people off; if you demand inky blackness from your wines then leave my domain at once and go to a blog less concerned with beauty…
It seems Hawksmoor is our favourite restaurant in London at the moment; it is certainly London’s best meat restaurant. They indubitably delivered the goods when celebrating Non-Stinky Jeff’s birthday, providing wonderful bits of grilled animal. I recommend Tamworth belly ribs followed by a hilariously rare sirloin steak with two fried eggs, bone marrow and macaroni cheese…
I was awake between Tuesday morning and Sunday Morning. I thought I would manage Sunday with our lunch guests, but was so tired when they arrived that as I poured a glass of fizzy water I fell asleep standing up, dropped and smashed the glass…
At the moment no one in Australian is making better Riesling or Pinot Noir than Mac Forbes. A real treat to try these two. Bit of a shame the Lang sweetie was past it.
Riesling 2005, Mac Forbes
I would be failing you, my dear reader, if I did not admit to there being a hint of sulphury swimming pools about this nose…
Mac Forbes is without a doubt my new favourite producer from Australia. His wines are sculpted entities of well-defined personality, quite different to the general style of piss boring rocket fuel pumped out by the tedious manufacturers of over-cooked jam who seem to populate Australia’s wine growing regions…
This is a properly balanced Shiraz which does not taste very much like other Australian Shiraz wines (see the for more on this idea). For sure it is quite big, but it has a real sense of harmony which charms me no end.
Shiraz By Farr 2006
Whilst this nose is clearly quite ripe it has a very attractive edge of…
We were supposed to be having a little vertical of Annie’s Lane Clare Valley Shiraz at Hawksmoor tonight. Somehow, our hosts managed to forget them when heading from horrible, horrible Woolwich to the City. Consequently, I popped into Uncorked and scored these two…
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