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The 1890s brought boom years to the nascent Aussie wine industry, as connoisseurs throughout Europe and the Empire were introduced to the Dionysian delights of new world Claret by Tyrrell, St Huberts and Wirra Wirra. An enterprising family of Scots took heed of the times to plant grapevines on a uniquely auspicious block in Valley Clare, they called it St Andrew and produced forty vintages of the most sensational quality Claret until the 1930s. The Taylor family acquired the fallow farm in 1995 and brought St Andrew's vines back to life. The treasured block endures as home to the flagship range of Taylor wines, one of the most distinguished vineyards in all Australia. St Andrew's Cabernet was adjudicated.. *according to the french»
Somewhere near the Seaview end of McLaren Vale's Chapel Hill Road, a perfunctory passerine perched her pincers astride a pair of power poles and saw herself alit. Down she went amongst the dry grown branches of an old Grenache vineyard, setting the valuable veterans ablaze. The scorched site eventually came to the attention of a winemaking trio, the Messrs Leske, Tynan & Cooke, Masters of Wine and a venerable vintner, all driven by a consuming passion to make greater Grenache. Thistledown vintage very small amounts of the most extraordinary Grenache. Beautifully detailed and conspicuously elegant, their floral bouquets and graceful finish emulate the aromatic lift and peacock's tail of a prettily.. Polly & the pyre to paradise»
Right around the time that Frank Potts was planting his nascent Bleasdale Vineyards during the 1850s, an eccentric Prussian named Herman Daenke established a homestead along the banks of Bremer River, which he called Metala. The site was planted to viticulture by Arthur Formby in 1891 and became one of Langhorne Creek's most productive vineyards, it continues to supply fruit for a number of prestigious national brands. Legendary winemaker Brian Dolan took the radical step of bottling Metala under its own label in 1959 and won the inaugural Jimmy Watson Trophy in 1962. Two generations later, the brothers Tom and Guy Adams took a similar leap of faith and branded their Metala fruit as Brothers In Arms. The.. The goodly farms of brothers in arms»
Right next to the Merry Widow Inn at Glenrowan, infamous of Kelly gang folklore, Richard Bailey set up shop to service prospectors during the great Victorian gold rush of the 1860s. Rows of newly planted Shiraz soon followed and the Baileys released their first vintage in 1870. The region was ultimately infected by the terrible vine killing plague of the 1890s, a guarded blessing for Glenrowan, which elevated the quarantine status of its vitiated vineyards to a marque of the highest provenance. Baileys endure as one of the new world's most arcane and mythical wineworks, a small estate of historically significant parcels, producing limited vintages, defined by their exceptional value, purity of parentage.. The bushranger's brew»

Ballande Chalmers Chocolate Port CONFIRM VINTAGE

Chalmers Chocolate Port - Buy
A devilishly delicious accord of port wine with real chocolate, Chalmers 1528 commemorates the year in which chocolate was first brought to Europe from the Americas! Chalmers integrates the full flavoured, oak matured tawny port styles of the old world with the hedonistic pleasures of exotic dark chocolate from the new world. A luscious rancio and cappucine palate, one of the few toothsome beverages that is suitable to be served at every opportune moment, it's universal appeal will captivate the connoisseur and excite the epicurean.
A singular blend of chocolate with fine old tawny port by Ballande Australia. Grapes are selected on the basis of heightened flavour profiles, good natural fruit sugars, ripe healthy tannins and judicious, complementing acids. Grapes are crushed and inoculated by aromatic yeasts, juices are vinified until the stage when sugar levels and flavour characteristics peak, whereupon a neutral spirit is added to arrest the fermentation. Following a transfer into prior use oak barrels for maturation and development of rich nut and rancio characters, the tawny port is treated to a fusion with the most exquisite dark chocolate, an immensely satisfying, toothsome delight to savour and to share. Alcohol 17.5%
Light tawny with darker robes. A bouquet of cherry, cocoa and cinammon, plum and allsorts are fully integrated into a mist of liqueured chocolate. A rich palate of aged rancio with violet crumble in a luscious dessert wine that's fully versatile, especially good just on it's own.
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