Best?s Bin 1 Great Western Shiraz 2011
Another deadline was fast approaching and there I was grasping at straws trying to think of what to write about in this big old world of wine. In the background, I just happened to be listening to INXS? ?New Sensation? over and over (trying to learn my guitar parts in my head for rehearsal that night whilst writing this column ? who said men can?t do two things at once?). Anyway, that was when the penny dropped! There?s been a bevy of current ?new sensations? hitting the wine scene of late, all winning this or that or just being damn good, and I?ve been wading my way through them all and have come up with some of the better new sensations on offer.
Best?s Bin 1 Great Western Shiraz 2011 $25
Best?s Wines was last week awarded the famous Jimmy Watson Trophy at the Royal Melbourne Wine Show for their 2011 Bin No. 1 Shiraz. A revered wine award, the trophy goes to the best one or two year old red wine of the show. The same wine also won the inaugural Trevor Mast Trophy for ?Best Shiraz?. It?s been well documented in this column that I?m a fan of the region?s Shiraz and Best?s wines too, and the Bin 1 is an excellent introduction to the regional style ? easy drinking, medium-bodied with brooding layers of concentrated plummy black fruits, dark chocolate, pepper and spice. The feel is elegant, rather than powerful and makes for great drinking now, but this wine will continue to develop over the next 15-20 years and with this big trophy win, it won?t be around long!
Dog Point Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2012 $27
Dog Point is the creation of the former owners of Cloudy Bay, who took that label to the dizzy heights of world recognition and renown before cashing in and setting up Dog Point. Right from their first release, this wine has been all about class with this latest instalment possibly raising the bar in terms of precision, balance and finesse. The feel is textural, yet there?s a fine thread of minerality supporting the overall structure which has all the obvious condiments: herbaceousness, ripe passionfruit and so on. It?s all held in check in the background as a complex nuance leaving room for other flavour complexities to raise their heads for recognition like grapefruit, citrus and apple. And yet it?s not even about the individual flavour profiles. It?s something much deeper still. The overall picture of the wine tells the story of an outstanding and complete wine that shows off the true capabilities and quality of classy ?New World? sauvignon blanc.
Valli Gibbston Vineyard Central Otago Pinot Noir 2009 $65
Popped in to ?Pinot Palooza? last Monday for the big Pinot Noir tasting extravaganza and was (again) mightily impressed with this wine. The Central Otago region can produce truly fascinating pinot noir and winemaker Grant Taylor from Valli prefers to focus on the sub regional traits to be found within the region, and this wine sourced from the Gibbston Vineyard shows a beautifully poised, perfumed wine with fragrant floral and spice aromatics, and rich, complex textural dark fruits fleshing out the palate with silky elegance and finesse ? all hallmarks of great pinot noir. No wonder then that the soon to be released 2010 version won the trophy at the prestigious London International Wine & Spirits Competition earlier this month.
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