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New Year’s Cheer for Yealands

The Wine Advocate’s Lisa Perrotti-Brown has just reviewed 2013 Yealands Estate Sauvignon Blanc, giving the wine an impressive 90 points. Top scores usually go to heavy reds meant for ageing, so it’s good news that Robert Parker’s publication is recognising the crisp, freshness of Yealand’s top notch white.

“Made with fruit that comes 100% from the Seaview Vineyard, the 2013 Yealands Estate Sauvignon Blanc shows off lovely grapefruit peel and peach skin notes, crushed stones and dill seed.” Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Wine Advocate, January 2015.

The Beckett list

Fiona Beckett blogged about her ‘12 Best Drink Pairings of 2014’, including Henschke’s Mount Edelstone Shiraz.  For her most memorable food and wine match from May 2014, she chose a pairing created for a Great Western Wine fine wine dinner at Allium in Bath - 40 day aged fillet of black angus beef with the 2010 vintage of the Shiraz. As Fiona pointed out: “No, not rocket science but sometimes you can’t beat the classics - and a welcome reminder...just what a good buy the Mount Edelstone Shiraz is."

A Cut above

For Wine Searcher, respected wine writer Wink Lorch posted an article highlighting the best value reds and whites listed on the website, compiled from their comprehensive database.  The website’s top red, as rated by at least three critics, was the 2010 Heartland Directors' Cut Shiraz, Langhorne Creek, Australia. Wink noted that although specific vintages were chosen, all the wines selected “show consistent good quality/price ratio through the vintages”.