2009 Golden Grove Mourvedre

$28. The wine is comfortingly, familiarly, deliciously reminiscent of vanilla, cinammon, berries and chocolate. Also with ansieed and liorice.  In colour it's purple crimson with a red rim. It's smooth as, with just a little fluff. On the palate it has some velvety length, just enough distance and smooth softness for me, with some depth. . A gorgeous thing. 'Will age for up to ten years'. You can't often catch a mourvedre in Australia, so this is a strange-bird-trail wine in the Granite Belt.

2009 Boireann GRanite Belt Mourvedre

limited quantities of premimu red wines.

Golden Grove grow grapes.

2009 Witches Fals Wild Ferment Viognier

Boyland Steve Cerutti
Indigenous yeast

2008 Summit Alto Spanish Collection Tempranillo

mountain image black, blue, gold, white.

very heay elongated bottle
back label has a serrated edge
altitlue is over 900 metre.
1100 vines.
cold climate  hand pciked.  basket pressed.  Paola  CAleza  Rh  = winemakerCabezas-Rhymer

2007 Witches Falls Granite Belt Pinot Noir

grapes from Bowden's winyeard near Ballandean.  'A portion of the fruit came fom ... 20 year old vines'. Will develop.

2009 Golden Grove Granite Belt Unwooded Chardonnay

2010 Witches Falls Fiano

The grapes come from the Gold Coast hinterland where Witches Falls is located (Mt Tamborine), in Boyland from the vineyard of Steve Cerutti. Fiano is a southern Italian grape, from the Campagna region. The 2010 Fiano  is very pale lemon in colour with a greenish tinge. It smells and tastes of almond (bitter perhaps) and green apple (unripe perhaps). There isn't a great variation between the aroma and palate. But it is distinctive in the mouth. Dry and attention-grabbing. It's probably best with food, like fish, of light flavour such as whiting or garfish, which it could overwhelm. For the label disagrees. It says the wine is sturdy and is in need of a richer fish. Which, now I think about it, is true: so perhaps trout is better. What's most exciting is that this is still an alternative; in fact Max Allen considers it a minor alternative white. And my favourite SA winery, Coriole, for producing a great chenin blanc, is the only other Australian fiano I have tried.

2005 Witches FAlls Granite Belt Riesling

Under the old label featuring a realistic sketch of with on boorm and in breeen, bone, gold and black.  to peak withint 5-8 years.

2007 Symphony Hill REserve Petit Verdot

The Granite Belt seems to specialise in petit verdot, as it does temp, verdelho, and other rarer/ varieties produced in Austaral

Beautiful ceellr door which produce featues a chello? as does the bale. In purple black and rhey and white bale.

Mike Hayes is the winemaker.

2010 Golden Grove Granite Belt Vermentino

Golden Grove has a textured section on their label around the GG representing the winery's name. Black, stripes of bone and white, and a dull gold for the initials. It's ok, a bit too elaborate for my minimalist taste, but could be described as elegant in an understated School-of-Fontainebleau way. Vermetino is still quite rare in Australia, so it's good for me to see it here, relatively locally, for vermentino is a gorgeous grape. It's another first for GG. Vermentino is a Sardinian and GG is run by the Italian Costanza family, particularly influenced by a 'young gun'. The vermentino is in limited release of 150 bottles which, as I write, must be reducing rapidly.  This v is a limed-white lemon-gold in colour (so it has the intriguing hint of lime), very pale, and clear. It has an orange blossom perfume, maybe persimmon, and pine. Sweet, sharp and strong.  There is orange on the gingerish palate. It's thickish in its mouthful, buttery, dry and tangy, with a long finish. It's a beautiful drink because it has some body and lushness.

But there is now a 2011, which 'will improve for 3 to 4 years'. $26.00.

2010 Zappa Dumaresq Valley Amelia's Chardonnay

Martin and Amelia Zappa emigrated to Australia 55 years ago.

2009 Zappa Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

The label comes from a scuptpure by CArole Duffy Alpha 1998

2010 Witches Falls Granite Belt Wild Ferment Chardonnay

Witches Falls has a beautiful black-and-white label, with an abstract script representing a witch and her broom. The grapes come from Ballandean in the Granite Belt, grown by  Davydd and Cheryl Westlake.
Their hand-pixked, and the wine is kept in French oak with no intentinal melo-factic femerntatin.  Lees sterring took place until bottling. So says the label. A pale, lemon gold in colour, with citrus in the perfume, it has biscuit, cream and vanilla on the palate. Its medium buttery, since it has some oak. Witches Falls' Wild ferment range is terrific. My friends enjoyed it.

2008 Zappa Merlot

From Dumaresq Valley. The artwork on the label 'features interlocking blocks' and is related to the winery generations. But it also resembles the landscape of Tenterfield. Textured, in bone and white.  Very eleganat and udnerstated and abstract label. The wine smells of plum and strawberry jam. it's a deep, richly purple red in colour and is a seriously structured wine that has a good tannic middle. No harshness at the end.