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I have used this glass in this Video: RIEDEL Performance Riesling.
I have tasted the following wines in this Video:
2021 Grosset Springvale Riesling Clare Valley Australia – 31 US $
2021/2015 Tyrrell’s Wines Semillon Hunter Valley Australia – 16 US $
2019 Patrick Sullivan Ada River Chardonnay Gippsland Australia – 48 US $
2015 Ocean Eight Aylward Reserve Pinot Noir Mornington Peninsula Australia – 40 US $
2016 Wynns The Siding Cabernet Sauvignon Coonawarra Australia – 13 US $
2018 Glaetzer Bishop Shiraz Barossa Valley Australia – 24 US $
The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 – 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 – 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 – 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 – 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 – 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.
Australia is one of the more recent additions to the wine world and has grown quickly over the last centuries. When the first European settlers arrived in Oz, there were no wild vines like there like in North America for example. The first vineyards were planted at the end of the 18th century and the industry grew steadily throughout the 19th century. Phylloxera also came to Australia in the 19th century but it did not spread widely and many vineyards and regions are still phylloxera free.
There was a period in the early 20th century when Australia focused on producing Fortified wines. Rutherglen Muscat is one of the remaining wine styles from that time but in the 1950s things changed for the industry. Cold fermentations, the use of stainless steel, the focus on better varietals, and high hygiene levels in the winery improved the quality of Australian wines and made them more reliable also compared to their Old World peers. Today Australia is well-established as a wine-making country. Most of the wine is being produced in the South East of the country, in the states of South Australia and New South Wales as well as Tasmania but you can also find great wines in Western Australia and to a lesser extent in Queensland.
If you think of Australia as hot and dry that’s not entirely true. Most of the wine growing regions are cooled down by the Pacific Ocean. Some areas are also at a higher altitude, like for example Orange a region that sits above 600 meters in Altitude. But Australia can be pretty hot too and by looking at the most widely planted grape varieties you see a mix of cool and warm climate varieties: Shiraz, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc
Shiraz or Syrah is the most widely planted variety. While Australians have adopted the spelling Shiraz it is still the same grape variety as Syrah. But it has also developed into a style descriptor. Wines from another country labeled Shiraz are usually richer and more concentrated than Syrahs from the same place. But now let’s get into the wines … I have a selection here of classics and some newcomers to the Australian wine scene, so this tasting should be nice.