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Dear PWS Customer, Welcome to our first wine of the week and Saturday tasting email for 2010. Curly Flat is one of our favourite Australian producers and we are delighted that Phillip Moraghan’s superb 2006 Pinot is our wine of the week. We are even more pleased that Phillip will be in the store this Saturday to show his Macedon Ranges Chardonnay and Pinot Noir (as well as some older wines to show how they age) together with Gary Mills from Jamsheed and Mac Forbes (from Mac Forbes!) who will be showing their current range of exciting single vineyard wines from Great Western (Riesling and Shiraz) and the Yarra Valley (Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Shiraz). It promises to be a great start to the year! We still have some spaces for the High and Dry Riesling Dinner at Circa ($195 per person) on Friday February 12 and there is also a NZ Winemaker’s Dinner at Circa ($120 per person) on Tuesday, February 23 which you can reserve a place for. Details for both dinners are listed below.
WINE OF THE WEEKCurly Flat Pinot Noir 2006 This is a stunner: woodsy, rhubarb and sharp strawberry smelling, with more savoury prosciutto-like smells adding complexity. It’s long and succulent to close with fine, dry, building tannins and autumn leafy mouth aromas. TIM WHITE, The Age Magazine 2010 Curly Flat pinot noir has been on a steady rise but this is one out of the box. Jumps from the glass. Heady with perfume, strongly flavoured (for a pinot noir) and then keenly structured, and persistent, through the finish. This is a thrilling wine and inexpensive, in pinot noir terms, for the quality delivered. Quality cedary oak is laced through darkly cherried fruit flavour. Foresty elements. Earthen elements. Sappy elements. A stunning release. CAMPBELL MATTINSON, The Wine Front
SATURDAY TASTING AT BANK STREET (WITH WINEMAKERS!)SINGLE VINEYARD VICTORIAN WINES FROM CURLY FLAT, JAMSHEED & AND MAC FORBES I'm going to make a prediction: I reckon that before long Mac Forbes will be recognized as one of Australia's greatest winemakers (I suppose he may already be...). His wines are fantastic, and they represent an important facet of Australia's future fine wine dimension. I know this might sound a bit hypey, but I'm just so impressed by what he is doing. JAMIE GOODE, www.wineanorak.com I’ve loved all of the 2008 Jamsheed Syrah releases. If we awarded star rating to wineries - Jamsheed would have just moved into a 5 star rating. CAMPBELL MATTINSON, The Wine Front Curly Flat is a meticulously run vineyard which, interestingly, is currently being converted to biodynamics. All the wines have been getting steadily better.........the 2006 Pinot is one out of the box. Our first tasting of the year features a number of wines from three producers who are crafting some wonderful single vineyard varietal wines and who will all be in the store on Saturday to present and talk about them. Philip Moraghan from Curly Flat will be pouring his latest release Chardonnay and Pinot while Gary Mills from Jamsheed will have three single vineyard Shiraz (two from the Yarra Valley and one from Great Western) and Mac Forbes will take you on a tour of the Yarra Valley with two Chardonnays and four Pinot Noirs! All of these wines reflect both the places they are from as well as the personal winemaking and viticultural philosophies of their winemakers. It promises to be a great tasting!
UPCOMING EVENTS'High and Dry' - The Great Dry Rieslings of Europe Winemaker's dinner at Circa FROM ACROSS THE POND! A NZ WINEMAKERS'S DINNER AT CIRCA When: 6 for 6.30pm, February 23| Where: Circa, 2 Acland Street, St. Kilda | Cost: $120 p/p fully inclusive. Circa, The Prince, takes up the challenge of pairing food with wines from Villa Maria, Mount Difficulty, Pegasus Bay, Amisfield, Vinoptima, Wither Hills, Ant Moore, Clos Marguerite, Ohau Gravels, Mount Beautiful, Spy Valley and Man O' War. A sample of the seven course degustation menu includes raw, pickled and cooked vegetables with smoked yoghurt and parma ham teamed with Ohau Gravels Pinot Gris and Mount Beautiful Riesling. Please call Circa Events on 9536 1135 (not Prince Wine Store!) to reserve your place.
PRINCE WINE & SPIRITS (CLARENDON CENTRE)FREE TASTING SCHEDULE We hope to see you on the weekend, |
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