Gill Estate / Sunraysia, VIC

Unoaked, and daft as it is to say, tastes like Chardonnay!  (Have sampled many lean wines which eschew varietal character).  Toast and cashew nut flavours derived of lees work, peaches and yellow fruits on the palate, decent energy and impressive length considering its level here.  A lick of grapefruit rounds out the finish, pure and clean.

Bright and red fruited, an easy BBQ style.  Ginger and jam biscuits, pronounced but fine tannins, fruits of the forest, red currants, a dot of sweet red capsicum and a leafy element to round things out. Chillable even, a pleasing juiciness and just the right amount of tannic chew.

Bursts with red and blue fruits around a soft, bright and juicy palate.  Baking spice, blackberry jam and a slightly sweet fruited element make this a friendly style, its finish balancing out with a decent hand of savoury tannins.

Fresh and exactly what one expects from Sauvignon, minus the vegetal/cat pee elements.  Gooseberry, a hint of grassiness but restrained, giving it decent sessionability.  Bright and juicy in the mouth revealing passionfruit, a flinty edge, and varietal bittering phenolics to close.

Well made and balanced, and enough character here to push back against the neutrality of many an entry level Grigio.  Pear drops and green melon, a glycerol element giving the palate decent weight and texture, with just a hint of banana ester to give lift and presence.

100% Syrah.  Highly aromatic, bramble and red fruit.  Technically dry but with some fruit brightness, small red berries (cranberry, strawberry and pomegranate), with a speck of iodine mineral to balance.

A lovely medium-bodied iteration of the variety here.  Juicy and red fruited, blood plums, amaro/orange peel, cherries, Turkish delight, and decent length.  Would work with a light chill or ambient, a great introduction to this meat-friendly grape.

We’ve found Temp can be a little ferrous and bloody on occasion, though appealing styles (to our palate at least) pack in blue fruit and fruitcake, which is here in spades.  Violet aromatics, berry compote, all wrapped up in a juicy medium bodied package, rounding out with grainy tannins and as per the rosé, a dot of that medicinal iodine for some balance and complexity.