- Cheers, Randall 

'...superlative Pinot Noir which, at its best, has no equal in Australia. "...eerily Burgundian Pinots. One of Australia’s greatest small producers."- James Halliday

 

2021 Bass Phillip Estate Pinot Noir
Offer: $104

"Medium full ruby with a tinge of purple; the aromas are of red fruits, the profile lean and elegant, with bountiful drying tannins, and touches of foresty pinot mystery. The wine is lean and drying on the aftertaste. Nice elegant wine, worth a little cellaring also." - 95 points! - Huon Hooke, The Real Review

2015 Bass Phillip Premium Chardonnay
Offer: $157

Less than 100 dozen produced.
"The intensity goes up a notch, so too the richness, so too the extension of flavour through the finish. This is fresh with acidity, encased in sweet oak, prettied with floral aromas and driven by stonefruit and lime. The aftertaste adds steel and bran to the equation. Arguably the most important impression though is that it’s pretty bloody delicious." 93 points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

2014 Bass Phillip Premium Pinot Noir Half Bottle
Offer: $231

"Pinot noir with flavour and attitude and a scaffold of tannin is one thing, and this wine has all those things. But pinot noir with a ricochet of flavour through the finish, a sense of spread and run, an impression that the burst/explosion turned out to be greater than the package of the palate had predicted; this is far rarer territory, and it is the domain of this wine.' - 98 Points! James Halliday's Pinot Noir of the Year.

 2016 Bass Phillip Gewurztraminer
Offer: $45

 2015 Bass Phillip Gewurztraminer
Offer: $45

Bass Phillip gewurztraminer is as complex and intriguing as you would expect of a wine from grapes planted by Jones, and a concept conceived and carried out well by him. Before I tasted I feared that it may suffer from the over-ripe oily benaelaty of the variety, bland or  boring fruit, or the grubby small-winery scourge. These wines have none of the above; and what's more they are very texturally complex without being fat, and they are fresh and vibrant still. It was such a treat to taste them! Randall.

Tolpuddle Vineyard
Coal River Valley, Tasmania

"If ever a winery was born with blue blood in its veins, Tolpuddle would have to be it. The vineyard was established in 1988 on a continuous downhill slope facing northeast; in ’06 it won the inaugural Tasmanian Vineyard of the Year Award. Michael Hill Smith MW and Martin Shaw are joint managing directors. David LeMire looks after sales and marketing; Adam Wadewitz, one of Australia’s brightest winemaking talents, is senior winemaker. Vineyard manager Carlos Souris loses nothing in comparison, with over 30 years of grape growing in Tasmania under his belt and an absolutely fearless approach to making a great vineyard even greater" - James Halliday

 2022 Tolpuddle Vineyard Chardonnay
Offer: $102

Limited - only 2 per person in a mixed 6-pack
"Another alluring Coal River chardonnay release from the folks at Tolpuddle. It's at once full and concentrated but is reined in by a tight framework of acidity, coiling on rails of minerality before powering across the palate. Tension and detail on point, light textural phenolic elements give it a sleek and silken mouthfeel. The fruit tones of white peach, nectarine and citrus are cloaked in soft spice, white floral tones, struck match, almond paste and crushed stone and the wine displays a stony elegance and seriousness on the long finish. If we were to talk in hushed tones about what would constitute a Tasmanian Grand Cru chardonnay, the Tolpuddle would be the front-runner. Superb." 98 Points!– Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion

2022 Tolpuddle Vineyard Pinot Noir
Offer: $102

"Tolpuddle has firmly cemented its position at the pointy end of the Tasmanian pinot noir pyramid, consistently producing knockout wines that have become a benchmark for the region... lovely pure dark cherry and wild strawberry fruits, cut with exotic spice, charcuterie, roasting game, shiitake broth, amaro herbs, purple floral tones and complex forest floor notes. Textural and elegant yet with an undercurrent of latent power and intensity, a tight tannin frame and a long finish that shows balance and poise. Just wonderful stuff." 96 Points! – Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion