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Deep dark red in colour. Incredibly young; with incredibly good fruit featuring chocolate blackberry and some red capsicum (reflecting it’s youth). The palate is young and very nicely balanced, not really showing the alcohol, which is healthily welcome. Nicely broad across the palate before a long finish. A great young wine that will be a greater wine as it matures.
Drink 2010-2018
93/100 Excellent
RRP $25

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This comes from a block of vines planted in the 1860's and is a make of 800 cases.
Aromas of black fruit, almond nougat, pepper and toast. It has subtle French oak and a very attractive sort of fresh bread dough smell. On the palate medium to full bodied with flavours of cherry, dark berries, chocolate and coffee with a touch of earthiness. Seductive and mouth filling with saturating smooth tannins, good balance and a long toasty black fruited finish. A rich and satisfying McLaren shiraz of classic style offering absurdly good value.

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Published in the September/October 2008 issue

Cigar box complexity on the nose, with subtle vanillin oak. Intense fruit flavours on the full, fleshy palate with its firm acid, soft tannins and warming alcohol.

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Put this one on the winery watch list folks. This McLaren red is just spot on drinking. Seamless pure balanced and packing quite a punch from the outset, this Shiraz exudes glorious black and red fruits, with integrated oak, providing coconut macaroons as well as black olives and liquorice on the finish. Ripe smooth tannins augur well for the future. And value drinking as well. Try it with a beef stew.

Drink to 2016. About $25. 94/100 plus - Excellent.

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Deep dark red-purple in colour. Vibrant nose of black cherry plum and white pepper with quality French oak evident. The palate is medium to full weight with the aromas on the nose carrying through to the palate. The palate broadens on the mid palate with the alcohol providing a good degree of lift. Medium tannins before a lovely long finish. A mere pup now, the win will age superbly. Great value for the quality delivered.
Drink 2010-2025
94/100 Excellent
RRP $25

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Good straw colour. Good spicey nose with rosepetal and apple. Good palate structure with typical oiliness coming on the mid palate. Good acid good fruit nice touch of spice before a great long finish. Lovely and spicy, great with food.
Drink 2008-2010
93/100 Excellent
RRP $15

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Glorious Traminer aromas - intense honeysuckle, musk, allspice and lemon invigorate the senses. Subtle rose petal and frangipani follow closely. Just luscious and uplifting with lush and fulsome mouth filling characters. Long and smooth with stone and tropical fruits on the finish. Delightful with Asian food.

Drink Now. About $22. 90/100 - Very Good

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Pink Hit McLaren Vale Gewurztraminer 2007
The bouquet is not particularly varietal, but the fresh, zesty palate does have grapefruit and varietal lychee/stone fruit flavours; good for vintage. Screwcap 13.5° alc. RATING 88 DRINK 2010 DATE TASTED Dec 07

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Conte Estate McLaren Vale 2006 Rock Hill Shiraz - Not bad for an $18 wine from McLaren Vale - Lashing of rich, opulent plum and blackcurrant fruit mashing up against a spicy menthol taste. Quality 4 stars / Value 4 stars

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Blackberry, plum and spice, with a dusting of chocolate; stained Cork 14.5° alc. RATING 89 DRINK 2013 DATE TASTED Dec 07

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From this McLaren Vale producer comes this intense and deep red, with loads of spiciness and an edge of earthiness. Dark black fruits abound as well - blackberries, currants, plums with coffee mocha oak, quite forward yet with a smooth soft long finish with fine grainy tannins auguring a long future. Still in its infancy. And good value drinking. Try this with Irish stew.

Drink to 2018. About $18. 91/100 - Excellent.

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Medium-bodied; considerably more structure than the Grenache, McLaren Vale chocolate coming through for one thing, and plenty of black fruits for another, even if tempered a little by the grenache; good tannins and length. Cork 15° alc. RATING 90 DRINK 2012 DATE TASTED Mar 07

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Spicey nose with earthy cassis with dutch licorice hints The palate is nicely balanced to the alcohol and brings forward a touch more licorice while broadening nicely across thee palate. Medium firm fine tannins before a good long finish. A nicely structure Grenache Blend that could well handle some cellaring.
Drink 2008-2013
90/100 Excellent
RRP $18

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Light colour sets the tone for a pleasing cafá summer-style red, best served slightly chilled on a hot day; raspberry- and cherry-accented fruit. Cork 14.5° alc. RATING 89 DRINK 2009 DATE TASTED Dec 07

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"A big, bold, juicy wine that�s warm and inviting. Smells of sweet berries and spices and tastes of Christmas cake.

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Savoury lightly spiced along with loads of cherries, raspberries and plums, yet with an underlying earthiness and gameyness and earth ridden character. A really interesting and well put together wine. Fresh and evocative on one level and medium bodied and fruit driven the other. Ends with a tangy and vibrant mouthfeel.

Drink Now. About $18. 88/100 - Very Good.

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The 3 Generations refers to the Conte family, not the Hardy family which planted the shiraz in the 1860's. Beautifully focused and balanced: the first whiff of the bouquet proclaims its quality and typicity: the palate offer blackberry, plum and a touch of chocolate, followed by a long, fine finish, and subtle oak. Incomprehensibly low priced.
Cork. 14.5% alc. To 2025

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Light to medium bodied; spicy red and black fruits; as so often, doesn't have a lot of structure, but is easy to drink. Vines planted by the Conte family in 1965.
Cork. 14.5% alc. To 2008.

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" Lovely intensity to the aroma, with red fruits given support by aromatic spices and a balanced oak influence. The flavours are compact and rich, with solid mid-palate weight and gorgeous fruit sweetness. Finishes with long persistence and a lingering oak

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Medium bodied; considerably more structure than the Grenache, McLaren Vale chocolate coming through for one thing, and plenty of black fruits for another, even if tempered a little by the grenache; good tannins and length.
Cork. 15% acl. To 2012

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Medium bodied; more distinctly McLaren Vale, with dark chocolate running right through the wine; does show the higher alcohol, and is fractionally warmer in consequence; nonetheless still well within medium bodied bounderies, and has very good black fruits on the back palate and finish.
Cork. 15% alc. To 2020

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