Tasting Note. Soft, smooth and plummy with plenty of black berry fruit flavours with mocha coffee and vanilla notes from the oak ageing. Juicy and fresh but with a lovely weight of fruit and fine ripe tannins. 14.5% Producer Profile Made at the Mitchelton winery in Victoria , the Preece wines take their name from Australian wine legend Colin Preece who was one of the first people to spot and cultivate Victoria's potential for winemaking back in the early 1970s. The wines are made with all the care and attention to detail you'd expect of winemaker Toby Barlow and his team and reflect Victoria's cooler climate with an elegant, approachable style in contrast to the bigger blockbuster wines from elsewhere in Oz. Jeremy Oliver described the range in his Australian Wine Annual 2005 as "Simply exceptional, especially at their modest price points." (6 x 75 cl)
Region:
Australia, Victoria
Producer:
Preece
Product ID:
47339
Preece Cabernet Sauvignon Victoria Australia
Description: Preece Cabernet Sauvignon Victoria Australia from Australia, Victoria by Preece Soft & Supple Reds (6 x 75 cl) Price: £47.48
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Preece Chardonnay Victoria Australia
Description: Tasting Note Lively, fresh Chardonnay with intense peach, nectarine and lime flavours enriched with a dash of vanilla and a hint of creamed coconut on the finish. 14.4%. The whole Preece range is absolutely flying at the moment; winemaker Toby Barlow is at the top of his game with a network of great grape growers across Victoria providing him with some top quality fruit to play with. The key aspect of the Preece wines is the cool climate nature of the vineyards that provides ripe fruit with impeccable balance and freshness. This Chardonnay is a great example with enough richness and fruit to match dishes with creamy, buttery sauces but the sort of zip and zest that makes it a delicious, refreshing glass just on its own. Producer Profile Made at the Mitchelton winery in Victoria , the Preece wines take their name from Australian wine legend Colin Preece who was one of the first to spot and cultivate Victoria's potential for winemaking back in the early 1970s. The wines are made with all the care and attention to detail you'd expect of winemaker Toby Barlow and his team and reflect Victoria's cooler climate with an elegant, approachable style in contrast to the bigger blockbuster wines from elsewhere in Oz. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £47.48
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Preece Shiraz Victoria Australia
Description: Tasting Note Ripe and juicy Shiraz with plenty of black and red fruit character lightly oaked to add some vanilla, toast and spice notes to the plum pudding and raspberry notes. 14.6% Victorian Shiraz, the stuff from Melbourne rather than the 1880s, is a touch lighter than the big boys from the Barossa but is still packed with smooth red and black berry fruit. The cooler climate means the wine is fresh and juicy with a smooth, easy-drinking style. Toby Barlow has crafted a cracking example , using grapes grown in the same vineyards as the flagship Mitchelton wines, making this a great value wine with real pedigree. Producer Profile Made at the Mitchelton winery in Victoria , the Preece wines take their name from Australian wine legend Colin Preece who was one of the first people to spot and cultivate Victoria's potential for winemaking back in the early 1970s. The wines are made with all the care and attention to detail you'd expect of winemaker Toby Barlow and his team and reflect Victoria's cooler climate with an elegant, approachable style in contrast to the bigger blockbuster wines from elsewhere in Oz. Jeremy Oliver described the range in his Australian Wine Annual 2005 as (6 x 75 cl) Price: £47.48
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Preece Sauvignon Blanc Victoria Australia
Description: Tasting Note A luscious tropical aroma of lychees and passionfruit. The palate exhibits full rich tropical passionfruit and lychees andthe a hint of figs with a crisp lingering finish. Producer info Preece was developed by legendary Victorian winemaker Don Lewis as a range of cool climate wines from Central Victoria. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £47.48
Franciscan Merlot Napa Valley California
Description: The Merlot is harvested from a variety of Napa Valley vineyards, including the Franciscan vineyard in the heart of the Oakville District. When tannin maturity and flavor development have reached their optimum stage the grapes are harvested. This fanaticism for ripeness is evident in the Franciscan Merlot, a wine that is plush, elegant and expresses remarkable concentrated fruit flavors with our hallmark supple tannins. Ruby red in colour with brilliant clarity and medium depth, this Merlot has deep, stone fruit aromas. Rich, lush and velvety the Merlot is showing flavours of fresh fruit, cherries, plums and blackberries that merge with light, toasty oak. Well balanced and structured, with a long finish this is a superb merlot. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £206.03
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Montes CLASSIC SERIES Merlot Colchagua Chile
Description: A young Merlot with some oak ageing. Elegant, refined and a marked fruitiness almost irresistible to Merlot lovers, and to those who sample it for the first time. Strong, spicy black pepper, full of harmony and soft to the palate. Aurelio Montes, the winemaker, decided to blend 15% Cabernet Sauvignon with this Merlot, to marry better with the oak, and give structure and finesse, that will also permit long-term ageing. Aged in American oak. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £94.03
Ronchi di Manzano Merlot Colli Orientali del Fruili DOC
Description: The dense ruby/purple coloured Merlot possesses a chewy, layered style with hints of cola, berry, fruit and mocha. Medium bodied, pure and impressive for a Merlot. (6 x 75 cl) Price: £92.44
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Fetzer VALLEY OAKS Merlot California
Description: This soft, subtle Merlot is sourced from Lodi-Woodbridge, Central and North Coasts. A wine which exudes the natural fleshiness of the Merlot. After traditional fermentation in stainless steel, further maturation takes place for six months in new or second year barrel. DUPLICATE (6 x 75 cl) Price: £51.92
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Trinity Hill TRINITY Merlot Cabernets Syrah Merlot Cabernet Hawke's Bay NZ
Description: The musts from each grape variety, 44% Merlot, 38% Cabernet Franc, 12% Syrah and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon, are prepared separately, and blended after 12 months ageing in French oak. The result is a complex, fruit dominant wine, with many nuances on both the nose and palate. The blackberry and black pepper nuances of Syrah, the leather and plum aromas of Merlot, the aromatic spice and red currant character of Cabernet Franc plus the cassis and spine from Cabernet Sauvignon, have combined to produce a complex, fruit dominant wine. The sensitive oak ageing has added a further dimension to the wine without being obvious. Richness and soft, ripe tannins make this wine a serious yet eminently drinkable wine. (12 x 75 cl) Price: £166.58
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Trinity Hill TRINITY Merlot Cabernets Syrah Merlot Cabernet Hawke's Bay NZ
