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2006 Maverick Trial Hill Riesling

Pale colour. Intense lime/ toast aromas with some camomile notes. A very classical wine with concentrated pure lime/ toast flavours and minerally clear acidity. Finishes al dente and long. Lovely wine beginning to show some bottle age development. 93 points.

2006 Maverick Trial Hill Chardonnay

Pale medium colour. Intense tropical fruit/ pear skin/ melon/ apricot aromas with some grilled nut complexity. Well concentrated wine with peachy/ herb garden flavours, savoury new oak and creamy mid-palate richness. Finishes tangy and oaky dry. 80 points.

2006 Maverick Twins GSM

Medium deep colour. Intense herb garden/ musky / plum aromas with hints of dark chocolate and cedar. The palate is deeply set with musky/ plum/ raspberry flavours, cedar/ malt oak characters and firm chocolaty tannins. Finishes chalky dry but long and sweet. 88 points.

2005 Maverick Trial Hill Shiraz

Deep colour. Intense fresh dark chocolate/ violet/ plum/ pane forte aromas. Rich and dense wine with lovely dark chocolate/ blackberry pastille flavours, savoury cedar/ spicy oak and brambly dry chocolaty tannins. Finishes long, sweet, and chalky dry. 93 points.

2005 Australian Terroirs Barossa Chook Red

Medium deep colour. Ripe chocolate blueberry aromas and flavours. A well made wine with plenty of blueberry dark chocolate flavours, fruit sweetness and fine loose knit chalky tannins. Finishes long and flavorful. 85 points.

2006 Australian Terroirs Barossa Chook White

Pale colour. Intense pear skin/ white peach/ lanolin aromas. Well balanced wine with sweet minerally white peach/ lanolin/ pear skin flavours and mouth quenching quartz-like acidity. Has plenty of flavour length. 87 points.

“Nose portends great energy with hints of talc, citrus and wet stone. Expansive in mouth albeit, resonates from a textural frame of bristling minerality, a nice phenolic lift, and natural deft acidity, rather than from any overt expression of shrill limeyness. Tightly coiled, resinous and intense; yet poised, natural and long. Good stuff”.

“In the last 4-5 years, the “Renaissance” of Riesling has been pioneered by the British wine press led by Jancis Robinson, and has been oriented around the Eden Valley/Clare Valley Riesling style. It is confidently predicted that this will be the next “boom” in wine consumption trends. A perfect match with food, Riesling is now the most sought after white grape variety.

“The Maverick Trial Hill Riesling has a lovely, pale, limey green colour. The same limeyness is on the nose, together with peach blossom. Although many Rieslings tend to have a green nose, one can sense the ripeness in this very attractive and already quite ripe bouquet. The wine is fresh, and remarkably balanced for a young wine, with very pronounced and distinct minerality. The wine most definitely displays its origins as a single vineyard wine. It is fruity and limey, but has a wonderful stonieness throughout, all of which makes the texture extremely refreshing. The wine is bone dry at the moment, which is what you would expect a mere 6 months after production, but it will soften slightly. It is very well made, with a long after taste. Definitely a top quality wine which will be eagerly sought after by Riesling fanatics. Extremely classy, fantastic, a knock out.”

One of Australia’s top 3 chefs has selected the Maverick Trial Hill Riesling as the accompaniment for his “Four Dances of the Sea” signature dish at the Grange Restaurant in Adelaide.