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Review	Product Name	Vintage	Rating	Date Sort ascending
Pewsey Vale Vineyard - Wine Speed	Pewsey Vale Contours Riesling	2012	94	Apr-2019
Review “It’s a testament to this extraordinary bone-dry riesling that it’s aged five years before release from the winery. And extraordinary is the right word. Crystalline flavors so precise they take your breath away. Waves of lime, brioche, and exotic spices like cardamom, plus a wet rocky minerality. Australia is well known for dry rieslings of ravishing freshness—especially the Eden and Clare Valleys. Pewsey Vale’s ‘The Contours’ has off-the-charts freshness, as well as layers and layers of complexity. If you’ve never had great New World dry riesling, this is your moment and the wine is a superb deal given the quality.”
Pewsey Vale Vineyard - Wine Speed	Pewsey Vale Riesling	2017		Apr-2019
Review “This is the baby sister of Pewsey Vale’s more expensive riesling called The Contours. This one’s floral, crisp, and terrifically lemony.”
Henschke - Wine Speed	Henschke Mount Edelstone	2013	93	Feb-2019
Review “For anyone who knows Australian wine, the name Henschke is magic. The ‘Mount Edelstone’ has cooling flavors of forest, cedar, and pine, plus licorice and peppery spiced red fruits. Satisfying and savory. From ungrafted ‘centenarian’ vines over 100 years old.”
Vasse Felix - Wine Speed	Vasse Felix Premier Chardonnay	2013	92	Feb-2019
Review “Rich earthiness in perfect counterpoint to a terrific sense of tension that comes from acidity. Wonderful balance and refinement plus a complex bouquet from just a bit of age.”
Vasse Felix - Wine Speed	Vasse Felix Tom Cullity	2014	95	Feb-2019
Review “Get ready for a long ride. Along the way, there’s sage and menthol, cassis and cranberry, black pepper and graphite; all coming in slow waves. It is, above all, a wine of great classic balance with a fine tannic structure reminiscent of top Bordeaux blends. Thomas Cullity was the founder of Vasse Felix, one of the pioneering estates of Margaret River.”
Yalumba - Wine Speed	Yalumba The Cigar Cabernet Sauvignon	2015	93	Feb-2019
Review “’The Cigar’ is named after the famous cigar-shaped strip of terra rossa soil (red clay over limestone) in Coonawarra from which many of the great cabs come. There’s a soaring tannin structure here (much like Napa cabernet) but the flavors are wholly Oz: juicy boysenberry, camphor, spiced tart cranberries plus a wonderful minerality. A grilled steak is in order.”
Yalumba - Wine Speed	Yalumba The Signature Cabernet Sauvignon & Shiraz	2014	94	Feb-2019
Review “The best Barossa wines are usually densely packed with flavor, and ‘The Signature’ is. Imagine a kaleidoscope of raspberry sauce, vanilla, cracked pepper, espresso, graphite, pipe tobacco, and minerals. Tasting this wine, flavors were coming so quickly, I could barely write them down fast enough. Cabernet’s structure meets shirazes’ soft center.”
Klein Constantia - Wine Speed	Vin De Constance	2013	98	Feb-2017
Review “It’s hard to express just how devastatingly good—drop dead gorgeous—this wine is. A sweeping uplift of flavor that explodes in the mind. As if every pear, apricot, and orange in the world were reduced to atomic density. The key to a great sweet wine is an underlying sculpture of fresh acidity, so that the wine has energy. Unlike, say, most Sauternes, Vin de Constance is not unctuous. It’s a brilliant whirlwind that you should drink by itself some wonderful evening before dinner—which is how it has been drunk for centuries. Founded in 1685, Constantia is South Africa’s most famous winery.”

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