Wine Reviews
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2022 Koerner Rolle Vermentino - 94 points - Mike Bennie review (The WINEFRONT)
Twelve hours skin contact which does make a difference. I reckon more folks out there seeking complexity from their white wines could go 12-48 hours on skins for such purposes. Vermentino particularly likes skin contact. Nailed it. Skinsy and super puckering, lots of lemon verbena, preserved lemon, ginger and briny...
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2022 Koerner Rolle Vermentino - 19/20 Points - Matthew Jukes review (Matthew Jukes)
Planted in 2007, this sensational Rolle/Vermentino is up there with the finest I have tasted from this variety in France and Italy. It is made in a similar vein to a Chardonnay with careful use of Slavonian demi-muids to add texture, but not flavour. This is an amazingly accurate and...
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2022 Koerner Pigato - 17.5/20 Points - Matthew Jukes review (Matthew Jukes)
This wine is precisely the same as the Rolle above, except it spends 20 days on its skins, earning it an ‘orange wine’ classification. I know that this is a famous wine in Australia, beloved by sommeliers and critics alike, but I far prefer Rolle without the skin contact....
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2022 Koerner Pigato - 91 Points - Campbell Mattison Review (Halliday)
A thirst quencher with attitude. It's incredibly lean, incredibly dry, incredibly textural and incredibly complex. In short, what you're drinking here is a living, breathing contradiction in terms. Citrus, florals and aromatic herb characters are delivered in juicy, chalky, cloudy form. It's both sour and exuberant, like a comedian...
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2022 Koerner Pigato - 94 points - Mike Bennie Review (The WINEFRONT)
This seems to be a bit of a chameleon of a wine, satisfying the turbo nerds of orange wine as much as the L platers, especially in further flung or dipping-toe-in-water venues looking to upsize their alt-wine offering. I get stuck into it a bit, therefore. It spent 20...