AUSTRALIAN New Wave Wines – feat. @wineforthepeople

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I have tasted the following wines in this Video:

2022 The Gentle Folk Monomeith Pinot Noir, Adelaide Hills, Australia – 48 USD
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/the+gentil+fork+monomeith+pinot+noir+adelaide+hill+south+australia/2022?referring_site=KSB

2022 Joshua Cooper Shay’s Flat Cabernet Sauvignon, Pyrenees, Australia – 60 USD
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/joshua+cooper+shays+flat+cab+sauv+pyrenees+victoria+australia/2022?referring_site=KSB

2022 Agricola Vintners, Flaxman Valley, Barossa Valley, Australia – 80 USD

2022 Dr. Edge Chardonnay, Tasmania, Australia
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/dr+edge+chard+tasmania+australia/2022?referring_site=KSB

2022 Sherrah Fiano, McLaren Vale, Australia
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/sherrah+fiano+mc+laren+vale+south+australia/2022?referring_site=KSB

2022 Koerner ‘Pigato – Vermentino’ Gullyview Vineyard, Clare Valley, Australia
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/koerner+pigato+vermentino+gully+view+clare+valley+south+australia/2022?referring_site=KSB

The 100 Point Scoring System (from www.robertparker.com):
96-100: An extraordinary wine of profound and complex character displaying all the attributes expected of a classic wine of its variety. Wines of this caliber are worth a special effort to find, purchase and consume.
90 – 95: An outstanding wine of exceptional complexity and character. In short, these are terrific wines.
80 – 89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70 – 79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
60 – 69: A below-average wine containing noticeable deficiencies, such as excessive acidity and/or tannin, an absence of flavor or possibly dirty aromas or flavors.
50 – 59: A wine deemed to be unacceptable.

A while ago, I made a video about Australian wine, and it was ok, but I didn’t get to include many of the new and exciting producers from down under. Those wines can be difficult to source in Europe, but that fact did not stop me.

I reached out to my friends from Wine for the People. One of the best wine YouTube channels out there and these three guys are deeply involved in the Australian wine industry. They have selected six wines and sent them over for me to taste blind … So let’s Veg out and see what Ripper wines my ‘Ozzie’ mates have put together Reckon!

A while ago I made a video about Australian wine and it was okay but I didn’t get to include many of the new and exciting producers from Down Under those wines can be difficult to Source in Europe but that fact did not stop me I reached out to my friends from wine

For the people one of the best YouTube channels out there and those three guys are deeply involved in the Australian wine scene theyve selected six wines for me to taste blind and sent them over so let’s veg out and see what Ripper wines my Aussie mates have put together reckon I’m so Lame before I dive into the wies I need to explain a couple of things usually when we taste wines blind on this channel I don’t see the bottles beforehand it wouldn’t be blind otherwise in this case The Courier Service messed up and broke a few bottles the remaining bottles were

Poorly repackaged so I had to have a quick look at the wines in order to decide whether we can still do this video that was 2 months ago and a hardly remember which ones I tasted yesterday also only six out of many more bottles were selected and Leon numbered them put

Them in order and they were then repackaged by someone else so I don’t really know which wines I’m going to taste I certainly don’t know which order they are in and I think most of these ones are pretty much unknown to me anyways the team from wi for the people

Prepared a short clip where they talk about the wines that I’m going to taste I haven’t seen that clip yet so you will know more about the wies than me good Constantine uh wine for the people checking in with you here Henry Noah and Brendan from Down Under and we’ve put

Together this little sixpack care package of Aussie wines that we think are really emblematic of the changing wines scene in Australia because it’s been an interesting 20 or 30 odd years 100% to start us off we’ve got Agricola uh flaxman Valley shz by Callum pal son

Of Dave pal from torbreck Fame if you actually know your Aussie shz uh as well as gentle folks so Gareth Belton one of the star star y makers out of Adelaide Hills just literally down the road Road here doing some really awesome stuff with P pretty easy variety to muck up

But he’s doing a good job Stu and no we’ve got Josh Cooper who is putting Victorian cabinet back on the map kind of taking a classical style approach but farming it and making it a bit of a hands-off modern way it is absolutely stunning stuff some of the best cabinet

You can get in this country and we’ve also got Dr Edge Peter dredge Adelaide boy in Tasmania making some amazing fin some reasing some petn Nats but he’s also making an epic Shard which we all absolutely love in that more shabes Style with a really good handling of O

Really linear delicious stuff and then it’s got two whites uh two whites that have sort of gained a lot of popularity in Australia in the last 20 or 30 odd years as we were saying first of all Fano by Alex Shah uh Fano grows really fantastically in Australia hot dry

Climate just like the south of Italy where it’s from so seeing some really interesting examples of that variety from here and then finally uh we’ve got a vermentino as well now the reason that we’ve chosen this vermentino for you is it’s a little bit orange a little bit skinsy and that’s something that’s

Really blowing up in the Australian wine scene as of late uh so that’s by kerer I hope you enjoy these wines Constantine thank you so much for trying us and uh yeah that’s checking out from Down Under ciao all right now you have been briefed and you can guess along which wine is

Which let’s taste all right let’s start with wine number one that’s the one okay that’s very light color I mean check out that color it’s really really pale this could be like a tallinger from Germany which is a great variety many joke about because it is very very

Pale I’m I’m guessing it’s not the trollinger though so pale color often points to pin Noir it could also be ganach there’s lots of ganach in Australia and if you handle it very carefully you might get a pale color like that but yeah we’ll find out so

This smells very Lively bright fruity it smells of strawberries cherries there’s a little bit of raspberry character as well I think this smells very much like Peno it’s really bright really fruit driven very light touch penino when people think of Australia they often think of big and kind of concentrated

Red wines and whites but there’s a new wave going through Australia and this is more on the lighter and elegant side on the palette it’s super freshh and Lively it’s a delicious wine you know the last Peno I tasted before this tasting was the DRC latash so this wine is in a

Tough spot I guess but it is really delicious I mean it’s very fruit driven very Lively it’s not heavy at all but it’s not simple I mean there’s there’s something to it there’s really good length and freshness I’m going to rate this 91 points delicious Peno so next up we have

Wine number two again red wine but this time quite a bit darker so this is not SE through I mean it’s really pretty concentrated it’s very very dark and dense it is typical Australian without the Australian cleansiness so there’s like bright intense fruit character blackberries Cassis notes there’s also

Eucalyptus and that is a typical flavor from Australia it’s in the air in many places because of the eucalyptus trees those Aroma compounds then travel on the berry skin and as you make a red wine with the skins in contact with the juice quite a lot of that flavor also goes

Into the wine and I can smell it in here that’s Tera for you and that’s one of the more obvious ways to taste teroa in a wine but apart from those very Australian traits there’s also a little bit of funk there I would say this is probably made in a low intervention way

With low levels of sulfites so there’s a little bit of nuttiness a little bit of wildness on the palette it’s actually quite structured with grippy tannant fresh acidity it’s not really big it’s more linear and there’s also a little bit of funkiness in the mouth after some time

In the glass it opens up and shows more complexity for me this feels very much like a cabinet Sor because of the Cassy fruit flavor the tanic grip the fresh acidity but it’s not the most classic Australian cabinet s they tend to be a little bit Bolder and richer this feels

Much more linear and fresh I think this is really good I think it’s quite appetizing structured and it would go very well with the steak from the Barbie I’m going to rate it 89 points so let’s move on to Wine number three which is again red so this is definitely not a

Light colored wine I mean this is super purple not Mega purple super purple really dark in color you can’t see your fingers through it and I love that smell this reminds me of my trip to Australia sitting outside eating some meat and drinking some awesome shiras and this

Feels very much like shiras or whatever you want to call it they call it shiras so this has like the blackberry blueberry fruit character a little bit of spice coming from bque aging on the pet it’s actually quite structured there’s a good core there quite a lot of concentration but there’s also grippy

Tenants fine grained tenants and lots of freshness at the finish I also detect a little bit of pepperiness which is typical for sur shuras maybe I’m jumping in into this too quickly but but for me this feels very sheiry looking at the wine in the glass it’s also

Really cloudy so this wasn’t F or filtered I’m guessing that this is also more low Interventional wine but it’s it’s actually pretty clean there there are no obvious flaws there and it’s quite complete I’m going to rate this 903 points I think this is delicious but it’s not your everyday Australian shurz

So so it’s a bit more yeah a bit different so let’s move on to Wine number four and that’s the first White this is really precise very linear very bright fruit driven with a little bit of Oak influence I believe but not necessarily new Oak there’s also

Influence from lease aging so I think this wine spent a while on the lease on the dead yeast cells it’s a running gag on wine for the people that Henry always thinks something is shadon and I I think I think this is shadon it feels very

Shardon esque but not the type of shadon that you normally get from Australia they tend to be a bit bigger Bolder and more Oki this is actually very lean and fresh it feels like a shadon that is from a cooler side that was picked fairly early and that was handled very

Carefully on the pad it has concentration but there’s also lots of texture and kind of comes after you emptied your mouth so the tanic rip the fresh vibrant acidity super Lively really really good you know sometimes when you use Oak with Chardon you cover up the fruit and make the wine a little

Bit dull it tastes good in the beginning but then it gets really boring after a while this is much more zesty and Lively there is I think you you’re not going to get Bor of a wine like that very quickly it just refreshes your palette after every sip and keeps you interested so

Yeah I think most of the wines or pretty much all of the wines were from cooler spots and harvested a little bit earlier this definitely seems to be a trend in Australia picking early in order to achieve the perfect balance between brightness and freshness I’m going to

Rate this 93 points I think it’s absolutely delicious is it the best Chardon in the world no I mean there’s there are other options with SH but as it is a style that is more on the freshness and liveliness I think this is just just really really good and here we

Go wine number five another white one again really pale in color lemon gold from the north this is quite interesting I mean it’s really zesty and intense there’s like lime character uh lots of citrus fruit quite intense and fresh there’s also a little bit of green tea

Flavor quite interesting on the pad it’s juicy Lively the acidity is not very high otherwise I might have guessed that this could be reeling but no that doesn’t really work and there’s good grip there I mean it’s a textured aromatic white wine that doesn’t feel very ripe so I

Don’t know it could be like vion or Wan or I have no idea I mean there’s quite a lot of grape varieties planted in Australia that AR mainstream so it could be something really odd so sorry I really don’t know but I think this is quite delicious like a juicy fresh and

Fruit driven white wine I’m going to rate this 89 points I think it’s really crisp and on a sunny day this is a great choice last but not least we have wine number six it’s a bit more golden in color slightly orange so this could have

Seen sometime on the Skins it’s not like a deep colored orange wine but yeah there might be some some more skin contact here which is obviously an element that has become much more mainstream now that orange wine is in the world and people have experimented

With it quite a lot of like normal white wine producers also do more skin contact in order to extract a little bit more flavor out of those skins on the nose it is quite delicate but also profound I mean there’s quite a lot of substance there I

Mean it smells of lemon CEST it smells of orange it has a little bit of green apple flavors coming through so it’s quite quite fruity but serious fruity on the palette it’s really grippy there’s quite bit of acidity but also body there so it’s a really interesting wine but great variety wise

I’m again fishing in the dark I mean for some reason I think this could be gruna Vina I don’t really know how much of it is actually planted in Australia maybe it’s just because Austria and Australia sound so much alike but but yeah for me this has some characteristics of grina

It could also be Zana or chasela but tricky I mean it’s not an aromatic rape variety but it’s not something more common like shardon name it has a beautiful structure and it’s made in a very interesting way but yeah I’m just going to leave it at that quality wise I

Actually think this is really interesting and I’m going to rate it 91 points I think this is not the greatest white one in the world for sure but but it has lots of really interesting elements and it’s quite a quite an interesting wine all right it’s time for

The big reveal first of all thanks to wine for the people they make great content and they’ve selected some really cool wines so you should check out that channel I’ll link it up in the description secondly New Wave Australian wines is really interesting I think there were three main themes here cooler

Sites early Harvest and less protective handling of the wine so all of the wines were quite fresh and vibrant really Lively ripe but not over ripe and always balanced with quite a bit of acidity and there was a little bit more funkiness than people might be used to when it

Comes to Australian wine so so they were less less protective maybe lower doses of sulfites and maybe more more character but now let’s go through them one by one and see whether I identified them correctly let’s go why number one I thought was a Pino and I

Rated it fairly highly because I thought it was really juicy and Lively so a fresh and vibrant Pino instead of the big and and concentrated one so let’s see it is a penino mono Ma I don’t know whether I’m pronouncing that correctly but it says p no on the label and the

Label looks like the most natural wine label possible very simple handwritten name and great variety I mean it’s printed but but it looks handwritten and yeah good stuff so let’s move on to Wine number two I thought this was cabinet um I thought it was really good quite

Structured maybe not the best wine in the tasting but but a really good good representation of Australian New Wave cabinet and it is Shas flat lboro Valley cabinet 133% of alcohol so so quite low in alcohol and yeah and this coolness this freshness really came through maybe

That’s also why it didn’t have more complexity I mean cavan needs some heat in order to develop all of its complexity and and maybe this didn’t quite have that so let’s have a look at wi number three so far I’m 2 for2 so so I’m quite happy with myself I obviously struggled more

With the the whites but I thought this was a shuras or SRA whatever you want to call it and it is a it is a wine it doesn’t say which great variety it is maxman Valley copper mine Agricola yeah I I have no idea Australian wine obviously championed the varietal

Labeling but there’s no varietal on there so I couldn’t say whether it’s a Sur I I can maybe Google it give me a second it is a shuras I was right so let’s move on to Wine number four I love that wine I thought it was a shadon and

A really well-made shadon not a big one but a delicious one so so let’s see it is Dr Edge or Dr Edge Dr dret from tmania okay Shard 2022 so Tasmanian wines are getting more and more press I never been to Tasmania so I really need to go there but

Obviously it’s further south from Mainland Australia and it’s even cooler there producing really light and vibrant wines just like this one which is just delicious so let’s have a look at wine number five which well I I didn’t know what it was I thought it was like a really nice aromatic fresh Lively

White that’s not that’s not very Master off whiny but but that was my my result it is Shir a Fano from McLaren Bale Fano Shira okay Shira is not a play with words on shiras it’s Alex Shira that’s the wine maker and this is Fano yeah I I think Fano

Is quite popular in Australia right now at least when I watch the wine for the people videos it comes up quite often it’s an Italian gra variety obviously but it seems to do well in Australia this was quite nice I liked it so last but not least wine number six which I

Didn’t know what to do with either but I thought it felt almost like a gruna Vina but let’s let’s see oh kerer CLA valy pigato 22 and it’s a ventino and it’s clearly cloudy and probably made with some skin contact there but quite quite nice I do like vermentino I mean it has

Kind of the reputation of being more of a well Bland or less L interesting wine but this proves it wrong I mean it’s quite an interesting grape variety if you handle it correctly so thank you for watching thanks to Brandon Noah and Henry for selecting these wines and yeah

Just playing along it was very interesting for me to taste them and now I know more about New Wave Australian wine so I hope you like this video if you did then please like it down here subscribe to my channel if you haven’t done so already my question of the day

Is what do you think of New Wave Australian wines have you ever tasted any or not let me know Down Below in the comment to finish this all up I think there’s even a little blooper real from the guys from wine for the people so check that out and check out their

Channel but whatever you do stay thirsty uh good day Constantine you got the wine for the people boys here from Australia you got Henry Noah and Brendan sorry sorry sorry we’re going to send him this reel of just how long it took us to to do the changing wine scene here

In Australia Brendon you start out with we’ve got ag ag Agricola Agricola it’s like it’s real late in the day here boys the elaines who do [ __ ] no that’s not it it’s not the elanes never mind [ __ ] sorry boys let’s go again we all get one ciao CIA

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