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How to Choose Good Wine

How I choose a good bottle of wine…

If you’re anything like me, you ponder what bottle to take home. Sometimes I’m lightning fast, but often it takes me a while to choose the right bottle… a good bottle.

What’s a good bottle of wine?
It’s different for everyone because everyone is different. Different is good. I like wines that smell, taste and feel authentic, alive and satisfying. They stimulate my senses, and are verbalised as “Mmmmmm”!

What makes good wine?
I don’t think good wine is about the grape variety, the region or the price tag. Sure, these aspects characterise flavour, but they don’t define quality. The quality of a wine is defined by the people behind the wine. I once heard a saying “there aren’t any bad grapes, just bad wines” and it’s just as true now as it’s ever been.

Where I start?
Regardless of my budget or the occasion I need it to be good. Putting region and grape variety aside, I focus on type and style. What colour - white, orange, pink, red? And what weight - light, medium, full? Once I’ve figured this out I can move forward…

What I look for?
1) Seek out vignerons.
A vigneron grows their own grapes and makes their own wine. It’s the whole package. They have more skin in the game and more control every step of the way.

2) Preference small and medium sized wineries.
It’s simple logic - smaller volumes are easier to manage. Producers who make less wine have more time to spend on each wine, and so, their attention to detail is often greater.
My rough guidelines of winery size are:
Small <100,000 bottles
Medium <500,000 bottles
Large >500,000 bottles

3) Opt for independent operations over corporate entities
Independent operators have more at stake and a heap of passion. Corporate entities, on the other hand, lack this love for the wines they produce, and instead usually prioritise economics over culture.

Finding good wine can be challenging. The world is filled with ordinary wines that are regularly put in the limelight. But, if you delve that little bit deeper you should be rewarded with a good bottle of wine made by those who care deeply about their craft.

If this article has peaked your interest, next time you’re in our store, ask one of us for some guidance with your next bottle of good wine.

Cheers,

Chris.

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Some Good Wines

We’ve selected 6 wines below with reference to the criteria that we have discussed above for choosing good wine. All of the below options are small to medium in production size and independent or family-owned meaning they can put more love and care into producing great wine. The selected wines are only a small snapshot of the small and independent wines we stock in our store so feel free to ask us more any more specific recommendations but for now, we hope these carefully selected wines will do the trick.

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Two Tonne Tasmania Tasting

Saturday 15th

3pm - 6pm

We have another exceptional tasting on this Saturday with a range of wines from Two Tonne Tasmania!

Two Tonne Tasmania is Ricky Evans’s chapter in the Tasmanian subregional story. The backbone of the range is Ricky’s long-standing relationships with growers on the island’s East, South and North coasts–one of whom he describes as the best viticulturist in Tasmania, if not the country–and now including a healthy chunk of estate-grown fruit from Woodlawn Park in Swan Bay.

The Two Tonne line-up skews heavily towards Tamar Valley–it’s Ricky’s home ground and is the location of his Woodlawn Park Vineyard. From this region he makes a Riesling, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, the latter two sourced heavily from home. Across the Pinot range, the use of bunches and new wood are negligible, letting the fruit, the sites and the regional personality blaze bright. These are the wines that we'll be pouring on the day:

Two Tonne Tasmania TMV Riesling 2024
Two Tonne Tasmania TMV Chardonnay 2024
Two Tonne Tasmania STH Pinot Noir 2024
Two Tonne Tasmania EST Pinot Noir 2024
Two Tonne Tasmania TMV Pinot Noir 2024

Come down and enjoy some excellent and well-priced Tassie wines!