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Vignes de St Pierre Blanc 2018 Wine Review

This wine review is of the Vignes de St Pierre Blanc from the 2018 vintage and the Pays d’Oc in the south of France. It is a blend consisting mostly of grenache blanc, vermentino and chasan. Chasan you say? It is a crossing between chardonnay and palomino it seems, from the Languedoc. I had notContinue reading “Vignes de St Pierre Blanc 2018 Wine Review”

Alex Russell Wines Alejandro Vermentino 2015

This is a vermentino from Alex Russell Wines in the Riverland.  The grape is widely grown in Italy and southern France.  In Sardinia in Italy, it is picked early to retain acidity levels, and I rather expect this is what has occurred here too in the Riverland with this wine’s modest alcohol of only 11.5%.Continue reading “Alex Russell Wines Alejandro Vermentino 2015”