Posted on 3rd November 2025. Mayford Tempranillo always has flavour and composure but it’s the structure that always seduces me.It wouldn’t be hard to call this release perfect. Certainly the integration of the various components is elite. It’s pure of fruit, polished, comes awash with dry, fine, sandy tannin and pushes long through the finish. […]
Posted on 1st November 2025. This was tasted at the winery as part of a vertical tasting of Mayford Tempranillo, hence the shorter note. The quality though is clearly right up there.This is such an exuberant release. Brilliant fruit, florals, cocoa. Texture, freshness, oomph. Complete. This is the most balanced and impressive of tempranillos. It […]
Posted on 31 October 2025. This will be great with a few more years under its belt. Eleana Anderson considers this one of the best wines she’s made and it’s not hard to see why. It’s effusive, it’s deep, it’s plush and it lingers. It carries a wide spread of fine-grained tannin too, which complement […]
Posted on 31 October 2025. This is a wonderful chardonnay in the making. It’s tight, flavoursome, characterful and – in an elegant context – powerful. It tastes of pears, bacon, yellow peach, cedar and crunchy apples, with almond paste and tonic water as whispers. Texture; it has plenty. Length; to burn. There’s a lemonade note […]
Posted on 30 October 2025. This wine looks both very young and very good. It’s a wine of finesse, and flavour, and polish, and finish. It shows more cherries than plums, more spice than toast, more delicacy than oomph. And yet it comfortably fills the mouth with flavour, and comes with highlights of orange rind […]
Posted on 30 October 2025. I visited Mayford recently and was fortunate enough to taste through a lot of back vintages and my all-over impression is that this estate – which I’ve always rated highly – operates at another level above my own previous estimations. These wines, across the range, age brilliantly.This wine will become […]
This was grown on the Souter’s Vineyard, recently sold, which is/was in Rosewhite, in the beautifully named Happy Valley. It’s a stunning valley and a very good (and interesting) vineyard; it is home to the oldest cabernet vines in the Alpine Valleys region (planted in the 1980s I think). There’s always been a fair hit […]
The framework here is substantial. So too the flesh. This is a wine of meat, bones, stuffing and gravy. It tastes of scorched black cherries, chicory, woodsmoke and cedar, though sweet spice and kirsch notes get guernseys too. The flavour here may be bold, and polished, but folded within it are arms of muscular tannin, […]
Essentially a blend of cabernet (sauvignon) and tempranillo though I believe that there’s some malbec included in this release. If you’re into the cellaring of wine, and you enjoy traditional Australian red styles, then this wine is money in the bank. The tempranillo aspect may not be so traditional, granted, but the bold style of […]
Some wines, from the first sip, just seem to say: I’ve got this. This is one of them. It has a brooding depth, lots of top notes and all the gaps filled in between. It tastes of black cherry and plum, blueberry and ground coffee, sweet spice, cream and fragrant herbs. It hits and it […]
