I decided to honour they mother, honour thy father a couple of nights ago with a dinner. Seeing as how I'd never had them around for dinner as yet.
Anyway, I'd been trawling nicks.com.au and came across the 2001 Fayau which seemed like a good buy at $29.99AU. A gift for mother's day. It got 98/100.
When I went and got it the guy, Nick said it was a steal as it was a Cadillac rather than a sauternes. If it had been a sauternes it would probably be 3 times the price. Great wine he said, highly recommended. Good enough for me.
Then while perusing danmurphys.com.au for the weekly specials, I came across
Anyway, so mum brought round the Fayau to drink. Opened it up, each had a glass. It was interesting. Lovely light golden colour. Very sweet on the nose. Some apricot, honey. Hugely sweet. A huge smack of nectarine and overipe peach I think the notes said on nicks [I couldn't figure out what the peach taste was as I haven't eaten them in years]. I picked up some stone fruit. Very complex. Quite long length. Had some interesting taste twists and turns, without being rough.
It was probably too cloying as an aperitif, I only had half a glass, and that was enough. But would have been nice with a super sweet desert. Certainly enjoyed the experience though. And at $30AU an impressive desert wine to take along to a dinner. Just wouldn't be drinking more than at most a glass at a time.
The next was the Clos St Pierre. I was not overly impressed by this. In fact if it had of had a cork I would have thought it was corked. Very thin, acidic, and literally almost fizzy on the tongue. Dad said it was good [maybe he was being polite], but I wasn't a huge fan. Was very disappointed with it. Not much on the nose, not much on the palate, even if you expected a more reserved sort of pinot.
It is a label made exclusively for Dan Murphy's by Pierre Naigeon. I also read it was in collaboration with De Bortoli, not sure to what extent.
The 2002 O'Leary Walker pinot [~$20] and even the windy peak [de bortoli ~$13], and especially the Miranda Park Norm's Pinot [~$17] Andrew put me onto I've all had recently beat this hands down. I was really looking forward to it. I'm actually hoping it was tainted [it was stelvin], though I won't be rushing out to buy it anytime soon going on the other night.