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COMMENTS
Dominic and Krystina Morris are a young winemaking couple with a passion for making interesting, premium red wines. They met while working vintage in the Barossa Valley and together spent many years travelling and working consecutive vintages in Australia and Europe.
GENERAL REVIEWS
New World Icons of Today and Tomorrow" Decanter Magazine, September 2007
The term icon is often bandied about in the New World by wannabe superstars, regardless of their heritage. So which are the wineries whose reputation really does put them in the same league as the giants of the Old World, and which are those on the way there?
"PONDALOWIE - ICONS OF TOMORROW" Max Allen - Australian report
"It's only in the last 10 years that Spain's Tempranillo grape has been grown seriously in Australia, and no one has a better handle on the sheer deliciousness of the variety than Dominic and Krystina Morris at their Pondalowie vineyard at Bridgewater, north of Bendigo in Central Victoria.
All the Pondalowie wines are dense, impressive, firmly structured - reflecting the warmth and red soils of their terroir - but the Tempranillo is the star - complex, generous, spicy, slurpable."
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2008 Edition
"5 Red Stars = outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity." Only 6.5% of Australian wineries reviewed received this top rating.
TASTING NOTES
This one will please any lover of pure Shiraz. Intense aromas of blood plums, blackberries and wild forest fruits with toasty vanillin, cedar and cigar-box oak derived from the wine’s maturation in French and American oak hogsheads. The palate is rich and complex with lovely integration between the intense dark fruit flavours and fine-grained oak. This wine would complement a char-grilled Porterhouse steak, accompanied by caramelized onions and roast potatoes. Easily enjoyed now but will develop and age gracefully over the next 10 years.
OTHER REVIEWS
An elegant, medium-bodied wine with a multitude of flavours neatly woven into a harmonious whole. Simply delicious. Screwcap. 14.5% Alc - 93 Points
James Halliday - Australian Wine Companion 2008
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