Hello Shiraz Lovers If you’re like us, by now you’re becoming accustomed to the new norm of hunkering down at home to stay COVID-safe. It’s not ideal — but it’s not all bad either. Because opportunities for dining out are rarer these days, like many others we’ve put some effort into expanding the repertoire of…
Hello Shiraz Lovers Continuing the theme of last month’s newsletter—hasn’t the weather been crazy so far this Spring! Many parts of Australia have seen record high October temperatures, and here at Talbots Block we’ve been getting late season frosts as recently as last week. Doesn’t seem to be worrying our vines though—their springtime shoot growth…
Spring is here — so they say. The Talbots like to call this time of year “Sprinter” rather than Spring — because the weather is Spring-like one day, and truly wintry the next. Whether we call it Spring or Sprinter doesn’t really matter — the important thing is that it offers great conditions for Shiraz…
Latest Tasting Observations Recently we’ve been having fun tasting all our vintages, going right back to our first test batch in 2007. Our current releases—The Prince 2016 Shiraz and The Sultan 2015 Shiraz—are drinking beautifully right now. They show an impressive combination of luscious fruit and soft finish, and we are confident they’ll continue to…
Hello Shiraz Lovers! We regret to advise that our special back vintage six pack offer—released only yesterday—was sold out within hours, and is now closed. Congratulations to those of you who were able to nab one of these rare six packs; and commiserations to those who missed out. While we will be unable to exactly…
A couple of newsletters ago we described the qualities of older Talbots Block Shiraz versus our younger current releases. We hinted at the time that we might release some older back vintage wines to our subscribers in the coming months—and now we’re following through with a special Friends of Talbots Block exclusive offer in time…
The Prince and The Sultan are Winners. Those of you who follow us on social media would have seen that Talbots Block recently did very well in a high class field at the prestigious Clare Valley Wine Show.
In our last newsletter we proudly reported our new status as a Halliday 5 star winery. That means Mr Halliday ranks us among the top 7 percent of Australian wineries—very nice!
