2013 No.1 Red Mix GSM - Dub style

 

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Australian wine review - review by andrew graham

Grenache, Shiraz and Mataro from three vineyards in two different McLaren Vale districts. A bright and juicy purple coloured number, with ajuicy nose showing red fruits, black pepper and just a hint of bitumen, al lightened up by vanilla bean oak sweetness.  It’s juicier than the nose suggests, with red currant and licorice, the palate packing a nice mix between fruit and savoury, red fruit with a dash of cured meat and dry finish. Indeed it feels quite substantial for a $20 wine, if just a little boozy on the finish. Great value. 17.5/20, 91/100. 13.9%, $20.

Published: 24 December 2015

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The Wine Front - Review by Mike Bennie

Way back in 2007, with my brothers and a group of friends, I went over to the Caribbean (West Indies) to watch the Cricket World Cup. Pretty much some of the best time of my life so far. What was notable at the cricket grounds, aside general vibe, jerk chicken for snacks, 9/10 rum to 1/10 fruit juice cocktails at the bars, and the sweet-herbal wafts of Devil’s Lettuce, was that at the actual venues, at every opportunity, dub, dancehall and reggae was blared out of the infamous, gigantic, pro-temp stacks that make up Jamaican Sound Systems. No Khe San, no Welcome To the Jungle, no We Are The Champions. Monoliths of vertiginous, black-faced, steel framed towers of speakers roaring music you could feel in your chest.

These Jamaican Sound Systems were originally trundled around on the backs of rickety trucks, set up in pockets of Kingston neighbourhoods, and were the pre-cursors to ‘block parties’ that became synonymous with hip hop in the USA.  The DJ collectives that came attached to the Sound Systems are credited with the emergence of hip hop in America, per se. Reggae, minus the lyrics, kind of begat Dub too. Anyway, it was with awe that I first saw the 20 metre-high-plus Jamaican Sound Systems dotted throughout the Caribbean on that trip, in situ, creating such atmosphere. You’d go to a park or beach and one would be set up, teetering and blaring, but meshed into the culture of the place. Somewhere in this jumble of thoughts, I was taken back there by the name Dub Style that winemaker Dudley Brown has bestowed this range of wines that come out of the Inkwell stables. Dub, that trip to the Caribbean, blaring sound systems, the Devil’s Lettuce, jerk chicken, grenache-shiraz-mataro from McLaren Vale. Right

Published: 16 May 2015

Tasted : MAY15
Alcohol : 13.9%
Price : $25
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2015 - 2020

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The key report - review by Tony Keys

[unfortunately sold out] A grenache-shiraz-mourvèdre blend that is generous in flavours and rather gorgeous all round 92 points and cheap at $20.