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#hewitson #hellyeah (at Cucina Casareccia)

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Magnum. Tight and angular on opening but typically fleshey and textured at the end of the bottle. Great work Dean. 93/100 NJH

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Farewell to Wine Expo in Helsinki?

Farewell to Wine Expo in Helsinki?

For several reasons Wine Expo in Helsinki has to be renewed or there has to come decision to stop keeping the fair. Only Spanish bodegas were enough interested in to be exhibitors with country department. Visited Bodegas Penafiel and tasted two nice Crianzas.     Almost as many beer exhibitors as wine exhibitors or importers. What beer has to do with wines?   Entrance fee 23€ and you were forced…

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Charges After Janette Ave Weapons Call

Charges After Janette Ave Weapons Call @WindsorPolice #Firearms

(WINDSOR, ON) – On November 16, police responded to a weapons call at a multiplex unit in the 600 block of Janette Avenue. Officers spoke to a woman, 57, when they arrived on scene. Police learned that an argument between the woman and a tenant in the building escalated with the man allegedly pointing a firearm at the woman. Windsor Police executed a search warrant at the apartment and seized a…

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New Tasting Notes: Hewitson Reds

Dean Hewitson is a Barossa Valley winemaker who is making reds in a style that doesn’t always attract attention, but is very merit-worthy. These are elegant, profound wines, made usually from old-vine fruit, and they are never oaky, extractive, overripe or over-built.

His 2012 reds which have come my way recently are outstanding. The pair of $49 Barossa shirazes, The Mother Vine (tasting) and The Mad Hatter (tasting), are both lovely elegant wines of superb texture, seamless flow and a degree of subtlety that isn’t often seen in the Barossa. I really enjoyed both of them, not just in the blind tastings, but as drinking wines with a meal.

Cast in a similar mould, but at cheaper prices, are his two longstanding Rhone styles, Miss Harry (tasting) – a mélange of grenache, shiraz, mourvedre, cinsault and carignan (red berries and earth, subtle pepper and mint; $23) - and Baby Bush mourvedre (pepper, spices, mysterious and delicious; $26 - tasting). Again from the 2012 vintage, they are outstanding value for money.

Hewitson is one of many winemakers who came through the proving-ground of Petaluma (tastings), where he worked for a decade or so during Brian Croser’s tenure. He set up his own wine company in 1998 and operated for some years out of an industrial estate in Adelaide, until he bought his own property at Dorrien in the Barossa and purpose-built his new winery in 2007.

He’s a quiet achiever: you need to seek him and his wines out. They are worth the effort. 

[huonhooke]

Wine Of The Week

Hewitson Baby Bush Mourvedre, Barossa Valley 2012 $28

Dean Hewitson makes elegant, smooth, medium-bodied wines which drink deceptively easily. They’re seldom ‘try-hard’ wines. This one was crafted from a young mourvedre vineyard which he planted using cuttings from his Old Garden vineyard, whose vines were planted in 1853, and are claimed to be the oldest mourvedre vines on the planet. The colour is medium-full red with a purple tint, the aromas are richly earthy and spicy, dense and mysterious. There is discreet mourvedre pepperiness. It’s soft and medium-bodied in the mouth, with gentle tannins and easy-drinking texture. Harmony is the keyword. It’s a lovely ready-drinking red, best now to 2022. 14 per cent alcohol. 92/100 - Huon's Wine 360

Food: roast leg of lamb; veal parmigiana; pork chops with mustard; magret de canard

Stockists: Five Way Cellars; Best Cellars 

Winery Rating: 92.1

Weighted average of their top 5 recently tasted wines

Price Rating Map & Vintage Chart: How does this wine fit into the winery’s range?

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Our salvation depends not on the question — What are my sins and backsliding? But on the question — What are Christ's merits, and the Father's promises.

William Hewitson (1812-1850), missionary to the tiny island of Madeira, Portugal