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Most weeks we talk about wines that you’ll find if you head to a wine retailer this weekend. Our first two wines fall into that category: the Oliver’s Taranga 2011 Fiano and the Tollana 2008 Pinot Noir.

Danny also talks about an older bottle from his cellar, a 10 year old Cabernet from Victorian Pyrenees winery Dalwhinnie that’s ripe for a special opening.

This week’s recommendations are:

• Oliver’s Taranga Fiano 2011 ($22-$24)
• Tollana Pinot Noir 2008 ($29-32)
• Dalwhinnie Moonambel Cabernet 2001 ($40-65 on the secondary market)

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Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny

This week we look a three wines that won’t be the easiest to find. The first is a Cabernet blend from Sorrenberg, a Beechworth winery who sell most of their wines via a mailing list. We follow this up with a Gamay from Roundstone, a winery that earlier this year was destroyed in the Victorian bushfires. To round things out we look at a Fiano, an Italian white grape variety, which is being made in very small batches by one of our favourite smaller wineries, Oliver’s Taranga.

If you’re around Melbourne this weekend, why not drop out to the Shed Fest in the Yarra Valley? Support the small local wineries after the tough start to 2009 that saw bushfires destroy so much of the area. Details on ShedFest are available on the ShedFest website.

This week’s recommendations are:

• Sorrenberg Cabernet 2005 ($38-40)
• Roundstone Gamay 2008 ($20-15)
• Oliver’s Taranga Fiano 2008 ($22-$24)

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Cheers… and happy wine buying!

Brad and Danny