Visually this wine is milky pink akin to a wheat beer and that wouldn’t survive the clarity mark in a line up. On the nose it’s pulpy raspberry and slight estery cherry, which is both surprising and welcome. There is a defined spritz on the palate; suggestive the ferment is still in the stages of winding down. With careful decanting you can hurl the effervescence off, as well as avoid the solids aspect. Length and breadth this wine is spot on for the style bearing in mind you can’t get extractive techniques with minimal winemaking. The fruit weight and intensity is notable but it’s certainly not a while which commands attention. A curio of a wine.
It’s been some time since my touchstone eatery for pho has closed down. Cheerlessly, I’ve been trying a few noodle places around Perth but nothing comes close to the piquantly resonant fleshy soup. Until perhaps now.
The innocuously named Sunshine Café and Lunch Bar is something of a strangulated oddity. If it weren’t for a tip-off on the pho, I would have glanced past this check-floored, soda brand fridge-filled, bain-marie lined eatery.
On the nose, candied fruits like pineapple, figs and nectarine mosey along with toasty bottle age. From memory, White Classics are the apex of fruit driven when nubile, and how they coast into secondary complexity in senescence.
Under screwcap closure you can voice out of a cellared bottle, buttey brioche, honeycomb and marshmallow collapsing, molten, like as if it were toasted on a stick. The White Classic has certainly picked up texture and thickness in the middle palate but the alcohol comes off a little stronger than what’s expected. Not bad for a wine that goes on special for eight bucks. 88 points
Along with Funtastico and Stimulatte, Thailicious has fallen victim to the twitching orifice of business name portmanteau.
Why, oh God why?
Could you not go with nouns? Greenhouse, Must, or even Liberté?
Don’t mash up words or else it sounds like you have an ill command of English.
Let’s move on.
