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01 Feb

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Exciting start to 2018. Robert Parker Wine Advocate has just published review of #FREEMAN visit by Joe Czerwinski.
And we thank him for making the #NSWHilltops detour….

‘In short, these are some of the most compelling Italianate wines I’ve ever tasted from the New World.’

‘One of the most interesting places I’ve visited in some time.’

#FREEMANRobusta2012 : 94 POINTS

#FREEMANSecco2013 : 93 POINTS
‘Finishes long and velvety, with the concentration to support aging through at least 2025.’

#FREEMANSangiovese2016 : 91 POINTS
‘Simply one of the most convincing New World Sangioveses I’ve tried...’

#FREEMANCoronaRed2016 : 91 POINTS
#FREEMANDolcino2013 : 91 POINTS
#FREEMANFortunaPinotGrisPlus2013 : 90 POINTS
#FREEMANRondoRosé2016 : 90 POINTS

#FREEMANCoronaWhite2017: 88 POINTS
‘Charming and easy to drink, then finishes with a bright burst of lime-like acidity.’

26 Sep

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FREEMAN Secco Rondinella Corvina 2012

 

‘The best yet’ says Peter Bourne in GOURMET TRAVELLER WINE.  ‘Dense in colour and flavour with perfumes of dried sour cherries and ripe damson plums lifted by dried herbs…Has the depth and length to reward a decade in the cellar.’

So if you haven’t poured all yours yet – lay it down!

10 Apr

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WINEGENIUS.COM

 

‘Good deep colour and shows savoury aromatics of blackberry with leather and earthy complexity. Dry, quite powerful, full-bodied and acid driven, it is a structural style with layers of fruit, character and dry, grainy tannins to match. Demands food and or time.’

93 POINTS

10 Apr

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WINEFRONT By Campbell Mattinson
 
‘Building a proud/fine history…Savoury appeal. Mellow flavour. Assertive tannin but in an integrated way. This is good. Dust, chocolate, leather, sweet-sour cherries, tar. The flavours show some development but in a positive sense; this will be good to go anytime from now and over the next 10 years. Tannic kick, kitted with savoury character, is of particular note.’

93 POINTS

10 Apr

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INDAILY.COM.AU By Philip White
 
‘Grown and made by Prof (ret.) Freeman at Hilltops on the broad uplands near Young. After a lifetime teaching people about grape vines he imported and in 1999 first established the Rondinella and Corvina varieties which are now right here in this really lovely wine. It was made from deliberately raisined grapes, although Freeman makes fair mileage from the fact that he shrinks his berries in a Prunevale neighbour’s prune dehydrator.

Stop. When I sniff this wine I shrivel. Then I melt. No reason to change this lovely fragrance. It is masterly. Complex. Composed. Sauvage. Sophisticated. Drink expectantly … once again, behind the flaps it’s a lithe, dry, blistered black bat of a drink, you guessed it, with real short furry tannin.’