Patrick Single Vineyard Home Block Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
There is a pure essence of Coonawarra in this excellent cabernet sourced off the original 60-year-old vineyard planted near the family home. Masses of plush
There is a pure essence of Coonawarra in this excellent cabernet sourced off the original 60-year-old vineyard planted near the family home. Masses of plush
The fruit for this excellent shiraz comes from south of Coonawarra at Wrattonbully. It’s a wine of some poise with those dark chocolate and slightly
You don’t see many Coonawarra rieslings, especially with a bit of age on them. In this case there’s a lot. But it’s a remarkably fresh
Elegance personified. That’s what you get with this beautifully refined and stylish cabernet from Coonawarra which has the distinctive leafy DNA that is part varietal
Just another super example of cabernet from the 2018 vintage. This is a thoroughly scrumptious cabernet selling for less than $50 – crazy stuff quite
Anyone who thinks vintage doesn’t matter so much should look at the 2020 and 2021 vintages in Margaret River. Both have produced quite different but
There is a such a beautiful varietal expression in this McLaren Vale cabernet. Little wonder it’s performed well in wine shows. Packed with blackcurrant and
Captures so much of what McLaren Vale is all about. Lifted notes of florals and dark chocolate with a subtle spicy licorice infusion. There are
This excellent wine makes great use of the dominance of the highly aromatic grenache, such a beautiful variety in McLaren Vale. Bright red fruits with
You are getting a lot of mighty fine wine for this price. It has all the McLaren Vale DNA of rich plush flavours, but the inclusion
This is the flagship for Victory Point. This vintage turned out surprisingly good for cabernet, especially for those prepared to wait until the long cool
This was a cooler vintage in Margaret River and this excellent chardonnay is a great example of some of the top-notch wines emerging. It’s all
This super wine comes from the original east west facing winery block planed back in 1988. It is an immensely powerful wine of great length,
Small crop and small production, so this has to be on your shopping list. It is quite different from the syrah styles made ten years
Shiraz has been a main player with Frankland Estate almost from the get go and this is one of the very best under this label.
Interestingly, while Frankland’s approach to riesling has been influenced by its approach to chardonnay, particularly wild yeasts, its approach to chardonnay has likewise been influenced
Clever play on words here as Spatburgunder is the German equivalent of pinot noir. A little Aussie touch and up pops this neat name. It
This is an off-dry riesling, and its making reflects the leading-edge approach Frankland Estate is taking, albeit using older European techniques. In this case it’s
Fell in love with this cabernet franc from the first sniff. The fruit is off what are now old vines in the Isolation Ridge vineyard,
Recognised quite rightly as one of Australia’s best riesling producers, this is another excellent vintage. It’s fine and linear with a crisp minerally acidity that
I do like this variety and delighted to see the increase – albeit off a very low base – of plantings. This one is just
First things first, make sure you decant. Sometimes we can forget how much decanting improves wines and in this case it is striking as it
This small production outfit specialises in these three varieties and, in this wine, they have harmonised into a thoroughly beautiful expression of what the Barossa
This was such a good season for the Barossa and this beautifully crafted and presented shiraz illustrates it perfectly. Soft and supple but with generous
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