Author: Ray Jordan

This powerful statement of the McLaren Vale has been crafted in traditional ways with open fermenters, basket pressing and largely older French oak. It combines

The guys have gone to the Adelaide Hills for this fruit and it has all those appealing characters you want in Aussie savvies. It is

Somehow in a tough year this Adelaide Hill vineyard managed to escape the ravages of the 2020 bushfires. It has a nice distinctive apple and

Owner Nick Stacy said he was influenced by a visit to Spain with wine man Zar Brooks when they tasted a wide selection of rosés.

This is a leaner style from the famous Gin Gin clone that is synonymous with West Australian chardonnay. The very fast and snappy early vintage

This is another of the initial range of Clandestine Vineyards using the wonderful fruit of McLaren Vale’s Blewitt Springs. The vineyard itself was planted back

This is sourced from Karridale south of Margaret River, so the cooler climate fruit in what was a cooler season is significant. This is a

Oh my, this is a beautiful shiraz that captures so much about the Blewitt Springs subregion of McLaren Vale. Not your usual McLaren Vale fruit

This excellent, true blue Aussie blend completes the Coonawarra Trio from Lindemans. The combination works so well with the soft supple flesh of the shiraz

This is largely shiraz with about 22% cabernet from what are now very mature vines. There are loads of blackberry and vanillin coffee grinds aromas

Another member of the Coonawarra Trio of wines. This is predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon with a combined contribution of 20% Merlot and Malbec. Such beautiful poise

You just gotta love Barossa grenache – this is superb. Deep and flavoursome but expressed with tidy restraint and poise, it’s been made without oak

A variety most famously used for fortified wines in Portugal but which shows its versatility in this excellent joven style. It’s been made as a

This can be a love or not so much variety. It all depends on the vintage and the approach. For me, this Sicilian variety does

Here’s a beaut little white wine that shows the versatility of the Barossa Valley and the variety. On the one hand you get the typically