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Tony Love

Tony is best known for his 10 years as News Corp’s National Wine Writer, with weekly columns in major metropolitan mastheads throughout Australia including The Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald Sun. He continues to write feature articles and columns for all the major Australian wine media publications. Tony has also worked as a restaurant reviewer, section editor, book editor, digital content provider, journalism teacher and was named Wine Communicators of Australia 2018 Legend of the Vine (SA). Find out more about Tony at tonylove.com.au
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Sidewood Nearly Naked Sparkling NV (Zero Alcohol)

Sidewood Estate has built an enviable reputation in the world of elite traditional method Sparkling wines, while with this, based...
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Sidewood Nearly Naked Sauvignon Blanc (Zero Alcohol)

Sourced from Sidewood Estate’s central Hills district vineyard in Oakbank, harvested and vinified as traditional wine before undergoing alcohol extraction...
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Smeaton Estate Stella Chardonnay 2023

From the Smeaton family estate vineyard in the Forreston district of the northern Adelaide Hills, this is a Chardonnay that...
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Smeaton Estate Sienna Riesling 2017

From a noted cooler and wetter year in the Adelaide Hills, this museum-style release Riesling has proved that not all...
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Mr Riggs Idle Lane Shiraz 2022

From a cooler estate vineyard in the Clarendon district, there’s a fair bit of aromatic attraction to start, and meat...
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Mr Riggs JFR Shiraz 2021

Named after winemaker Ben Riggs’s late father John Frederick Riggs, this was Ben’s first ever Mr Riggs wine he crafted...
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Mr Riggs Montepulciano d’Adelaide 2023

The quirky name has some context to it, the wine sourced from two vineyards in different regions, one in Kersbrook...
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Mr Riggs Three Corner Jack Shiraz Montepulciano 2023

A wine that in the past has been a traditional blend of Shiraz, Cabernet and Merlot, here it moves to...
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Mr Riggs Yacca Paddock Tempranillo 2023

Sourced from a vineyard in the Hills district of Kuitpo, which is up the escarpment and within cooee above the...
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Mr Riggs Burnt Block Shiraz 2021

The name is worth a mention to start with: a single block in Ben Riggs’s Piebald Gully vineyard in the...
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Mr Riggs The Chap Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

This is Ben Riggs’s major opus in the tradition of the Great Australian Red blend, in past times often referred...
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Mr Riggs The Magnet Grenache 2024

Sitting within the Mr Riggs Generations Series, this Grenache nails its crimson colours to the fruit driven side of the...
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Mr Riggs Idle Lane Chardonnay 2024

From the Mr Riggs Generations Series, a Chardonnay from his home base’s neighbouring Adelaide Hills region where many McLaren Vale...
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Mr Riggs Cold Chalk Chardonnay 2024

From the Mr Riggs Generations Series, a ripe and generous style, complex and integrated with good concentration of fruit and...
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Mr Riggs Piebald Syrah 2023

Marked as Syrah, and clearly performing like a much cooler climate style, the aromas here are quite different to other...
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Paracombe Shiraz 2018

From the Drogemuller Family’s unique plateau setting in the northern Adelaide Hills, this Shiraz comes with a solid display of...
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Paracombe Caretaker Cabernet 2018

The Paracombe plateau is one of the free places in the Adelaide Hills region where Cabernet Sauvignon genuinely thrives, and...
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Paracombe The Reuben 2018

The Reuben has been one of Paracombe’s Drogemuller family’s great vinous treasures for a good decade – here a blend...
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Sidewood Estate Sparkling Shiraz NV

A blending masterwork here: multi-vintage to start with, harvested across Sidewood’s several Hills vineyards, and incorporating 12 separate clones of...
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Sidewood Oberlin Pinot Noir 2024

The “Oberlin” refers to one of several specific clonal plantings Sidewood Estate grows at their Mappinga Road vineyard in the...
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Claymore Nirvana Reserve Shiraz 2022

Edging up in ripeness, this Reserve style is unashamedly full bodied, rich and oaky. The fruit spectrum is dark berry...
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Claymore Dark Side of the Moon Shiraz 2022

The Pink Floyd album of the same name as this wine was a progressive music blockbuster, quite deep at times...
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Claymore Joshua Tree Riesling 2025

New Season Riesling ready to go in line with the 2025 Vintage’s early harvest. Watervale sourced, brimming with all its...
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Chevalier Delaude 2022

A very approachable and well-crafted Syrah (60%), Grenache (30%) and Mourvèdre blend that drinks deliciously, juicily and with a decent...

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Aramis The Governor Shiraz

Lee Flourentzou remembers clearly the first two cases of wine he bought more than 20 years ago, and the impact...

Penfolds 2022 including 100 Point Grange

The Penfolds story simply can’t contain itself. For years its narrative has relied on wines with a South Australian provenance...

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Salomon Estate The Verve 2018Fleurieu Peninsula, SA ($30)92 Points From the South Australian estate of renowned Austrian winemaker Bert Salomon,...
How deeply do you go in a quest to discover the intricacies of the land you are farming and to...

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The people of Italy’s Abruzzo region live by a motto. Forte e gentile. Strong and kind. It’s said the revered...

Clone Wars at Sidewood Estate

Just when we’ve got our heads around the idea of single vineyards  – even single blocks within those vineyards –...
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