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This is a thoroughly delightful entry-level pinot for Holm Oak, with a focus on the delicious supple fruit flavours. Fragrant...

Holm Oak Fearless Pinot Noir 2023

An addition to the Holm Oak range designed to highlight the outstanding fruit qualities coming off the vineyard. So, no...

Holm Oak Pinot Noir 2024

The colour is a light crimson pink, but don’t let that fool you. This is a Pinot of great poise...

Holm Oak Cabernet Franc 2024

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Franc

The colour is brilliant and bright with a captivating luminosity. This slightly warmer year suited Cab Franc, allowing it to...

Holm Oak Arneis 2024

You get a lot more than the usual fresh and fragrant Arneis with this example. It was partially fermented in...

Arras Blanc de Blancs 2016

The 2016 Arras Blanc de Blancs is fine and restrained with both minerality and complex autolytic tones. It opens with...

Arras Grand Vintage 2015

This charming 2015 Arras Grand Vintage is a step up on the 2016, with greater power, energy, focus and length....

Mario Giribaldi Barolo Ravera Riserva 2013

A brilliant Barolo with more than a decade in age already under its belt. Drinking beautifully now, but it certainly...

Mario Giribaldi Barolo Cerviano Merli Riserva 2016

Amongst an array of stellar vintages over the last decade and more, none surpass 2016 – it is already legendary....

Mario Giribaldi Barolo Ravera DOCG 2018

This is a vintage which imbues its wines with a pleasing elegance. A red/orange rim here, with a nose that...

Purple Hands Oenotri Montepulciano 2023

This 2023 Oenotri fermented in amphora is a big step up on the standard bottling with old fashioned cola, and...

Purple Hands Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Shiraz 2023

The Planta Circa 2023 Shiraz is quite seductive and a very different take on the classic style with its fine...

Castelli Single Vineyard Frankland River Malbec 2022

Red Wine - Malbec

This comes from the famous Justin vineyard in Frankland River. When you get a good year like this the wines...

Castelli Single Vineyard Frankland River Cabernet Malbec 2022

Red Wine - Cabernet - Malbec

Smooth, elegant, and stylish; that’s what you get with this outstanding wine off Frankland River’s Riversdale Vineyard. Captures so much...

Cimicky Shiraz Cellar Selection 2020

Fine Barossa Shiraz which spent eighteen to twenty-four months in oak barrels and is bottled under cork. The colour is...

Cimicky Shiraz Cellar Selection 2021

From a stellar Barossa vintage, the team have moved to screw cap here. The wine spent eighteen to twenty-six months...

Riposte En Garde Pinot Noir 2024

This mere babe deserves time and patience to wake. Time in glass for the En Garde acts like caffeine for...

Vintage Breeze Reserve Shiraz 2022

A generous Shiraz showing the virtues of McLaren Vale. On the nose a maze of spices, plum and chocolaty black...

Vintage Breeze Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon

Gosh, this is a delightful current drinking wine. It’s all about the balance and the fruit. Captures the smooth succulence...

Vintage Breeze Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon

From McLaren Vale, the wine spent time maturing in French oak. A near opaque maroon hue, the wine is ripe,...

Vintage Breeze Reserve Shiraz 2022