The 2023 Bekkers Cabernet Sauvignon, the first from their Clarendon Vineyard Estate is a fine and ethereal expression of the...

All Clarendon fruit and a cheeky 10% Cabernet Franc inclusion. This is all manner of blackberries, huckleberry, prune and plums....

The Barossa Valley is marvellously well suited to Rhône red varieties – we all know that – and now we...

I’ve always liked the way these guys treat this Rhône-style variety. It’s a wine that offers complexity and intensity with...

This is a dry as chips modern style Rosé, but one which retains freshness and vibrancy throughout. There’s been almost...

There will be higher than usual expectations associated with the 2021 Grange. It was undoubtedly a stellar vintage across South...

The reincarnation of a winery on which many of today’s wine lovers cut their teeth, this is their prestige release...

An exceptional vintage expressed well which, after all, is all a wine drinker can ask for. It’s here in one...

What can you expect from Australia’s oldest planted (1921) Pinot Noir vineyard, well firstly if you want it, you need...

I have called this wine the gateway drug to Mount Pleasant’s wine before, but it is also the wine I...

Riposte is the wine branding for Tim Knappstein and son Nick, the former with a lifetime of intimate family and...

Pinot Gris or Grigio – it used to be the debate with this versatile variety, about naming conventions and style,...

From Tim Knappstein and son Nick, who have this fruit from a selected grower in the Kenton Valley district. 50%...

Shiraz can be expressed in so many ways depending on all its elements of source, site, regional and specific climatic...

Within the Grant Burge “Wines of Distinction” range, this is their Great Australian Red blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz,...

The Grant Burge brand flagship red, set deeply with impressive Shiraz fruit, dark, powerful though extremely well-behaved from end to...

Welcoming from the outset, with a faintly smoky, charry sense to the nose, a suggestion of crumbled earth and forest...

Sourced from two prized vineyards in the Barossa and Eden Valleys, hence the overarching “Barossa” zone labelling. The 2021 vintage...

Aromatics are abundant with charred sour cherry, juicy red berries, savoury sweet woodsy spice, a whiff of game, still a...

These different regional expressions of the grape, with the same vintage and winemaker, are insightful. On the nose, deeper brambly...

Give it a good swirl to release a whiff of vanilla cherry tart, cherry compote, toasty oak, sweet baking spice...

A little more of that black dirt, autumn decay on the nose at first, yet give this a moment, and...

As well-structured and compelling as Cabernet Sauvignon off Coonawarra terra rossa soils can be. And there’s a sweet surprise in...

The Riddoch Estate in Coonawarra has released an Icon wine, the Federator – which sounds a bit like a combination...