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This 2023 ANOVA Chardonay is open-knit and ready to enjoy with layers of melon and musky peach with grapefruit bite...

Mr Riggs The Gaffer Shiraz 2022

Straight off the bat this is as good an example of this wine as I have seen. It’s from an...

Riposte The Dagger Pinot Noir Adelaide Hills 2024

Red Wine - Pinot Noir

We have had scimitars, stilettos and katanas, even a cutlass. Now daggers and sabres. A fine Pinot Noir from the...

Riposte Sabre Pinot Noir 2023

Red Wine - Pinot Noir

This is the next step up from the team in their Pinotsphere, and while it is already drinking beautifully, putting...

Mumm Napa Prestige Cuvée NV

We don’t see a lot of sparklers from the Napa Valley in California, which is rather a shame as there...

Yarraloch Chardonnay 2021

If anyone ever lost track of just how good the Yarra Valley can be for Chardonnay, the wines from this...

Yarraloch Stephanie’s Dream Chardonnay 2021

This is the team’s pointy end Chardy and deservedly so. A cracking wine. Pale lemon gold in colour, with hints...

Pikes Traditionale Riesling 2024

White Wine - Riesling

If there is a more reliable wine, which can provide better value than this one, anywhere in Australia, please let...

Pikes The Merle Riesling 2024

White Wine - Riesling

While the Traditionale is regularly one of the very best in its price bracket (and often well above it), The...

Pikes Il Premio Sangiovese 2022

Red Wine - Sangiovese

This price for an Aussie Sangiovese is really throwing down the gauntlet to Tuscany. There is nowhere to hide if...

Pikes The EWP Shiraz 2022

Barrel selection is undertaken to compose this very fine Shiraz from their estate in the Polish Hill River sub-region. This...

Pikes The Hill Block Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

Red Wine - Cabernet - Cabernet Sauvignon

From one of their oldest estate vineyards, now forty plus years of age, the cooler nature found here is partly...

Pikes The Vanguard Cabernet 2021

Red Wine - Cabernet

Always very exciting to see a brand new wine from a top-notch producer, especially when it comes in as their...

Medhurst Estate Vineyard Rosé 2024

Palest pink coral in the glass. Bursting with a bramble of blackcurrants on the vine, cherry cola and cranberry juice....

Medhurst Pinot Noir Estate Vineyard 2023

Red Wine - Pinot Noir

Morello cherries, pomegranate molasses and rosehip. Exotic asian spices of star anise, five spice and fenugreek seed. Oaks show maple...

Medhurst Estate Vineyard Chardonnay 2023

A choir of citrus is the true champion of this wine. Grapefruit skin, lemon wedges and white peach fuzz. You...

Zontes Footsteps Scarlett Ladybird Rosé 2024

Attraction is something ubiquitously sought. Male Bowerbirds build bowers from sticks to attract females. Female ladybirds (in theme) produce pheromones...

Zontes Footsteps Baron Von Nemesis Shiraz 2023

This baron is but a mere babe, reticent to start edging on green, it burgeons with dark chocolate, ripe cherries,...

Curtis Cavaliere McLaren Vale GSM 2021

The famous Rhone blend done McLaren Vale style. And done seriously well. The colour here is a deep blood red....

Curtis Ancestor McLaren Vale Shiraz 2021

For me, this is the best Ancestor Shiraz from these guys I have yet encountered. In fairness, with the quality...

Curtis Pasha McLaren Vale Shiraz 2019