Always great to see a wine given time in the cellar before release, especially a complex white wine. It happens...

The nose shows a generous array of black cherries, red plums, vanilla with musk sticks, sarsaparilla and eucalyptus. Whole bunches...

Winemaker, Ashleigh Seymour once told me (in perfect Italian) that she has worked a few years in Italy, particularly Tuscany....

A joyful and easy-going blend of Shiraz (92%) and Grenache (8%). Red and blue berries are spiced up and sweetened;...

A salmon-like colour for this McLaren Vale Pinot Gris left on skins for five days. Griseo means grey in Latin., and...

Something very different here for McLaren Vale, a wine aged in amphora which was brought from Impruneta, near Florence in...

2021 was a superb vintage in McLaren Vale, especially for Shiraz. This wine confirms that and provides some truly brilliant...

MV stands for multiple vineyard, the team have six biodynamic vineyards in the region and this wine has fruit from...

As with all these Paxton wines, they are made using biodynamic processes. In the end it is the quality of...

Stunning value here. A blend of 55% Shiraz and 41% Grenache, with a further 4% Mataro, the wine spent nine...

This delightful McLaren Vale Rosé is made from a 50/50 spilt of Shiraz and Grenache. Stainless steel fermentation, the aim...

From their Thomas Block, one of the cooler sites in McLaren Vale, fermentation is in stainless steel and biodynamic principles...

A blend of Pinot Noir (88%), Chardonnay (8%) and Pinot Meunier (4%), which spent extra time on skins to provide...

A non-vintage blend of the trio of great champagne grapes, Chardonnay (39%), Pinot Noir (60%) and Pinot Meunier (1%), from...

This superb local sparkler, 100% Chardonnay, spent more than four years on lees, impressive even by the standards seen in...

There’s something about ripe, sweet-hearted Barossa Shiraz. It’s not only comforting and luscious, but when it’s also well-structured and well-defined,...

Black as night and almost as impenetrable. Turned up to 11 in boldness in woodsy, toasty oak, liquorice, chocolate bullet...

We know the 2020 vintage in the Barossa was a super-hot, dry one. Which makes this ’20 Shiraz all the...

“Heart-and-soul Barossa!” is a favoured expression of a fellow wine writer, one delivered with an exclamation point. I have borrowed...

A little more obvious style on display here compared to the previous vintage release. A little more fruit is evident,...

Brings the full gloss and black fruited intensity we expect from the Marananga sub-region of the Barossa Valley to the...

Big and beautiful. The producer knows how to manage super ripe Shiraz. It works towards maximum extraction of colour, flavour...

A co-ferment of Shiraz and Viognier with the latter just a splash of three per cent. What does Viognier bring?...

Pemberton Pinot Noir, which spent ten months maturing in French oak barriques, 20% of them new. Pale crimson in colour,...