Medium-bodied Barossa blend here, with those lovely lifted notes of cherry and raspberry, and some slightly peppery characters adding to...

A quite elegant medium-bodied Shiraz from the Barossa that’s been treated with kid gloves, including careful basket pressing and then...

Here is a Grenache that’s been designed very much in the modern idiom. It’s medium-bodied and designed to capture all...

Makes sense that if you’ve got vines that are more than 150 years old, you want to let the world...

The fruit for this exceptional wine comes from low-yielding vines. It’s treated carefully from go to whoa, with time on...

A slightly more robust and opulent wine and certainly firmer than the 2023, but the old vines from the low-yielding...

As soon as you pour this into the glass, the colour is most striking. It’s deep and dark, and virtually...

Impeccably balanced and poised, old vine Shiraz from the Barossa. This wine really does show what this region can do...

This is a quite beautiful example of Barossa Cabernet. It’s medium to full-bodied and quite generous, but there is that...

It seems that one of the tragedies of modernity is that the design of the new stadium in Perth prevents...

Here’s a Shiraz that captures all that is good in South Australia’s Langhorne Creek. There’s the soft drinkability and flavour...

Swan Valley fruit, 10% whole bunches, wild ferment, carbonic maceration, matured on lees in large format seasoned French oak. Good...

The price point is spot on for affordable everyday drinking. So, too, the classic Aussie red blend with its approachability...

Red liquorice, wet concrete and radish – the latter from a touch of reduction. An easy-going wine, and one I’d...

Raspberry leaf, blood-and-bone mix, pink peppercorns and red liquorice. I like it. It’s  a joyous, well-made wine. And just like...

A classy wine and a very encouraging example of the heights Bellbrae Estate is capable of reaching. Attractive from the...

Woody spice, earthy tones and subdued fruit lead — paperbark, white tobacco, white cherry, crushed stalk, nutmeg, pine needle and...

Dark cherry conserve, plum and woody spice — nutmeg and clove — with allusions of pine mushroom, undergrowth and a...

Vegetal tones provide the opening — radish, fresh-cut beets, tomato leaf, green bean and white pepper. Fruit sits in the...

An impressive red from the wonderful 2023 vintage, fermentation was achieved as slowly as possible, followed by an extended maceration...

It seems that the glories of the 2023 vintage can be found in wine regions across the State. First plantings...

This is a thoroughly delicious Cabernet that’s showing the benefit of a little extra time in bottle. It’s soft, supple...

This Grenache, from vines planted in 1946 on the hills of Leasingham, remains one of my favourite examples of this...

Here is a Shiraz from the Clare Valley that every year delivers such wonderful value and quality. It’s soft and...