Red Wine Archives

Shows classic Margaret River depth and the lifted aromatic appeal of the region’s number one red grape. Think briar, acacia...

Mud House Pinot Noir 2021

There’s a good mix of fruit, spice and earthiness on show here, and it’s all neatly packaged together making for...

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

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

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

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

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 Pinot Noir Estate Vineyard 2023

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

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 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

The team notes that this wine is their homage to ‘old school’, to the glory days (which seems appropriate as,...

Pepper Tree Limited Release Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

A most appealing Coonawarra Cabernet from a thrilling vintage. Blood red in colour, there are dense fruit notes here. We...

Tamar Ridge Grand Assemblage Pinot Noir 2022

The very best parcel from the Kayena Vineyard, the wine is alive with forest berries. Collected blackberries, redcurrants and wild...

Tamar Ridge Grand Assemblage Pinot Noir 2022

The first release of this wine comes from fruit taken from the best parcel of the lauded Kayena Vineyard. Lovely...

Tamar Ridge Grand Assemblage Pinot Noir 2022

A pale crimson colour for this Tassie Pinot, the wine is beautifully fragrant and a classically appealing Pinot. There are...

Château Tanunda Terroirs of the Barossa Marananga Shiraz 2023

This is one of the most distinctive parts of the Barossa, with the red brown clay soils yielding wines of...

MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Spring Shiraz 2022

A core of Bing cherries, Davidson plum and Kirsch. Olive tapenade, rosemary twigs and blistered eggplant skin. Cold press coffee...

MMAD Vineyard Blewitt Springs Grenache 2022

Red Wine - Grenache

This vintage sees a step up in collected wild floral tones. Hyacinths, freesia and lilac. Alongside floats punnets of raspberries,...

Woodvale Spring Gardens Shiraz 2022

Sourced from a pair of Clare Valley vineyards – one located in the Armagh sub-region and the other in the...

Woodvale Orchard Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

The fruit here has been sourced from three discrete sites across the Clare Valley, and after fermentation it was basket...

Woodvale Sharegarden Cabernet Sauvignon 2021