This 2021 Passel Estate Shiraz is Seductive, vintage-inspired and dedicated to being an enjoyable drink. Cocoa powder, plum pudding and...

Cabernet can sometimes skew overly intellectual, with savoury-tones and firm structure confusing the unassuming-everyday-punter. But then there are wines like...

As I’m (drinking) writing this, in January 2026, the 2018 Passel Estate Lot 71 Cabernet Sauvignon has stepped out of...

Comes off a newly acquired vineyard in Brookhampton in the Geographe wine region of the state. These vines are now...

A very light hue in the glass, this doesn’t speak loudly but gains assertiveness and detail as it opens. A...

Named after the Lepus constellation that depicts a Hare bounding ahead of Orion and his hounds. This is the icon...

A wine with violet and dried potpourri florals. This opens with baked blackberries, Nyon olive savouriness and some terra cotta...

A cascade of dark fruit, Davidson plum, cassis and a river of melted dark chocolate. This is indulgent and intoxicating...

Like its name sake, this is coiled and ready to leap out of the glass with blackberries, little pops of...

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...