This super vintage in the Upper Goulburn has produced fruit of exceptional quality, and it’s captured absolutely brilliantly in this...

A mix of spices and perfumed, matured fruit on the nose gets you prepared for an impressive wine. Loads of...

This cooler season has produced a wine of suppleness and friendly fresh fruit characters, although it certainly has the structure...

Pink peppercorn and game meat make for an attractively savoury opening, dark cherry fruit filling things out as the glass...

An effortlessly chic Syrah from the cool air of Frankland River. Mulberry, rosehip and warm concrete. In the mouth, it’s...

The same vineyard providing the fruit for a scintillating Riesling and a really superb Syrah/Shiraz – the French would have...

This 2024 Syrah Isolation Ridge shows impressive poise and subtlety with savoury, aged spice and dark earth against a backdrop...

Savoury at seven years of age. Opens with charry cedar, cured and grilled meat before settling into pine mushroom, jus,...

The team combined the same amount of whole bunch and destemmed fruit for fermentation, followed by maturation for ten months...

Multiple picking days, bringing together a blend from four vineyards — two in Clarendon, alongside sites in Seaview and Blewitt...

Utter seduction in a glass. The 2024 shows staining beetroot and blood plums, some orange oils, a shrubbery of stalky...

The family’s vineyard sits on the Goulburn River, on the lower reaches of Mount Concord in Victoria. Although the property...

Shiraz, or Syrah if you prefer, from the Goulburn Valley in Victoria, which spent a year and a half maturing...

At this stage, this is my pick from the Ampersand range. From the Frankland River region, the colour is an...

Fruit is from Block 3, an east facing slope in Blewitt Springs. A heady wine filled with spice and purple...

A great Margaret River Syrah for people beginning to understand the nuance of wine without overthinking it. Lead pencil, dark...

Restraint is the word. The perfume exudes elegance and restraint with aromas of wet and decaying leaves, dried herbs, bush...

This was an excellent season in the Upper Goulburn Valley and this shows all that is good from that year....

Sourced from a deep sandy Hardy family plot (Block 3) in the celebrated, slightly cooler McLaren Vale sub-region of Blewitt...

The 2024 Bekkers releases were a little more reticent and harder to read than usual but the pedigree here is...

Gimblett Gravels Syrah, Shiraz this side of the ditch, continues to excite and seems to get better vintage after vintage....

Despite the coolish and quite difficult vintage, this blend of sixty-eight percent Syrah and thirty-two percent Grenache has emerged pretty...

From the Malakoff Estate in the sub-region of Landsborough in the Pyrenees, the clone used is the Best’s Old Block...

A single vineyard blend from the Pyrenees, with Syrah marginally dominant over the Nebbiolo. Both components were wild fermented, and...