Created from a challenge to winemaker Dean Hewitson to produce a wine that’s fit for a vintage luncheon now and...

Not your shy and retiring kind, 1000 Crowns comes out plush, rich and complex. A fair whack of vanillin oak...

By any measure, a fine young Chardonnay for the price showing plenty of verve and freshness. Immediately approachable with everything...

There’s a lot of youthful energy with this wine. A beautifully captured regional statement of lifted florals, plum, blueberry, earthiness...

Three years old and still coming together, which has to be considered a good thing for the ageing potential of...

When Margaret River chardonnay sings, it’s an opera. It tells a story about the region, the fruit and the symbiotic...

Incredibly bright nose of pink grapefruit and ripe peaches. Powerful, bold palate weight with intense nougat flavours, balanced by refreshing...

Cabernet Sauvignon sitting very comfortably at 9 years of age. This wine is all intriguing tertiary notes – nori, chesterfield...

Bright and lifted showing overt dark fruits of blackberry and plum. The addition of 5% Viognier adds floral lift, subtle...

Complex rancio characters of buttered roast nuts and candied fruit. Dark toffee and heady spice. Rich and textured with a...

Very expressive. Roasted nuts, toffee, fruitcake and warm spice. Luscious, sweet with enough freshness to keep the palate focused. The...

Densely layered with plenty of power and complexity – an obvious trait of the 2018 vintage. Mulberry, cassis & chocolate...

The Koonunga Hill sub-region in Australia’s Barossa Valley might be a long way from this Italian favourite’s traditional vineyards of...

Always exciting to try a new grape – well, new to me, at least. Nebbiolo Bianco hails from Piedmont, as...

Many winemakers are finally realising that not only is basic Savvy a touch boring, it is tough to compete with...

Fiano is quickly proving itself be the most exciting of the emerging white varieties in this country and the Clare...

Here we have quite a classic Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon which elegantly portrays its cooler climate origins as well as...

d’Arenberg’s Olive Grove Chardonnay is so named because of the olive trees found in McLaren Vale. Does that mean we...

It has been said before – McLaren Vale is rarely the first place one thinks of when looking for top-notch...

We don’t see a lot of varietal Roussanne, which is a shame because of the evidence of this wine, we...

This wine offers compelling evidence as to why I would not want to be a small boutique winemaker. Unless you...

The usual impressive packaging is, as always, matched by seriously good wine inside the bottle. This is a blend of...

Varietal Barbera, a grape that a number of winemakers seemed to have high hopes for some years ago, has never...

We looked at the 2019 not so long ago, and loved it. Could the 2020 match it? Absolutely. These guys...