Clare Valley, SA Kilikanoon Vegan Medium Best Wine Deals

So much to love here and so many accolades to help highlight the quality - but at this price, it'll probs sell out pretty quickly...

The Kilikanoon Baudinet has scored 3 trophies, ditto the Evans & Tate Redbrook Shiraz (including the best wine of the Adelaide Show if you don't mind) The Lloyd Brothers Syrah is also a Trophy Winner.

This lot are already worth more than the asking price of the pack.

You'll also be scoring a couple of Curtis' old vine, 96 point McLaren Vale Shiraz, a couple of Turkey Flat's magical GSM and a couple of Griffin's Reserve Shiraz from the excellent 2021 vintage

Finally, a bottle of Yaldara's stunning, 96 point, $250 a bottle Shiraz.

A no-brainer, eh!

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A fabulous selection of alt reds with plenty of new stuff. The trophy winning Clare Grenache from Kilikanoon and the superb 95 point Durif from Curtis have been in our stable for a while. The new stuff? Magical old vine Grenache from Songlines and a superb old vine Mataro Grenache blend, both from the Barossa, both made by Tom White of Lone Palm fame! They are both superb. Also a couple of new to us Barossa beauties from White Gate. White Gate are low-fi, or perhaps more accurately, light touch. They work primarily with organic and biodynamic producers, pick early and make minimal additions to the wine during ferment and prior to bottling. They figure that starting with A-grade fruit and picking a bit earlier than the norm allows them to bypass a lot of the corrective work that has to be otherwise undertaken to ensure wine stability and longevity. As a bonus, this allows the fruit to really shine. The proof is in the pudding and we can heartily attest that the pud is good!

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A premium alternatives pack which we think is a bit of a no-brainer. We kick off with the following four Aussie alternatives. After Five's 5 trophy winning Barossa Montepulciano, which is as good a Monte we have ever seen. From Kilikanoon, their stunning, $96, 96 point, flagship Grenache. Artis brings us a magnificently perfumed Nero and Songlines, an old vine, 100% whole bunch Barossa Grenache. Then we have a Riserva Chianti from the low yielding and fabulous 2020 vintage, and a densely powerful Rioja, made by one of just 2 producers who are more than a century old. These are all excellent and we've no doubt you'll have as much fun with them as we do..

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The 2021 vintage was exceptional across South Australia, delivering fragrant, powerful but nimble, rich, structured, and aromatically expressive reds. This premium dozen brings together outstanding Shiraz, Grenache, and Durif from McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Barossa, Adelaide Hills, and Padthaway, offering incredible depth, power, and finesse.

What’s heading your way?

Shiraz Powerhouses: Bold and complex expressions from Dowie Dowle, Pasha, Sidewood Estate, Griffin, Oliver's Taranga, Claymore and Yaldara.

Vibrant Grenache: Beautifully balanced award winning wines with exceptional fruit from Songlines, Kilikanoon (their trophy winning Prodigal and their Walton), packed with red fruits and spice.

Delightfully Different: The Curtis Small Batch Durif 2021, a 95 pointer delivering deep colour, intense dark fruit, and fine tannins.

A Blend with Character: Henry’s Drive Pillarbox Red offers a seamless mix of fruit, oak, acid and tannin. This picked up a gold medal at consecutive Adelaide Wine Shows!

With an RRP of $869, this limited-edition baker's dozen is yours for just $240!

All are multiple award winners with the exception of the Griffin Reserve and trust us, awards will come for that!

An exceptional price for these brilliant reds from the incredible 2021 vintage.

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BSP, you ask? BSP is a TLA (that’s a Three-Letter Acronym) for Best Selling Pack—or at least, we reckon it would be if we had more of a couple of these wines.

Lloyd Brothers’ luscious, trophy-winning Syrah is in very short supply, and Kilikanoon’s flagship Cabernet—the 6-gold-medal-winning, 96-point, $96-a-bottle 2018 Tregea won’t be around for long either.

Maybe we should have called it the Fast Selling Pack? Either way, if this one catches your eye, now’s the time to lock it in.

P.S. The rest of the lineup is just as impressive—two stunning reds from Turkey Flat, Claymore’s Dark Side Shiraz, Martin’s magical McLaren Vale Super Premium, and the Baker’s Bottle: Yaldara Grand Shiraz!

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The Noble Grape is a bit on the nose at the moment.

Perceived by some as being bony, hard of tannins and shy of revealing fruit, Cabernets are long way from their heyday of 20 years ago, when they outsold Shiraz. These days, the willingness to cellar, always Cabernet friend isn't really there, and 'good to go right now' wines are in ascendancy.

BUUUUUT ... we love it dearly and know that with the right fruit and the right gifted winemaker, assertively angular tannins and bony acidity make way for ethereal perfumes, generously jubey fruit and a massive smile on the head of whoever is drinking them. So here's a 'no bones' and 100% beautiful baker's doz of Cabernet for your consideration.

2 stunners from Kilikanoon lead the way and Briar Ridge's complex, Halliday 95 pointer slides in effortlessly behind. Ditto, Dandelion's 96 point Coonawarra beauty, Longview's Trophy winning stunner and Dowie Doole's tiny production, 96 point work of genius. These really are all magical- just double decant an hour or so before drinking!

Oh, the 13th bottle!?

Cab is well known for ageing beautifully, so we've scrounged around and found a small quantity of Zonte's Blackberry Patch Cab from 2017. It's drinking beautifully and we doff our Cab to it!

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