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Lime and lime zest with snow pea tendrils and grapefruit. A delightful texture and just the perfect amount of acidity to allow the fruit to make its powerful point without taking over the show. A delightful Savvy which should improve for a few years yet.

Cape Jaffa were an early adopter of biodynamic viticulture in Australia, having over 30 years experience of managing their vines this way. We reckon that Mount Benson, where they grow their Shiraz, is capable of making incredible, world class wines. It's a heady combo, and the La Lune is a superb wine. Here's what Campbell Mattinson said.

'It’s an enormously complex wine. It’s strewn with tobacco, tomato leaf, earth, smoked meats, autumn leaf and sweet spice notes, though the main run of it is all red and black cherry fruit flavours, with modest dips into deeper, darker plum characters. There’s a soy sauce character to the nose and a smoked cedar flavour to the palate, though at all times the wine feels svelte. It’s a complex wine but it’s also a polished one.'

Made From: 100% estate grown biodynamic Shiraz from Cape Jaffa's best block.

Aromas and Flavours: Black cherry, red fruits, minerals, tobacco, spice, plum, graphite, mulberry, gentle but plentiful tannins to finish.

Drink if you like: Côte Rôtie, Hermitage, any intensely fruited but classy and elegant Shiraz

Food: Think beef

The Leconfield Coonawarra Merlot is widely considered to be among the top handful produced in Australia. The 2022 vintage has an exceptional framework of acidity and fine tannin within which it is currently hoarding plenty of ripe plum, mulberry, violet and tomato leaf. The mid palate is fleshy and generous and the wine finished with fine but chalky tannins.

Made From: Merlot, including old vine material and new, small berry clones r8 and d45/14

Aromas and Flavours: Plum, mulberry, violets and other awesome stuff

Drink if you like: Any other Merlot or juicy Cabernet - Leconfield consistently make the best Merlot in Oz. This vintage is currently rated by the Real Review as the #1 Merlot from the '22 vintage.