Sidewood Estate Oliver's Taranga Solaris Riposte Best Wine Deals
- 96pts, 97pts or a TrophyRegular Price $1,202.00 $360.00
At an average north of $90 retail per bottle, these might not scream 'Friday night Pizza' but at a tick under $30 a bottle in this bundle, maybe we can make a case for it... and at a bottle a week, we've got the next 13 weeks of Friyay evenings gourmet exhalations elevated to someplace very fine indeed.
So, what will you have next Friday?
Pasha's 97 point McLaren Shiraz which had Kim Brebach in raptures, saying 'The integration of fruit and oak is as seamless as I’ve seen in an Aussie red'? Dandelion's Firehawk Shiraz- off their best McLaren Vale vineyard? Sidewood's savoury Adelaide Shiraz which iced a lazy dozen gold medals with 96 points from Halliday? Showblock's incredible Reserve Shiraz? Kilikanoon's Flagship Cabernet? Perhaps, Longview's Trophy winning Cab ... decant this one!
OR, maybe you just want to start with the Lone Palm, the big gun. Imagine Marvin Gaye reinterpreting death metal (when he was alive, obvs), or Chuck Norris taking up Tai Chi. Molten lava given the Gaviscon treatment, Chewbacca reciting 'Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day', you get the idea. It's one of those 'Iron fist in a velvet glove' jobbies - incredibly powerful and densely fruited yet so perfectly put together that it is a joy to drink already.
Just need to choose that pizza now.
Learn More - Charming Chardonnay DozenRegular Price $492.00 $240.00We love Chardy here at WD, well, most of us do, the ones with good taste... and if you are like most of us, this might just be the pack for you. There's 4 bottles each of the Solaris Adelaide Hills Chardy, a textural lovely replete with ripe and pendulous stonefruits along with rockmelon, vanilla, crème brûlée and brioche. The Dowie Chard, from an elevated, low yielding and sandy soiled single vineyard in Blewitt Springs is also textural, creamy and packed with flavours. The Katnook shows restrained tropical notes, fresh herbs, grilled nuts and butter. Learn More
- Oliver's Taranga Shiraz 2021Special Price $28.00 Regular Price $32.00A beautifully silky and expressive mid-weight shiraz. Blackberries, plums, chocolate, with red fruits and great acidity too. While it is midweight, the fruit concentration is excellent and will satisfy you if you like your wines on the big side. A cracker, which will only improve with time. Learn More
- Premium Double Gift Box$25.00Premium Gift Box ideal to put 2 wines in... well it is, what else did you want to hear? Learn More
- Premium Single Gift Box$15.00Premium Gift Box ideal to put wine in... well it is, what else did you want to hear? Learn More
- Riposte 'The Dagger' Pinot Noir 2024$24.00Typically fresh and zesty. this edition of the Dagger is brimful of with fresh red and forest fruits and more power than we've seen in recent vintages. A modern Pinot in style and unashamedly medium bodied and made to enjoy over the next 5-6 years. The fruit here is quite concentrated and we reckon this is the best Dagger for a few years. Learn More
- Riposte 'The Foil' Sauvignon Blanc 2023$24.00Winemaking legends Tim Knappstein and Nick Knappstein are responsible for this beautiful Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc from the exceptional '23 vintage. No expense was spared in the fruit quality, with high altitude vineyards (Piccadilly and Carey Gully) chosen, and only the cane pruned sections. Aromas of passionfruit and florals dominate the nose with the palate offering clarity, depth. texture, minerality and the zing of well-balanced acidity. Learn More
- Riposte 'The Sabre' Pinot Noir 2023Special Price $36.00 Regular Price $39.00Perhaps the prettiest and most aromatic Sabre to date, offering aromatics and flavours of strawberry, redcurrants and dark cherry; a tensile, mid-weight palate, excellent length and cedary oak goodness. Learn More
- Riposte 'The Stiletto' Pinot Gris 2024$24.00A truly excellent and complex Pinot Gris, packed with fresh nashi pears and florals, a hint of struck match, and a streak of minerality. The texture here is superb, the length excellent. Just a few months of lees stirring in 25% new French oak, and juice oxidization prior to ferment give this superb weight and texture. Perhaps the best PG the Knapsteins have produced. Learn More
- Sidewood Estate Chardonnay 2022$26.00A stunning Chard sourced primarily from Sidewood's famed Mappinga Vineyard. Just free run juice is fermented in 100% French oak and matured there before rigorous barrel selection and bottling. There's jasmine, white peach, grilled nuts, a glorious texture and cedary oak. A wonderful chardonnay. Learn More
- Sidewood Estate Shiraz 2021$26.00One of the most insane quality to price ratios on the planet. Hand tended vines are picked by a Pellenc select harvester, which pick just the absolute best fruit. 12 separate clones of Shiraz are fermented separately using wild yeast, given extended maceration on skins and matured in French oak for 15 months. Finally, only the best barrels are blended and bottled. That sounds to us like most high-end producer's $60-$100+ Shiraz. No surprise this has picked up 96 points from Halliday and 12 gold medals. Learn More
- Solaris Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2023Special Price $65.00 Regular Price $75.00Lovely, textural, fruit driven and relaxed. Plenty of ripe and pendulous stonefruits here along with rockmelon, vanilla, crème brûlée and brioche. High quality Chardonnay that is great drinking already. Learn More