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CA ANZ Revelation Red Baker’s Dozen Redux
Having sold a boatload of The CA ANZ Revelation Baker’s Dozen in 2025, we've been asked to produce a similarly high-end mixed dozen - so here it is…
Coming your way:
2 x The Dowie Doole Architect Cabernet '21 - this is exceptional, and represents a barrel selection chosen from only A-grade parcels from the old, dry-grown Blewitt Springs vineyard.
2 x Yaldara Grand Cuvée Shiraz '23 - Mean, black, intense, complex. Decant - the dark and malevolent core of this beast just keeps unfurling as you feed it air!
2 x Manser Five Clone Shiraz - this is a powerhouse, black-fruited Shiraz packing cedar and vanilla which is finished with plentiful fine tannins.
2 x Neldner Rd Silesian Shiraz - It is opulent and sense-flooding. Aromas of gunsmoke, cedar, dark chocolate, coffee, meat stock and spice weave through rich waves of blueberry, black pepper and liquorice. It’s brooding, heady and powerful—Barossa at full throttle...
2 x Irvine's Grand Merlot - Australia's best Merlot, year in, year out, and with a $150 a bottle price tag to match. Twice awarded “Worlds’ Best Merlot” in Europe.
2 x Martins Vineyard Shiraz - fruits are blacks and blues, with blueberries, blackberries, olive tapenade, cedar and vanilla populating a powerful and long palate.
So, without the 13th bottle, we're already at $1,710 worth of superbity (if saying said same is not evidence of absurdity) for $565.
As this is being hidden as a VIP offer, we're comfortable to include a 13th bottle:
Kilikanoon's Revelation Shiraz - Made only occasionally (5 releases since 2010), this is made in tiny quantities (100-200 dozen) and is genuinely breathtaking. We've taken it to 2 blind tastings.
Tasting 1 included Penfolds Grange - and everyone in the room named the Kilikanoon wine of the night, after the wines had been tasted but before their identities were revealed!
Tasting 2 - wine of the night went to a Bordeaux costing several thousand dollars a bottle. The Revelation did come out in front of the Grange though!
All up $2,260 worth for just $565!
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Unequivocally the finest of the five vintages of Revelation that have been released between 2010 and 2024, this is made in tiny quantities; fewer than 3,000 bottles were produced of this flagship Kilikanoon Shiraz.
Aussie Merlot doesn’t get more complex or highly awarded than Irvine’s Grand Merlot, twice recipient of the best Merlot in the world award. Recent releases are even better structured and livelier than the oldies, and we are confident the 2019 will improve for 10 years plus. There's plenty of rich plumminess, fig, herbs along with blueberry, dark chocolate and five spice. Excellent acidity and plenty of fine French oak here too. Decant for several hours before drinking.
Just the fifth release of Yaldara Grand, and arguably the one which has struck a balance between power and elegance most deftly. Milk and dark chocolate, aniseed, black and blue fruits, tobacco leaf, plus plenty of cedary oak and tannin. Magical.
The Martins has maintained the exceptionally high standard it set with the 2018 vintage. Fruits are blacks and blues, with blueberries, blackberries, olive tapenade, dark chocolate, plentiful cedar and vanilla populating a powerful and long palate. The tannins are polished, waxy and plentiful. The best Martin's yet!
This is the seventh release of their flagship ‘Hills Shiraz and as usual you’re hit immediately with a waft of black and blue fruits and the trademark white pepper that announces this wine as a “hills monster". The palate is full bodied and it’s here you see even more layers of complexity and intrigue, no doubt due to the co-fermentation of 5 different clones scattered throughout this unique vineyard. This will offer years of cellaring but to enjoy now, bust out the decanter for an hour to release all of this lovely flavour.
There are so many exciting talking points in this pack, but let’s start with the Italian wines. We have already featured Conte di Campiano in the past, but the Nero di Troia is a new wine to us. It has plums, black pepper and tobacco and is super silky. Relatively high in acidity backed by plenty of fine tannins. Very slurpable indeed. The other is the Vini Giribaldi Rie Organic Barbera di Alba Riserva 2015. Packed to the brim with red berries and assertive acidity. Definitely decant this one to see the best of it. The other exciting aspect of the pack is new wines from Lone Palm Vineyard and Stonehouse. The Lone Palm Hillside Shiraz and Crossings Shiraz are both sourced from the prized Marananga sub-region of the Barossa Valley. Each vineyard shows different use of French and American oak, but they both have something in common; they are amazing. The Stonehouse Reserve Quartz Block Icon Shiraz is the big one, a massive $150RRP and just as big and powerful as the price tag. Black and blue fruit packaged with some chocolate and cinnamon and fine oak tannin. Delicious. Through the Tasting Glass Cheshire Cat Shiraz is another stunning Barossa Valley Shiraz made by Andrew Hardy. It has violets along with black and blue fruits galore and it is definitely a prospect for the cellar. Some familiar faces you should find in the pack include the delicious Manser Dad’s Block Shiraz, from our own Phil Manser, Heirloom’s stunning new vintage of their Barossa Shiraz and a pair of premiums from Martins Vineyard and Richard Hamilton Centurion. There is also a lovely new Shiraz from Wits End Atlas that needs no cellaring, it is best enjoyed fresh and juicy. The last wine in the bunch is the Kilikanoon Meymans Shiraz Cabernet. Clare Valley is best known for Riesling, but Shiraz and Cabernet, especially under the watchful eye of Kevin Mitchell this Shiraz Cab is a belter. There you have it, all that premium red with a massive $600 off the RRP. Merry Christmas indeed!
If you want any further information on any of the wines, you know what to do, just flick me an email at daniel.oconnell@winedirect.com.au or call on 08 8352 3094.
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