For the 15th consecutive year, winedirect.com.au has had the honour of being asked to curate the Official Royal Adelaide Wine Show Dozen. This is unequivocally the best to date.

It contains the winners of the following trophies:

1: Most Outstanding Red Wine in Show

2: Best Shiraz in Show

3: Best Shiraz 2020 Vintage and Older

4: Best Shiraz 2021 Vintage and Younger

5: Best Grenache in Show

6: Best Other Varietal Red in Show

7: Best Dry White Blend in Show

8: Best Sauvignon Blanc in Show

Yep, for the first time ever, we’ve managed to secure 8 trophy winners. The quality of each wine is utterly exceptional. Incredibly, 10 of the 12 wines in this dozen were not just gold medal winners, but Top Gold winners, pointed equal top of their class in the initial judging. These wines have done well elsewhere too. The Majella Cab is Winestate’s Cabernet of the year and has won 4 trophies to date. The Redbrook Shiraz has picked up 9 gold medals in other wine shows. We suspect this pack will sell fast. Grab one while you can.

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Save over 65% on this magical mixed baker’s doz with multiple gold medals, and plenty of effusive words from worthy wine scribes. There’s Lloyd Brothers Méthode Champenoise Adelaide Hills Sparkling. Méthode Champenoise refers to the laborious process whereby the wine is aged on lees in bottle to build complexity and depth of flavour. Costs a lot of both money and time to produce sparkling this way but the results in this instance are undeniable. See also Villa Fresco Frizzante, an Aussie Alternative to prosecco, packed with vibrant fruit and gorgeous bubbles. See also Clare Riesling from Kilikanoon. On the red front, the concentrated, 95pt Kilikanoon Shiraz, 2 delicious Cabernets, and half a dozen awesome Shiraz from the Barossa, McLaren Vale, and Langhorne Creek. Included is the magnificent Stonehouse Neldner Old Vine Shiraz. This $150 a bottle Barossa Valley, old vine powerhouse inspired which has inspired more than a few comparisons to Penfolds Grange. There’s also stunning 97pt Martins Limited Shiraz, and Pasha’s epic, rich, and fruit-intense McLaren Vale Shiraz. This one retails for $100 a bottle and is one of our best selling wines of all time. Learn More

An excellent collection of award winning whites here, including Claymore's Riesling which picked up Gold at the competitive International Riesling Challenge, Lone Palm's exceptional old vine Rizza of which the Wine Companion said... ' Slinky, savoury and textural on the palate... bright, minerally drive and plenty of velocity and verve here.' There's a 95 point Rizza from Kilikanoon and a fabulous Trophy winning Sauv from Grant Burge too. Learn More

A tiny production, single vineyard Riesling from the Eden, textural and aromatic Sauv Blanc from legend Tim Knappstein, fragrant and creamy PG and a zesty Sauv Blanc from Chain of Ponds. These are all drinking beautifully now and will continue to do so over the next couple of years. The Riesling, a joy now, will spread its wings over the next decade, if you have the patience. Learn More

Riposte's 'the Foil' SB is one of the most consistent and complex Sauvvies to come out of the Adelaide Hills, Deep Woods Margaret River SSB is a trophy winning stunner, floral and packed with snow pea, passionfruit and lemon curd. First Creek's Vermentino is world class, perfumed and replete with tropical fruits, citrus, minerality and more. Mitchell's Peppertree is an old vine, medium bodied, gently fruited and savoury Clare Valley classic. Karl's Scepter's Barossa Shiraz is full bodied, and filled with dark fruits, chocolate, vanilla and cedar. Brickfielder's Barossa Shiraz is loaded with black fruits, blue fruits, black pepper, cedar, chocolate and more.

Read more about the winedirect.com.au Wine Club here or contact us at wineclub@winedirect.com.au for more info.

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The Growers Gate PG offers varietally appropriate pears and apples. Riposte's 'the Foil' SB is one of the most consistent and complex Sauvvies to come out of the Adelaide Hills, Deep Woods Margaret River SSB is a trophy winning stunner, floral and packed with snow pea, passionfruit and lemon curd. First Creek's Vermentino is world class, perfumed and replete with tropical fruits, citrus, minerality and more.

Read more about the winedirect.com.au Wine Club here or contact us at wineclub@winedirect.com.au for more info.

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We’ve had more than a few requests for a Pinot Gris (or Pinot Grigio) 6 pack so here it is. 2 bottles apiece of the exceptional Artis PG, packed with fruit and linear acid, plus Monterra's fruit laden and linear beauty and rounded out with the absolutely magnificent Riposte PG, made by legends Tim and Nick Knappstein. Learn More

Gris VS Grigio Gris is French for Grey, Grigio is Italian for …. wait for it, grey! Pinot Gris or Grigio, if you prefer, hails from Burgundy in France, a region much better known for producing eye wateringly expensive Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. From Burgundy, it buggered off to all corners of the globe, and never really came home. There’s not much grown in Burgundy these days, but it might surprise you to know that, whilst uncommon, it is one of the 7 allowed grape varietals in Champagne production, and at least one producer has made a Champagne entirely from Pinot Gris. Its spiritual homes are arguably in Alsace, France, as ‘Pinot Gris’ and Northern Italy, where it goes by the name Pinot Grigio. You’ll find it in Trentino Alto Adige and Friuli Venezia, and some in the Veneto, a bit further south. Alsace makes the Gris style- which is ripe and textural and can have some residual sugar. The best of these are world class, textural wines offering nectarine. honey, richness, salinity and some kind of other worldly, umami style magic. They work brilliantly with foods high in umami… Northern Italy makes an altogether crisper style, with high acidity, green apple, minerality and crispness. These go well with sushi and sashimi, a pear, rocket and walnut salad, and fried gyoza… it works with more than that, but you get the idea. PG is beloved elsewhere too, as Grauburgunder in Germany, in NZ and Australia. Early on Aussie Pinot G naming conventions didn’t follow the logic set out by the styles of Alsace and Italy, so you could pour an Aussie grigio, only to find that it was weighty, pendulous and sense enveloping… alternately, an Aussie gris which was rather sharper and less overtly ripe. So… here a pack with 3 Aussie Gris, which are riper, more complex examples All 3 are terrific. Learn More

Sometimes only a chilled glass of Sauv Blanc will do. So here’s six exceptional examples for you to have a crack at... from Margaret River, Pemberton and the Adelaide Hills. Oatley’s Margs SBS picked up a Trophy and golds at the Royal Adelaide Wine Show and offers a beguiling mix of passionfruit, lime zest, white pepper and greenery. Picardy’s Sauv Blanc Sem (85% SB) is superb, with crisp fruit and great texture. No surprises that it has picked up a 96. Three distinct clones of SB are used along with 2 different yeast strains. On opening it seems soft and delicate but as it airs, minerality, guava, lime, passionfruit and all manner of complexities emerge. The Chain of Ponds SB is crisp and offers a lovely mix of greenery and passionfruit. The Riposte, made by the Legendary Tim and Nick Knappstein is textural, succulent and pungent, a joy to drink. Howard are major growers in the Adelaide Hills and supply substantial quantities of fruit to what are arguably the two best known producers of SB in the region. This, their own bottling, is of course excellent too. Finally the Cape Jaffa SB is also lovely with tropical fruits, citrus and more are at play. Learn More

Hard to go past this Rosé sixer. First up, Curator Wine Co’s waltermelon, strawberry and spice laden blend of Montepulciano and Grenache. Next stop, Lloyd Brothers' lovely gold winner, packed with strawberries, red apples, and fresh red berries. Finally, the Colab and Bloom Grenache Rosé with a gold medal and 93pts already. Spice, Strawberries, redcurrants, and rosewater. It is a cracker. Learn More