Best Wines Under $100

Awesome value for money this lot and worth a thought or 2.

The Metala is intense and achingly pure, a staggeringly high-quality Cab at its asking price of $45. Kim Brebach gave it 95 saying it ‘is a powerhouse of a wine, showing all the features Langhorne Creek reds are famous for: rich, seductive fruit... tremendous depth of flavour – this is a great red, and worth every penny of the asking price.

The Karl’s Scepter Coonawarra, made by a former maker of Penfolds Grange offers luscious red and dark fruits, violet, and plums with plenty of fine tannins.

Coriole’s Songbord picked up a coveted Adeaide Show gold medal and brings deep fruits, spice, cacao, violets, blackcurrants, greenery and plums.

The Ferghana McLaren Vale is both rich and varietal, with black fruits and a touch of cedar.

The Red Deer is a pristine Langhorne Cab, with great varietal purity – awesome now and will cellar beautifully.

The Curtis Cavaliere, with 96 points from Sam Kim, is a powerful, black beast laden with tobacco, mint, violet, and plum.

A wonderful collection of Cabernets from the Coonawarra, Clare, Langhorne Creek and the Barossa.

All of these can be decanted and poured with roast Lamb or whatever grabs your fancy AND will cellar too. There’s Schoolhouse’s 98 pointer, a classic, mid weight and fragrant Coonawarra stunner. The Kilikanoon is a fuller bodied and robust 95 pointer, which is packed with dense fruit and just emerging from its shell. Top of the tree is Yaldara’s $200 a bottle Grand Cuvee. Yeah, there’s some Shiraz in the blend, but the flavours are Cab Dominant, rich, intense and lush. See below for full details on each of the wines in this pack.

A few years back Max Allen suggested Grenache might be our best warm climate variety, even more so than Shiraz. Arguably Grenache more faithfully expresses terroir than Shiraz, copes with less water and handles heat better, making it ideal for an industry coming to grips with climate change.

Handily, it also makes world class wines, especially out of McLaren Vale. To quote James Halliday “Grenache is McLaren Vale’s secret weapon – not merely Australia’s best, but every bit as good as that of the Rhone Valley.”

So here’s 3 exceptional Grenache from the McLaren Vale …

3 bottles Dandelion Faraway Tree Grenache 2020... The best Grenache Elena Brooks can make, off the Firehawk vineyard. From the winemaker who was runner up in the Halliday Grenache Challenge with her Heirloom Alcala 2019.
3 bottles Curtis Small Batch - 95 pointer off 120 year old vines.
1 bottle Curtis Limited - 96 pointer off 100 year old vines.

All up, $670 worth of magnificent Grenache for just $199