You might think that for 13 bucks a bottle you’d be stocking up on drain cleaner or quaffers for Friday night in front of your fave streaming service. Nope! Every wine in this pack is lovely! The Red Deer is midweight and complex, the Brickfielder a full throttle, 95 point McLaren Vale stunner. The Yarra Celebration is light to medium but savoury and with lovely fruit - and the Scepter Barossa Cab is a beast worthy of a T-Bone. Finally, the 13th bottle is Curtis' Small Batch, Old Vine, 96 point McLaren Vale Shiraz, a magical wine with exceptional depth of flavour. Learn More

Here’s a pack which pits powerful Barossa Shiraz against multifaceted McLaren Vale Shiraz... We’re hesitant to call it a fight to the death, more of an opportunity for you to compare and contrast the many and varied charms of exceptional Shiraz from what are arguably Australia’s 2 finest regions for full bodied Shiraz.

From the Barossa, we have the Brickfielder Shiraz, made by former Penfolds head Winemaker Oliver Crawford. This is a rich and well oaked Barossan; it is a massive wine, loaded with black fruits, vanilla and cedary oak. From the same winemaker, we have the Karl’s Scepter Barossa Shiraz, again with excellent depth of fruit and even more cedar, having spent a year in high quality French oak. There’re black fruits, chocolate, vanilla. cherries plum and spice.

From the McLaren Vale, we present Martins Limited Shiraz, reviewed at 97 points by Sam Kim and 96 by both Ken Gargett and Kim Brebach. Year in, year out, this is our bestselling super premium Shiraz. Fruits are blacks and blues, with blueberries, blackberries, olive tapenade, cedar and vanilla populating a powerful and long palate. The tannins are polished, waxy and plentiful. Also from McLaren Vale, the Pasha Shiraz, which was voted higher than Penfolds Grange in a recent Grange challenge we conducted. This is packed with uber ripe and gorgeously generous black fruits, dark cherry, compote, notes of furniture polish, spice, black pepper, chocolate, tobacco, and leather...

These are big wines but rather than being a clash of the titans, perhaps this represents an opportunity to compare excellent examples of Shiraz from both the Barossa Valley and the McLaren Vale, and we’ve no doubt that while you will identify a winner, it’ll be a close run thing.

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A Chardonnay, how we love thee! 6 cracking examples here from all over the place, including the Adelaide Hills, Limestone Coast, the Hunter and the Coonawarra. Spearheaded by Heirloom's 2018 reserve, worth $60 a bottle and Sidewood's 96 Halliday pointed and 6 gold medal winning stunner. All up $212 worth of delicious Chardy for just $140. Learn More

We did a double take when this landed on the tasting bench. This is full bodied, ripe, plush and powerfully fruited. Softened a little by 7 years cellaring, it is drinking magnificently now. We wondered if it would age, so came back to the same bottle 30 hours later and it was even better. Beautiful fruit aromatics leading to black fruit, black olives, spice, dark chocolate, cedar and plenty of fine tannins. Ken Gargett said it is a 'powerful Shiraz with an exciting future.' A stunner and a steal at just $20 a bottle. Learn More

6 bottles apiece of 2 stellar 97 point Shiraz which you can enjoy side by side, over and over again. First up Martin’s 97 point super-premium McLaren Vale Shiraz which is packed with black and blue fruits and finished with rasps of cedar and powdery tannin. Three Scores in for this so far 1x97 ans 2x96! Last but not least, Manser’s Block 4 Shiraz, replete with two scores of 97 points and a gold medal; a powerhouse, black-fruited Shiraz packing cedar and vanilla which is finished with plentiful fine tannins. Learn More

Birds of a feather this lot - stunning fruit, high quality oak, richness speaking of terroir and deep black fruit all finished with plenty of gnarly but nice tannins. Good with charcuterie. Better with a rare T-Bone. Perfect with smoky BBQ Ribs dripping in your own custom glaze. Heavenly at this price. What are you waiting for? Learn More

Here is an opportunity to stock up on some glorious reds and save $780 in the process. This pack includes Dowie Doole’s best of vintage, 1300 bottle run of 2019 Architect Cab, Angas King’s sublime reserve Shiraz from the Clare Valley and the Curtis old vine, 96 point McLaren Vale Shiraz. All yours for just $240, aka $20 a bottle with FREE Freight. Learn More

Just over $15 a bottle here gets you some absolute stunners. Metala’s magnificent Legacy Cab, one of the best Langhorne Cabs we’ve seen in the past 12 months, Karl’s Scepter’s beautifully French oaked Coonawarra, and juiciness and length from the Red Deer. Plus you’ll be getting a bottle of Yaldara’s stunning, $200 a bottle Grand. This is big, bad, Cabernet dominant Barossa magic that has been getting rave reviews from our customers and wine writers alike! Learn More

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

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You might think that for 13 bucks a bottle you’d be stocking up on quaffers for Friday night in front of Netflix, or for a mid-week dinner with leftovers. Nope! There is not a single quaffer in this pack. The Red Deer is a fruitful and spicy Shiraz, well-seasoned with oak sourced from 50-year-old vines. The Tomich offers great fruit and spice in a medium bodied setting and Montara’s Homeblock is also mid-weight with lovely soft tannins and fruit. BONUS - we’ve made this a baker’s dozen, topping it off with a bottle of the stunning Yaldara Grand Cab Shiraz, a mammoth 96pt red packed with high intensity Barossa goodness. Learn More

6 smashing McLaren Shiraz for you to give the old tonsil test. The highlights? Dandelion’s 97 point Firehawk Farm Shiraz, which is one of the very best Shiraz made in McLaren Vale; Haselgrove’s rich and super smooth Catkin Shiraz; and Martin’s Limited 97 point Shiraz. The Curtis Small Batch is a ripper too, old vines and 96 points- black as the ace of spades and smooth as a smoothie. No filler here, these are all superb! Learn More

There are not too many better value packs floating around! For just $260 you are getting a spectacular selection of Shiraz and a $200 bonus.

Mitchell’s perfectly cellared 96 point, 2015 Peppertree Shiraz

3x Curtis $100 a bottle, intense, black ink, Mclaren Vale beauty

3x Yaldara’s $65 a bottle Barossa Shiraz which is one of the best wines we’ve seen this year

3x Red Deer’s juicy and delicious Langhorne Creek Shiraz

1x Yaldara Grand Cuvee Cab Shiraz, which Sam Kim gave 96 points and said, ‘The powerfully concentrated palate delivers outstanding weight and opulence, together with a velvety texture and fine-grained tannins, making it gratifying and immensely appealing

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