Clare Valley, SA Wine Packs
- Help Your Elf Double Dozen RedRegular Price $1,184.00 $360.00It's been a while since we rolled out a double dozen. Fair to say they have always sold well and offer excellent coverage for the requirements of the silly season. Crackers here like Mitchell Kalmar - a $50 a bottle, single vineyard Shiraz, Showblock’s Rosie, a 95 point, $85 a bottle blend from McLaren Vale, and Greenock Estate's Sieger old vine Barossa Shiraz. Retail on this one is $50 and it represents incredible value. We reckon there are a couple of Barossa producers who'd offer this wine at $100 or more. There’s plenty more good stuff in this pack too. All up 24 bottles worth $1,184 for just $15 a bottle and the bulk of your Christmas entertaining catered for beautifully! Learn More
- Hitting their Straps; Perfectly Cellared Award Winning Reds v2.0Regular Price $716.00 $265.00
We love a cellared red here at WD. Take a massive red, give it a few years to marinate in its own juices, softening a little and losing the rough edges, and we're hearing 'hello, Saturday night'! Here's how it might unfold. It’s Saturday night and near-spent charcoal is shimmering wobbly blues and greys ‘neath the griddle, whilst a hint of wood smoke tantalizes your olfactories. The sounds of a salad being constructed threatens to accost your reverie. You deny this repugnant intrusion, note that two magnificent slices of aged steak have just reached room temp, and usher your mind towards their perfect bottled accompaniment. It will come from somewhere superb, perhaps the McLaren Vale, Barossa, or the Clare Valley. It might be a perfectly-cellared Mitchell Peppertree Shiraz, with its savoury sensibility and whisper-fine tannins, or perhaps a glorious Coonawarra Cabernet, all violets and blue fruit on a bed of cedar, or really any of the other beautiful wines in this dozen. You snap out of your reverie and snap open your chosen bottle. It’s time to pour a glass, place those steaks mindfully on the griddle and perhaps conjure up the tiniest salad plates imaginable. Today is not a salad day!
Learn More - Just Great GrenacheRegular Price $646.00 $295.00An assembly of our favourite Grenache and blends at the mo. Multiple trophy winning Kilikanoon Baudinet GSM, trophy winning Kilikanoon Prodigal, Curtis' 96 point old viner and Lone Palm's old vine 95 pointer all offer power to burn but with a brightness of fruit that is very much the modern way. The Lienert and Brother's at War are lighter Grenache, but not wishy washy. Both of these offer exceptional red fruits, excellent acidity and whisper fine tannins. We love all 6 of these wines. Learn More
- Just Super-Premium '21 Reds from the Barossa, Clare & McLaren ValeRegular Price $1,260.00 $360.00This pack is our homage to the genius 2021 vintage, a 'unicorn' vintage, which gave good volume coupled with a really high proportion of A-grade fruit. There's a trophy-winning Clare Grenache from the legends at Kilikanoon; a 96-point and twin gold McLaren Shiraz; Curator Wine Co's achingly intense and pure Greenock Shiraz, laden with black fruits, cedar and graphite; Yaldara's $200-a-bottle behemoth and Dowie Doole's two exceptional flagship reds. These are magnificent, one and all. Learn More
- On Point ShirazRegular Price $504.00 $180.00At just $15 a bottle, this could be our best ever value Shiraz pack. The 'quaffer', aka Yarra Celebration Shiraz has scored an average of 4.4 stars out of 5 from customers who have bought it from us. We like it too... good fruit, mid weight, too good to be called a quaffer. The Angas King is a $75 a bottle stunner from the Clare. Richness, intensity and complexity in spades here in a wine which is only just entering its ideal drinking window and will drink well for at least another decade. Sidewood's Shiraz has harvested 12 gold medals and 96 points from Halliday. These are estate grown, hand tended vines- with the best fruit picked by a Pellenc select harvester. Lesser quality fruit does not find its way into this wine. Consider also, the use of 12 individual clones separately wild yeast fermented, given extended maceration on skins in barrel and then matured for 15 months in 100% French oak, 25% of which is new. Finally, only the best barrels make the cut for bottling. Learn More
- Secret 95pt 2017 Clare Valley Reserve Shiraz 6 PackRegular Price $450.00 $120.00We 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
- Secret 96pt 2015 Old Vine Clare Valley Shiraz 6 PackRegular Price $288.00 $120.00Complex, ripe and rich, old vine Clare Shiraz from a legendary producer! Dark fruits, cherries, spice, cedar and more. Great drinking already but with a few more years left in it too. Learn More
- The Christmas Cracker 6 PackRegular Price $421.00 $200.00
A Chrissie sixer for us means 6 of the best but without corporal punishment. Even your wallet will be ok given the baked in discount.
This contains a bottle each of
Wicks Pamela Sparkling, a trophy winning Adelaide Hills sparkling which is made using the Champagne method. Its one of the best Aussie sparklings money can buy.
Dowie Doole's Sparkling Shiraz, made entirely from an A-grade Shiraz solera which has been in continuous use since 1996. Stunning fruit and just slightly sweet, this is exceptional.
Jeanneret's Sevenhill Riesling- 96 points from Sam Kim. This offers an ethereal fragrance and a powerful core of intense Riesling fruit. Lively and beguiling simultaneously.
Kilikanoon Tregea Cabernet - this is Kilikanoon's Flagship Cab; rich and densely fruited, needs decanting and might just be the perfect thing to have with roast Lamb.
Lone Palm Old Vine Grenache. Old Vine Grenache with a splash of old vine Shiraz. !00% Barossa Valley, 100% French oak. Spicy, black fruited and beautifully balanced.
Irvine Grand Merlot 2018. Australia's greatest Merlot; rich and smooth, laden with ripe tobacco leaf, plums and more. Just a beautiful thing to put in your head.
Learn More - The Cracking Cabernet and Family DozenRegular Price $994.00 $295.00
We are pretty confident this is the best Cab Family varietals pack we've ever put together. For $295 you'll be getting 2 bottles of Irvine's Grand Merlot, worth $300 - yep the one where 2 vintages have been awarded best Merlot in the world. Rest of the pack is compelling too - a couple of bottles of Kilikanoon Tregea Cab. This is their flagship Cabernet which retails for $96 a bottle. A couple of Dowie Doole's flagship Architect Cab, a $90 a bottle, tiny production stunner and arguably the best McLaren Vale Cab available right now. Showblock Cab... another 96 pointer. Rounding the pack out, a couple of bottles apiece of the Karl's Scepter Coonawarra and Barossa Cabernets - sure these might not be super premiums like the wines above, but they are very, very good; much better than quaffers. All up $995 worth for just $295.
Learn More - The Exceptional White 6-PackRegular Price $341.00 $199.00So much goodness here in what is our most premium white pack in ages. It includes two First Creek Semillons, both of which picked up 96 points from Halliday, placing them equal fifth in a field of 180 tasted so far. Then there's a 96 point White Burgundy (aka Chardonnay) from Jean Loron which retails for $120 a bottle. Grant Burge's Savvy Blanc, which picked up the best SB trophy at the Adelaide Show. Plus Jeanneret's $40 a bottle, 96 point Watervale Riesling and Atze's exceptional gold and top gold winning Barossa Valley Vermentino. Learn More
- The Heavy-Hitting $199 Shiraz DozenRegular Price $624.00 $199.00Coming your way, three bottles of the Red Deer '22 Langhorne Creek Old Vine Shiraz. This is a wine that we can squeeze into the $199 doz comfortably. It is $35 retail and just picked up 95 points from Kim Brebach with the following words: ‘…took me right back to the early reds of Wolf Blass (also using Langhorne Creek fruit). The vibrant, slippery fruit is supercharged, bursting with bright flavour yet the wine is not overripe or high in alcohol. It’s medium-bodied, almost elegant – it’s truly rare to find such intensity of flavour in a gentle red. So far so good; we’re on track for a good $199 doz. Then it starts to get silly, because we’ve also shoehorned in three bottles of the 2015 Mitchell Peppertree Shiraz: a 96-point stunner, mid weight and drinking beautifully. No rush though, you can drink this any time over the next 10 years. Next up, three of Greenock Estate’s Sieger 777 Old Vine Barossa Shiraz. This wine pulls no punches: a $50-a-bottle, full-throttle Barossa Shiraz that leaves no stone unturned in its mission to stone your palate to death. Drink it carefully; it's big! To complete the heavy-hitting, we have three $75-a-bottle Angas King Reserve Clare Shiraz. We’ve already sold a bucketload of this wine and had a heap of repeat orders for it. It's decent value at $75, exceptional when you can pick it up in this doz with an average bottle price of just $16.58! Learn More
- The Perfectly-Cellared Bundle Plus Some Very Expensive HomeworkRegular Price $1,166.00 $295.00
We had a bit of a think about which wines are floating our boat the most at the moment from a cellared perspective. You know, where the tannins have softened a bit and some complexity is emerging but there is still a solid accent on fresh, primary fruit. We settled on five wines: a 96-pointer from Mitchell (The Peppertree), a 94-pointer from Angas King, Kilikanoon's trophy-winning Grenache, JJ Hahn's 96-pointer from a vineyard planted in the 1890s and a 96-pointer from McLaren Vale. These are bulletproof and will work when you crack 'em at home, as a gift, or for when you head around to friends for a catch up. That all seemed like we were making things a bit too easy, so we've given you some homework in the form of two bottles of Yaldara's 96 point, $250-a-bottle Grand Cuvee Shiraz. You could study these now, but you'll want to bust out the cheat notes (decanter) so you can get a good sense of what's going on here. Do that, and you'll find these very engaging and informative already. Failing that, stick 'em away for a decade or so!
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