Limestone Coast, SA Wine Packs

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

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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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 edition to date.

6 wines in this pack and 6 Royal Adelaide Wine Show 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

Yep, for the first time ever, we’ve managed to squeeze 6 trophies into the official Royal Adelaide Wine Show Red Dozen. The quality of each wine is utterly exceptional. Every wine in this dozen was not just a gold medal winner, but the equal best pointed wine in their class in initial judging. As you’d expect, quite a few 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 elsewhere. We suspect stock of this pack will sell fast. Grab one while you can.

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We get it, not everyone wants to drink Sauv Blanc and even if you do, sometimes it’s nice to get into a pear-laden PG or a crisp and aromatic Rizza or perhaps something even more exotic! So here’s a pack with the Sauv Blancs banished! In their place, 2 stunning Rieslings from Claymore leads the way, laden with citrus and mouthwatering acidity, plus apples and pears and a wonderfully creamy texture in the PG from Artis. Ted’s Place PG is dry and textural, with pear, ginger and apple aromas and flavours.

Read on for full notes on each wine...

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Just a tick over $13 a bottle for these excellent PGs, all of which are drinking beautifully. Monterra, from the Adelaide Hills, has a gold medal in tow and offers crisp pears and green apple, bath powder, minerality and chalk. A stunner which you can drink any time over the next 5 years. The Growers Gate accents pear backed with a lick of lemony sweetness and an easygoing texture. The Ted's Place is prime drinking right now. We all loved it on the tasting panel - plenty of fruit and complexity here. 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 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 seven 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 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 otherworldly, 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, as well as in NZ and Australia. Early 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's a pack with two Aussie Grigios – well named for their crispness and delicacy, and one Aussie Gris, which is a riper, more complex example Learn More