2018 2017 Red Wine Packs

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

A doz comprising six superb Cabernets. All up $916 worth for just $295. The Curtis Cavaliere and Curator almost cover the asking price of this pack by themselves! You’ll also be getting the superb Metala Legacy, the stunning Kilikanoon Clare Cab the deliciously slurpable Red Deer Cabernets. The highlight though- 2 bottles of Yaldara’s 96 point, intense, decadent, and black as the ace of spades Cab blend. There’s a bit of Shiraz in the mix, but the wine is cab-dominant and magnificent! Learn More

A magnificent pack this, pairing brilliant reds from the Barossa, Clare Valley and McLaren Vale. Favourites including Chateau Yaldara, Lone Palm and Kilikanoon, plus a couple of newbies - Angas King with their magnificent Reserve Shiraz and Dowie Doole who bring their delicious, $80 a bottle Architect Cab, made off the very best fruit they picked in that vintage. Learn More

A wonderful selection of red wines from the Clare Valley, Adelaide Hills, Langhorne Creek, McLaren Vale and Barossa Valley. The Sieben Klon is a 95 pointer made by former St Henri growers, the Metala Legacy is as good a Cab as the Langhorne can make (which is mighty fine). Dowie Doole's Shiraz has black fruits, but also, and much rarer, blue fruits too. It is a belter. If all Shiraz had black and blue fruits, no one would buy anything else! Lone Palm's Old Vine Grenache will sell out in a few months and the Angas King Reserve is incredibly fresh for its age and has at least a decade ahead of it. We're predicting a lot of staff orders for this one. 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

Here is an opportunity to stock up on some glorious Shiraz and save $890 in the process. This pack includes the Martins Limited super-premium 97 pointer from the Vale, a Langhorne lovely off 50 y.o. vines, and Pasha’s super-premium McLaren Vale Shiraz. All up, $1140 worth of top shelf Shiraz which will set you back just $250 with free freight. Learn More

Grenache from former Penfolds Growers, Old Vine Grenache which has just picked up 95 from Sam Kim and Kim Brebach. Complex 2018 Bordeaux, magnificent 95 point Grenache from Dandelion which was sourced entirely from their Firehawk Farm vineyard and a magic blend of air-dried Corvina, Rondinella and Merlot from the Veneto. All of these have been through the tasting panel and been thumbsed up- so you can grab one of these sixers with confidence. Learn More

4 bottles each of Angas King’s magnificent, $75 a bottle, 2017 reserve Shiraz. We tried this twice on the tasting panel and loved it both times- it looked even better a day after opening and has a bright future ahead of it. Ken Gargett said, ‘still very young … powerful with a long and exciting future. Seamless, with bright acidity and silky tannins plus a very long finish which maintains the intensity. Drink now and for 10 to 20 years.’ You’ll also get 4 bottles of Martin’s 97 point $150 a bottle McLaren Vale Shiraz, and 4 of Karl Scepter’s 93-point, succulent and chocolatey Barossa Cab. Finally a $200 a bottle, 96 point Barossa Cab Shiraz from Yaldara! Learn More

Here's an Imported red sampler to wet your whistle, with Piedmontese Nebbiolo and Barbera, Tuscan Sangiovese, a beautifully smooth Valpolicella and a delightful Tempranillo from Rioja. Each of these wines has been handpicked by us from hundreds tasted at the Prowein fair in Germany, the premier Italian wine buying event, Vinitaly, or from tastings at individual wineries. Only a small percentage of what we taste makes the final cut. Definitely worth a rip. 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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At 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

We don't often offer you packs filled with aged reds, because it is hard to track down really high quality aged reds in decent quantities. Then the tasting panel have to agree on all of them and we're an argumentative lot when it comes to wine. Fortunately, the stars and planets have aligned in this selection of cellared reds, sourced direct from the winery. Mitchell's beautiful, 96 point 2015 Peppertree Shiraz. JJ Hahn's mind bendingly open and nuanced, 96 point, 130 year old vine Shiraz. Dandelion's exceptional Treasure Trove Grenache, off their Firehawk farm vineyard. 96 point, $200 a bottle Yaldara Grand. Farmers Leap’s full tilt, well oaked ripper from the 2016 vintage and Angas King's stunning, 2017 Reserve Shiraz from the Clare. Delicious wines, one and all, all drinking beautifully right now. Learn More