2022 Red Wine Packs

Given times are tight at the moment, we're putting extra effort into the value side of the equation, whilst, as always striving to offer the best wines possible. So, here's a $180 baker's doz we think comfortably passes the Pub Test.

Inside, you’ll find:

3 bottles of a 94-point Barossa Cab

3 bottles of a double gold-winning Padthaway blend

3 bottles of Cape Jaffa’s stunning 2021 Shiraz Cab

3 bottles of Showblock’s powerhouse 95-point Cab Shiraz

The 13th? Oh, that's just a bottle of Martin’s $150 a bottle 97-point McLaren Vale Shiraz—a super-premium stunner and longtime best-seller.

Great wine, serious value. Hard to go wrong with this one.

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6 bottles apiece of 2 stellar 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. Secondly, the just released Manser Block 4 Shiraz, with 2 x 94 point scores so far, and higher honours no doubt to follow over the next 6 months or so. This is a powerhouse, black-fruited Shiraz packing cedar and vanilla which is finished with plentiful fine tannins. Learn More

The Red Peloton, curated by us, your fave Wine Pedlars, for you, lovers of wine and pedalling!

Wines from around the route of this year's Tour Down Under- a Red Peloton if you like, that will keep you intimately close to the route and riders as you follow the lycra clad ladies and lads around most highly prized bipedal event in the Southern Hempsphere.

The route takes in sections of the Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale and the Barossa Valley, so we've included a couple of Pinots from the Adelaide Hills, a magical Shiraz and a stunning Cab from McLaren Vale, and 2 brilliant Shiraz from the Barossa Valley. You'll be able to crank your arm at leisure while the riders are stressing theirs to the max!

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Do you sometimes feel Lost in Sea of Madness, like you’re Playing with Madness when choosing wine? Fear not Trooper it’s a Brave New World and this is the pack of your Infinite Dreams.

To Tame a Land of seemingly endless options we've got 3 Barossa Shiraz here, all are Killers, all are blacker than The Edge of Darkness, and a McLaren Vale stonker which is so dark it the makes the dark fear its own shadow.!

These are heavy metal riffs in a bottle, shot through with enough melody by way of intensely powerful fruit to make them much more grin than grim! Guaranteed to have you at a Losfer Words. Weekend Warriors feel free to go Where Eagles Dare, decant and enjoy now, Those who prefer to see the Prophecy through they’ll cellar From Here to Eternity.

There’s not a single medium bodied wine in this pack, so if light and medium bodied wines make you Run to the Hills, you’ll not need a Clairvoyant to know this is the pack for you!

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It's not every day we can put a pack together that saves you close to $1,000. Here's one such pack: $1,239 worth of the good stuff, with 95 point, old vine Langhorne Shiraz, a lovely Barossa Shiraz from a former maker of Penfolds Grange, Dowie Doole's barrel select, $90-a-bottle flagship and Yaldara's $250 a bottle behemoth. Your wallet might feel like it's had a close shave, but really, it's just saved plenty. Learn More

Sometimes you just need a gift that is unquestionably awesome; something that leaves the recipient in absolutely no doubt as to just how much you value them. Maybe they've gone out of their way to help you this year, or they are just a good friend and you are feeling generous.!

This is that gift!

This is a full dozen gift of full tilt and fancy, award winning Shiraz from the Barossa, the McLaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills.

Yep, 3 bottles each of Yaldara's $250 a bottle, 96-point Barossa behemoth. 3 more of Showblock's 96 point, $85 a bottle McLaren Vale Shiraz, which offers superb fruit definition and is as smooth as silk. 3 of Curtis' 96-point old vine Mclaren Vale stunner, a rich, black beast that is easy to drink but offers excellent intensity of fruit. Finally, 3 bottles of the Manser Block 4, one of the best Shiraz to come out of the Adelaide Hills, year in, year out.

All up $1,500 worth of magnificent Shiraz for just $360 and because it is a dozen, there is no freight charge.

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Three brilliant expressions of Shiraz from the Barossa Valley (x2) and the Yarra Valley (x1).

These are 3 lovely Shiraz, from the perfectly cellared, mid-weight Yarra, through to 2 strapping Barossa Shiraz. The Yarra is mid weight and spicy, the Scepter Barossa formidably fruited and armored with 12 months of French oak, and the Yaldara is a full tilt, black, ripe, and perfectly formed example of Barossa Shiraz. At rrp $65 a bottle, this alone covers the asking price of the pack.

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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.

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Coming 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

Fair chance this is the best $199 Shiraz doz we’ve ever cobbled together. Each of these is exceptional and all of these are old vine wines too, with the average vine age across the three sitting at 60!

The Curtis Small Batch might just be the best wine they have ever made – with fabulous black fruit intensity with judicious acidity and plenty of tannins driving through to an epic conclusion.

The Lone Palm, off 60-year-old Barossa Vines is packed with deep black and blue fruits, graphite, gun smoke and cedar. This is handpicked, hand plunged and basket pressed belligerence!

The Red Deer is exceptionally brightly and intensely fruited, with long black and red fruits finished with spindles of oak and fine tannins.

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Here’s the Official Royal Adelaide Wine Show Red Dozen for 2024.

Tough judging this year, with only around 5% of wines picking up a gold, and we can confirm that the quality of this year’s dozen is absolute fire across the board.

Every wine in the pack this year is a gold winner. There are also a couple of trophy winners: the After Five Monte, and Forester’s Shiraz. The latter is 86% Shiraz and 14% Fer… yep, an ancient varietal of Basque origin, which these days is also planted in some southern French wine regions. There is also a bit of it planted over in WA. The variety offers cassis, red fruits, black fruits, superb intensity and a degree of smokiness. This might be the first time a trophy winner at the Adelaide Wine Show has contained Fer, which offers a nice opportunity for nerdy contemplation. More importantly, the wine is beautiful. Looking beyond the accolades garnered at the Adelaide Show, these wines have also accrued an additional 10 gold medals, a trophy, a runner up in Halliday’s annual Cabernet competition and more. These wines are uniformly exceptional.

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Two bottles apiece of six Shiraz you could build a wall out of. Not because they are all massive or heavy but because there is not a single weak link here, not even the faintest whiff of a dud. From Claymore's delicious 2021 Clare Valley Dark Side of the Moon Shiraz to the $85-a-bottle, 96-point Showblock Shiraz from McLaren Vale, these are all genuinely delicious, and really should be in a bundle priced at $295. Grab it while it's hot!

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