Riposte Bleasdale Wine Packs
- A Sauvvy of Sauv BlancRegular Price $145.00 $120.00Sometimes only a chilled glass of Sauv Blanc will do. So here’s six exceptional examples for you to have a crack at... from Margaret River, Pemberton and the Adelaide Hills. Oatley’s Margs SBS picked up a Trophy and golds at the Royal Adelaide Wine Show and offers a beguiling mix of passionfruit, lime zest, white pepper and greenery. Picardy’s Sauv Blanc Sem (85% SB) is superb, with crisp fruit and great texture. No surprises that it has picked up a 96. Three distinct clones of SB are used along with 2 different yeast strains. On opening it seems soft and delicate but as it airs, minerality, guava, lime, passionfruit and all manner of complexities emerge. The Chain of Ponds SB is crisp and offers a lovely mix of greenery and passionfruit. The Riposte, made by the Legendary Tim and Nick Knappstein is textural, succulent and pungent, a joy to drink. Howard are major growers in the Adelaide Hills and supply substantial quantities of fruit to what are arguably the two best known producers of SB in the region. This, their own bottling, is of course excellent too. Finally the Cape Jaffa SB is also lovely with tropical fruits, citrus and more are at play. Learn More
- A Temptation of TempranilloRegular Price $205.00 $150.00Tempranillo is one of our favourite things here at winedirect.com.au. Here's 3 rippers which you'll be getting 2 bottles apiece of. From one of the Rioja's oldest producers, the Carlos Serres Crianza 2020 which sees high quality Tempranillo spend a year in oak and a year in bottle prior to release. This is a particularly good example, packed with red fruits, cherries, spice, oak and nervy acidity. Bleasdale 2022 - a trophy winner at the Adelaide Show with wonderful red fruits and subtle oak influence. Red cherries, chocolate, supportive acidity and fine tannins. Good at room temp, and also worth giving a 20 min spell in the fridge. Colab and Bloom 2021 - a Gold medal winner from a highly regarded vineyard in Maacclesfield (Adelaide Hills). Medium bodied, with plenty of red fruits, violet, cherry, cola and spice. Learn More
- Award Winning Aromatic Whites v2.0Regular Price $356.00 $220.00An excellent collection of award winning whites here, including Claymore's Riesling which picked up Gold at the competitive International Riesling Challenge, Lone Palm's exceptional old vine Rizza of which the Wine Companion said... ' Slinky, savoury and textural on the palate... bright, minerally drive and plenty of velocity and verve here.' There's a 95 point Rizza from Kilikanoon and a fabulous Trophy winning Sauv from Grant Burge too. Learn More
- Award Winning Whites from the Adelaide Hills and Eden ValleyRegular Price $363.00 $199.00A tiny production, single vineyard Riesling from the Eden, textural and aromatic Sauv Blanc from legend Tim Knappstein, fragrant and creamy PG and a zesty Sauv Blanc from Chain of Ponds. These are all drinking beautifully now and will continue to do so over the next couple of years. The Riesling, a joy now, will spread its wings over the next decade, if you have the patience. Learn More
- Pinot Gris - The Artis RiposteRegular Price $168.00 $130.00We’ve had more than a few requests for a Pinot Gris (or Pinot Grigio) 6 pack so here it is. 2 bottles apiece of the exceptional Artis PG, packed with fruit and linear acid, plus Monterra's fruit laden and linear beauty and rounded out with the absolutely magnificent Riposte PG, made by legends Tim and Nick Knappstein. Learn More
- Platinum Wine Club MixedRegular Price $424.00 $180.00
Riposte's 'the Foil' SB is one of the most consistent and complex Sauvvies to come out of the Adelaide Hills, Deep Woods Margaret River SSB is a trophy winning stunner, floral and packed with snow pea, passionfruit and lemon curd. First Creek's Vermentino is world class, perfumed and replete with tropical fruits, citrus, minerality and more. Mitchell's Peppertree is an old vine, medium bodied, gently fruited and savoury Clare Valley classic. Karl's Scepter's Barossa Shiraz is full bodied, and filled with dark fruits, chocolate, vanilla and cedar. Brickfielder's Barossa Shiraz is loaded with black fruits, blue fruits, black pepper, cedar, chocolate and more.
Read more about the winedirect.com.au Wine Club here or contact us at wineclub@winedirect.com.au for more info.
Learn More - Platinum Wine Club WhitesRegular Price $288.00 $165.00
The Growers Gate PG offers varietally appropriate pears and apples. Riposte's 'the Foil' SB is one of the most consistent and complex Sauvvies to come out of the Adelaide Hills, Deep Woods Margaret River SSB is a trophy winning stunner, floral and packed with snow pea, passionfruit and lemon curd. First Creek's Vermentino is world class, perfumed and replete with tropical fruits, citrus, minerality and more.
Read more about the winedirect.com.au Wine Club here or contact us at wineclub@winedirect.com.au for more info.
Learn More - The 2023 Official Royal Adelaide Wine Show Dozen - MixedRegular Price $407.00 $295.00
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.
Learn More - The 2023 Official Royal Adelaide Wine Show Dozen - RedRegular Price $383.00 $295.00
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.
Learn More - The Extremely Limited Trophy Winners Six PackRegular Price $245.00 $180.00
Just Trophy winners here. Majella’s 4x trophy winning Cab which picked up every trophy it was eligible for at the Cowra Show and is Winestate’s reigning Champion Cabernet of the year! Heirloom’s, 2022 Alcala Grenache, just awarded the Decanter Trophy for best Grenache in the WORLD from a massive field. Dandelion’s Lion’s Tooth Shiraz blend, winner of not just best Shiraz blend, not just best red wine, but best wine of the entire McLaren Vale Wine Show. Plus Heirloom’s trophy winning 2018 McLaren Shiraz, Bleasdale’s Trophy winning Tempranillo and Elysian Springs, rich, soft and smooth, Trophy winning, Adelaide Hills Syrah. Rippers, one and all.
Learn More - You Say Gris, I Say GrigioRegular Price $146.00 $130.00Gris 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 much 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 7 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 the 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 other worldly, 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, in NZ and Australia. Early on 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 a pack with 3 Aussie Gris, which are riper, more complex examples All 3 are terrific. Learn More