First Creek Colab and Bloom White Wine Packs

Four wonderful whites all of which are good drinking now – no further cellaring required. We lead off with Curtis’ silver medal winning Riesling which is textural and packed with fruit. Growers Gate PG is easy drinking, with great texture and plenty of pear flavour and the Curtis Heritage Chard is crisp and linear with citrus, peach and honeydew melon. The Botanica PG offers a lovely mix of pear and apple, crispness and length.

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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.

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A wonderfully flavoursome mix of whites ready to go, right now.

The Curtis Heritage Chard is crisp and linear with citrus, peach and honeydew melon. First Creek's PG offers pears and clarity of fruit and the Dell'uva Albarino brings peach, lemons, green apples, spice and salinity. The Joshua Tree, fresh off its gold at the International Riesling Challenge offers power, with classic lemons and limes and rapier like acidity.

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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

6 brilliant Chardies, hand-picked by the tasting panel and ready for you to enjoy right now. A delicious, minerally and linear reserve from Eight at the Gate, bright zestiness from Artis, and the exceptionally delicate and stonefruit-laden Coldstream Guard from the Yarra Valley. The Curtis Heritage, which is more of a nod to Chablis, with its aromatics of citrus blossom rounded out with peach. Leconfield’s buttery beauty which is replete with stonefruit, tropicals, smoke and grilled nuts and First Creek’s delightfully medium bodied Hunter exemplar. 6 lovely Chardies, all ready to drink, right now. Learn More

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, a stunning Riesling 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. First Creek’s PG is dry with a mineral edge, pear aromas and flavours along with green apple. Finally, the Dell’uva Albarino offers a palate packed with peach, lemons, green apples, spice and salinity. It is wonderful by itself and even better with seafood.

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Here are 6 exceptional white wines including a Vermentino rated 97pt by James Halliday -making it his equal 6th highest rated white out of 1779 2022 vintage white wines! Plus, Grant Burge’s delicious, trophy-winning Pearl SB, fresh off its trophy in the Royal Adelaide Wine Show. There’s Trophy Winning Margaret River SSB, cracking 95pt Kilikanoon Meymans Riesling, and plenty more besides.

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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 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 one Aussie Grigio – well named for its crispness and delicacy, and 2 Aussie Gris, which are riper, more complex examples All 3 are terrific. Learn More