Adelaide Hills, SA Red Wines
The GI (Geographic Indicator) region of South Australia’s Adelaide Hills is one of Australia’s premier cool-climate wine growing areas.
Located just outside of the city of Adelaide, and nestled between the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale, Adelaide Hills is a large, diverse region that includes two sub-regions: Piccadilly Valley and Lenswood.
With around 50 cellar doors along its narrow 70km stretch, Adelaide Hills boasts altitudes of up to 650 metres, meaning it has a cooler climate than the surrounding wine regions. Sauvignon Blanc is the most commonly grown grape in the Adelaide Hills, followed by Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris.
The unique climate and geography of the Adelaide Hills means the wines produced in this region are elegant and worthy of their increasing reputation when it comes to great Aussie wines. Check them out for yourself – these are the wines that our tasting panel loved:
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Colab and Bloom Tempranillo 2021Special Price $20.00 Regular Price $27.50A single vineyard temp from and highly regarded Macclesfield Vineyard. Medium-bodied with an emphasis on red fruits, violets, cherry, hints of cola, and spice. Length is good, perfect with Tapas. Learn More- Elysian Springs 'Spring Lamb' Syrah 2019Special Price $28.00 Regular Price $35.00Showing exceptional colour, this Syrah immediately presents flavours of black and blueberries, cherry, and a hint of white pepper. It delivers a beautiful velvet trail with oak detected in the background. This is a quintessential modern Australian shiraz that is absolutely worthy of your consideration. Learn More
- Heirloom Alcazar Castle Pinot Noir 2021Special Price $70.00 Regular Price $80.00Expressive, grounded, powerful, playful. This is an exceptional Pinot Noir sourced from a single vineyard in Charleston. Red and purple aromatics lead to a powerful yet aquiline palate offering roses, cherries, violets, spice, must and toastiness. The palate is long and the tannin finish fine. The acidity elevates the fruit. Exceptional. Learn More
- Heirloom Vineyards Adelaide Hills Syrah 2021Special Price $30.00 Regular Price $40.00High quality fruit from the Charleston vineyard is 30% whole bunch fermented and basket pressed into 20% brand new French oak for a year and a bit. A midweight Syrah, or Shiraz if you prefer, with dark and red fruits, plum and spice. Lovely Learn More
- Heirloom Vineyards Velvet Fog Pinot Noir 2022Special Price $35.00 Regular Price $40.00A very expressive nose offering a purple pinot perfume along with spice. The palate is big by pinot standards, laden with strawberries, savories, spice salinity and beetroot. Sensational value. Learn More
- Howard Vineyard Adelaide Hills 400 Range Rosé 2023Special Price $18.00 Regular Price $22.00A pretty Rosé to look at, the colour is that of almost rose gold, the rose theme continues on the nose and palate which is interwind with strawberries and wafts of Turkish delight. There's a welcome warm spice of almost clove the helps to balance the wines fruit and luxurious body. The palate is textured, the finish crisp, the wine excellent! Learn More
- Manser 'Block 4' Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2021Special Price $60.00 Regular Price $65.00A favourite here at WD which we have stocked every vintage of to date. This release is both powerful and refined, with bright red and black fruits, cracked pepper and Turkish delight complexed by cinnamon, nutmeg and blackberry gel before finishing with a crescendo of fine tannins. Learn More
- Riposte 'The Dagger' Pinot Noir 2023$24.00Typically fresh and zesty. this edition of the Dagger is brimful of with fresh red and forest fruits. A modern Pinot in style and unashamedly light to med bodied and made to enjoy young. That said, there's good fruit in this Pinot, which is of a genuinely high quality. Learn More
- Riposte 'The Sabre' Pinot Noir 2022Special Price $36.00 Regular Price $38.00The best Sabre we have seen to date. This multi clone blend (MV6, 1154, 115, D4V2, D5V12, and 18GM) is aromatic, succulent and drying, with cherries and savoury notes. The wine is just mid weight and offers delightfully ethereal aromatics and appropriate fruit weight on the palate. 25% French oak sees some lovely charry notes sliding into fine tannins on the finish. Learn More
- Sidewood Estate Shiraz 2021$26.00One of the most insane quality vs price ratios on the planet. Hand tended vines are picked by a Pellenc select harvester- which pick just the absolute best fruit. 12 separate clones of Shiraz are fermented separately using wild yeast, given extended maceration on skins and matured in French oak for 15 months. Finally, only the best barrels are blended and bottled. That sounds to us like most high-end producers $60-$100+ Shiraz. No surprise this has picked up 96 pts. from Halliday and 12 gold medals. Learn More
- Tomich Woodside Shiraz 2021Special Price $25.00 Regular Price $35.00A delicious, mid-weight perfumed Shiraz offering black and red fruits, dark chocolate, plums and pepper. The oak gives off cinnamon, cedar, and more, a complex amalgam which melds beautifully with the fruit. Learn More
- Vintage Longbottom Adelaide Hills H Pinot Syrah 2021Special Price $20.00 Regular Price $28.00A light to medium bodied, zippy, red fruited blend with lots going on. Cherries, rhubarb, plum, rosehip, cherry pip and more. Refreshing and engaging. Learn More
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A Tantalising Trio of Top Shelf Reds from the McLaren Vale and Clare Valley
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