McLaren Vale, SA Salento, Puglia, Italy Rioja, Spain Red Wines
- Allegiance Wines Single Vineyard McLaren Vale Graciano 2020$30.00Herbs, blue fruits and spice on the nose. Mulberries, blueberries, spice, dried herbs and black pepper on the palate. This is drink by itself friendly, food friendly and just generally friendly, but in a serious kinda way. Because there’s no mistaking this wine is both classy and very well put together. Learn More
- Brickfielder Small Batch McLaren Vale Shiraz 2020Special Price $35.00 Regular Price $45.00A beautifully sweetly fruited McLaren Vale Shiraz designed for drinking any time over the next decade. We found rich black fruits, liquorice, spice and a little dark chocolate. This is an engaging and relatively easy to drink wine, with a powerful core of fruit, a long finish and fine tannins. Learn More
- Carlos Serres Crianza Rioja 2020$50.00
Carlos Serres is a bit of an OG - one of the few Rioja producers with a century of winemaking behind them. Carlos was actually named Charles, a French Winemaker who left Bordeaux, fed up with dealing with phylloxera riddled vineyards, landing in Spain. He founded the first winery in Rioja with export certification and applied French winemaking techniques to Rioja fruit. Pretty soon, there was a demand for Rioja in the rest of Europe and the US.
Carlos Serres Crianza is 100% Tempranillo and spends 14 months in a combo of French and American oak. Being 'Crianza', the wine has spent a year in barrel, and another on bottle prior to release. Typically aged in older oak, Crianza can have quite assertive tannins and fruit which is intense whilst retaining great freshness. This is a particularly good example, packed with red fruits, cherries, spice, oak and nervy acidity.
Learn More - Carlos Serres Gran Reserva Rioja 2014$70.00
The most intense and refined of the Carlos Serres wines- a blend of Tempranillo, Graciano and Mazuelo, entirely sourced from the Finca El Estanque vineyard. Only 2% of Rioja wines are released as Gran Reserva, with the best fruit treated to at least a couple of years in oak, generally older, before being bottled at anywhere between 5 and 10 years of age. Carlos Serres choose to release the wine when it is ready to go... and this, the 14 vintage is excellent, offering ripe black fruits, truffles, raspberry, spice, cedar and vanilla. This is all wrapped around a mineral core. The palate is rich and smooth, the finish long and satisfying. Beautiful now, but will cellar for another 5+ as well.
Learn More - Carlos Serres Reserva Rioja 2017$60.00A stunning Reserve Rioja from Carlos Serres, one of the few century old Rioja producers. This is a blend of 90% Tempranillo with 10% Graciano sourced from the winery's 'Finca El Estanque' vineyard and aged for 2 years in French and American Oak. There is vivid freshness here, in spite of the wines age, and flavours of blackcurrant blackberries, shaved truffle, chocolate, cola, spice and lavender. Delicious by itself or with a plate or nine of Tapas. Brilliant with crispy pork belly too, or a cone of Jamon Iberico, or... Learn More
- Clandestine Vineyards Hearts & Minds Grenache 2021Special Price $55.00 Regular Price $60.00McLaren Vale Grenache is some of the very best produced in the world and the elevated and slightly cooler Blewitt Springs sub-region has a strong claim to being its best site within the McLaren Vale. This Grenache is sourced from low-yielding, 70+ year old, Blewitt Springs vines. No herbicides or pesticides are used in the vineyard and the wine is vegan friendly. The fruit is handpicked and open fermented before being transferred into 15% new French oak for a year before bottling unfined and unfiltered. There are red fruits, florals and spice, black olives, fleshy plum, plentiful acidity, and wonderfully fine, powdery tannins. A stunning Grenache. Learn More
- Colab and Bloom McLaren Vale Montepulciano 2020Special Price $20.00 Regular Price $27.50A beautifully structured mid-weight wine. Vibrant red fruits, black cherry and bay leaf. Quite big by Monty standards and needs decanting to coax out the fruit suggesting that will be a long-lived wine. Learn More
- Colab and Bloom McLaren Vale Montepulciano 2021Special Price $20.00 Regular Price $25.00The best vintage yet of this superb Monty from the Fleurieu Peninsula. A beautifully structured mid-weight wine. Powerful blue and black fruits, black cherry and bay leaf. Quite big by Monty standards with a decent lick of oak. Needs decanting to coax out the fruit suggesting that will be a long-lived wine. Learn More
- Colab and Bloom McLaren Vale Shiraz 2022Special Price $20.00 Regular Price $25.00A deep purple colour announces a wine of depth and intensity. Flavours include black cherries, plum, dark chocolate blackberries and white pepper finished with a little smoky oak. Tannins are fine and supple, drink over the next 10 years. Learn More
- Curtis 38 Year Old TawnySpecial Price $70.00 Regular Price $100.00This Tawny has spent over 38 years in barrel slowly oxidizing and becoming aldehydic in the process. It is amber and brown in colour and packed with nuttiness and raisins. There is enough sweetness to make the palate lush and plenty of acid too which provides balance and a dry finish. A stunning fortified wine. Learn More
- Curtis Cavaliere Cabernet 2018Special Price $60.00 Regular Price $70.00Drum roll please, here’s the new release Cabernet from Curtis Cavaliere which winemaker Mark rates as the best wine he made from the 2018 vintage! Lots going on here, from plums, mint, violet, tobacco, salinity, and a good whack of vanilla oak which adds a suggestion of sweetness without overwhelming the fruit. Sumptuous Learn More
- Curtis Cavaliere Shiraz 2020Special Price $60.00 Regular Price $70.00Rich, decadent and smooth. Dark and milk chocolate, black fruits, plums, spice and cedar. Exceptional concentration and fine tannins to round things out. A great drink now which will cellar magnificently as well. Learn More