Adelaide Hills, SA Medium Red Wines
Red wine – we like it, you like it. Sometimes it’s really red, sometimes it’s less red. Sometimes it’s Barossa Valley Shiraz, sometimes Coonawarra Cabernet or McLaren Vale Grenache. New world, old world, weird and wonderful, traditional and cutting edge – if it’s red and it passed the Tasting Panel’s approval,Barossa Valley Shiraz
Which is the least tannic red wine?
Tannins come from both grape skins and oak. Pinot Noir is generally fairly low in tannins, as is Gamay, Barbera and Dolcetto. Rosé, given its limited skin contact and typical fermentation in stainless steel, is usually very low in tannin.
Red wines that spend no time in oak, or which are matured in older oak tend to have less tannins too.
On the flipside Nebbiolo, Cab ...
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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 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
- 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
- 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
- Wicks Estate CJ Cabernet Sauvignon 2018Special Price $40.00 Regular Price $45.00A full bodied, intense and varietal Cab from the warm 2018 vintage, tamed by close to 2 years’ maturation in 60% new French oak, and a few years bottle age. Drinking beautifully already, this offers black fruits, violet, tobacco leaf and dark chocolate. Works beautifully with all things lamb. Learn More
- Wicks Estate CJ Shiraz 2018Special Price $35.00 Regular Price $45.00Quite a big black beast, with oodles of black fruits, spice, cedar and depth of flavour. Excellent on opening, this also improves as it breathes and is a superb match for pretty much anything beefy. N.B. Masterchef fans, this has not been tested with Beef Ice cream. Learn More