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Black as the ace of spades and offering an intriguing mix of blackcurrant, liquorice, vanilla, earth, cedar and spice. A big Cab with plenty of tannins and plenty of potential. Decant is drinking anytime soon and pair it with protein. Alternately, cellar for up to a...
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A super drinkable, soft yet rich Cabernet. Bundles of blackcurrant and lots of liquorice here. Perfect with Chook, pizza, footy franks and French...
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A deliciously quaffable and soft Shiraz brought to us by the makers of The Hidden Sea wines. This is a juicy everyday drink offering mulberries, plum, chocolate and pepper and spice. No need to cellar, rip into it over the next year or...
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It’s a soft, smooth and eminently gluggable beast this, with quite plush fruit in a light to medium bodied framework. Looks like it should be drunk quickly but oddly enough is even better the following day. There’s red berries, spice, softness and savory tannins,...
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James Halliday says it beautifully ‘This is a hedonistic, raring, bumptious wine for the price. For those who like varietal purity, oomph and some winemaking massage, this is for you. Floral. Blueberry and plum mingle with smoked baby-back ribs rubbed with anise, tapenade and pepper. Juicy and...
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An abundance of rich and ripe fruit, in a blackberry and mulberry fashion give way to a gentle herbal undertone, finishing with a hit of dark and sticky fruit. Lipsmacking! It drinks well from the first pop of the cork, but would cellar happily in the dungeon for another few years at...
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This is a cracking good Cab for the money – loaded with juicy fruits, spice, some oak and fine, soft tannins. Like any good quaffer it is ready to drink now. Unlike most quaffers, the quality and intensity of fruit is excellent. It’s easy to imagine this with a higher price...
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Big and bold and black-strappy Shiraz fashioned to enjoy now or over the next few years. It’s black with plenty of sweet fruit and fluffy furry tannins to finish. Pair it up with some braised lamb or roast...
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This wine is often described as rustic but we reckon that’s a touch unfair. We reckon this is a deliciously old-school red, with dark, earthy Shiraz fruit working beautifully with pure and fragrant Grenache. It’s quite powerful and has some chunky tannins – but nothing a lump of red meat won’t tame. Will cellar beautifully and is superb value for...
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A little less rustic and tannic than many d’Areberg wines this is nonetheless packed with an intensity of fruit and tannin you don’t normally see in wines at this price-point. This wine has a very pretty nose, with blueberries and perfume giving way to some serious and savoury greenery. The palate is full bodied and fresh, showing blue fruits, cherries and sage. There's great fruit intensity...
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Initially cranky and uncommunicative, like Monday morning before a couple of short blacks. With air this really opens beautifully, showing smoked meats and red confection, cherries, plentiful acid and a stack of fine tannins. Properly mouthwatering and worth having with a hearty Beef cheek dish or a platter of cured meats and...
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An exceptional second release of Finniss River Cabernet. The first one scored 2 gold medals, this vintage has 3 golds already and we are confident its brag sheet will exceed the older brothers by the time it is done. Deep dark and brooding, this Cab offers up blackcurrants, dark chocolate and superfine tannins. Delicious now but should last a decade if you store it somewhere nice and cool....
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Enveloping dark fruits including plum and chocolate, with excellent sweetness of fruit. Plenty of fine yet grippy tannins and a good dollop of aristocratic oak to boot. Persistence and power is pretty amazing at this price point. Black as the ace of...
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A quality everyday drinker from Grant Burge. Plenty of black and blue fruits here with good length and fine tannins. There’s some spice here, a velvety mouthfeel and a little French and American...
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This is a tasty everyday drinker from Grant Burge. Plenty of black and blue fruits here. There’s chocolate and plum too, along with fine tannins and a little French and American...
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A delicious, crunchy and bright wine made slippery and decadent with its silken, gossamer like tannins. Quite a fruit bomb but in no way stewy, rather it is vibrant and intense showing raspberries, liquorice, cinnamon and black fruits. It definitely has the stuffing to cellar but is so delicious right now as to make such considerations pretty much...
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A delicious zippy rose packed with strawberries and cherries. There’s good length and intensity of flavour and just enough sweetness on the finish to bring a smile but not enough to anger the dentist. Works beautifully with cheese and fruit...
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There’s something very special about old vine McLaren Vale Cabernet. Little surprise it picked up a gold and was the second highest pointed Cab at the 2017 McLaren Vale wine show. This edition is soft and fluffy on opening, but with air starts to show vanilla, blackberries, chocolate, fine grained tannin and a good backbone of acidity. A bit of a sleeper too, we suspect. Whilst it is cuddly, we...
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This has been a bit of a sleeper. When we first tried it, it was fairly cranky and uncommunicative. Now that it’s rubbed the sleep out of its eyes and had a couple of short blacks it is looking the business. Plenty of sweet dark fruit and chocolate here; would murder a rare...
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A Merlot that’ll earn ‘Sideways’ glances for the right reasons. This edition has a particularly deep colour for Merlot, in the reddy black spectrum. Plenty of fruitcake and black n blue fruit notes here along with a waft of cinnamon and nutmeg. Supply slurpable and with a tannin finish that reminds you why red wine is the angry cousin. Fortunately he’s dressed for the dinner and not a...
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This is a cracking everyday drink offering red and blue fruits in a medium bodied setting. Plenty of depth of flavour here in what is nominally a $12 wine but drinks much...
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