This Fleurieu Peninsula Tempranillo shows off with fresh berry fruit notes, but a savoury palate of herbs and spices. An excellent South Australia expression of a classic Spanish grape.

Family owned and operated, Barossa earthworks make its wines from 100% Barossa grapes, grown at small family owned vineyards. Drawing on more than 160 years of local wine knowledge, traditional winemaking methods and minimal processing are used to preserve the purity, integrity, texture and flavour of the wines. Blood red in colour, Earthworks Tempranillo opens with boysenberry, pepper, a hint of charred meats and black forest cake aromas. The soft tannins spread over your palate giving a juicy, ferrous, velvet mouth feel, a must try in our opinion.

Favourite Son' acknowledges that when it comes to wine, like children; one can never choose a favourite. A clever and precocious addition to the Parker Coonawarra Estate family. 'Favourite Son' is what we all aspire to be - youthful and rich! Heralding from the pristine soils of the Limestone Coast, this Shiraz Tempranillo blend highlights the soft, yet structured styles of each variety. Fresh lively Shiraz brimming with blackberry, raspberry and plum is complemented by rustic and earthy Tempranillo. With aromas of dark blackcurrant, cedar, milk chocolate and violets, this wine is mouth-filling and rich with a fine tannin.

This unique Fleurieu Malbec with its distinctive purple colour and intense fruit brightness of red plums, blueberries and undertones of cocoa creates a stylish textural style. The black fruit power provides mouth filling richness with persistent mouth coating tannins.

Blended Cabernet Sauvignon 40%, Shiraz 40% and Merlot 20%.

It takes either a madman or a genius to come up with brilliant innovations like this Cabernet Shiraz Nero d'Avola blend, but the team behind BedLam & OrdEr and not afraid of attempting something new. Australian winemakers have been doing it for years – Cabernet Shiraz being the perfect example of a classic Australian style known the world over. Here, the BedLam & OrdEr winemakers have given this classic style a refresh with the addition of Italian favourite, Nero d'Avola. It improves the blend with a tease of tannin, more dark fruits like plum and black cherry, plus a soft liquorice element. There's a hint of mint you might catch, a much-loved characteristic of Fleurieu Cabernet Shiraz blends. Fruit forward and made to drink now.

Appearance: Dark Purple Res. On Nose: Blackcurrent fruity aroma. On Palate: Full-bodied. Mouthfull: Fairly strong on edge length very good. Pairing with Food: Paring with veal and marm vegitables. Drinks: 2022 - 2024.

Appearance: bright On Nose: floral and fruity, zinc oxide-inflected, with generous, slightly green aromas of fresh herbs, pepper, cordite and black cherry fruit On Palate: peppery, light and acid high and juicy Mouthfeel:, smooth, lively, medium weight, a bit thin and fairly tart-edged with crusty tannin. The length is good to very good, with the pepper and green notes echoing on the finish. Paring with Food: Real meatness Drinks: 2022 – 2024. Chill lightly Expert Comments: by Michael Gobel, John Szabo, MS and David Lawrason, of WineAligh From cool climate, sandy limestone soil and sea-proximate and breezy location. Polished and composed; speaks in clear, succinct and knowable varietal tones, the kicks into high acid gear while real meatness prevails, a solid drop no doubt; The joy is all in the fresh blackberry-cassis fruit.