An excellent example of cool-climate Shiraz with dark black fruit, spice and pepper characters. The oak and tannins are well balanced ensuring that this wine is drinking well now and has plenty of life ahead.

Monty's Leap is a boutique producer from Albany in WA's Great Southern. Their Cabernet Sauvignon is an intense and strongly varietal expression that will reward cellaring.Dense crimson in appearance. Black pepper over herb and blackcurrant, with spearmint and eucalypt aromas. Very powerful and focussed, with cola-like saturation, and deep, tongue-staining tannins giving flow and length.

Vasse Felix produces fine Margaret River reds with great balance and style. This traditional blend of Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon shows sweet mid-palate fruit with liquorice and spice and good tannin structure. Fantastic French oak integration enabling soft tannin complexity and a lovely length of flavour.

This WA winery continues to impress with its well-crafted value for money wines. This Cabernet blend has ripe berry fruit characters enhanced by toasty oak and balanced with fine-grained tannins.

Howard Park has joined Australia's First Families of Wine and is amassing a loyal following. From the Scotsdale vineyard site, this Shiraz mingles earthy and spicy aromas layed out before a palate displaying great concentration but supreme elegance. Black fruits, liquorice and five spice overarch layered tannins that are fine and persistent.

A great Margaret River Shiraz with temperate ripening conditions promoting fruit intensity, richness and fine tannins. The palate is restrained and balanced with flavours of plum and aniseed spice.

Gravel Pit Shiraz comes from famed Willow Bridge Estate in the Margaret River. The wine is rich in aromas of plum, blackberry and dark chocolate. In the glass the shiraz is dense and layered with fruit sweet, primarily dark plums, but the ripe, nutty tannin structure is the real trademark of this wine.