919 Reserve Sangiovese
Sangiovese is an Italian grape variety suited to the warm climate of South Australia's Riverland. This wine has delicate pink hues, but intense aromas and flavours of cherry, watermelon, strawberry and spicy vanilla. Pair 919 Reserve Sangiovese with smoked duck, savoury charcuterie or pizza, and finish with a cherry tart. Serve lightly chilled or at room temperature or cellar until 2023.
Cupio Pinot Noir Pouch
This Riverland wine has a brilliant medium ruby hue. The bouquet displays fragrant aromatics of ripe raspberries with a hint of confectionary. The palate is juicy and sweet fruited, full of ripe berry fruits with soft tannins and good length. An enticing highly aromatic release with a palate of finesse and balance and a soft juicy fruit profile. While drinking well now, the wine will comfortably cellar over the next 2 years.
919 Reserve Shiraz
The 2021 Shiraz has a deep crimson colour with ruby tints. The nose has dominant vibrant berry notes of blackberry, mulberry and raspberry, with plum richness, mint and a floral hint. The palate has richness of berries and plums with a hint of chocolate. Rich tannins are well balanced with fresh acidity and chocolate, with a medium long finish.
Reserve Touriga Nacional
919 2023 Touriga Nacional is rich magenta in colour. It has a spicy white pepper profile over plums, stewed fruit, sweet and sour cherries, rare meat, and a hint of jam and confection. The palate is very silky and full, with stylish soft tannins coated in cherry, plum and berry flavours and a hint of dark chocolate. It is a very classy, balanced wine that finishes long. This elegant wine would grace the best tables in the land, matched with lamb shoulder or Asian duck. Drink fresh, or cellar 5-10 years. Serve at room temperature. Consume within 3 days of opening for freshness.
919 919 Reserve Durif
This Durif is inky mahogany in colour with garnet and purple tints. It has aromas of violets, raspberries and blackberries, stewed plums, cherry rhubarb, white pepper, spice and a hint of mint. The palate is rich and very full, with mouth-filling texture of fine vanillin oak and powdery chocolate tannins. The flavours are well balanced with crushed berries, cherries, chocolate, liquorice and spice, mint and jube and a fresh acidity.
919 Special Release Saperavi
A rare gem This special release is intensely purple with red & black tints. It has a complex aroma of savoury beetroot, mint and spices with a touch of chocolate, plum and mulberry. The palate is plush and beautifully rounded, with flavours of beetroot, nutmeg, nutmeg, star anise, roasted vegetables and black fruit, with an underlying charry fountain pen ink characteristic. It is rich and textured, with an even, long finish. Pair this with a classic beef stroganoff. Drink fresh, or cellar 5-10 years. Consume within 3 days of opening for freshness.
Sidewood Shiraz
Tucked away nicely in the Adelaide Hills, Sidewood Estate have made an art form out of crafting some of the very best single vineyard cool-climate wines available in Australia. Owen and Cassandra Inglis purchased the boutique property in 2004 and immediately set about making their vision become a reality. Their Sidewood Shiraz displays that vision to perfection. Attention to detail is the key here which enables flavours of red cherry, currants and dark plum to shine through along with hints of cinnamon and spice. The texture is beguiling and gives promise to a wine that will age for up to a decade.
Brokenwood Shiraz
Brokenwood Shiraz is a ripe and generous Shiraz with lifted cherry and mint aromas nicely balanced with sweet chocolate notes on the nose and a soft rich palate with savoury cedary flavours and fine grained tannins on the finish.
Quarry Hill Shiraz
Occupying some of the more elevated land in the Canberra District, Quarry Hill produces a Shiraz with ripe flavours and excellent natural acids; the hallmarks of great cool-climate Shiraz. Aged in a mix of new and older French oak, the wine is bright purple in the glass, follwed by aromas of raspberry, plum, spice and a little pepper. Through the palate, there are flavours of mulberry and plum, fine tannins and a crisp, dry finish.
Mount Majura Shiraz
An elegant and fine-boned cool climate Shiraz from the emerging wine region of the Canberra District. The wine is packed with spicy aromatics from pepper and bay leaf to marzipan and violets. Red fruit flavours run to blackberry and beef stock, carried by savoury, grainy tannins.