This astonishing Black Friday deal sees a Gold-winning McLaren Vale Old Vine Shiraz, usually $85 a bottle, available for you today for just $16.99 a bottle. That’s 80% off! If you were to order 12 of this exciting beauty under normal circumstances your bill would come to over $1000. ($1020 to be exact). Today it’s a very modest $203.88. Saving $816! What’s behind such an extraordinary deal? Well, in Australia right now, we are currently crushing too many red grapes and have been for a few years. Hence, an over-supply of back vintages of some very fine reds indeed. Space is a premium at wineries and sometimes producers simply have to let go valuable parcels at drastically reduced prices. This headache for wineries can be a boon for consumers – as we can pass on enormous savings to you. Our buyer happily snapped up this parcel from what must remain a nameless McLaren Vale estate, earmarking it with BLACK FRIDAY in mind. The estate is famed for its old vines, and has a hidden gem of a cellar door nestled down by Pedler Creek (home to the region’s oldest vineyards). The vines for this release were planted in the 1940s, and this 2021 vintage (the wine is only made in extremely good vintages, from a few hand-selected French barrels of old vine Shiraz) is a rich, deeply satisfying and complex drop we think you’ll love, especially with an 80% saving.

This highly expressive Margaret River Shiraz comes from the award-winning Miles From Nowhere label. With grapes sourced from precious little pockets of exceptional land and vineyards, this Shiraz lives up to their reputation with great fruit concentration driven by mixed berries and dark, juicy cherry fruit.

Entry: Velvety and plush and fragrant rich blackberrycherry fruits. Some tangy cedar and lingering cigar box characters. Middle Palate: Juicy round black cherry fruits, tempered with the soft idiosyncratic "milk chocolate" McLaren Vale Shiraz sweetness and roundness. After Palate: Lashings of trademark milk chocolate with blackberries and dark-fleshed plums and spice with velvety, smooth tannins. Finish: Juicy blackberry and mocha notes intertwined with signature lush McLaren Vale tannins. It's like taking a big mouthful of Black Forest cake.

Tahbilk Estate Shiraz features a dark purple colour lined by garnet hues. This beautiful Shiraz flaunts scintillating aromas and rich flavours of plum, blackberry, mulberry, anise, spice and black pepper. Dry black tea tannins integrate with these fruity characters to offer a savoury and supple finish. Drink this mouthwatering red wine immediately upon release or within a cellaring term of 11 to 13 years. Pair it with medium rare rib-eye steak, Peking duck or fried potatoes to appreciate its rich fruit flavours.

Not only has this family estate won 60 Golds in a decade, but also 'Best Wine in the World'. That was for their 2005 Shiraz in 2008! The secret to this weighty, spice packed red is the sandy soils, which hold little rain for the vines, plus the unrelenting hot sun. The result is a modest yield of small berries crammed with juicy flavour. With this style of wine, award winning winemaker Jaime Quendera is now forging a reputation for Setúbal's rich, bold reds. Mostly Shiraz along with a splash of local variety Alicante, Jaime finished the wine in expensive oak barrels to add a gorgeous spicy vanilla lift to the blueberry, blackberry and peppery fruit. A fine treat to serve with spicy chorizo sausages, a hearty stew or the Sunday roast.

When you open a Blackstrap, you know you’re heading into seriously dark, rich, red territory. It’s from McLaren Vale, so it shows all that inky, chocolatey, deep black fruit richness the region is known for. A good dose of oak tempers the richness, and fine tannins smooth it out even further, so it’s drinking well now. But it’s definitely an ultra-velvety, mouthcoating, lipstaining, rich and powerful red that you need to approach carefully!

ark Richardson, red specialist at Tyrrell’s calls Heathcote “undoubtedly Australia’s most exciting new red wine producing region.” Buying up vineyards here was the brainchild of Bruce Tyrrell – and it has yielded a red that wins huge numbers of loyal fans every year.

This elegant, single vineyard cool climate beauty has 95 Halliday points and won Gold at Melbourne and Hobart. “Texture and structure, the flavours held within dark berry and earthy, yet mouthwatering, tannins ... 95pts” (Halliday).

Welcome to tiny Lake Breeze, officially named Australia’s Champion Small Winery, Producer of the Year, and winner of 37 TROPHIES and 134 GOLD MEDALS since 1994, loved by customers and critics alike. “Greg Follett weaves a little magic every time...” (The Adelaide Advertiser). “The quality of the Lake Breeze wines is exemplary, with the red wines particularly appealing ...” (James Halliday). “Like Greg Follett, the Lake Breeze wines are unassuming but quietly impressive. Never doubt the value they represent...” (Peter Forrestal, Gourmet Traveller Wine). Dive in to the deep, dark flavours of this classically rich and velvety full-flavoured Shiraz rarity, created using a combination of old vine fruit and careful winemaking.