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Pillastro Primitivo Puglia
If you’re looking for a lusciously rich red with warmth and depth, Double Gold Pillastro Primitivo is hard to beat. Our bestselling Italian red wine,is packed with deep, dark fruit, has a silky smoothness customers can’t get enough of – and it has an amazing track record of delighting show judges too – the past seven vintages winning at least a Gold, the last five ALL winning Double Gold! The wine comes from the Salento region in Puglia, the sun-drenched heel of Italy’s boot, where the prized local variety Primitivo thrives. It’s from Cantine Due Palme, a winery founded by local hero Angelo Maci. He started over 30 years ago by championing small, independent growers. Back then, he worked with just 15 – today, there are over 1,000. But it wasn’t just the growers Angelo helped save. He also preserved the ancient traditions and almost extinct grape varieties that make southern Italian wines so characterful and flavourful. Now in his 80s, he’s handed winemaking over to his grandson, Francesco Fortunato. And this latest vintage is tasting as good as ever. Francesco uses fruit from old vines, which produce fewer grapes but have far more concentration and intensity Think spiced plum, raspberry and a plush, velvety richness. The result is a gloriously smooth red that’s perfect with spicy tomato pasta, hearty stews or a cosy night in.
Lake Breeze Chapel Road Shiraz
A top-notch Shiraz exclusive. Don't take our word for it... “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). The winery has gone from strength to strength with Greg Follett heading the Lake Breeze winemaking team. Lake Breeze has been named Australia’s Champion Small Winery at the Australian Small Winemakers Show, and has won Champion Wine four times. Elsewhere it can boast well over 25 trophies and 125 Golds. In 2023 Lake Breeze won Best Value Winery of the Year in Halliday’s Wine Companion, and Greg Follett was shortlisted as Winemaker of the Year 2024. 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.
Domaine Martin Cairanne
Delicious! Winemakers Eric and David Martin create a range of largely reds from their fourth generation family domaine, established back in 1905. They continue combining traditional vinification practises and respect for the environment. This is a delicious, full-bodied and peppery Grenache-rich blend from Cairanne, a commune in the Vaucluse department in the south of the Côtes-du-Rhône region.
The Black Pig 'The Prize' Mclaren Vale Shiraz
An amazing parcel of rich, dark, concentrated McLaren Vale Shiraz has gone into 'The Prize' ... look forward to a mouthful of powerful dark fruit, a tempting dark chocolate richness, and a silky, spicy, long, long palate. This is a beauty. Enjoy.
Bleasdale Langhorne Creek Sparkling Shiraz
Sparkling Shiraz is certainly an Aussie festive tradition, and from Bleasdale you can be assured of top-quality and remarkable value. It’s a non-vintage Shiraz with fizz – richly flavoured with deep colour and displays dark berry fruit aromas, sweet plum and spicy flavours, silky tannins and a rich, velvety smooth palate. Sip it for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Bleasdale’s site suggests you can partner this wine with anything you like cheese, canapés, duck, peppered beef skewers, or just enjoy it by itself!
Yelverton Reserve Margaret River Shiraz Cabernet
A very exciting new venture promising lavish quality and exceptional value – as well as intrigue and mystery. Our Yelverton label is used to represent elite wines made using secretly-sourced fruit of immaculate quality and regional distinction. The Yelverton range of wines promises very classy, characterful and delicious drinking This Reserve Shiraz Cabernet combination brims with Margaret River freshness and vibrancy.
Coriole McLaren Vale Sangiovese
Mark Lloyd of Coriole planted Sangiovese in his McLaren Vale vineyards in the mid 1980s and in 1999 he famously won the inaugural Australian Sangiovese Awards – a precursor to the Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show, where this delicious 2016 Sangiovese won Gold! It has beautiful bright spiced cherry and plum fruit, with a savoury touch of herbs and spice. It's a terrific food wine - try it with your best Italian pasta dish.
DiFabio Estate Single Vineyard Cabernets
Enjoy “A fine McLaren Vale Cabernet (and friends)…" (WinePilot) mature and complex – "An attractive style with good balance, it will provide pleasure over the next half dozen years, longer if needs be. 94pts” (Ken Gargett, WinePilot). “A fine McLaren Vale Cabernet (and friends) from a single vineyard, it has the benefit of a number of years in the cellar already under its belt. Maturation was in French oak, a mix of new and older. The wine has some maturity and complexity already evident. Dark maroon with a russet rim, this is very much from the savoury end of the spectrum with an earthiness, along with notes of mushrooms, warm soil, coffee grinds, black fruits, animal flesh and aniseed. There is some oak apparent, but it merely adds to the overall impression of complexity. Of medium to good length, the wine finishes with sleek tannins. An attractive style with good balance, it will provide pleasure over the next half dozen years, longer if needs be. 94pts” (Ken Gargett, WinePilot).
Hewitson 66 Barossa Valley Shiraz
A special release from winemaker Dean Hewitson, the titled “66” referring to his winery address on the fabled Seppeltsfield Road, For Tony Love it's a "...a supremely finessed, singular expression where the fruit and oak marriage is everything, just a glimpse of smoky bacon, just a faint whiff of eucalypt, all expertly woven and expressed with a contemporary vitality in the palate, seasoned generously with a black pepper spice character, concluding in an elite wrapping of gastronomic Amaro-like bitterness." (Toy Love, WinePilot). For Ken gargett "This is a class effort. The palate sees the emergence of notes of soy, cloves and blackberries. There is fine balance, impressive length and the finest of tannins. Wonderful stuff, which will surely drink beautifully for the next ten to twenty years. Barossa at its best.96pts" (Ken Gargett, WinePilot). Sam Kim, Wine Orbit scores it a whopping 98pts "Immensely complex and perfumed, the bouquet presents black and blueberry, violet, tapenade, star anise, and stylish oak characters. The concentrated palate exhibits exceptional depth and weight, wonderfully framed by velvety texture and finely infused tannins. It is opulent and substantial, yet refined and harmonious, with a persistent and gratifying finish. Gorgeously proportioned and balanced, ensuring its gracious development."
Caravan Petite Sirah
The label is a treat (a tiny vintage caravan parked outside a grand French château) but the wine itself is what's really special here. Made by Jimmy Watson trophy-winning John Quarisa, it's a big, rich red with velvety tannins and a long, smooth finish. THREE Golds show that the show judges love it too. This is impressive stuff!