This is possibly the best value Aussie Pinot Noir on the market right now. From the gifted William Downie comes the Cathedral. Let’s start with the label. Like all of Downie’s wines, this is a perfect little understated slice of Australiana by none other than Reg Mombassa. It’s 70% Mornington Peninsula fruit, 30% King Valley. It’s bright and cheering, brimming with pure berry flavours and just a hint of spice and earth. Made with minimal intervention. Make this the beginning of your William Downie journey.

CASTELLO DI VOLPAIA Riserva, Chianti Classico DOCG The fruit from each Castello di Volpaia vineyard is harvested and vinified separately. The Volpaia Chianti Classico Riserva is made from a blend of these wines, selected from the performing vineyards. The grapes are harvested by hand and collected in boxes holding less than 20Kgs of fruit. In the winery, they are destemmed and lightly pressed before fermentation commences use their own yeasts for two weeks. After this, the wines macerate for a further ten days on their own skins to give structure, complexity and colour to the wines prior to malolactic fermentation to make the wine more approachable. Ageing takes place in oak barrels for 24 months.

The utterly sublime and exhilarating Langi Shiraz is typified by ethereal blackberry/ brambly/ dark cherry/ pepper/ violet aromas and flavours, supple textures, mid-palate buoyancy and underlying savoury oak. The grapes come from the "Langi Shiraz" block planted with "Swiss Clone material originally sourced from nearby Best's Concongella Vineyard. The granitic soils and cold south-westerlies are influential in producing its distinctive flavour profile. Meticulous attention to detail are behind the winemaking. After a cold soak the fruit (some whole bunch) is open-fermented with regular hand plunging. Some components complete fermentation in barrel. The wine is aged for around 14 months in new (45%) and seasoned French oak.

A classic and refined style with some citrus characters framed by bakery and subtle vanilla spice, the iconic Triolet is a classic Bordeaux Blanc blend, incorporating the three varieties of Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon and Muscadelle. It was first produced by Mount Mary in 1987. The varieties are fermented separately in barrel with complexity and palate weight gained from extended lees contact and fermentation on solids.

Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé Grand Cru Cuvée Vieilles Vignes Musigny De Vogüé and Musigny are synonymous. This the Domaines prized selection of old vines, the youngest of which are 40 years old, from their 7.2ha of the fabled Musigny. The vines are tended using organic principles, however, the Domaine does not hold an organic certification. Less than 1000 cases are produced in any vintage.