Red

Chateau La Fleur Pourret St Emilion Grand Cru 2016

Region: France- Bordeaux Right Bank

  "This is a fine example of St Emilion Grand Cru with a profile indicating this will age particularly well. Plum and cherry with cocoa and graphite are evident on the nose. The palate is softly textured with nice chalky tannins which are so well...

Bruno Rocca Barbaresco 2020

Region: Italy - Barbaresco

  "The warm growing season yielded a Barbaresco with lovely forward fruit, silky tannins and tons of upfront appeal. It’s an ideal wine for restaurants or consumers looking for something delicious to drink with minimal cellaring. The 2020...

Saltram The Journal Shiraz 2017

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

  "Hand-picked fruit from a single vineyard in Mount MacKenzie, Eden Valley. Matured 17 months, predominantly in a seasoned French oak vat, the balance in new French oak barrels. A graceful dignity, space and a multifaceted complexity set apart...

Ulithorne Frux Frugis Shiraz 2018

Region: SA- McLaren Vale

  "This wine exhibits a dark ruby colour, portraying concentration and intensity. The nose shows lifted aromas of ripe fruits such as plum, black cherry, and a fine spice blend of cinnamon and liquorice. The full palate of rich black cherry, juicy...

Elderton Command Shiraz 2019

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "This 2019 Command Single Vineyard Shiraz is hugely concentrated, coiled and long, with strong, ropy tannins that lay out through the finish. The fruit has such intensity that a couple more years isn't going to bother it in the least. By "a...

Elderton Ashmead Cabernet 2020

Region: SA- Barossa Valley
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "Dark chocolate layered with cassis. Delicate blackberry fruit with layers of chocolate and a touch of dried herb. The tannins are generous and long, with hints of Kirsch giving length and power to the finish.The 2020 is the twentieth release of...

Coriole Lloyd Reserve Shiraz 2019

Region: SA- McLaren Vale
Vegan-friendly Sustainably-made

  "Opaque core just fading slightly into a purple tinged rim. Mulberry preserve, dark chocolate, and linseed oil aromatics. Seriously concentrated black fruit fills the mouth. Layers of dark chocolate and warm sweet spices fill every corner of the...

Te Mata Coleraine Cabernet Merlot 2021

Region: NZ- Hawkes Bay
Sustainably-made

  "Dark and intense, lots of perfume, red and black fruits, tobacco, a leafy pop that’s pure varietal class, creamy oak, lead pencils, aniseed and spice. Medium to full-bodied, a flood of flavour, super ‘mineral’ feel to the...

Mondot St-Emilion Grand Cru 2018

Region: France- Bordeaux Right Bank

  "The 2018 Mondot is 100% Merlot. Rich and luscious to the core, the 2018 is brisk and vibrant, with remarkable nuances and tons of saline-infused energy. Floral and spice notes add perfume to red cherry/plum fruit." - Clos Cachet

Irvine Grand Merlot 2017

Region: SA- Eden Valley

SC Pannell Koomilya JC Block Shiraz 2019

Region: SA- McLaren Vale
Vegan-friendly Sustainably-made

  "To stutter, the tannin quality; wow. Immediately impressive, the cinch and pucker, the length of fine, weaving, silty tannins and the cool acidity that supports the glide and gloss of the wine. Dark cherry, ripe plums, some mocha and ferrous...

SC Pannell Koomilya GT Block Shiraz 2019

Region: SA- McLaren Vale
Vegan-friendly Sustainably-made

  "There’s a freshness and lift to the wine despite the concentration and layering of dark fruit, woody spice and general inkiness. The character of gewurz seems omnipresent despite no gewurz here – it’s floral and pretty shiraz,...

SC Pannell Koomilya DC Block Shiraz 2019

Region: SA- McLaren Vale
Vegan-friendly Sustainably-made

  "It’s highly perfumed, so rich and ripe, inky plummy fruit characters, brined black olive and a strong overlay of cedar, mahogany and clove. The palate is similarly generous and rich, plush and impenetrable, tightens on train tracks of...

Yeringberg Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

Region: VIC- Yarra Valley

  "Blackcurrant, blackberry, some toasty oak and tobacco, with firmness and chew to tannin and texture, less svelte and charming than the blend, more guttural and weighty, with brisk blackberry acidity and a long grainy finish. Charismatic." - Gary...

Produttori del Barbaresco Pora Riserva 2017

Region: Italy - Barbaresco
Vegan-friendly

  "The 2017 Barbaresco Riserva Pora is usually the first wine I taste each year when I review this set of Riservas from Produttori del Barbaresco. That's because it usually appears as the most delicate, and the intensity of each successive bottle...

Hickinbotham The Peake Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz 2020

Region: SA- McLaren Vale

  "Ink black at the core to a deeply-tinted ruby-red rim. A rich and complex nose, mixed berries and oak spices lift from the glass. Voluminous and weighty, the fruit concentration is impressive yet doesn't fall into the jammy spectrum. Equally,...

Wild Duck Creek Reserve Shiraz 2020

Region: VIC- Heathcote
Sustainably-made

  "Whoa. The intensity, the depth! The smoothness. The impossible balance. It’s there. Dark cherry, ripe plum, pan forte, ground walnut and mahogany wood in spades. It’s so seamless and lush. The tannins are all ironstone and ferrous,...

Wild Duck Creek Ducks & Drakes 2020 1500mL-Magnum

Region: VIC- Heathcote
Sustainably-made

  "Cab sav mostly, cab franc less so. From the southern bit of Heathcote. Open ferment, 40% new oak and 20 months hanging out in there. Take no prisoners wines, so well done. All the blue fruits, all the black fruits, all the clove and cinnamon,...

Kay Brothers Block 6 Shiraz 2019

Region: SA- McLaren Vale
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "Liquorice, chocolate, oyster shell, blackberry, a little mint, spice and nutty oak. Deep and concentrated, intense and layered dark fruit and black olive, firm ironstone tannin, such depth and heft, but not really heavy, as such. It’s...

Parker Estate First Growth Cabernets 2018

Region: SA- Coonawarra
Vegan-friendly

  "Medium deep colour, Fragrant and evolved blackcurrant, blackberry, cedar/cigar box, hint tobacco leaf aromas with vanilla, toasted almond, Turkish Delight notes. Well concentrated palate with plentiful blackcurrant, blackberry mulberry fruits,...