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Luigi Baudana Barolo Serralunga 2020 DOCG

Region: Italy - Barolo
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "The 2020 Barolo del Commune di Serralunga d’Alba shows all the breadth of Serralunga, but in the somewhat austere style that runs through all the wines this year.  Dar red fruit, sage, mint, leather and spice fill out the layers...

Luigi Baudana Barolo Cerretta 2020 DOCG

Region: Italy - Barolo
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "The 2020 Cerretta from Luigi Baudana is fantastic. It starts off the with intense aromas of camphor dark culinary spice blue flower and new leather while the delicious palate features ripe raspberry fleshy Morello cherry and layers of star anise...

Luigi Baudana Barolo Baudana 2020

Region: Italy - Barolo
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "Aromas of menthol black spice leather rose hip and citrus lead the nose on the stunning 2020 Baudana from Luigi Baudana. It's smooth and delicious delivering wild raspberry strawberry compote blood orange tobacco and star anise alongside a...

Curly Flat Pinot Noir 2022

Region: VIC- Macedon Ranges
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "I like the stringiness of this, the tension, the fruit, the length. It’s real pinot. It feels as though it’s desperate to rush forward but it holds itself back until it gets to the finish, where it runs. It has a minerally aspect, a...

Adelina Shiraz Mataro 2022

Region: SA- Clare Valley
Vegan-friendly Organic

  "75% Shiraz from 1902 (Aberfeldy) plantings, and 25% Mataro from 2012 plantings (Adelina). Raspberry, blueberry, dried roses, a little mint, some charcuterie, and liquorice. It’s fleshy and ripe, plenty of almost freeze dried small red and...

Adelina Estate Shiraz 2022

Region: SA- Clare Valley
Vegan-friendly Organic

  "Blackberry, raspberry, a little sweet baking spice, mint and floral perfume, though those things, while good, mean nothing until you put the wine in your mouth; then it really takes off. This is a liquid ‘mineral’ delight, and the...

Adelina Estate Introspect Red Blend 2022

Region: SA- Clare Valley
Vegan-friendly Organic

  "Strawberry, cherry, white flowers, mint, orange peel, aniseed, dried herbs, apricot. It’s a riot of perfume and red fruits, it has a sappy sort of white wine acidity, but plenty of red fruits too, dusty and peppery tannin, juicy and...

Murdoch Hill Apollo Pinot Noir 2022

Region: SA- Adelaide Hills
Vegan-friendly Sustainably-made

  "Whiffs of cap gun, warm slate, a bit of flint too, plus dark cherry, salted liquorice. Savoury start, very. Smoky and flinty to taste, an override on dark cherry fruit, plum, licks of liquorice again and lingers with smokiness again. Tannins...

Bondar Wines Rayner Vineyard Shiraz 2022

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

    "This exceptional Shiraz is drawn from the two oldest blocks in the Rayner Vineyard, planted in 1950. Three-quarters of the fruit comes from Block 24 in the northeast corner of the vineyard, on deep sandy soils with ironstone rocks,...

Bondar Wines Junto Grenache Shiraz Mourvedre 2023

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

  "Frisky red fruited style with a smattering of dried herb and lemon zest. It’s light to medium-bodied, strawberry and orange rind, light grip of tannin, kind of edgy in character, though I like the fresh spiced and sappy strawberry thing it...

SC Pannell Smart Grenache 2022

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

  "Really attractive perfume of alpine herbs, almost genepy-like amaro character, sour cherry, faint maraschino cherry, cranberry and rose hip tea. The palate has a good sinewy bite around the more juicy, ripe red and black cherry flavours, some...

SC Pannell Old McDonald Grenache 2022

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

  "Potent, full flavoured, decidedly ripe in fruit spectrum, sweet in its profile albeit tempered with pleasing bitter herbal elements, savoury notes and saline mineral characters. That being said, there’s some slurpiness here, despite a web...

SC Pannell Little Branch Grenache 2022

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

  "In the bouquet, lots of cherry elixir, maraschino, pickled cherry, strawberry, raspberry lollies and whiffs of aniseed, cola and cardamom/caraway seed savouriness. The palate an able reflection of the bouquet, a cinch of building, dusty tannin...

Place of Changing Winds Between Two Mountains Pinot Noir 2022

Region: VIC- Macedon Ranges
Vegan-friendly Organic

Giaconda Beechworth Shiraz 2022

Region: VIC- Beechworth
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "Giaconda Estate & Warner Vineyard. Luscious and captivating, with dark plums, cassis and subtle briar notes that demand your attention are backed by a stridently confident palate. The textural nature of this wine and glossy...

Giaconda Nebbiolo 2021

Region: VIC- Beechworth
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "Roasted chestnuts, rose petal, forest floor undergrowth, dark orange chocolate and tar. A combination of Amphorae and geriatric oak have been used for Élevage. Scintillating tannins compliment the pristine fruit. A truly magnificent wine...

Mulline Sutherlands Creek Pinot Noir 2023

Region: VIC- Geelong
Vegan-friendly Sustainably-made

  "The ropes here are long and firm but they’re wrapped around a mountain of assorted flavours and feels. This pinot noir is quite something. It’s both tight and expressive at once, with undergrowth, loganberry, black cherry and earth...

Bindi Dixon Pinot Noir 2023

Region: VIC- Macedon Ranges
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "The 2023 is immediately fragrant with lifted red cherry, raspberry, strawberry and spice. There is a touch of eathiness and some savoury cherry stone fragrance. The bright palate is fresh and creamy, well textured and has a delicious,...

Bindi Dhillon Col Mountain Grenache 2023

Region: VIC- Heathcote
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "The 2023 has a seductive array of aromas, across pomegranate, rhubarb and raspberry. It is also quite perfumed. The palate is smooth and energetic with medium weight presence. It has a lovely balance with pippy tannins driving the...

Yangarra Ovitelli Grenache 2022

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

  "Gee, you can really smell and taste the maturation vessel in this wine, which I like. Red fruit, dried flowers (including chamomile), aniseed and mint, tamarind, almond meal and fresh rhubarb, cranberry flavour and acidity. It’s...