Red

Paul Osicka Shiraz 2021

Region: VIC- Heathcote
Vegan-friendly

  "Man, these wines are good. Reminiscent of Wendouree and Marius wines for the matrix of generosity, balance, character and Aussie bush authority. And hedonism plus. It’s such a well balanced wine. Rich, yep, dark berries, ripe cherry,...

Prieure des Papes Chateauneuf-du-Pape Vieilles Vignes 2019

Region: France- Rhone Valley Southern

  "While just bottled the week prior to this tasting, the 2019 Châteauneuf Du Pape Vieilles Vignes wasn’t showing any worse for it and offered a beautiful perfume of blackberries, raspberries, ground pepper, and garrigue. The purity of...

Launay Horiot Pommard Premier Cru Chaponnieres 2021

Region: France- Burgundy CotedeBeaune

  "Riper, more sweet-fruited and deeper than the Pommard village, the Premier Cru Les Chaponnieres is gorgeously floral and fragrant. On the nose those rose notes carry atop red cherry and raspberry aromas. These flavours sail on the confident...

Launay Horiot Pommard Les Perrieres 2021

Region: France- Burgundy CotedeBeaune

  "A highly attractive, fresh and ripe Pommard. Very intense for a village cru, owing to the old vine, quality site from which this is sourced. Medium bodied, it has ample red fruit and plum flavours, with gentle earthiness that emerges on the...

Cote Lavande Malbec 2020

Region: France- Languedoc Roussillon

    "From its spiritual home in Southern France, this iconic wine is full of spicy summer fruit. Bright and vibrant with earthy undertones, this Malbec truly captures life on the sunny French Riviera" - Lavande    

SC Pannell No220 Grenache 2022

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

  "There’s a huge wallop of primary fruit flavours including blood orange, cranberry and dark chocolate but the finish is savoury and coated with myrtle. A luscious fruit driven palate with a tannic frame. Mouth filling but not...

Mount Mary Marli Russell RP2 Grenache Shiraz Mourvedre 2021

Region: VIC- Yarra Valley
Sustainably-made

  "It’s complex and a wine of many layers. Raspberry and blackberry, plenty of perfume and spice, hazelnut, something in the way of dried herbs and earth. Medium-bodied, no shortage of red and black fruit, rose oil, but also something a...

Allevare Cabernet Franc 2022

Region: VIC- Nagambie Lakes
Sustainably-made

  "A Novello style red, perfect chilled or at room temperature. Grown in the Shelmerdine Vineyard, red and brown sandy clay loams of south-eastern Australia, plus yellow-brown clay loams and gritty, gravelly quartzose sands laid down by the...

Giant Steps Wombat Creek Pinot Noir 2022

Region: VIC- Yarra Valley
Vegan-friendly

  "This is pretty wild, pretty exotic, flowers and herbs flying. Cranberry, strawberry and red cherry with twig and herb notes. The finish here is so dry, with so much crunch and grip, that I’ve underlined the words ‘crackle and...

Giant Steps Sexton Pinot Noir 2022

Region: VIC- Yarra Valley
Vegan-friendly

  "From the Sexton vineyard in Gruyere. Destemmed with whole berries and matured nine months in French barriques (20% new). A deep ruby crimson. The densest and most brooding of the Giant Steps Yarra Valley single-vineyard pinots from 2022. You'll...

Giant Steps Primavera Pinot Noir 2022

Region: VIC- Yarra Valley
Vegan-friendly

  "This is an absolute bloody cracker. It tastes of cranberry and red cherry with pomegranate and twiggy, peppery spice. It’s lively, perfumed, juicy, complex and complete. There’s crunch here, there’s perfume, there’s...

Giant Steps Fatal Shore Pinot Noir 2022

Region: TAS (Tasmania)
Vegan-friendly

  "“All of the fruits”, winemaker Mel Chester says. She’s 100% spot on here. Fresh, bold, refreshing, floral, blue and red berries, lots of oak spice through the aftertaste, eager as all hell through the mid palate but then...

Sons of Eden Remus Shiraz 2020

Region: SA- Eden Valley
Vegan-friendly

  "Developed nose with smoky bacon nuances, seasoned by thyme and oregano, with a core of ripe red fruit and liquorice notes. Fruity and fleshy, quite powerful, with a long warm finish." - Decanter    

Little Frances Shiraz 2022

Region: VIC- Beechworth

  "Great delight here. Medium weight but with darker fruit spectrum scents and flavours, plum, choc-liquorice, cassis and lavender with faint mintiness and dill/fennel notes in the mix. The palate is supple, smooth, rolls beautifully and long...

d'Arenberg Dead Arm Shiraz 2018

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

Produttori del Barbaresco Don Fiorino Riserva 2016

Region: Italy - Barbaresco
Vegan-friendly

  "Incredible aromas of white truffle, wet earth, lightly burnt orange peel and pure fruit. Medium-bodied and very compact with a block of silky tannins that run through the palate with a gorgeous texture. It is very drinkable now but will age...

Pierre-Marie Chermette Beaujolais Les Griottes 2021 375mL-Half-Bottle

Region: France- Beaujolais
Organic Sustainably-made

  "So exuberant you could be tasting out of barrel, the nose is flush with sappy red fruit, hemmed by perfumed floral notes. The palate tells the same, delicious story through a prism of vibrant cherry fruit, tangy acidity and a crunchy, scented...

Haut Roc Blanquant St Emilion Grand Cru 2016 375mL-Half-Bottle

Region: France- Bordeaux Right Bank

  "3rd wine of Château Bélair-Monange, Haut Roc Blanquant is named after a historic parcel of the vineyard of Bélair-Monange. The name translates literally to “high white rock,” underscoring the vineyard’s...

Moppity Lock and Key Cabernet Sauvignon 2019

Region: ACT (Canberra)
Vegan-friendly Sustainably-made

  “It’s ripe and fragrant on the nose showing blackcurrant, dark plum, thyme and roasted nut aromas, followed by a succulent palate delivering plump mouthfeel and fine-grained tannins. Smooth and rounded with juicy fruit flavours" - Sam...

Avani Issan Pinot Noir 2021

Region: VIC- Gippsland

  "This is a cool and restrained pinot noir, lithe and shapely, fine boned, a web of lacy, silty tannin lends structure and the wine sits comfortable in its dark cherry, black olive, faintly game meat-meets-rosemary savouriness with a little sweet...