Maxwell Little Demon Cabernet Merlot 2015
You always get plenty of flavour with the Maxwell reds. This is a blend of 81% cabernet sauvignon with 19% merlot.
View Articled’Arenberg The Money Spider Rousanne 2016
D’Arenberg’s Money Spider Roussanne has its hits and misses but this is on the hit side of the equation.
View Articled’Arenberg The Footbolt Shiraz 2014
This should probably go straight onto your winter drinking shopping list. Or at least be on your mid-week radar.
View ArticleMaxwell Little Demon Cabernet Malbec 2015
Maxwell’s Little Demon cabernet sits safely in the ‘ever reliable’ category.
View ArticleSamuel’s Gorge Piñata People Gamay 2015
No details and no mention of RRP. But a new release for Samuel’s Gorge, pending IP registration.
View ArticleSamuel’s Gorge Grenache 2015
McLaren Vale grenache from one of the region’s most interesting and individual producers.
View ArticleInkwell Blonde on Blonde Viognier 2016
Picked to produce a respectable 11.8% alcohol, so you guess it will be at the other end of the slippery/rich/full viognier spectrum. Wild ferment and time in older oak barrels helps lay some...
View ArticleDub Style Tangerine No1 Viognier 2016
This is viognier fermented on skins by Dudley and Irina Brown who we know from Inkwell Wines in McLaren Vale. They’ve been playing around in the orange wine sphere for a couple of vintages, and early...
View ArticleShingleback The Davey Estate Reserve Shiraz 2014
McLaren Vale shiraz as matured in a combination of both French and American oak, new and used.
View ArticleShingleback Haycutters Shiraz 2015
Haycutters Shiraz is grown 100% on the Davey Vineyard in McLaren Vale. It’s exclusive to Vintage Cellars/Liquorland.
View ArticleZonte’s Footstep Chocolate Factory Shiraz 2015
The ‘Chocolate Factory’ Shiraz from Zonte’s Footstep is, appropriately, grown in McLaren Vale.
View ArticleAphelion Sagrantino 2015
Aphelion is a pint-sized, artisan project out of South Australia with a focus on grenache from McLaren Vale. That being said, here’s a sagrantino that comes from Willunga Plains parish of MVale. Around...
View ArticleAphelion Grenache 2016
There are various iterations of this grenache, off an 80-year-old vineyard, but this is the true blue, straight up, full picture version (others go whole bunch, whole berry and other things, in small...
View ArticleCantina Abbatiello Vagabond Shiraz 2012
I don’t have any real details on this wine other than that it’s a McLaren Vale shiraz described, via email, as of “European style”. I can’t find a website but there is a Facebook page.
View ArticleGeoff Merrill Henley Shiraz 2008
Geoff Merrill’s Henley Shiraz has had an asking price of $150 for a very long time but with this vintage, the price rises to $170. It’s a super-premium that, in Australia at least, has never really...
View ArticleDub Style No1 Preservative Free Shiraz 2016
Shiraz from McLaren Vale slapped into bottle with pretty much nothing aside harvesting, de-stemming, some movement in winery, fermentation happening between being on vine and being in bottle – no...
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