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Cellar Door 85aud. 95pts Wine Companion (Tyson Stelzer), " Solid and bold Barossa cabernet, packed with blackcurrants and cassis, met in full force by dense, dark chocolate oak. It holds itself with composure, thanks to a rigid mesh of impressively fine-grained tannins and well-pitched acidity, maintaining confidence and assurance through a long finish. Unashamedly Barossan yet unmistakably cabernet. Patience ."  

Cellar door 85 aud. 50 year old vines, hand-picked, wild yeast-open fermented, 14 days on skins, matured for 20 months in French oak (50 per cent new). Full of blackberry fruit, part fresh, part jam. Spice also appears on the bouquet and palate. Cellaring will be rewarded. Drink to: 2038; Date Tasted: February 2020; Alcohol: 15%;  Rating: 95 Points; James Halliday; Wine Companion.

Cellar Door Price 100aud. Inspired by its founder Hermann Thumm, who first started crafting Barossa Valley Wines in 1947 and was one of the regions first boutique winemakers. Thumm pushed the boundaries of Australian winemaking through his appetite for experimentation with wine techniques, styles and blends. "A splendid attack of dark fruit richness with spicy oak, cocoa, fennel and floral nuances, it's opulent and richly expressed with an abundance of satisfying flavours, beautifully framed by chalky tannins. Velvety and sturdy at once with a persistent structured finish. Date: March 2023; Drink: Now to 2037; Price: $100.00;...

Cllar Door price 70 aud. This was a pretty hot year in the Barossa and yet this is a wine from the heart of the Valley displaying suppleness, finesse and smooth texture all on a medium to full bodied palate. Loads of dark plummy back fruits with a lick of cedar and slight black olive. Gradually builds momentum through the palate as it drives effortlessly to a long finish. Smooth and polished example of the Barossa. Tasted: July 2023; Drink: 2023 - 2038; Price: $70.00; Rating: 96 Points; Ray Jordan

Cellar Door Price 480 aud. (Sold Out) Ray Jordan 98 points. "This is a best of vintage pick of the fruit. There is so much going on in here. On the nose you are immediately assailed with a blackberry black cherry and dark plum combination. But then the palate. Yes, it’s intense and concentrated but there is almost an effortless big easy about it. Fine chalky tannin and a little sweet fruit, white pepper and a sprinkle of spices adds to further to the sensation. It’s still so tightly held and extended cellaring would pay off handsomely. Ray Jordan Wine Pilot Score: 98/100." Winery Note: First Pick Shiraz is a limited...

Cellar Door Price 100aud. The new faces behind the Curtis Family Vineyards are Mark, Thomas & Jenna Curtis, with the guidance of their father, Claudio Curtis who lives on the vineyard just outside McLaren Vale. The name Curtis is thought to derive from Curtius, a noble and wealthy family of the First and Second Centuries AD, the Roman Empire era originating from the Latinium people.  This is powerful and substantial with grace and sophistication; the perfumed bouquet shows dark fruit intensity, cake spice, toasty oak and mocha characters, followed by a robust palate offering wonderfully layered mouthfeel with plush texture and...

Cellar Door Price 100 AUD.   "Its wonderfully ripe and seductively complex, showing dark berry, cedar, anise, thyme and subtle cocoa notes on the nose. The impressively concentrated palate offers expansive mouthfeel and silky flow, back by loads of fine-grained tannins. Multi-layered and gratifying. At its best: now to 2035. Price: $100.00; Rating: 96 Points; Sam Kim; Wine Orbit."   The new faces behind the Curtis Family Vineyards are Mark, Thomas & Jenna Curtis, with the guidance of their father, Claudio Curtis who lives on the vineyard just outside McLaren Vale. The name Curtis is thought to derive from Curtius, a...

Cellar Door: A$150   The new faces behind the Curtis Family Vineyards are Mark, Thomas & Jenna Curtis, with the guidance of their father, Claudio Curtis who lives on the vineyard just outside McLaren Vale. The name Curtis is thought to derive from Curtius, a noble and wealthy family of the First and Second Centuries AD, the Roman Empire era originating from the Latinium people.  Martins Vineyards sources fruit from a combination of owned vineyards and premium McLaren Vale growers. The blend of individual vineyard and sub-regional characteristics is the key to the resulting style. Sub regions are Blewitt Springs, McLaren Flat,...

Deep crimson. Intense blackberry, elderberry, graphite, praline aromas with herb garden notes. Richly flavoured, buoyant and minerally with dark chocolate, dark berry fruits, persistent fine gravelly textures, lovely mid-palate volume and plentiful mocha, roasted chestnut oak complexity. Finishes chocolaty firm with plentiful sweet fruit/ graphite notes. Superb density, texture and balance. Should develop well over the long haul. Drink to: 2023 - 2038; Rating: 97 Points; Andrew Caillard MW. Gold - The Great Australian Shiraz Challenge 2022 Gold - Perth Royal Wine Show Hand picked. Fermented in open tops, largely ambient. Aged in French...

Deep crimson. Classic cassis, blackberry, black olive tapenade, leafy aromas with vanilla, cedar notes. Well balanced powerful wine with saturated blackcurrant, dark plum, praline, brambly flavours, fine grainy/ al-dente tannins, and underlying cedar oak complexity. Finishes leafy firm with plentiful dark fruits and extract. Superb fruit definition, volume and torque. Cellar for a while. Drink to: 2024 - 2040; Rating: 98 Points; Andrew Caillard MW. Gold Medal - Decanter World Wine Awards It seems this vintage of Thomas Hardy is straight Coonawarra (often it's a multi-regional blend). Excellent dark purple hue. It's deep, rich and...

Cellar Door Price 80aud. Pays homage to Australia's greatest red wine, 1962 Penfolds Bin 60A. This is a 57.5% Coonawarra Cabernet/42.5% Barossa Shiraz blend, with 77% new French and American oak. While there's a lot of oak, it has the drive, energy and length of the 2017 vintage that will carry it forward for years, during which time the oak will settle down. Closure: Screwcap; Drink to: 2037; Alcohol: 13.7%;  Price: $80.00; Rating: 95 Points; James Halliday; Wine Companion 2019.     VINEYARD SELECTION The Cabernet Sauvignon was sourced from the world famous Katnook Estate vineyard in the Coonawarra wine region....

Cellar Door Price 90aud. This single vineyard planted in 1853 is almost certainly the world’s oldest planting of Mourvedre. It is just one hectare and a priceless part of the Barossa landscape. As you might imagine with such old vine fruit and a single vineyard, the wine is a true reflection of the soils and the region. It has savoury dried herb and earthy dark plums plus a spicy, slightly sage-like and ferrous character that’s sustained to a very long finish. A little rhubarb pie character adds further complexity to the palate. A super example of this variety. Price: $90.00; Drink to: 2023 - 2031; Rating: 98 Points; Ray Jordan A...

Houghton was established in 1836, just four years after the fledgling colony of Western Australia was founded. It is one of Australia's oldest operating wineries. Houghton is now the tenth-largest red and white bottle brand in Australia, and sources fruit from every major premium grape-growing region in WA, including Gingin, Margaret River, Frankland River and Mount Barker in the Great Southern, and the emerging Pemberton region. A wine of elegance and fruit power, C.W. Ferguson honours the contribution of early Houghton winemaker Charles William Ferguson. During his time at Houghton, Charles established a solid reputation for Houghton...

Cellar Door 150aud OWC 6. 97 Points - James Halliday 97 Points - Huon Hooke 96 Points - Nick Stock in James Suckling  96 Points - Jeni Port 95 Points - Gary Walsh 95 Points - Andrew Caillard 95 Points - Angus Hughson 95 Points - Robert Parker Wine Advocate High quality cabernet made for a long life with decades of change to texture and structure -  Halliday A baby, which needs time. Great flavour and huge potential; begs for patience -  Hooke Elegance with power here. Beautiful now, but better from 2025 -  Stock A still-waters-run-deep kind of wine. Requires, demands your attention -  Port It is THE WINE that put...

Sam Kim 96 Points. "It's superbly ripe and engaging on the nose, showing dark fruit richness, cake spice, cedary oak, game and dark cocoa aromas. The palate is equally impressive with excellent weight and power, wonderfully supported by silky texture and layers of velvety tannins. Mouthfilling and delicious, finishing persistent and expansive. At its best: now to 2033" Bottle price: $120 Drink: 2023-2038 Ray Jordan 95 Points. " This is a wine of tremendous fruit concentration and intensity, yet it is delivered with a refined and controlled poise. Spicy with deep plummy fruits showing an infusion of black olive and sage...

  "Immensely complex and fragrant, the bouquet is filled with dark fruit richness, charcuterie, spicy oak and mocha characters, leading to a concentrated palate offering plush mouthfeel backed by bold tannins, finishing lingering and sturdy.: 97 Points; Sam Kim; Wine Orbit At its best: now to 2033. "A marvelous example of Coonawarra Shiraz. It’s powerful yet so beautifully refined. Deeply concentrated spicy dark fruit characters burst from the glass. It is a plush and generously appointed wine of tremendous poise. A mix of French and American oak has been used perfectly, contributing to a wine that retains its life and...

Cellar Door 50aud. It was 1990 when Jeff Burch crossed paths with Pascal Marchand in the cellars of Domaine Comte Armand in Pommard. A fast friendship quickly formed, with passion for Pinot Noir as its foundation. A decade later they embraced the possibilities of a unique collaboration, and began the Marchand & Burch Collection. Since 2007 Marchand & Burch has grown to represent a sophisticated expression of terroir through fine wines produced in Western Australia’s Great Southern region and the Côte d’Or in Burgundy, France. Three decades on, the friendship endures while the wines tell an exciting, evolving story....

Cellar Door Price 60 aud.   Wine has always been an integral part of Nikki Palun's life and growing up in a family of backyard winemakers has left her with a deep-seated passion for wine. In 2014 Nikki decided that she wanted to pursue her dream of creating her own wine and started to make wines under the Octtava label, with the vision of bringing her two passions of music and wine together. Melodic high notes of cola and violets slide gracefully into a fresh cherry, mulberry and black plum riff. Step into the shadows to feel the peppery bass groove cascade over layers of luscious dark fruit that tango softly in a tight and silky...

Cellar Door Price 75aud. The Reschke history and its close relationship with Coonawarra began in 1906 with the establishment of a prime Hereford stud in the heart of the region. It is this cattle grazing heritage that is reflected in the Reschke bull logo, and the names of the premium Reschke wines. The ‘Reschke Special Reserve’ is a limited-release Cabernet Sauvignon that has been crafted specifically for friends and family of Reschke. The fruit is sourced from a selection of our very best Estate Grown grapes in the heart of Coonawarra, resulting in the production of a truly exceptional wine. This rich and fruit-driven parcel of...

GOLD MEDAL – 2020 Wine Show of Western Australia. James Halliday 93 points. Curranty, boysenberried, smooth-skinned wine with decent shape and length. Tight and closed on first opening and so decanting is definitely advised. Medium in weight but finished with a good strike of dry tannin. It still manages to feel balanced, if only just. Time in a cool, dark space won't do it any harm. Campbell Mattinson Published 01 August 2020. COLOUR Deep crimson with a purple hue. NOSE Displaying a perfumed nose of dark berries and savoury characters. PALATE The palate is full of juicy berries and earthy notes that are well supported by fine...

Ray Jordan 92 points "A juicy and vibrant shiraz chock-full of plummy ripe fruit displaying a little spice and damp, earthy characters among the more perfumed exotic notes. The palate has a grainy texture with chalky tannins and a little oak balancing the medium weight fruit. The 30% new oak adds that little extra dab of spice on the finish. Best drinking now to 2028." WINERY NOTES: COLOUR Deep crimson with a purple hue NOSE Elegant perfumed bouquet of bramble fruits and savoury spice. PALATE The palate displays considerable fruit concentration of plum and dark berries. The fine ripe tannins are very well integrated with fruity and...

Cellar Door Price 90 Aud. “Includes 3% co-fermented viognier, hand-picked, destemmed, wild-fermented in open 5-tonne pots, basket-pressed to used French barriques for 20 months. A (probably intended exercise comparing the outcome of oak selection) less dense wine, the fruit more obvious thanks to co-fermentation and no new oak. It's still formidable, but moves around the mouth with greater freedom, with an easier texture.” 96 points, James Halliday – Halliday’s Wine Companion.   " This Barossa Shiraz gets a three per cent addition of Viognier which plays its role perfectly, adding spicy aromatics to the...

Sam Kim . Wine Orbit, 95 points, June 2022. Gold Medal, London IWC, 2022.   The Gosling Shiraz is sourced from several blocks within our Estate vineyards located at Neldner Road and Roennfeldt Road in the Marananga sub region on the western side of the central Barossa Valley. The Shiraz fruit is hand-picked, destemmed and fermented in 5 tonne open top fermenters with twice daily pump-overs to achieve maximum extraction of colour, flavour and tannin. At the completion of fermentation, the wine is drained and basket pressed to seasoned French oak barriques for 18 months before final blending and bottling. Deep violets with ruby at...

Cellar Door Price 80aud. Blewitt Springs sourcing, 12 days on skins, 8 months in French oak. Some of the more delicate varieties and blends suffer from the indomitable oak handling here. But this – dense, burly, rich and brimming with darker fruit tones, licorice strap, smoked meats, clove and alternate spices flowing from attack to finish – relishes it. A unashamedly big wine, of poise, power and precision. Drink to: 2028; Price: $80.00; Rating: 94 Points; Ned Goodwin MW; James Halliday Wine Companion.   Another 2018 McLaren Vale Shiraz from the Ulithorne team – well, why wouldn’t you if you can!...

Cellar Door 150aud. The most distinctive of the Ulithorne Shiraz trio. Whereas the other wines made no attempt to disguise their gentle seduction, this is unapologetically savoury, its superfine tannins not unlike those of nebbiolo. Cloves replace dark chocolate, black berries and black cherries are the Lords of Darkness, or the translation of the Latin name of this wine, 'fruit of the earth'.  Alcohol: 14.5%; Drink by: 2041;  Rating: 97 Points & Special Value Star; James Halliday; Wine Companion.     Ulithorne produces small quantities of red wines from selected parcels of grapes from its estate vineyard...

Cellar Door 150aud. Blewitt Springs fruit. Micro-fermented in new and used French wood after hand harvesting. The right portions of each, judging by a finely hewn bridle of tannins, controlling and directing the fray. As far as warm-climate shiraz goes, this is good. Contemporary in terms of lifted florals and a modicum of tension. Avuncular in terms of weight, power and the armchair you'll need to settle into after drinking it....Alcohol: 14.5%; Drink by: 2034;  Rating: 95 Points; James Halliday Wine Companion.     Ulithorne produces small quantities of red wines from selected parcels of grapes from its estate vineyard in...