Halliday Ultimate Red Dozen with $150 wine

An out-of-this-world case of some of the best reds that Australia has to offer and highly rated by James Halliday’s Wine Companion. Leading the charge is the peerless Helios Cabernet Sauvignon by Penley, with a usual bottle RRP of $150, rated 96 points by JH. Not to be outdone there’s also the barnstorming Old Paddock & Old Hill Shiraz from Hunter greats Mount Pleasant, rated 97 points, a trio of 96-point rated wines in the form of the Crayeres Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz from Terre a Terre, the McLaren Vale Shiraz from Heirloom Vineyards, and the classic Wynns Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon. Other big hitters include the 2016 Basket Pressed Cellar Release from SA trailblazers Reynella, $69 RRP and the exceptional Schoolhouse Wines Coonawarra Shiraz valued at $80 RRP.

Bleasdale Ultimate Malbec Collection Six

Langhorne Creek icon, Bleasdale, are an historic producer, they have over 170 years of continuous winemaking by the direct descendants of the founding Potts family. Malbec has found a home in South Australia’s cooler Langhorne Creek, and Bleasdale produced the region’s first table wine from the variety in 1961. This case combines their consistently excellent, Halliday Wine Companion 96-point rated Generations expression, along with a bottle each of three different single-vineyard malbecs, each with its own unique characteristics and rated 95-96 points by the Wine Companion. 

Luxury 95 Point Icon Shiraz + Cabernet Duo

The magic of Coonawarra is on display here with two 95 point red wines. Includes the iconic Wynns Black Label Shiraz 2019, a wine that has consistently delivered vintage after vintage and proven it can stand the test of time. Plus the Leconfield Sydney Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 (valued at $100), a legendary wine honouring wine industry legend and Leconfield founder, Sydney Hamilton.

Shiraz Selection Dozen

Australian wine drinkers and shiraz, a love affair of the ages! It’s the country’s most widely planted variety and probably the most renowned area of production are the wine regions of South Australia. Here you’ll find two bottles each of these shining examples of shiraz, including wine from McLaren Vale legends Wirra Wirra, a Halliday Wine Companion 5-star rated producer, plus another McLaren Vale wine from Ulithorne, the 95-point rated Immortelle Shiraz. Icon region the Barossa is represented by Purple Hands and their After Five Wine Co Shiraz, a gold medal winner, and from Robe, an up-and-coming region on the Limestone Coast is Stonehaven’s LVR Shiraz, awarded 95 points by Halliday. 

Penfolds Grange 2018

The most powerful expression of Penfolds multi-vineyard, multi-district blending philosophy, Grange is arguably Australia’s most celebrated wine and is officially listed as a Heritage Icon of South Australia. Crafted utilising fully ripe, intensely flavoured and structured shiraz grapes, the result is a unique Australian style that is now recognised as one of the most consistent of the world’s great wines. With an unbroken line of vintages from the experimental 1951, Grange clearly demonstrates the synergy between shiraz and the soils and climates of South Australia 

Great Value Aussie Shiraz Dozen

A superb value shiraz dozen. Three bottles each of these fantastic everyday drinking shiraz wines are included. A Barossa Valley classic from Langmeil, the sought-after and exclusive Coriole Aroona Shiraz, a powerfully striking shiraz from Willow Bridge, and the generous 95 point-rated shiraz from Magarey Lane. What's not to love about this case.

Great Value Red Dozen With $150 Red

This case represents a selection of highly rated wines at an everyday price! The Chalk Hill Alpha Crucis Sirius Shiraz usually retails at $150 and is rated 98 points by Wine Orbit. This exceptional shiraz is accompanied amongst others by delicious, delicate pinot noir from Tomich Hill, there are  wines from Halliday Wine Companion 5-star rated producers Jericho and Credaro, as well as a gold-medal winning classic Coonawarra shiraz from Redman.

Stonehaven LVR Padthaway Pinot Noir 2024

The Stonehaven Winery was originally built by Hardy's in 1998. Located in the heart of the Limestone Coast, the winery benefits from the region's unique terroir, including rich soils and cool evening temperatures perfectly suited to the production of premium pinot noir.

d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier 2018

An enticing mix of primary fruit characters entwined with flowers, ginger and stone fruit. Another impeccably good offering from Chester Osborne combining rich and voluptuous McLaren Vale Shiraz with lifted fragrant Viognier. d'Arenberg is one of the pioneers of this style, the 'Magpie' continues to go from strength to strength.

Leeuwin Estate Art Series Chardonnay 2021

Leeuwin Estate, one of the founding wineries in the Margaret River region of Western Australia, is a family producer with an international reputation for creating wines ranking alongside the world’s finest. Leeuwin Estate Art Series Chardonnay is included in the prestigious Langtons Classification of Australian Wine, representing Australia’s most highly sought-after wines based on consumer demand, collectability, and prices fetched at auction.

Amisfield Pinot Noir 2022

Amisfield was established in 1988 and is a Central Otago based specialist producer of Pinot Noir and aromatic white wines, sourced from fruit grown on their Single Vineyard Estate, situated beneath the glacially sculptured Pisa mountain range. Vineyards are managed holistically through organic practices focused around nurturing Amisfield’s unique soils, vines and habitats – this combined with a rugged inland location and an extreme semi-continental climate, yields wines of remarkable purity, intensity and vibrancy. The vineyard at Amisfield Estate beneath the dramatic Pisa mountain range of Central Otago is New Zealand’s most spectacular wine region. The privately owned estate, once a prominent high country merino sheep station, is now one of the largest single vineyard estates in the Central Otago region with over 90 Ha (222 acres) planted and farmed organically. The rugged inland location affords a semi-continental climate, with exceptionally cold winters, hot summers, cool evenings and low rainfall. This unforgiving environment gives generously to flavour. The unique growing conditions combined with glacially derived soils produce wines of remarkable purity, intensity and vibrancy. A state-of-the-art purpose-built winery is the focal point of the vineyard and is designed to enable winemakers to craft wines with minimal intervention and as naturally as possible. At Amisfield they are committed to sustainability and environmental responsibility at every step of the process. The vineyard is now managed entirely organically and is in conversion to full organic certification with New Zealand’s leading organic certification body BioGro. The Amisfield experience extends to a world-class Bistro & Cellar Door at Lake Hayes, Queenstown. Here, guests can experience the array of wines they produce every year accompanied by the freshest local produce.

Twin Islands Sauvignon Blanc 2024

Twin Islands do one thing and do it well. As the chosen one, they pour all their knowledge and love into crafting this single sauvignon blanc that has consistent quality, year on year. Grown and made exclusively in Marlborough, New Zealand, Twin Islands Sauvignon Blanc is the essence of the region.

Swinney Farvie Mourvedre 2022

This is just the second release of Farvie Mourvèdre, a wine crafted from a draconian selection of dry-grown bush vine Mourvèdre on the same kidney-shaped patch of dirt as the vines for the Farvie Grenache in the Wilson’s Pool vineyard. The vines here face northeast on leaner topsoil and with a higher percentage of coarse lateritic gravel; the roots have now made it down into the clay beneath. Meticulous fruit-thinning and selective hand-harvesting over multiple passes ensured Swinney achieved fruit as close to perfect as possible. 

Last year’s release fermented entirely as whole bunches. This year, the bunches and berries were smaller, requiring Mann to tweak the percentage (66%) to achieve the perfect balance. According to Mann, the Farvie Mourvèdre loves bunches: “It helps to balance the wildness, gaminess and rustiness of the fruit while accentuating the spice element of the wine.” Regarding the process, the wine spent 11 days on skins before being pressed to large, fine-grained, seasoned French oak vessels, where it matured for 11 months. 

As if last year’s wine didn’t set the bar high enough! “It might be my favourite wine I’ve ever made from Swinney,” says Rob Mann. “It’s so pretty; there’s a lovely natural balance and vitality that’s sometimes hard to capture. It’s pretty close to being a very, very good wine.” 

Stonier Gainsborough Park Chardonnay 2019

As always, this is a very individual Chardonnay, showing intense pink grapefruit with lemon rind aromas and hints of attractive oak.  The palate is expansive, with the acid buoyant throughout rather than a driving directive force. This is certainly an intriguing Chardonnay, with a basket full of different characters, from creamy smoky earthy mushroom to sweet lemon and honey. There is a nice textural presence which will no doubt build with more time.

Tyrrells Vat 9 Hunter Valley Shiraz 2021

Vibrant purple in colour, a regal nose showing lifted spice, dark fruits and subtle hint of oak. The palate is medium-bodied showing great intensity and the velvety texture that is seen in the best wines from this vintage. The palate structure is effortless with no rough edges showing wonderful balance of fruit, acid, oak and tannin.

Pyramid Valley Snake's Tongue Pinot Noir 2022

This is the second release of Pyramid Valley’s Snake’s Tongue Pinot Noir from the estate’s impressive Mānatu vineyard, located in the Lowburn sub-region of Central Otago. Planted in the mid-2000s by Jean and Roger Gibson, the former Lowburn Ferry property sits on a gentle, north-facing slope in the foothills of the Pisa Ranges. A key trait of the site is its soils: loess over deep silts that have developed pedogenic lime deposits. With high pH and suitability for growing world-class Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, these soils proved the main drawcard for winemaker Huw Kinch, viticulturist Nick Paulin and owner Steve Smith MW.  The 10.2-hectare property is home to a patchwork of Pinot Noir clones—Abel, 667, 777, 114, 115, 943, 828, 115 and clone 5—playing into Kinch’s preference for clonal mix in the vineyard and the winery. The Snake’s Tongue block is a 1.9-hectare plot in the southeast corner of the vineyard, with this release drawn from a 0.7-hectare parcel of Abel clone planted in 2007. (The remaining 1.2 hectares comprises new high-density vines—clones 828, 943 and 115—planted in 2018/2019.)

Seppeltsfield Barossa Touriga 2022

The 2022 Seppeltsfield Barossa Touriga wine is a thick-skinned, intensely coloured grape, Touriga Nacional (abbreviated to Touriga) has been made famous by the Portuguese fortified wine expression, ‘Vintage Port’ (VP).Medium-bodied, opulent fruit sweetness, with juicy acidity and gravely tannins.

Nightfall Aquila Cabernet Franc 2019

Nightfall wines are the epitome of luxury, style and exclusivity. Crafted from a pristine single vineyard site in the heart of Coonawarra. The Nightfall Aquila Cabernet Franc 2019 opens with perfumed florals on the nose then moves into bright red fruit on the palate. The chalky fine tannins play a significant role while the oak remains perfectly in harmony.

Wirra Wirra The Absconder Grenache 2022

Absconder Grenache is made from a vineyard planted in the time of Wirra Wirra’s founder Robert Strangways Wigley. Wigley was an eccentric whose lust for life had at times seen him fall foul of the law in his home town. In fact, one episode involving the ‘acquisition’ of the famous Adelaide pie-cart and a joy ride through the city streets was the catalyst for banishment to McLaren Vale. However Wigley did not abscond into the wilderness. He became known for his world class wines - including fortifieds made with the grenache of the day - and helped to build the reputation of McLaren Vale.

Turkey Flat Shiraz 2021

This highly acclaimed Shiraz has received numerous awards since its first vintage in 1990. However, it's the versatility of this wine, in the way it embraces both power and elegance that is most impressive. This Shiraz is a result of a very intricate blending process. After each parcel of fruit is individually vinified & aged in specially selected French oak barrels, the final blend is created with careful consideration to upholding its reputation for cellaring gracefully, retaining its freshness and balance for many years.

John Duval Annexus Mataro 2021

First planted in Barossa in the 1850’s, the region is today a rich source of old vine Mataro, including the oldest known vineyards in the world. Our relationships with local grape growing families provide privileged access to many exceptional old Mataro vineyards from which we produce wine for our Plexus Red blend. Encouraged by the response to our initial bottlings of small parcels of Grenache under the Annexus label, we extended the idea of presenting the best of the varietal components of Plexus to Mataro with the first release from the highly praised 2016 vintage.

Bests Thomson Family Great Western Shiraz 2019

The Thomson Family Shiraz is produced predominantly from the fifteen rows of vines planted by Henry Best in 1868 and only available in exceptional years, on average about six times a decade.

Alkina Polygon #1 Shiraz 2022

There are three polygons that have, since the very early days, looked like they could stand apart as Single Polygon wines. Polygon 3 is 0.274 hectares (ha) and approximately 200 vines. Its soil profile is shallow red brown earth over deep chalky, sedimentary limestone which contains fractured schist and limited iron. Polygon 5 comprises two similar parcels of 0.12ha and 0.25ha, a total of 0.37ha. These Polygon 5 sections have deeper soils and well fractured schist with ferric clay (within the fractures).  Polygon 1 was defined in Pedro’s second visit in 2018. The block is 0.4ha which Pedro divided into separate areas and recommended that we exclude one section of 0.097ha which lacks the fractured schist of the other sections.

de Bortoli Wizardry Grenache 2020

Clever, surprising, magical… with a bit of the dark arts thrown in. This wine style is light, gentle, textured. The wine of the warmer regions.

E. Guigal Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2021

E. Guigal is a highly acclaimed winery and négociant business located in Ampuis, in the northern Rhône region of France. Founded in 1946 by Étienne Guigal, the estate gained international recognition under his son Marcel Guigal, who took over in 1961. Today, the third generation, Philippe Guigal, continues the family's dedication to quality winemaking.

Dexter Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir 2023

Aromas of dark cherry, blackberry, bay leaf and thyme with subtle floral fragrance and hints of oak. It has a soft entry with mid palate fruit sweetness and lovely texture. Fine tannins and balanced acidity result in a wine with good texture and length.

All Wine

Mixed

Bleasdale

Mixed

Mixed

Penfolds

Mixed

Mixed

Schoolhouse Wines

d'Arenberg

Leeuwin Estate

Amisfield

Twin Islands

Swinney

Stonier

Tyrrell's Wines

Pyramid Valley

Seppeltsfield

Nightfall Wines

Wirra Wirra

Turkey Flat Vineyards

John Duval

Best's Great Western

Alkina

De Bortoli

E Guigal

Dexter