SC Pannell Little Branch Grenache 2022

Stephen’s interest in grenache stretches back to the mid nineties. Upon arriving in McLaren Vale, a preference for making medium bodied wine led Stephen to grenache and the love affair began. Given the region’s warm Mediterranean-climate and proximity to the ocean grenache is ideally suited to McLaren Vale and perfectly at home with the food and lifestyle. Grenache is well on its way to becoming McLaren Vale’s most recognised wine and their true wine of place. Little Branch Vineyard, Blewitt Springs, 30 year old unirrigated trellised vines grown on 50 million year old soils comprised of Maslin Beach Sands flecked with iron stone at 140m above sea level. 

Schild Estate Micks Workshop Shiraz 2022

Schild Wines have been crafting shiraz for over the four generations from premium fruit in the heat of the Barossa. 

Lambrook Plant Pinot Noir 2023

Pinot Noir is becoming a key variety for the Adelaide Hills. Displaying sweet cherries and cloves this is a delicate but full flavoured wine. This pinot noir is cold soaked for 24 hours to infuse the colour of the fruit and bring a lively kick to the palate. Hand plunged and open fermented in 100% French oak, of which 30% is new.

Langmeil Resurrection Mataro 2021

Hiding under the Mourvédre alias, Mataro has too often been relegated to the rank of a ‘blends only’ varietal. The time for a Resurrection is now. Driven by the new generation of Barossa winemakers, Mataro is once again taking its place as a single varietal of regional significance. Having utilized Mataro for over a decade as a great blending varietal, we have come to appreciate it in its own right. A great food wine with blue fruits, spicy characters and subtle earthiness. This complex wine takes its rightful place as a single varietal of note.

Purple Hands After Five Wine Co Aglianico 2023

The vineyard was planted in 2011 and is own-rooted, the clone is FP501. The vineyard has been run organically since late mid-2017. After nine days on skins the open fermenter was basket pressed and transferred into a single new French oak hogshead with the balance to one to four year old French oak hogsheads to undergo malolactic fermentation.

Swinney Farvie Grenache 2022

In the late 1990s, Grenache was hardly known in Western Australia, let alone in Great Southern. But, inspired by the great wines of France and Spain—and believing that Grenache could do well in a region already building a reputation for high-quality Syrah—Matt Swinney ignored the experts (who said Grenache would never ripen in the cool climate of Frankland River) and planted the region’s first bush-vine Grenache vineyard. He did so with mass-selection cuttings provided by David Hohnen and gave his new vines pride of place on the site’s hilltops.

Take a walk through Swinney’s untrellised Grenache bush vines, and things change about halfway down the block planted in 2004 on the estate’s upper northeast-facing hillside crest. The soil gets leaner and shallower, with more gravel and a higher clay content. “That’s Farvie,” says Rob Mann. This fruit is different, too; it is more ferrous and mineral with fine, velvety tannins and so much complexity. Vines are picked over multiple passes, with only the best bunches from each vine—those sitting in the dappled light of the vine’s architecture—set aside for Farvie. 

Pepperjack Shiraz 2023

Traditional winemaking techniques and an eye to modern styles allow us to create wines that are synonymous with the regions they are from. Rich, honest wines that showcase the regions in their most natural light. Rich red in colour with purple hues, this wine displays aromas of blackberries and plums with hints of pepper and spice. The palate is rich, round and soft with concentrated berry fruits and soft velvety tannins. This wine can be enjoyed now but will also improve with careful cellaring.

Oxford Landing Chardonnay 2024

The chardonnay for this wine is sourced from vineyards in South Australia, where access to the latest clonal and rootstock combinations continues to deliver outstanding fruit.  Winemaking is focused on minimal intervention with the use of wild yeasts, malolactic fermentation, lees contact and subtle oak to give this chardonnay depth, complexity and personality.

Voyager Estate The Modern Cabernet Sauvignon Dozen 2021

A fresh take on a contemporary cabernet. The Modern celebrates what Voyager's organically farmed soils produce best. This medium-bodied, red-and-dark-fruited style is what they like to call a ‘serious drink now wine,’ whilst we predict it will age just as well.

Magarey Lane Glenroy Coonawarra Shiraz 2015

This delicious shiraz is dark and focused, displaying concentrated notes of dark cherry, plum and red berry. With plum and magnolia on the mid palate, this sleek and layered wine has plush tannins and excellent depth of character. Perfectly aged shiraz for the Coonawarra, picked in two small batches a week apart.

Langmeil Blacksmith Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

In 1842 a 32-year-old Blacksmith, Christian Auricht, arrived from Prussia with his wife and four children. He settled in the new village of Langmeil and established a forge in what was to become a thriving trading post. His original smithy remains to this day and is a feature of the winery’s heritage setting

Koomilya Estate Cabernet Touriga 2021

Upon purchasing the vineyard in 2012 Stephen Pannell saw it as an ideal place to create blends that included grape varieties he believed will see McLaren Vale into the future, and further, and complement the traditional varieties of cabernet sauvignon and shiraz. He grafted two contoured and terraced blocks on deep red soil closest to the scrub at the top of the south-facing slope to touriga nacional with the intention of blending with tempranillo, graciano and mataro. Blending with cabernet sauvignon was never planned, but as fate would have it, there is a magic between the two varieties that can’t be ignored. 

Petaluma Tiers Chardonnay 2021

The first vines planted in the Piccadilly Valley were Chardonnay vines on the slope of the Tiers Vineyard. Today, that same vision to create one of the world’s best Chardonnays is realised in the Petaluma Tiers Chardonnay, the pinnacle of Petaluma’s distinguished Chardonnay sites captured in this unique bottling. The Tiers vineyard in the heart of the Piccadilly Valley was planted over 40 years ago by Petaluma’s founding father Brian Croser. The soils are free draining clay loams with the geology of calcsilicate which imparts the distinctive mineral characteristic in the Tiers Chardonnay.

Cape Barren Flying Goose Shiraz 2020

Cape Barren Wines first vintage was in 1999, and the philosophy has and always will be to source the very highest quality of grapes, from regions most suited to each variety, and then craft exceptional world class wines of outstanding value.

Flametree SRS Wilyabrup Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

The 2020 Flametree SRS Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 is very lifted displaying berry fruits in the blackberry, cassis and mulberry spectrum, with dark coco chocolate undertones. The palate shows elegance, freshness and balanced fruit.

SC Pannell Sauvignon Blanc 2024

An initial blast of stone fruits, coriander, guava and fresh lime is met with nettle, rucola and snow pea with time in the glass. White citrus blossom and cut grass flood the palate with citrus tidying up the finish. Classic Adelaide Hills sauvignon blanc flavours and aromas.

Grant Burge Sparkling Rose NV

Longview The Piece Shiraz 2020

We only pick 5 tonnes of shiraz for The Piece. Fruit from our best shiraz blocks (Block 15 and Block 3) is picked and kept in separate in 2.5-ton open fermenters with approximately 15% whole bunches. It is then gently pressed and again, categorised by block when placed in old French oak 500 litre puncheons for around 18 months. Upon blending the 2020 vintage, we chose only seven barrels based on structure, flavour and finesse. Always a limited bottling, Longview produced a mere 4,700 bottles of this wine.

Leeuwin Estate Prelude Vineyards Chardonnay 2023

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.

Purple Hands Colours of the South Rosso 2021

A blend of negroamaro, montepulciano and aglianico from vineyards in Williamstown and Angaston. Those varieties that end in 'o' do all right in the Barossa, right!? Glossy black cherry and blackberry fruits with just the right amount of Italian attitude coming through. Touches of coal dust, amaro, deep layered spice, perhaps some leathery wisps and a distinct, savoury earth feel to the vinous proceedings. Bright line too, which cuts through that dark-fruited swagger and drives the wine onwards across the palate, finishing savoury and graphitey with deep, dark fruit and compact fine tannins.

Jim Barry Cover Drive Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

On the southern boundary of Coonawarra is the old Penola cricket ground, which first saw a ball bowled in anger and the flashing cover drives of the local champions of 1950. The cricket ground was retired in 1996. The following year, Jim Barry was fortunate to purchase the 30-acre property which he then planted with Cabernet Sauvignon. The Cover Drive Cabernet Sauvignon, first released in 2001, has been inspired by the great cricketing history of this vineyard. The wines consistently show great line and length.

South Australian and Western Australian Wines

SC Pannell

Schild Estate

Lambrook

Langmeil

Purple Hands

Swinney

Pepperjack

Oxford Landing

Voyager Estate

Magarey Lane

Langmeil

Koomilya

Petaluma

Cape Barren

Flametree

SC Pannell

Grant Burge

Longview

Leeuwin Estate

Purple Hands

Jim Barry