Halliday Exceptional Merlot + Malbec Dozen

Penley Estate are making merlot cool again! A modern icon of South Australian winemaking, Penley Estate was born of a marriage between the Tolley and Penfolds winemaking dynasties. Their merlot is juicy, slurpy, and bursting with medium-bodied blood-plum fruit, rated 95 points by the Halliday Wine Companion. Bleasdale have been making wine in Langhorne Creek since 1850, this year they celebrate their 175-year anniversary. Malbec is a particular speciality of Bleasdale, and their Generations series celebrates their long history in the region. Redolent of black fruit, earth and spicy cedar, it’s rated 96 points by the Halliday Wine Companion. 

Taylors Taylor Made Malbec 2022

This Malbec is full of intense dark fruit characters, a hint of plum stone and spicy notes of black pepper create a wine that is medium to full bodied with a smooth finish.

Stonehaven Stepping Stone Malbec 2022

Smooth and fruity, dark fruit flavours of plum and cherry

Tim Adams Cabernet Malbec 2018

Dry-grown Cabernet and Malbec parcels were fermented to dryness for seven days before being pressed, with some of the pressings being returned to the free run wine to enhance texture and mouthfeel. A full-bodied wine with generous chalky tannins. Feel content cellaring our Cabernet Malbec for at least ten years in good conditions. This wine pairs well with lamb and other red meat dishes.

Mitolo Jester Malbec 2022

The life of the party, the instigator of frivolity, the undying entertainer. A modern-day jester gathers friends around regularly to eat and drink well, and much like their medieval predecessors, reminds us that life shouldn’t be taken too seriously.

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. 

Malbec

Mixed

Taylors

Stonehaven

Tim Adams Wines

Mitolo

Bleasdale