Australia
Australia
Soldier's Block Malbec
Regular price £9.35See how the Aussies can do a Malbec - care needed as like most things Australian.
Classically textured, violet in hue with an exotically perfumed nose.
Country: Australia
Region: Western Australia
ABV: 15%
Grapes: 100% Malbec
Vegan/Vegetarian
One Chain Googly Chardonnay
Regular price £9.25A lovely Australian Chardy that benefits from more of the tropical fruit flavours of the grape, so often overpowered by oak in other wines.
Soft peach aromas, lovely ripe melon and apple characters, all mingling with touches of pear and honey. Bright, zingy and well balanced with gentle acidity and a smooth, tropical fruit finish.
Country: France
Region: South East Australia
ABV: 13%
Grapes: 100% Chardonnay
The Googly is the creation of the cricket fanatics at One Chain Vineyard (a chain being the old imperial measurement for 22 yards – the length of a cricket pitch). Luckily you don't have to be a cricket connoisseur to appreciate the quality of their wines!
Small Town Vineyards Clovella Grenache and Mourvedre 2018
Regular price £16.95In the early 1990s, Magpie identified this special site - a single vineyard of Grenache and Mourvèdre. After an olympic blending exercise one night with the wine from here, they name the vineyard 'Clovella'. This wine is a heady embrace of dark spice; it's no coincidence that there’s a distinct clove note in this wine. Bright, fresh, textural in spite of 22 months ageing in older French oak. Soft, moreish and foody.
Country: Australia
Region: Barossa
Grapes: Grenache and Mourvedre
ABV: 14%
Food Match
Slow cooked lamb shanks
The label design inspiration is all about the meeting of mouths, that energy before lips meet, whether meeting a glass of wine or each other. Two varieties blending into one....
Heilan Coo Shiraz Mataro 2020
Regular price £11.95From estate owned vineyards in Victoria, Australia; the Heilan Coo is a silky Shiraz based blend with a touch of spicy Mataro, finished with a (cow) lick of toasty oak.
Country: Australia
Region: Victoria
ABV: 14%
Grapes: Shiraz, Mataro
Josef Chromy Chardonnay 2018
Regular price £24.95Gorgeous, ripe white peach and lime with subtle toasted hazelnut characters. The palate is rich, textural and layered with a long, mineral finish.
Country: Australia
Region: Tasmania
Grapes: Chardonnay
ABV: 13.5%
Stella Bella Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
Regular price £23.95Subtle mocha and a sweetness from the vanillin oak complement the fruit aromas. Full bodied with assertive, brick dust tannins.
The dense palate is dark and brooding with blackberry, blueberries and couverture. Oak integration is seamless. There is a sense of both elegance and power; the flavours deepen and spread across the palate, freshened with balanced acidity, building to a tight and fine pure cabernet finish.
Margaret River, Australia
Grapes: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Food Match: Manchego cheese, BBQ veal
Stella Bella is a leading producer in the Margaret River region. Established in 1998 by Stuart Pym, who remains with them today as their Consulting Winemaker, Stuart oversees Senior Winemaker Luke Jolliffe and is currently embarking on his 27th Margaret River vintage. Stella Bella owns 5 exceptional vineyards throughout the cooler and increasingly prized central and southern areas of the Margaret River wine region, one of which, the Suckfizzle vineyard, is the most south-westerly vineyard on the continent. The Stella Bella wines have been highly reviewed and awarded internationally with 5 red stars with James Halliday (the highest accolade for a wine producer) and numerous gold medals and international trophies including the Mission Hill Trophy from the International Wine & Spirit Competition for Top International Chardonnay.
Yabby Lake Red Claw Pinot Noir 2019
Regular price £23.95A serious wine that would make the medieval monks of Burgundy proud! Silky and smooth, perfectly balanced Pinot.
Country: Australia
Region: Mornington Peninsula
Grapes: Pinot Noir
ABV: 14%
Almost unparalleled in his dedication to the cause of fine, terroir wines, Tom Carson has divided his Yabby Lake vineyard area into no fewer than 90 blocks with 10 clones of Pinot Noir & 7 of Chardonnay. Each plot is raised and vinified separately.
Keith Tulloch “McKelvey Vineyard” Shiraz, Hunter Valley 2019
Regular price £22.00The aromas of this wine match the impressive colour; dark and laden with black fruit richness, paired to the subtle spice and creaminess of the oak bouquet. The length and intensity of black cherry, spiced plum and dark chocolate flavours prove the quality of this vineyard. The fresh lift, balance and tension of the finish points to many years of cellaring potential.
Country: Australia
Region: Hunter Valley, NSW
Grapes: Shiraz
ABV: 14.5%
Food Match: Beef fillet or mature cheddar
These thoughtful, hand-crafted wines hail from the Hunter Valley with a nod in part to the great Rhône Valley wines of Hermitage and Cote Rôtie. For those who may have tasted any legendary Hunter Shiraz wines of the 40s, 50s and 60s, tasting many of the modern Hunter wines can be a depressing experience but Keith Tulloch is very different, adding to that great legacy with a series of wines that uniquely capture the exotic spice and hedonistic pleasure of dense and rich Shiraz fruit. These are sensuous, subtle wines with the velvety texture of fine burgundy.
Leeuwin Estate Art Series Riesling 2016
Regular price £21.95The nose is aromatic, full of floral and citrus notes. On the palate the wine shows jasmine and honeysuckle alongside lemon and lime citrus.
Country: Australia
Region: Margaret River, Western Australia
ABV: 13.5%
Grapes: Riesling
Food Match: Thai red chicken curry
Leeuwin Estate Art Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
Regular price £56.00French oak matured for 12 months, this wine is powerful and concentrated. The nose is full of ripe black fruit along with hints of cocoa, leather and licorice. On the palate it is generous and full bodied, smooth yet firm tannin and a very long finish seasoned with sweet spice and toasty oak. Drinking now through to at least 2030.
Country: Australia
Region: Margaret River, Western Australia
ABV: 13.5%
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon
Food Match: Rump steak
Leeuwin Estate Prelude Chardonnay 2019
Regular price £34.00Very elegant and sophisticated Chardonnay from the highly regarded Leeuwin Estate in Margaret River. Quite pure and precise, like fine white burgundy, but with it's own unique Western Australian salinity and charm. Brilliant.
Country: Australia
Region: Margaret River, Western Australia
ABV: 13.5%
Grapes: Chardonnay
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