Little Giant Little Batch Shiraz Mataro 2020
Showcasing two of McLaren Vale’s quality red grapes, Little Giant from the team at Fourth Wave Wine have released this as part of the “Little Batch” range. Little Giant, Little […]
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Little Giant Little Batch Grenache Tempranillo 2019
The Little Giant range strike out with these Little Batch range, still in the stocky, stout package representative of its label showing the southern hairy-nose wombat, South Australia’s fauna emblem […]
Shingleback D Block Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2013
The Flagship Cabernet for the Davey family of Shingleback and only made in exceptional vintages. While the current release is 2017, don’t be surprised if this turns up in the […]
Shingleback D Block Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2004
The Flagship Cabernet for the Davey family of Shingleback and only made in exceptional vintages. While the current release is 2017, such a museum release may turn up in the […]
Shingleback D Block Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2017
The Flagship Cabernet for the Davey family of Shingleback. Only made in exceptional vintages, this is the current release, but don’t be surprised if it’s a little hard to find. […]
Longview Macclesfield Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
The heavy end of the new “Macclesfield” range from Longview, with evocative labels that show “ethereal photographs of sculptures from (our) vineyard – hewn from Macclesfield pink marble.” Longview, Macclesfield, […]
Gundog Estate Rare Game Shiraz 2019
Sourced from two prized Hunter Valley vineyards: the Somerset and Tinkler’s (ex-Lindeman’s)1948 block. Made by Matt Burton and the Gundog team to be a true “Hunter Burgundy” just medium bodied […]
d’Arenberg The Feral Fox Pinot Noir 2019
Thankfully the volume has been turned down a little with this release being labelled at 13.5% (compared to the 2018 at 14.5%). Around 15% whole bunch (berries and stems), wild […]
d’Arenberg The Hermit Crab Viognier Marsanne 2020
A pre-release look (the 2019 is still on the d’Arry website) so I can only think they’ll keep to the 4%ish wild ferment this with around 14% of the Viognier […]
d’Arenberg The Olive Grove Chardonnay 2020
A return to 100% McLaren Vale fruit for this release of Olive Grove (bottle shot still references previous vintages where Adelaide Hills fruit was also used.) French oak fermentation and […]
