$65
A single vineyard from McLaren Vale that really delivers the goods
$25
92 points
Dandelion Vineyards’ pride for this wine is well and truly justified. From the glass wafts hints of violets and blackcurrants, layered with fresh herb character. The wine is finely structured with supportive back palate tannin and balanced acidity. This cabernet will make a good compliment to your favorite winter-warming beef or lamb dish.
$25
92 points
Dandelion Vineyards has successfully rejuvenated the marriage between Shiraz and Riesling, presenting a new hot duo to walk the red carpet aside the ever-popular pairing of Shiraz and Viognier. With ripe dark plums, soft supportive tannin and a like-scented hint of pepperina, this wine walks elegantly and boldly and is sure to win over those [...]
$75
94 points
Grenache for real men should not taste like redskins or high octane red cordial. This single vineyard Yalumba wine ranks among my top Grenaches because it is quite the antithesis. It’s fine and honed with dried savoury herb and wood spice complexity and the kind of tannin structure that will benefit from some years to mature. [...]
$15
91 points
Packed with fresh, young juicy fruit and not a skerrick of oak to be found, we all need more wines like this in our lives – for kicking back and enjoying without too much thought, or for clever matching with spicy fare. This is a delightful take on Merlot that tastes like crunchy, fresh forest [...]
$17
93 points
It was a lot of fun buying Koonunga Hill in the mid-90s, leaving it in my cellar for what seemed like far too long, then pulling it out and wowing all and sundry with a wine that I picked up for next to nothing. There are still a few of those kicking around in there [...]
$50
93 points
The inaugural Penfolds Bin Pinot will amass more than its fair share of sceptics, and for no other reason than that it has “Penfolds” and “Pinot” on the same label. Understandably so, for the company that has done more to raise the profile of powerful, long-lived, oak-driven reds than any other in Australia. But this [...]
$50
93 points
You won’t see this wine until late this year but you must be ready to pounce the moment you hear wind of it because the first release of this single vineyard wine sold out in hours last year, there are only a few hundred cases this year – and it’s a better wine. Lovely fruit lift [...]
$55
92 points
The drought conditions of the challenging 2007 season put considerable stress on vines and left a telltale dryness to the finish of many Australian reds. This wine is not immune, but it makes it over the line by virtue of its attractive blackcurrant, capsicum, leaf and tobacco bouquet and its lingering fruit persistence. Firm tannins [...]
$30
93 points
There is an arsenal of special release 2008 reds lurking in the Penfolds cellar as testimony to one of the most legendary vintages this decade. For now, you’d have to take my word for this, if it weren’t for the sneak preview that this wine offers. Peter Gago names this the best 138 he’s ever [...]
95 points