Wyndham Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Bin 444 2010
A fine example of the Cabernet Sauvignon variety with deep, rich colour and full berry fruit and minty flavours. The varietal fruit flavours coupled with maturation in French and American Oak have given the wine integrated structure and balance.
Wyndham Estate Shiraz Bin 555 2009
George Wyndham became the father of Australian Shiraz after planting Australia’s first commercial Shiraz vineyard in 1830. His innovative spirit is a proud legacy that endures to this day at Wyndham Estate. Wyndham Estate BIN wines are multiregional blends, with fruit sourced from amongst Australia’s premium viticultural regions. Created to be...
Lindemans Sauvignon Blanc Bin 95
Colour: Ruby red with plum highlights. Nose: Cassis and bramble fruit aromas meld with dark fruit notes and subtle spiced touches. Palate: A medium to full bodied Cabernet Sauvignon that combines dark berry fruit and cassis flavours with hints of chocolate and mint. The finish is stylish, long and juicy.
The Black Opal Cabernet Sauvignon is a wine of great finesse and character, highlighting the very best of full-flavored Australian red wine. The rich aromas of blackcurrant, mint and spice on the nose carry through as flavors in a balanced palate offering fruit flavor, subtle oak and soft, well-integrated tannins. This...
Black Opal Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot
A complex berry fruit aroma is tinged with a hint of oak. The color is a deep purple/red. The ripe fruit palate is complemented by fresh acidity and firm oak tannin. Cabernet imparts a rich cassis character; Merlot lends a fleshy fullness and alluring softness to the wine. Food Suggestions: pasta,...
Black Opal Chardonnay is a vibrant mid straw colour. The bouquet has lovely aromas of peach, melon and cream, while the palate is rich and long with varietal Chardonnay fruit. The wonderful texture of this wine is complexed by the small portion of Malolactic fermentation, and the finish is long and...
A serviceable wine with an earthy, warm center anchored by plenty of ripe fruit. The finish comes on rather fast, with some pleasing chocolate/pepper/spice tones
Black Opal Shiraz & Cabernet Sauvignon
A blend of 53% Shiraz and 47% Cabernet, this wine is a modern style exhibiting generous body and fruit flavour. The bouquet gives plenty of spicy plum characters from the Shiraz fruit with the Cabernet contributing rich blackcurrant and mint aromas. The palate of this medium bodied wine is rich and...
It’s deep in colour with great intensity, bursting with blackberry fruit juice, blueberry jam and masses of clean varietal Shiraz fruit. It’s well balanced with black liquorice, pepper and spice giving tremendous flavour and length. It weighs in at 15% alcohol! This wine was matured in French and American oak.
Paringa Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
The river Murray is to Australia what the Mississippi is to America and the Rhine is to Europe. Fed from the snow country of the Australian Alps the Murray traces a leisurely 2,000 mile course to the Southern Ocean. In its lower reaches, in the state of South Australia, the Murray...
Penfolds Chardonnay Koonunga Hills
Koonunga Hill whites are well proportioned wines with distinctive primary fruit characters and good levels of intensity. They are a step up from the Rawson's Retreat whites, with more concentration and fruit power. The Chardonnay, which is matured for several months in small French oak barriques, is a richer style with...
Cape Mentelle Sauvignon Blanc & Semillon
This is a classy wine, even with a screwcap, and it doesn’t need a critter on the bottle to grab one’s attention. It has a lucent pale straw color and gives off bright aromas of lemon-lime citrus, orange blossoms, a touch of fresh cut hay, and a suggestion of minerals. This...
McWilliams Hanwood Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
Colour: Crimson brick red with medium intensity. Bouquet: Intense, lifted chocolate, mint and blackcurrant fruit flavours with brown spice and vanilla bean nuances. Palate: Rich, soft and generous palate displaying herbal, dark chocolate and blackcurrant fruit flavours complemented by mocha and cinnamon oak characters.
McWilliams Hanwood Estate Merlot
McWilliam’s Wines, one of Australia’s most highly respected family-owned wine companies, has been at the forefront of Australian winemaking since 1877. McWilliam’s Hanwood Estate wines, noted for their complexity and fresh fruit flavours, have been crafted from premium fruit sourced from renowned wine regions in South Eastern Australia. Description Deep crimson,...
In the South Island regions of Marlborough, Nelson, Central Otago and Waipara, cool nights and warm summer days are ideal for growing Pinot Noir grapes. Brancott Vineyards South Island Pinot Noir is crafted in a rich, spicy, elegant style. Colour: Ruby red. Aromas: Lifted blackberry and dark cherry aromas overlay spicy...
Penfolds Koonunga Hill Cabernet & Merlot
Colour: Rich, attractive dark plum red. Nose: The nose shows lifted, aromatic, blackcurrant and raspberry fruits along with distinctly varietal cabernet and merlot characters of mint and tomato flesh. There are attractive, but not overpowering, background characters of savoury oak and spice. Palate: This medium bodied wine shows textbook cabernet characters...
Rosemount Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Diamond Label
The blending of Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot is one of the world’s classic varietal combinations. Perhaps most famously embraced in the Medoc region of Bordeaux it is also common in Australia, California and other New World wine producing countries. The classic blackcurrant flavours of Cabernet Sauvignon, with its telltale bramble leaf...
Rosemount Shiraz Grenache Diamond Label
Grenache is one of wine’s longest serving grape varieties, with plantings dating back into pre-history evidenced by its wide distribution today throughout the South of France and Northern Spain. In Australia, the variety was amongst the first to be planted in early viticulture over one hundred and fifty years ago, along...
