Well-structured, with a lush spiciness to the red berry and cherry flavors. Juicy richness midpalate, with underbrush notes backed by fine-grained tannins on the finish. Drink now through 2025.

Well-knit, with a rich core of dark cherry and plum pastry flavors that are accented by cocoa powder and wild spice accents. The loamy finish lingers with notes of forest floor. Drink now through 2025.

Concentrated pear tart and apple pastry flavors are rich and well-framed in this offering. Displays sage cream and orange zest accents midpalate, with a plush and open-textured finish. Drink now through 2025.

Bright and structured flavors of cherry and pomegranate gather accents of orange tea and cardamon, building richness toward refined tannins. Drink now through 2027.

This bright red colored Pinot Noir from Copain opens with strawberry jam and red plum bouquet with hints of pine sap and cinnamon. On the palate, this wine is medium bodied with mild acidity. The mouthfeel is delicate and gentle. The flavor profile is unique. It features a crushed stone and loam influenced strawberry with notes of red raspberry and cedar plank. I also detected hints of cola and a touch of cinnamon in the aftertaste. The finish is dry and its mild flavors fade away nicely. This old school styled Pinot would pair well with smoked sausage and creamy mushroom risotto.

Refined and well-structured, with vibrant acidity to the juicy red fruit and spice flavors that show a minerally verve. Ends with light herbal and savory accents on the lithe finish. Drink now through 2025.

Powerful and structured, with plenty of crushed white stone notes to the crisp green apple and Asian pear flavors that are backed by crunchy acidity. Minerally richness fills the fresh, focused finish. Drink now through 2026.

Well-structured, with rich acidity to the fresh-cut apple and Asian pear flavors that show savory richness. Sage cream accents fill the contoured finish. Drink now through 2026.

Produced in the estate vineyards in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA, the 2019 vintage from Gran Moraine is a bit reserved initially with a bit of smoky reduction. Yet, with time a bright, pure raspberry and black cherry fruit develop with a pronounced mineral cast and interesting complexity of savoury smoky aromas. The texture is fresh yet not lacking in breadth or body, and the finish is rewardingly long.

This midnight purple colored red blend opens with a black licorice and blackberry bouquet with hints of vanilla oak. On the palate, this wine is full bodied with medium acidity. It is also mouthwatering and savory. The flavor profile is a crushed stone minerality and mild blackberry blend with notes of black plum and oak. I also detected some hints of blueberry and dark chocolate towards the end. The finish is rather dry, and its dusty tannins build-up and stick around for a very long time. This wine would pair well with dry aged ribeye.

Wines like these are hard to fault - they just ooze class. A clever Shiraz once more from Peter Fraser and Yangarra Estate.If you ever get the chance to walk the Yangarra Estate vineyards, take it. The geology is something. 50% of the fruit for this Shiraz was grown on sand and the other 50% on ironstone - all certified organic and biodynamic. It spent time in 20% new French puncheons with the balance in older barriques, puncheons for 12 months. Mulberries and blueberries captivate. There is a sleek and polished presence about the way this carries itself. Vibrant and energetic, it is delicately spiced. The mouth is filled with generous fruit yet it is not weighty. No sad faces will be seen with this in the glass.

Essentially a Rutherford-based cabernet sauvignon with minor roles played by franc, merlot and petit verdot for an overall perfectly reasoned, seasoned and spiced bit of classic wine film. Rich in ’17, tannic through alluvial chalky drive and a slight gravel overbite. Hard not to be seduced by the rugged beauty and hard to get at fruit zone out of a vintage that can be stubborn when it so chooses to be. Lay this down another year at the very minimum. Drink 2022-2027.

Full-throttle in approachability and juiciness, this Chardonnay is packed with stone fruit pits and generally über juiciness. Lightly layered in texture with solid concentration but no overt glycerol and plentiful acidic vibrance, this is very well balanced. The mild finish tastes of toasted oak and warm nuts with a light citrus tinge. The acidity surges throughout to give this excellent freshness.

Quite brutish and muscular, a Cabernet Franc that is bigger than I imagined to be honest. Some choc mint appeal, dried herbs, lots of black currants and dark plummy fruit. It's drying and the hefty oak plays its part here too. Over a couple of days it didn't budge too much but wines like this aren't built for now given the oak and acid tension. It's a wine I'd love to revisit in six to eight years.

May the pinot noir syrah realm continue!Soft, juicy red. Crisp tannins, raspberry and strawberry characters abound, white pepper spice, blood orange acidity. Thirst-quenching kind of feel. Great sense of tension and precision. Fresh as. A vibrant, exciting red.

The personality of Sexton with volume turned up from the wet, cool 2020 year. Lemon-ginger tea scents and flavours, yuzu fruit, cumquat sweet-sour tang. Exotic citrus, hey? Flinty notes, some sizzling saline acidity in the core, slick, liquid spice cinnamon-clove oaky layering. A leaner style but not without flavour and vitality. Long and dart shaped then starburst of citrus tang to close. Good gear here.

A mix of blocks, older French oak of varying sizes. Giving shiraz a full orchestra of opportunity. Chewy, medium weight, a little slippery, dark fruited, woody spiced example here. Has lots of ripe attributes but manages a sense of freshness too. Feels very dictionary definition of ‘good McLaren Vale shiraz’. Will win an armada of fans.

This beautifully polished and firm-textured wine seamlessly combines opulent, juicy blackberry and red cherry flavors with subtle oak spices like nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger that top it off nicely. One of the best value statewide in Zinfandel.

Fijnbosch is a single-site Chardonnay from clay-rich soils in the Banghoek Valley, deliberately released with a little bottle age. Honeyed, textured and well structured, it combines stone fruit sweetness with a mineral core, subtle reduction and some toasty oak.

Winemaker Peter Fraser is riding high in McLaren Vale, as evidenced by this single vineyard 98/2 shiraz/viognier grown at 180m on North Maslin Sands, which is estimated to be 54 million years old. Intense dark fruit, bright spice, and supple tannins tell the story in this impeccably balanced wine. The finish is long and persistent with perfect tannin balance and more dark fruit and licorice. The texture is amazing. Fraser works with 47 acres of shiraz to choose from, divided into thirteen individual blocks, each defined by different aspects and subtle variations of the sand and Ironstone soils. 2018 was a fine vintage, and Fraser went 50% whole berries with 20% whole bunches cold-soaked, and was wild fermented in open top tanks. It's aged in French oak for ten months on its lees (20 percent new).

Blueberries, blackberries and hints of espresso mingle on the nose of the 2019 King's Wood Shiraz, which matured in a large (2,500-liter) foudre. Without obvious wood impact and with 25% whole bunches, it's reminiscent of a good Saint-Joseph, melding fruity and savory notes into a harmonious whole. Medium to full-bodied, it's supple on the palate, with just a hint of menthol appearing on the long, silky finish.

Hickinbotham's 2019 The Revivalist Merlot features classic varietal notes of black cherries, mocha and gentle tobacco-leaf shadings. It's medium to full-bodied on the palate, showing unexpected crispness to offset the wine's formidable heft. Rich, velvety tannins coat the palate, while the finish lingers. It's a rich, concentrated Merlot that surpasses many other New World versions.

Marked by notes of vanilla and creosote on the nose, the 2019 Brooks Road Shiraz follows those opening salvos with blueberry and plum fruit, cedar shavings and dark chocolate. It's medium to full-bodied, supple and ripe, with a plush feel and a long, licorice-tinged finish. There's ample concentration and power, but the wine is already approachable and I'd expect it to age relatively quickly. Drink it over the next decade or so.

This is a fresh, crisp, dry style that’s made with grenache that has all the attractive peach, strawberry and floral allure you’d expect in a modern Australian rosé. The palate has a mouthwatering, sleek feel. From organically grown grapes. Drink now. Screw cap.