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Glug ‘Sunday Drive’ Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2023
Original price was: $14.60.$9.80Current price is: $9.80.Adelaide Hills vineyards are small and variable. A bit of good ground here and a further tiny parcel over the hill crest. Pocket handkerchief vineyards. Less common is exposure to the summer heat which ripens Shiraz and this ‘Sunday Drive’ we found irresistible and so purchased from a small garagiste maker. Cool climate though in the style of Eden Valley.
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Kitts Creek Barossa Valley Mataro 2018
$14.50The Barossa Valley is about 30 kilometres in length and we favour grapes from the central to northern limit as these provide the rich, full bodied styles which Glug favours.
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Landaus Vintners ‘Blockies’ South Australia Shiraz Mataro 2022
$8.80Since the first wine in 2007, the finishing touch to Blockies has come from the use of high-quality Mataro. We believe Mataro is the best all-purpose variety to use when adjusting the wine flavours of warm climate reds. Incidentally Mataro has no role of course in making cool climate reds. Thus, the back palate lift comes from the addition of about 15%, high quality Barossa Valley Mataro. The result is as good as the first we made in 2007.
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Fareham Estates Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
$15.60A big rich, juicy Cabernet, minty, intense flavours, being part of the ‘five star red haul’ we stumbled across in mid-2024. Five stars being the winery rating of the wine writer James Halliday. Halliday published ‘Clare Valley-the history the vignerons and the wines’, in 1985. He devotes a section to Fareham Estate which was founded in 1966.
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Classical Reds of 2021 Mix
$144.00This mixed dozen contains one bottle each of the following twelve reds:
Goat Square Barossa Valley Cabernet 2021
Village Belle Eden Valley Tempranillo 2021
‘The Regions’ Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
WIBS Winemakers Individual Barrel Selection GH33 Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021
Karrawirra Barossa Valley Shiraz Cabernet 2021
Princeland Watch Limestone Coast Shiraz 2021
Glug ‘The Escapee’ Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
‘Square Mile’ Barossa Valley Shiraz 2021
Barbarossa Barossa Valley Shiraz Cabernet Durif Mataro 2021
P.B. Burgoyne Padthaway Shiraz 2021
Restless Farm Langhorne Creek Shiraz 2021
Mount Eagle Eden Valley Shiraz 2021 -
Waitohi Springs Marlborough New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc 2023
$12.80Who was to know that plantings of Sauvignon Blanc along the river terraces of the Wairau River, draining the northern end of the South Island of New Zealand, in 1973 were to produce a taste sensation.
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Glug South Australia Cabernet Shiraz 2018
$7.50These are small volumes from 20 to 30 cases created for customer interest.
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Terrene Estates South Australia Chardonnay 2024
$9.60Vines arrived with the First Fleet, collected from European vineyards, while cuttings also came from Madeira and Cape Town, both with a long wine making history. More varieties arrived with the Busby collection of the 1830s. We know Chardonnay existed for a long time in Mudgee yet what was the origin? New clonal selections arrived though it was not till the mid to late 1980s that sufficient Chardonnay was being made to meet demand. Now all vineyard districts grown Chardonnay though it is no longer favoured in warm regions like the Barossa Valley. This Terrene Estates is a Glug blend from several sources.
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Mount Eagle Eden Valley Cabernet Syrah 2022
$14.10The best way I can describe this Mount Eagle is to appreciate that the medium density, the result of the location, displays a range of flavours, perhaps fragrant, which tend to be masked in wines from the adjoining Barossa Valley.