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Karrawirra Barossa Valley Shiraz Cabernet 2021
Original price was: $16.50.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.What a beautiful wine, the result of perfect vintage, the 14th for Karrawirra. Karrawirra is a traditional Glug brand so expect a traditional interpretation of a Barossa red.
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Roxton McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
Original price was: $14.60.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.McLaren Vale has won more Trophies and Gold medals for Cabernet than for Shiraz and this is attributed to the ocean influence and associated cooling breezes. Globally it is believed that the best Cabernets come from districts with a maritime location, a view developed from the French understanding of flavour development.
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Dolans, Sobels & Hope ‘Squatters Three’ Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
Original price was: $13.80.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.This Cabernet is part of the five star red haul that we purchased over 2024. The Cabernet is made in the manner of the Leasingham Bin 56 of the 1970s-1980s.
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Grandma Raethel Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Original price was: $19.50.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.The Grandma wines remain true to our belief that Barossa reds reflect the warm climate and location which in classical vintages achieves a flavour depth and fruit sweetness along mid palate, that is not found in wines from any other place globally.
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Crayford Barossa Valley Grenache 2023
Original price was: $14.80.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.The 2023 vintage intrigued us as early on we noted the amazing fruit aromas. Best drink young was one thought and for this Grenache that remains my advice as I find it extraordinary. Treat this like a big, sappy young red. Just gorgeous.
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Oakley Adams Langhorne Creek Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $12.80.$7.00Current price is: $7.00.Impressive Shiraz and the reason we return time and again to Langhorne Creek for wines that combine high quality with customer value.
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BVWS Barossa Valley Wine Supply Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $16.50.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.The wines we like to sell have been frowned upon by the Australian wine elite for 50 years. This wine is not about delicacy and finesse. It comes from the other side of the ledger, the dark side where flavour is everything. Pushes 15% alcohol. Very much a Glug style of red.
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Roxton McLaren Vale Shiraz 2021
Original price was: $14.60.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.Ninety minutes of pleasant driving across the Adelaide Hills links McLaren Vale with the Barossa Valley, the two most important districts within the Adelaidean Mount Lofty range. This Roxton is a fine example of the McLaren Vale style and a nice foil to our Karrawirra Barossa reds.
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Cellar Range Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Original price was: $14.50.$11.00Current price is: $11.00.Back in October we were given our choice of barrels of Clare Valley reds from a five-star rated winery. While they retained the very best to be able to select what we wanted from the rest we knew was a rare honour.
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Crayford Barossa Valley Shiraz Durif 2022
Original price was: $14.80.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.What varieties can be used to make wines that create a taste that carries the global badge ‘made in Australia’. Shiraz for sure as it takes on another dimension in our warm regions. Of the many hundreds of other varieties it is work in motion though a Glug favourite for stardom is Durif.
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Glug ‘Sunday Drive’ Adelaide Hills Shiraz 2023
Original price was: $14.60.$7.00Current price is: $7.00.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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Fareham Estates Clare Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Original price was: $15.60.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.A 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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Glug ‘GH53’ Winemaker’s Individual Barrel Selection Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
Original price was: $14.20.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Since 2016 we have been bottling the best of the best which are always in small volumes, and can be single barrels. The first bottled in-house single barrel was released in late 2017. They are now a regular part of the Glug yearly production.
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Langdorf Kaldukee Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Original price was: $11.40.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.Expect a fuller riper taste as what Barossa Cabernet demonstrates is that each variety can be grown across a wide ripening spectrum.
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Old Moppa Road Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
Original price was: $14.50.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.The Barossa Valley is a remarkable wine region to visit. To move from admiring the landscape in the manner of the occasional visitor to having a profound knowledge of the how the landscape evolved (geomorphology) has given me much satisfaction.
I know Old Moppa Road very well. It runs along the western edge of the northern Barossa Valley a location with many old vine vineyards. Alas for this vintage we could not buy grapes from the location we wanted along Old Moppa so moved further north to secure supply.
This vintage was a true Barossa vintage without prolonged hot spells nor unsettling cooler periods. So out of 50 vintages the 2022 would be like about 25 of them. You want to sit with the average not the extremes. Looks good in the glass as I write this note but am wary about long term cellaring.
The wine is rich and deep but all vintages make me cautious as the unexpected can appear as they age, so 10 plus years is not recommended – unless you are happy.
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Barbarossa Barossa Valley Shiraz Cabernet Durif Mataro 2022
Original price was: $15.80.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.NMD is short for ‘no more details’ and is the game we played with the early releases of the Barbarossa. The name Barbarossa and knowledge that it was 100% Barossa Valley was all customers were told. A real guessing game.
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Crayford Barossa Valley Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2023
Original price was: $14.80.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.Shiraz forms the stable known base. Grenache has alcoholic strength but less palate taste and brings to the blend beguiling aromas and a different palate impression to Shiraz. Yet what are these two without Mataro which maintains order by rearranging both and providing a strength of character particularly on the back palate. Still the genius of this wine remains the Grenache.
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Mount Eagle Eden Valley Tempranillo 2021
Original price was: $14.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.Tempranillo is one of the noble varieties of Spain and climatically is a useful addition to the palates of consumers.
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Hopcroft & Cornock McLaren Vale Merlot 2019
Original price was: $14.20.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.High quality and low prices is a sum we like, hence this remarkable wine from McLaren Vale, a district with a climate well suited to this variety.
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Mount Eagle Eden Valley Cabernet Syrah 2022
Original price was: $14.10.$8.00Current price is: $8.00.The 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.
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