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Oakley Adams McLaren Vale Malbec 2023
Original price was: $12.80.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.A McLaren Vale Malbec chosen for one simple reason: outstanding flavour for the price. Often used in blends, Malbec shines here on its own, delivering richness and character that proves variety matters less than good wine at the right value. Different, impressive, and bottled exactly as we found it.
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Hopcroft & Cornock McLaren Vale Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2022
Original price was: $13.80.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.Sourced from surplus barrels of a post-1990s McLaren Vale winemaker, this Grenache Shiraz Mataro 2022 has been matured in large, seasoned oak and bottled when at its finest, offering a rich, balanced expression of the original wine.
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Farmer’s Mystery Mixed Dozen
Original price was: $160.00.$98.00Current price is: $98.00.Glug bottles a staggering array of different wines in any year. With the wind down under way there are now 55 wines listed with stock levels less than 10 cases. These are being boxed as Farmers Weekender Mystery Dozen. The packaging starts from one bottle left and proceeds to the next which was 4 bottles left etc. So each box shares some wines but not all. Our calculations show that on average the full price, bottle by bottle, is about $160 for the 12. The price is $98.
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Glug ‘Sandcastle’ Barossa Valley Grenache 2024
Original price was: $13.80.$10.00Current price is: $10.00.Not long-ago Barossa Grenache had no following so it is pleasing that advanced drinkers now realise the wonder of the Barossa expands far beyond Shiraz. Varieties such as Grenache and Mataro were included in large blends from the 1950s yet this was seldom mentioned on the label.
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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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Roxton McLaren Vale Merlot 2023
Original price was: $14.60.$10.50Current price is: $10.50.Roxton has a long history as a McLaren Vale brand though had faded and abandoned by the 1960s. The advanced customer should compare and enjoy Merlot from McLaren Vale and the Barossa Valley with our view being McLaren Vale has the edge.
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Roxton McLaren Vale Shiraz 2021
Original price was: $14.60.$9.00Current price is: $9.00.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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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.