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  1. Cantina Tollo Rocca Ventosa Pinot Grigio 2023
    Cantina Tollo Rocca Ventosa Pinot Grigio 2023

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    2023
    Pinot Grigio
    Italy
    499
  2. Tahbilk Marsanne 2023
    Tahbilk Marsanne 2023
    A challenging vintage, that included a 1 in 100-year flood event, has delivered wines of wonderful depth of flavour and character. The intense floral, citrus and tropical fruits of this iconic Marsanne testament to that ... fresh acidity and a clean minerality adding to its appeal. Further complexity will undoubtedly come with age. TAHBILK
    2023
    Marsanne
    Australia
    397
  3. Little Goat Creek  Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2023
    Little Goat Creek Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2023

    Little Goat Creek is a real place in the heart of Marlborough’s Wairau Valley grape growing region. The creek flows from the Richmond Ranges of Marlborough into the Wairau River and this water in turn feeds the fertile land that produces Marlborough’s famous grapes.

    Classic aromas of tropical fruit, passionfruit and lime introduce delicious flavours of minerals, tropical fruits, hints of melon and citrus. LITTLE GOAT CREEK

    2023
    sauvignon Blanc
    New Zealand
    434
  4. Harvest Moon Sauvignon Blanc 2023
    Harvest Moon Sauvignon Blanc 2023

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    2023
    sauvignon Blanc
    New Zealand
    434
  5. Kris Wines Pinot Grigio 2023
    Kris Wines Pinot Grigio 2023

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    2023
    Pinot Grigio
    Italy
    391
  6. Poggio Dei Principi Rubicone Sangiovese 2023
    Poggio Dei Principi Rubicone Sangiovese 2023

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    2023
    sangiovese
    Italy
    389
  7. Felicette Grenache Rouge 2023
    Felicette Grenache Rouge 2023

    "Bright red color with purplish tones. A 'booster' powered nose of violets and red fruits. The Grenache launches fruit flavors of raspberry and plum. Medium-bodied on the palate, soft and juicy. A truly stellar red!” FERGAL TYNAN MW

    2023
    Grenache
    France
    418
  8. Tilia Malbec 2023
    Tilia Malbec 2023

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    2023
    Malbec
    Argentina
  9. Arroyo Demimo Verdejo 2023
    Arroyo Demimo Verdejo 2023

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    2023
    verdejo
    Spain
  10. Dr Loosen Dr L Dry Riesling 2023
    Dr Loosen Dr L Dry Riesling 2023

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    2023
    Riesling
    Germany
    442
  11. Handpicked Regional Selection Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2023
    Handpicked Regional Selection Yarra Valley Pinot Noir 2023
    Founded on the idea of crafting outstanding wines from the world's best regions, Handpicked Wines carefully owns or partners with vineyards across Australia and beyond - from the cool reaches of Mornington Peninsula and Tasmania to iconic international regions like Barolo and Marlborough.
    Their winemaking philosophy is all about site expression, sustainable farming, and detailed winemaking that best expresses the character of each of their wines origins. With a portfolio that spans everyday drinking wines to rare, single vineyard bottlings. This wine falls into their regional range and is a selection of declassified fruit off their single vineyard expressions, contract growers and managed sites.

    It's a stellar little drop leaning into the autumnal and filigree nature of Yarra pinot but with a little more cushion and flesh that makes it so appealing. Red currant, a touch of wild strawberry and some forest fruit mix leap out of the glass with white pepper spice and touch of clove warmly greet you. Its mid-weight in style with some lovely, superfine tannins that etch the surface of the glossy fruit. There is just a kiss light toasty oak but you could barely tell while it subtly frames the pure fruits. Another pinot where you have to ask how do they make it for the money?
    2023
    Pinot noir
    Australia
    441
  12. Yalumba Bush Vine Grenache 2023
    Yalumba Bush Vine Grenache 2023

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    2023
    Grenache
    Australia
    483
  13. Thymiopoulos ATMA White 2023
    Thymiopoulos ATMA White 2023
    Apostolos Thymiopoulos' Atma range (meaning 'soul') uses young grapes – here about 25% of tropical Malagousia to join Xinomavro from his biodynamic vineyards, a red grape unusually vinified as a white wine here. It's mineral and floral with a savoury, saline tang and vibrant acidity. Great mouthfeel, balance and price. DECANTER
    2023
    Greece
    445
  14. Forest Hill Highbury Fields Chardonnay 2023
    Forest Hill Highbury Fields Chardonnay 2023
    Tasty stuff, easy drinking, ticks boxes for chardonnay 101. Nice whiffs of peach and nectarine, some ginger, a touch of nougat and faint green almond. The palate quite citrusy and green-apple driven, a little juicy, a lick of that nougat from the bouquet here, too, with a tangy, pineapple-y finish. Fun stuff, done well, good times. MIKE BENNIE, The Wine Front
    2023
    chardonnay
    Australia
  15. Alamos Torrontes 2023
    Alamos Torrontes 2023

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    2023
    Torrontes
    Argentina
    478
  16. Handpicked Regional Selection Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2023
    Handpicked Regional Selection Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2023

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    2023
    chardonnay
    Australia
    506
  17. De Bortoli Estate Pinot Noir 2023
    De Bortoli Estate Pinot Noir 2023
    From three, mainly south and east facing sites, all planted in the early 1990's. A light, bright ruby red. Red plum, cherries and pomegranate combine with some crushed flowers and white pepper in this stylish and, always, well priced wine. The palate is light to medium bodied with those aforementioned red fruits, some underbrush and very fine, persistent tannins. PHILIP RICH, Halliday Wine Companion

    The Estate Vineyard wines are elegant, handcrafted wines that reflect the unique characters of the De Bortoli Yarra Valley Estate in Dixons Creek where this essentially single vineyard wines from mature vine is made with minimal handling and thoughtful winemaking. Exceptional quality
    with a distinct sense of place.

    There is a lovely smokey cedary thing going on here, its really inviting giving the pure red fruits and soft sweet spices a lovely counterpoint. A touch of darky cherry and a little wild strawberry as well. That smoky things continues on the palate with combo of black and red forest fruits to the fore and a little garrigue like finish that close it out. It looks pretty serious in some sense but at the same time easy to drink, keeping you come back for more.
    2023
    Pinot noir
    Australia
    506
  18. Gaia Monograph Agiorgitiko 2023
    Gaia Monograph Agiorgitiko 2023

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    2023
    Greece
  19. Pacha Mama Pinot Gris 2023
    Pacha Mama Pinot Gris 2023

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    2023
    Pinot Gris
    Australia
    444
  20. Coriole Sangiovese 2023
    Coriole Sangiovese 2023

    Always a very nice wine, and great value too.

    Cherry, almond, aniseed, a smattering of dried herbs, maybe lavender. It’s medium-bodied, kind of juicy, kind of savoury, there’s some strawberry in with cherry, some grainy grip to tannin, slightly ferrous, gently bitter with amaro, and the finish is fresh and pretty long. It’s maybe a little more crunchy and herbal than some vintages, and yet, it still lays on the charm. Nice. I do like a wine that doesn’t try too hard to be anything other than a great drink. GARY WALSH, The Wine Front

    2023
    sangiovese
    Australia
    436
  21. Rive Droite Rive Gauche Cotes du Rhone 2023
    Rive Droite Rive Gauche Cotes du Rhone 2023

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    2023
    Grenache, shiraz
    France
    467
  22. Eschenhof Holzer Wagram Gruner Veltliner 2023
    Eschenhof Holzer Wagram Gruner Veltliner 2023

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    2023
    Gruner Veltliner
    Austria
    501
  23. De Iuliius Estate Shiraz 2022
    De Iuliius Estate Shiraz 2022

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    2023
    shiraz
    Australia
    407
  24. Battenfeld Spanier Eisquell Riesling 2023
    Battenfeld Spanier Eisquell Riesling 2023

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    2023
    Riesling
    Austria
    501
  25. Solis Cotes de Provence Rose 2023
    Solis Cotes de Provence Rose 2023

    Solis Rose. This is the summer wine we have been waiting for. This is one of the best value Provence rose we have seen in some time and that is saying something given how much good pink is in the market at the moment.

    This is pretty classic stuff in all the best ways. A touch of fresh strawberry, snappy red currants, white pepper, a touch of fairy-floss lift and oh-so-inviting sweetly floral nose. It follows with that same wild strawberry and red berry fruit all fleshy and bright with a rim of citrus peel and quartzy-like minerality edging. It punches way above its weight here and while it will go down a treat on a warms summers day its equally at home paired with any BBQ fair you might want to throw at it.

    2023
    Mourvedre, Rose
    France
    460
  26. Camporsino Chianti DOCG 2023
    Camporsino Chianti DOCG 2023

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    2023
    sangiovese
    Italy
    495
  27. Santadi Vermentino Villa Solais 2023
    Santadi Vermentino Villa Solais 2023
    Cantina Santadi, from Sardinia’s southwestern coastal region known as Sulcis, was founded in 1960 as a cooperative of local growers. Under the guidance of Antonello Pilloni, Santadi has become one of Sardinia’s, and Italy’s, finest wineries, with more than 200 growers farming 600 hectares.

    The Sulcis peninsula is, geographically, Sardinia’s most ancient area, rich in archaeological sites, and offers an astonishing palette of variations and contrasts, with coastal sand dunes, gentle hills and inlets, narrow strips of flatland and inland mountains, rugged cliffs overhanging the seas interspersed with silky-smooth white beaches, pine trees, junipers and vineyards. In these sandy soils, pre-phylloxera vines continue to survive and thrive.

    Made with 10% Nuragus, another local variety, this spends a few months maturation on lees, in stainless steel, to give the wine an extra dimension of flavour and texture. Citrus notes and hints of tropical fruit, the palate is minerally and refreshing.

    2023
    Vermentino
    Italy
    480
  28. Billy Button Vermentino 2023
    Billy Button Vermentino 2023
    Exceptional vermentino. Perhaps the best expression from Australia, a land that surely deserve more give the lifestyle. Spiced quince, a squeeze of preserved lemon lathered in more salt than usual and such brio and confidence across the surging finish that I can't help but reach for another glass. This takes on Sardinia with ease. (93) NED GOODWIN, James Suckling

    SPECIAL BUY
    - Racy, juicy and succulent with immediate drinking enjoyment in mind. It's hard to ask for more. The Italian grape shines in refreshing lime, grapefruit, yellow apple and spring aromatics. In the mouth, it rolls warmly across the middle palate and then takes off, driven by zippy acidity. (93) JENI PORT, Halliday Wine Companion
    2023
    Vermentino
    Australia
  29. Stephane Aviron Beaujolais Village 2023
    Stephane Aviron Beaujolais Village 2023

    Stephane's family has been wheeling and dealing in Beaujolais for generations. Based in Fleurie, his father owned an oenological laboratory and worked as a wine broker where, after completing his studies, Stephane returned to work in the family business as a wine consultant and a winemaker in Chénas. His experience there and history in the region brings a depth of knowledge and intimate detail of the terroirs he now works. That, when combined with Stephane's obvious talent makes for a formidable combination.

    Black cherry and bright raspberry with a hit of heady, whole peppercorn spice, touch of cola and lovely burst of five spice that drives the inviting nose home. Super crunchy, raspberry fruit layered in with fine slippery tannins. Bursting with red fruit flavour, bright and bouncy. It's fine and tight with a lovely core of fruit that feels light and airy and at once concentrated and precise in its delivery. A fine Villages.

    2023
    Gamay
    France
    352
  30. One Eighty Wines Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2023
    One Eighty Wines Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2023

    So, Charles one of the guns behind One Eighty Wines started working for Prince Wine Store the middle part of 2024 and quickly became an invaluable team member. Imagine our surprise when he bought in a selection of wines made from his home turf in the beautiful surrounds of Adelaide.

    These are deftly crafted wines that speak gently of place with an easy going attitude that belies their subtle complexity. They are crafted beautifully allowing wine making elements to blend seamlessly with pure fruits and wonderful balance. These really over-deliver in every way.

    The 2023 Chardonnay, sourced from the Adelaide Hills region, is aged in 50% new oak for 9 months, then bottle aged for a similar length, this wine boasts bold butterscotch flavours, with notes of green apple to give the wine great balance. It's a lovely combo of old-school richness and modern freshness. That's not easy to pull off but they have done it here without losing any of the positives either style. Well done!

    2023
    chardonnay
    Australia
    340
  31. Bindi Accidental Red 2024
    Bindi Accidental Red 2024

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    Pinot noir
    Australia
    426
  32. Silent Way Pinot Noir 2023
    Silent Way Pinot Noir 2023
    Delicate sweet spices and ripe bramble fruit, seductive fresh raspberry with that classic inland-Vic pinot medium fruit weight. A lovely savoury line runs the course of the wine, bringing a sense of seriousness. Approachable and easily loveable. A wine for everyone. KAYLEEN, pws

    Lots of spice and dried herb note, garrigue-almost thing going on, medium body, liquorice, strawberry and red apple peel lift, a hint of blue fruit and rose with a sappy, chalky, juicy texture. Very pretty and highly drinkable. Go and make friends. KASIA SOBIESIAK, the wine front
    2023
    Pinot noir
    Australia
    426
  33. Te Mata Estate Merlot Cabernet 2023
    Te Mata Estate Merlot Cabernet 2023

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    2023
    Cabernet Blends
    New Zealand
    403
  34. Coulter Wines C2 Sangiovese 2023
    Coulter Wines C2 Sangiovese 2023

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    2023
    sangiovese
    Australia
    340
  35. KT Watervale "5452" Riesling 2023
    KT Watervale "5452" Riesling 2023
    What a delight from hello. It's a frisky, fruit-driven style, lots of character, lots of pleasure. More bandwidth than typical 'regional style riesling' with a thickset juiciness, some chalky pucker, depth to tropical fruits, citrus, green herbs. Nice course of briny minerality too. It turns the volume up a little on Clare riesling, and owns it in that way. It's delicious and full of character, is the message. Thank you. MIKE BENNIE, Halliday Wine Companion
    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    377
  36. Voyager Estate Chenin Blanc 2024
    Voyager Estate Chenin Blanc 2024
    Fruit for the Chenin Blanc comes from three organically farmed estate blocks on the Voyager Estate property. Voyager has some of the oldest Chenin Blanc in the Margaret River region, with some of the vines planted as far back as 1978. The vineyard soils are mostly gravelly loams with stony clay subsoils, providing excellent drainage and good moisture-holding capacity. The resulting fruit has exceptional balance.

    One of the better chenin blancs from Voyager Estate to date as it has flavour and richness but stays neatly in the dry spectrum. Poached pears and quince, lemon balm and lime curd with an intriguing waft of lanolin and the tug of phenolics add to the palate's shape. There's refreshment throughout but also depth. Lovely. JANE FAULKNER, wine companion
    2023
    Chenin Blanc
    Australia
    432
  37. Pewsey Vale Prima Riesling 2023
    Pewsey Vale Prima Riesling 2023

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    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    387
  38. MDI Refosco 2023
    MDI Refosco 2023

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    2023
    Refosco
    Australia
    414
  39. Chaffey Bros  Pax Aeterna Old Vine Grenache 2023
    Chaffey Bros Pax Aeterna Old Vine Grenache 2023
    Old-vine grenache off Kevin Schild's vineyard in Vine Vale; 30% whole bunches.
    A light ruby colour and fragrant aromas of raspberry, red plum and cranberry fruits dabbed with exotic ginger spice, light amaro tones, dried citrus rind and pressed flowers. Airy and spacious with a meaty, savoury flow across the tongue, light chalky tannins tugging at the roof of the mouth and a lively, lacy line of acidity. DAVE BROOKS, winecompanion.com
    2023
    Grenache
    Australia
    349
  40. Mutual Promise Arneis 2023
    Mutual Promise Arneis 2023
    Mutual Promise are wines made by Even Milne and comes from the Latin Compr Missum or compromise. The compromise being that he doesn't farm the fruit and nor does he have full control over the creative process making the wines with friends in  their Beechworth wineries. The Mutual Promise in essence being that they trust in others to create as they would with the aim of quality at the forefront. The wines champion some of their favourite varieties sourced from the King and Alpine Valleys in Victoria's spectacular North East. Varietal and regional purity is the heart of these wines.

    A summers afternoon, an Autumn evening, neither seem complete without a glass of refreshing dry white  wine and this wine is inspired by the dry whites of Northern Italy which are home to some of the all time great  refreshing dry whites. Whole bunch pressed, racked and fined to tank for cool fermentation with 50% aged in  white oak for complexity. Pear skin, lemon and almond blossom and that little green nutty thing that arneis does. A little bit slippery with green peach and some light herbal notes that expand out to more fleshy tree fruits on the finish. A pretty and convincing rendition of this Italian varietal but with a little more generosity of fruit and that's a good thing.
    2023
    Arneis
    Australia
    436
  41. Frankland Estate Riesling 2023
    Frankland Estate Riesling 2023
    Spot-on drinking in its youth, with hints of poached quince, white peach and some citrus. This has depth and texture caressing the palate and fine acidity leading it to a long finish – with a slip of sweetness rounding everything out. Refreshing to the last drop. JANE FAULKNER, Halliday Wine Companion
    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    504
  42. Aphelion Welkin Grenache 2023
    Aphelion Welkin Grenache 2023

    Sourced from a range of Vale sites, this is at the ‘vin de soif’ end of the Aphelion grenache roster. Grenache in this zone can be juicy and jubey, but not this. It’s a thread that runs through the Welkin range, with fruitful pleasure in a mid-weight zone tempered by savoury structure. Macerated strawberries and tart raspberries, redcurrant, red licorice, rhubarb and orange, pink peppercorn and a seasoning of dusty spice. It’s bright and lithe, savoury and zippy – a fine all-rounder at table that can take a gentle chill. MARCUS ELLIS, Halliday Wine Companion

    Seems like my brilliant treatise on whelks fell on deaf ears. Oh well, sometimes it feels like I’m feeding strawberries to pigs here. And speaking of strawberries…

    Poached strawberry, raspberry, lemon thyme and rosemary perfume, hazelnut, candied orange peel and mint. Juicy, strawberry, kind of sweet and succulent, but also has a little savoury stony stuff, nutty things and solid length too, and gee it’s a fun little wine. Nice. Kind of like a big rosato in a way. GARY WALSH, The Wine Front

    2023
    Grenache
    Australia
    436
  43. Torbreck Woodcutters Shiraz 2023
    Torbreck Woodcutters Shiraz 2023

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    shiraz
    Australia
    349
  44. Voyager Estate Sparkling Chenin Blanc 2023
    Voyager Estate Sparkling Chenin Blanc 2023

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    Chenin Blanc
    Australia
    432
  45. Spinifex Papillon 2023
    Spinifex Papillon 2023

    Pete Schell's Papillon and I have had a thing going for a while. If I spy it on a wine list it's often what I'll go for as it consistently delivers a great drinking experience and matches a range of foods. This year it's 66/31/3% grenache/cinsault/counoise 3%. Spacious, sapid and energetic, it's all raspberries and cranberries daubed with exotic spice, rose petals, sour cherry, dried herbs and stone. That whoosh of sour red plum at the end gets me every time. So good! (95) DAVE BROOKS, thewinecompanion

    This is 66% grenache, 31% cinsault and 3% counoise. Always the shapeshifter is Papillon.
    Cool and fresh. Lively and bright. A chillable, slurpy, crunchy red emerges. Red cherry, raspberry, cranberry, alpine herbs, some menthol-like lift, aniseed and pepper, a touch of white chocolate. Good energy here. Some real get up and go. Freshness implicit. Cool. MIKE BENNIE, The Wine Front

    Light cherry red hue. Raspberry, blueberry and anise aromas. Bright on the palate: juicy raspberry fruits with hints of rosemary and dusty earth adding complexity. The freshness of the acidity makes for a deliciousness that really appeals, and tannins kick through at the back end to dry the finish. STUART KNOX, The Real Review

    2023
    Cinsault, Grenache
    Australia
    349
  46. Monte Ronca Colle Marianna Soave 2023
    Monte Ronca Colle Marianna Soave 2023
    The wines of Monte Ronca and Colle Marianna are the creation of local specialist Antonio Fattori, based in the commune of Ronca, in the heart of Garganega country. His family began as Soave producers, and a little over 100 years ago they bought a 12-hectare property on the eastern edge of the Valpolicella denomination, where the vineyards cover the ridge dividing the Alpine Valley and Illasi Valley at elevations of close to 500 metres.

    Made from 100% Garganega planted in the basalt vineyards of Monte Calvarino. The fruit was picked at the end of September, crushed and fermented in 85% stainless steel and 15% large format casks. At 450 metres, Garganega can only just reach ripeness, so this is where a small amount of appassimento fruit works well (around 10%) to add flavour and texture while holding its cooler structure. The wine is charmingly floral on the nose, with notes of peach and green almond. On the palate, the wine is textural and juicy with citrus, stone fruit, minerals and a touch of spice.
    2023
    Garganega
    Italy
    499
  47. Exopto Bozeto de Exopto Rioja 2023
    Exopto Bozeto de Exopto Rioja 2023

    This wine has dropped the Bozeto styling and is now simply called Exopto. New name, same vibrant, great-value Rioja. This pan-regional expression of Rioja’s three principal grape varieties is conceived as a lively, easy-drinking introduction to the range. Most entry-level wines from this region are based on Tempranillo (a variety easier and more profitable to grow), yet here Garnacha represents 65% of the blend. This Garnacha hails from very old vines in the sandy, river-stone terroirs of El Agudo and Al Casillón at Alfaro (Rioja Oriental). The Tempranillo is drawn from a selection of mature vines in Ábalos (high-county Rioja Alta), and some Ábalos Graciano adds freshness and finesse.

    The wine ferments in a combination of concrete and steel tank, then ages for six months in concrete and 5,000-litre oak vats. These days, Tom includes a measure of semi-carbonic maceration for extra buoyancy. Opening with perfumes of dusky berries and well-judged spice, this is a wonderfully aromatic, restaurant-friendly wine. It’s a wine that impresses with its precision rather than power. Even so, the warmer year gives an open, juicy wine and a great deal of drinking pleasure: spice, vibrancy and velvety flow flecked with notes of espresso, dried flowers and wild woody herbiness to go with its smoky blackberry fruit. If you’re looking for a bright, succulent grower Rioja, few will deliver better value than this.

    2023
    Grenache, tempranillo
    Spain
    472
  48. Orbis Grenaches Rose 2024
    Orbis Grenaches Rose 2024

    Off-dry rosé is made from 100% Grenache and is made full of generous texture. This pale copper hued rose has plenty of mouth filling characters of ginger and baking spice aromatics, earl grey tea tannins and a long fruitful finish. Handpicked estate grown fruit, wild fermented and unfined.

    2023
    Rose
    Australia
    349
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