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2008 Bird in Hand Rose @ $15.00 has been generating a reputation as a faultless serve, being selected twice for service at Wimbledon. Whatever you think of tennis, quality pinot and rose always make for a good double. Sour cherry and strawberry of the pinot match well in this elegant, slightly sweet wine. Fine acidity, vibrant redcurrant and strawberry fruit and a measured dose of sugar is the perfect aid to the fruit. Very elegant… screwcap

2007 Nepenthe Sauvignon Blanc @ $16.00 is one of 2 benchmark Adelaide Hill savvys. It regularly features gooseberry and tinned asparagus fruit, good mid weight mouthfeel and intensity. This edition shows riper fruit than normal and has a touch of passionfruit to it as well… screwcap

2008 Sorby Adams WA Semillon Sauvignon Blanc @ $14.00. This is top cool climate territory and the wine is fragrant, herbaceous, light and yet intense. The winemaker is Simon Adams, former Cellarmasters winemaker, and brother of Tim Adams … screwcap

2008 Australian Domaine Wines Clare Viognier @ $17.00. Here’s a variety struggling for an identity – Aussie production runs the gamut from super ripe and oaked to under ripe, fragrant and lean. While the variety has something to recommend it at either extreme it has yet to assert itself at any point of the spectrum. This wine however, is lovely, very steady on its feet, elegant, taut and just ripe, showing lovely apricot kernel characters, a touch of citrus blossom and pear. This wine is perfect with a green salad featuring a bit of young asparagus straight from a hot griddle pan, rocket, fresh pear, parmesan and olive oil … screwcap

2008 Bird in Hand Sauvignon Blanc @ $19.00. Grapes were picked at staggered intervals, and varying degrees of ripeness. The result is a complex wine, starting at cat-spray and gooseberry and finishing at tropical. A relative newcomer, but hot on the heels of Shaw and Smith … screwcap

2006 Tim Adams Clare Riesling @ $19.00. The 06 is one of the finest Tim has produced, deserving the Hyatt International Riesling challenge trophy. This wine fended off 457 other entries from 9 countries (including much of the best of Germany). There’s plenty of citrus aromatics here, with couture quality fruit flowing over model acidity … screwcap

2006 Pikes White Mullet @ $13.00. It’s usually a dangerous thing to release a white blend (unless it’s an SSB) especially one that features a lot of different varieties (Riesling, Viognier, Sauv and Chenin Blancs in this instance). Kinda screams ‘left over bits we didn’t know what to do with’. These particular bits however are quality, massaged into cohesion with fine acid and settled into place with the faintest hint of sugar … screwcap

2006 Miranda Pioneer’s Raisined Muscat 375ml @ $11.00. Here’s Muscat made as a late harvest style, rather than the more traditional porty style. Choice mags panel rated it best of the late harvest styles, beating more expensive and more highly fancied opposition including offerings from Cloudy Bay,Torbreck, Brown Brothers and Stella Bella … cork

2006 Pike & Joyce Adelaide Hills Sauvignon Blanc @ $14.00. Snow pea and passionfruit are the key elements in this wine. Neil Pike (winemaker) reckons it looks better than when it was released. I didn’t have it as a youngster but can happily say it looks as fresh as many 08 releases. Because the market demands the current vintage so strongly, it can be had for $14 - awesome … screwcap

2007 Black Chook Viognier Marsanne Rousanne @ $14.00. This wine is a blend of Viognier, Marsanne and Rousanne- so it’s got great texture and length, and flavours of pear, apple, apricot and honeysuckle. Fresh, bright and layered … screwcap

2008 Bird in Hand Sparkling @ $20.00 is fast achieving cult status, and with good reason. The wine is soft, creamy and strawberry laden, with excellent length and beautiful balance … cork

2007 Two Hands Moscato @ $16.00 is a fresh, lightly sparkling dessert style wine made from frontignac. Smells like a plate of fresh tropical fruit dusted with bathpowder. Palate is light and sweet without being over the top in the sugar stakes. Perfect with fresh fruit, loud pants and happy weekend catchups … cork

2006 Tempus Two Cab Merlot @ $20.00 Here’s a fruit rich medium bodied wine with plenty of cassis and black currant. It’s well polished with bright fruit, and good intensity for the price. It’ll cellar well, but it’s so juicy and slippery that it’s unlikely to last that long … screwcap Buy 6 get 6 FREE

2006 Tempus Two Shiraz @ $20.00 Medium bodied, with bright fruit, this is an excellent current drinker which will also reward a few years cellaring. Fruit is plummy with a hint of blackcurrant and is finished with vanillan oak … screwcap Buy 6 get 6 FREE

2006 Leconfield Cabernet @ 22.00 just scored the Best Cab award at the recent Hyatt wine awards. It is typical Leconfield Coonawarra- long, fine and intense whipped into shape by cedary oak and finishing with fine, drying tannins. Will reward cellaring … screwcap Just announced – has also just been awarded a gold medal and best in class at the International Wine and Spirits Comp.

2005 Tim Adams Cab Merlot @ $17.00 This brand spanking new wine from Tim Adams has just finished a 2 year stint in French oak. It’s a big Cab Merlot blend and the fruit has soaked up the oak beautifully, showing stunning fruit intensity and clarity with a cedary finish Lots of Cab characters here, like violets and blackcurrant, softened beautifully by plump, plummy merlot … screwcap

2006 Tyrrells Rufus Stone Heathcote Shiraz @ $15.00 has just picked up a gold medal at the Adelaide Wine show. This wine shows signs of increasing vine age with layers of complexity and good fruit intensity. I love Heathcote for its ability to provide super ripe fruit with high natural acidity and a streak of minerality. A bit like being praised and spanked at the same time … screwcap

2006 Australian Domaine Wines Padthaway Shiraz @ $16.00 is a belter, offering big, ripe dark fruit, chocolate and tobacco, with a seam of fine acidity for balance. There’s quite a bit of oak here, it doesn’t dominate, adding a hint of smoke and some cedary/vanillan complexity. Very much like drinking a $35 Shiraz and paying half … cork

2006 Pikes Red Mullet @ $12.00 features shiraz, mouvedre, tempranillo and grenache. Seems an odd blend, but these are all complementary varieties and work beautifully in this wine. Complex and perfumed with dark fruit, mouth-watering spice and smoke this is an excellent wine. Fantastic everyday drinker … screwcap

2007 Gemtree Bloodstone Shiraz Viognier @ $16.00 This is the best example yet, full bodied and feminine, with mouthwatering black and blue fruits on the palate and plenty of length … screwcap Has picked up 1 gold medal so far|

2006 Mr Riggs Shiraz Viognier @ $20.00 is black as the ace of spades, smells of apricot and blackberries and has a smooth intense pallet of currants, blackberry and licorice. This is seriously intense booze with lovely mouth feel finished off with lots of fine, powdery tannins … screwcap

2007 Gemtree Uncut Shiraz @ $17.00 This vintage, the 07 is a ripper. Yields were substantially down and the resulting wine is super concentrated, thick and complex. It’s hard to resist right now but will improve for 10+ years if cared for … screwcap

2006 Hamilton Hut Block Cabernet @ $15.00 This wine smacks of classic Cabernet, offering vibrant fruit which crossed over from violet into blackcurrant, supported by ripe, chewy tannin, coffee and tobacco characters. Oak somewhere in the background, as it should be! … screwcap

2004 Murray Street Barossa GSM @ $22.00 is the creation of Andrew Seppelt, formerly of Rockford fame. Old vine grenache, shiraz and mataro, with a hatful of cincaut thrown in. It’s genteel by Barossan standards and mixes sweet and savoury characters to good effect. One to drink now with barbecue ribs we reckon … screwcap

2003 Kingston Empiric Durif @ $10.00 is black and blue, coincidentally the same colours it’ll leave your palate after a glass or 2. This one has a nice balance of fresh and mature characters and is worth decanting before you drink … cork

2004 Tim Adams Shiraz @ $19.00 The 2004 vintage this time, a little fuller bodied and more complex than the 03 and very easy to drink. Definitely not on the nose, it is one of those wines you can have an each way bet on – drink now or cellar for a handful more years … screwcap

2005 Hardy’s VR Merlot @ $13.00 is an easy drinking, full fruited number offering plum and mocha on the pallet. Perfect with pizza, pasta and as a piñata stuffer. Well maybe not the last bit … syn cork. Buy 6 Get 6 FREE

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