2025
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Sassafras White Ancestral Sparkling 2025
$35.00A wonderful interplay of flavour, texture, salt and spice sensations. Lemon and limes, white flowers, white peach and pear, with a saline and subtle peach skin texture driving the finish. For all its freshness and vivacity there is terrific volume. A wonderful release. Waters Wine Co Our 2025 Gamburra white Ancestral method sparkling wine […]
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Fighting Gully Road Verdicchio 2025
$35.00A wine of quiet confidence, beautifully balanced between richness and finesse. Medium to full-bodied and wonderfully textural, it unfolds in layers of white stone fruit and delicate blossom, with a vibrant citrus core adding lift and energy. A fine saline thread runs through the palate, bringing tension and definition, while bright, mouth-watering acidity carries the […]
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Bondar Fiano 2025
$30.00Mainly from Ben Lacey’s Branson Road vineyard in Tatachilla, supplemented with fruit from the Minchella family, also in Tatachilla. Predominant steel ferment, with some older oak and amphora, then blended and raised in steel for four months. The ’24 was the best Bondar fiano I have seen, and this sits squarely beside it. Golden apple […]
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Gembrook Hill Estate Pinot Noir 2025
$65.00One of Australia’s finest pinot noirs that shames many overpriced icons. As always, simple winemaking; complex results. Destemmed completely, cold soaked and fermented naturally, with 3 weeks on skins (a long time for pinot noir) and matured in French wood, Hogsheads, 20% new. Unfined and unfiltered. Perfume, such perfume. Summer fruit compote, perhaps a bit […]
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A Rodda Whitlands Chardonnay 2025
$45.00Lifted aromas of red apple and wild meadow flowers are complemented by flinty mineral notes, delicate spice and the freshness of wet stone. The palate is layered and finely textured, where vibrant acidity and lees-derived complexity combine to create a mouthfeel that is both creamy and precise. A pronounced mineral thread drives the wine through […]
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CRFT Arranmore Gruner Veltliner 2025
$30.00CRFT’s signature Grüner Veltliner, capturing the variety’s layered complexity and textural depth. Aromatics are vivid and intricate – nougat, smoke and mushroom alongside peach, pear, honeysuckle and jasmine. Powerful yet tightly coiled, this release shows a more compact, tensile structure than previous Arranmore expressions. The palate is silky and creamy, with notes of clove, aniseed, […]
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Bondar Rose 2025
$26.00Now all home Rayner vineyard fruit, with grenache (90%) off vines planted in 1970, with some from ’19 and ’17. The other 10% is an even split of cinsault and mataro, with the latter seeing older oak. This is as good as any rosé from this address, and that’s saying a lot, with the bar […]
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Chacra Chardonnay 2025
$245.00“Wow. This is really complex, with sliced apples, lemons, flint, stones and a hint of limes on the nose. It’s floral and aromatic with white flowers. Long, long finish. Complex and thoughtful. Drink or hold” – 99 points, James Suckling From 40 year old vines with alluvial stones covered in calcaire. The wine is intense […]
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The Wanderer Upper Yarra Pinot Noir 2025
$60.00From a single vineyard in Yellingbo in the Upper Yarra; 20% whole bunches, 20% new oak. Medium bright crimson. Fragrant and spicy aromas of red and black fruits, rose bush and a touch of allspice. The fruit has thoroughly swallowed up the oak. Medium bodied, with excellent depth and very persistent, fine-grained tannins. Finishes long. […]
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Chacra Mainque Chardonnay 2025
$125.00“The saltiness in this chardonnay is so impressive, with aromas of sliced apples, honey, crushed stones and honeysuckle. Medium- bodied, crunchy, vivid and flavorful, with hints of peaches and grape skin” – 96 points, James Suckling From 3 parcels with a range of sand, clay, and pebble soils. Warmer conditions yielding bolder flavours this year, […]
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Chacra Cincuenta Y Cinco Pinot Noir 2025
$125.00“Strawberry, spice, nutmeg and orange peel aromas follow through to a medium body with fine tannins and underlying salinity. Crunchy, tight and classy. Only 11.8% alcohol.” – 96 points, James Suckling From vines planted in 1955 on a sea of pebbles. There is a wonderful purity in this wine with dried strawberry and iodine. Cherry […]
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Tillie J Aligote 2025
$42.00Aligote has become trendy, presumably because in Burgundy at least, it’s hard to tell the difference with chardonnay and they are invariably cheaper. Ironically, I find it’s more varietal in Australia, being more linear than chardonnay and fine boned. Tillie J’s is remarkable, a shock really, it’s just so damn good and such good value! […]
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Rob Hall Pinot Noir 2025
$30.00Such a wonderful wine, Rob Hall’s Yarra Valley pinot noir, one of the most consistent and best value wines in the region. Lifted aromatics with lavender, sweet and tangy red fruits and savoury spice. Light to medium bodied, with fantastic concentration of flavours, perky acidity and soft, fine tannins. Bargain territory. Norris at Waters Wine […]
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Bulman Glen’s Vineyard Grenache 2025
$78.00Stonegarden vineyard; 6% whole bunch, 65 days on skins, 172 days in a sandstone amphora. That time on skins adds a savoury layer, yet the fruit swells a little more generously in this warmer, drier year. Yet that’s academic. Here we are again; a dazzling wine of such precision, subtle detail, sense of place and […]
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Christophe Patrice AC Chablis 2025
$58.00One of the best new imported producers we have come across this year, Christophe Patrice’s wines display ripe yellow fruits, stunning aromatics, generous shape and texture. The 2025 Chablis is wonderful with fresh pea, lime, white flowers, wild honey and white peach. Plump, tender and silky, with succulent fleshy fruit and dried Provencal herbs. Like […]
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Gembrook Hill Village Pinot Noir 2025
$38.00A taste of Gembrook Hill’s quality and style, though not from their vineyards. Classic Yarra Valley Pinot notes of English strawberry, raspberry, poached plum, violets and a hint of fresh compost. The aromatics are incisive and vibrant, with vivid, translucent fruit. Medium to full-bodied, it’s plush and pillowy, with more depth and weight than expected – […]
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Salo Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2025
$55.00From the Full Moon vineyard in Gladysdale, which, sadly (and in a sign of the times), has been pulled out by the owner. Salo has another vineyard lined up for ’26. In the meantime, this is an excellent way to go out. Brightly coloured with aromas of nectarine kernel, citrus peel, flint and light marine […]
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Mulline Pinot Gris 2025
$35.0020% was crushed and fermented on skins for seven days. A pale, bright salmon colour. Beautifully poised with its aromas of redcurrant, nectarine, pear and blood orange. Even better on the palate, where the flavours and texture are perfectly balanced by subtle time-on-skins tannins, before finishing orange-pithy and long. Should age nicely, too. Excellent. 96 […]
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By Farr Chardonnay 2025
$110.00Yummm. By Farr is in the top tier of Australian chardonnay, and there are certainly none better. Last year’s GC Chardonnay, the 2024 was my pick all year, so ravishing and tensioned it was. And yet the estate 2025 is a totally different beast. During our recent discussion, Nick Farr went on to point out […]
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Domenica Rose 2025
$35.00Very light salmon-pink hue; rose petal/pot-pourri aromas rise from the glass; damp straw and poached quince as well. It’s light, refreshing and dry on the tongue, savoury rather than grapy, with a faint note of deli meats. Lovely balance and drinkability. A very smart and more-ish rosé. 95 points – Huon Hooke, The Real Review […]
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Chacra Barda Pinot Noir 2025
$65.00One of the world’s outstanding value Pinot Noirs, this is a wine that consistently punches well above its weight. Bright, fresh and wonderfully expressive, it reveals lifted aromas of cranberry, raspberry, pomegranate, vanilla and fragrant violets. The palate is silky and supple, with vibrant red fruit, gentle spice and a fine thread of acidity that […]
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Bulman Grenache Rose 2025
$27.00There’s not much more you could ask for in a classically styled rosé – from the brilliant rose gold hue, the lifted aromatics, textural slosh of the palate and crisply vibrant and pithily detailed conclusion, with rose and orange blossom scents and good-time feelings trailing oh-so long. The vintage has gifted depth and intensity without […]
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Reed Frequency Botrytis Riesling 2025
$90.00White nectarine and crystallised honey, followed by the smell of a Hawaiian botanical garden on a hot day, think hundreds of ginger flowers filling the humid air with their perfume. There’s a depth to this wine that pulls you in and almost warms you with its golden hues; colour you can taste. At first sip, the […]
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Domenica Chardonnay 2025
$60.00Spice, cashew nut, custard and nougat aromas, refreshingly clean and shows no reductive traces. The wine is light, crisp and fresh in the mouth, with a stony minerality, very lightly played oak and emphasises the more-ishness and appetising properties of chardonnay. Refreshing acidity cleanses the finish making it a more Chablis-like iteration of the grape. […]
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CRFT K1 Gruner Veltliner 2025
$30.00It’s odd how different CRFT’s three wines are, all classic Gruner Veltliners, yet all entirely different. The K1 is cooler, more discreet, sleek and linear in shape, without the ample bosom of the Longview. Reticent aromatics take a little coaxing, before revealing white peach, melon, mint and apricot. Spicy, salty palate, very fine and sleek, […]
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Tyrrell’s HVD Chardonnay 2025
$100.00A compelling chardonnay from one of the world’s great old vineyards. The palate is pure, ethereal and expansive, with freshness, energy and concentration. There is a tightly coiled core of lemony fruit giving fabulous tension. Youthful and unevolved right now, it is poised for greatness. Sensational fruit, expertly made. 97+ points – Toni Paterson, Halliday […]
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Trutta Pinot Gris 2025
$30.00Fermented on skins, lasting about 10 days. So the wine is skinsy, but only to a point, with full malolactic fermentation lending a certain richness and flesh, tensioned by minerals, savoury spice, texture and salinity. Very complex fruit profile; grapefruit, guava, and blood orange zest mingle together. Delicious. Norris at Waters Wine Co
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Rob Hall Chardonnay 2025
$30.00A lively green gold. An attractive bouquet of white peach, pear and a little ginger spice. While the light- to medium-bodied palate is still quite tightly wound, this will begin to open up over the next six months and will still be looking good three to five years from now. 93 Points – Philip Rich, […]
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Bondar Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2025
$40.00Intense aromatics of grapefruit, fresh and preserved lime, lemon, cashew, cream, wood, citrus blossom and spice. Rich and medium bodied, a wine of energy angles and cut. There’s a little more mid palate flesh than in previous iterations, and I’m not sure if it marks a shift in style or is a reflection of the […]
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Gembrook Hill Chardonnay 2025
$50.00A generous, finely wrought Chardonnay in a classic Chablis-inspired style. Aromas of stone fruit, white flowers and subtle nuttiness lead into a palate of real depth and composure. Whole bunch pressed and fermented with solids using wild yeast, then matured in large-format French oak, it feels confidently traditional in the best sense. There is both […]
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