Each and every vintage presents Robin Brockett with a new challenge, no two growing seasons are the same, a truly great vineyard will take the vagaries of vintage and achieve a harvest that's truly unique. Brockett takes the fruit that's most articulate of terroir and clime, there's never very much of such high standards, enough for just a hundred cases of Bellarine's best. The fruit of Swinburn Vineyard is defined by its dark red fruit pectins, thick skinned cherries and dewy bramble, a curl of cedar oak and twist of the spice mill, a seamless ruby tannin finish.

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RED is made for real red wine enthusiasts, a mouthfilling peppery Shiraz wine with a component of Durif. Rutherglen has the soils and climate to ripen fruit evenly and completely, allowing the development of engrossing complexities. Rutherglen is in a declared phylloxera quarantine, which means all the grapes grown within the region have to be vinified locally, itself a guarantee of quality. Crafted to encourage the development of bright, fresh berry flavours and juicy tannins which complement the complexity of exciting barrel ferment characters.

$1699each $203DOZEN EACH DOZEN Rutherglen Estates was born after an extensive search for the area most suitable to produce an innovative range of wines. The region has been made famous globally for producing big jucy reds, and especially for its precious parcels of world class Durif. Recognising and harnessing the region's enormous potential, Rutherglen Estates has now established an international reputation for producing quality wine from some of the most distinguished old vines in Australia. Following the harvest, grapes are chilled and soaked forty eight hours prior to inoculation with spicy yeast cultures. Batches are separately matured up to nine months under a combination of French and American oaks before assemblage. Alcohol 14.5%

In true Rutherglen style, a wonderful depth of colour, to state the obvious - it is RED! Fine aromas, peppery, berries and brambles, intense spice. Palate follows through with the pepper and spice of Rutherglen Shiraz and a background of rich Durif, which contributes the blackberry fruit, licorice, aniseed and chocolate characters, as well as firming the tannins for a complete red wine.

Pietro D’orsa found work in Australia as a winegrower circa 1868, quenching the thirst of miners during the Victorian gold rush. Several generations later, Pietro's progeny returned to viticulture. They DNA tested some heirloom vines established by Pietro in the 1880s, replanting the rootstock to sire a unique block which is destined to yield some spectacular vintages. The most exceptional barrels of Sanguine's annual harvest are set aside for a separate term of aging and assemblage into a superior Heathcote flagship, an opulent, dark crimson homage to the estate's noble patriarch.

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Sanguine Estate's inaugural release was universally embraced by enthusiasts of fine Heathcote Shiraz, the entire vintage sold out within a week. The vines have aged brilliantly and the quality of fruit has reached stellar heights. Grapes are all destemmed, lightly crushed and naturally vinified through the action of wild indigenous yeasts in small open fermenters, gravity fed into French oak barriques for an extended term of eighteen months maturation. Plum and blackberry perfumes, liquorice and black pepper, a rich textural wine of firm yet compliant tannin structure.

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Several generations later, the progeny of estate patriarch Pietro d'Orsa have returned to the land with a consuming passion to create generously flavoured, impeccably balanced Heathcote wines. Sanguine employ traditional winemaking practices, Shiraz and a small component of Viognier, are hand picked and co-vinified, to achieve a marvelous expression of Heathcote, solid, seamless and exquisitely fragrant. The palate is richly laden with dark juicy fruit characters which roll through to the end, the mouthfeel is textural, the solid weight of fruit is supported by a firm length of balanced tannins.

$2499each $299DOZEN EACH DOZEN Sanguine's vineyard is trained to vertical shoot positioning trellis system, thereby opening up the canopy, reducing the risk of disease and exposing the bunches to direct sunlight for ripening. The vines are cane pruned to a single fruiting wire with a maximum of twenty buds per vine. To conserve the natural balance within the soils and overall health of vines, Sanguine have managed the vineyard organically by utilizing organic fertilizers and mulching to control weed growth. Grapes are destemmed, lightly crushed and naturally vinified through the action of wild indigenous yeasts in small open fermenters. The wine is then transferred by gravity into predominantly French oak barriques for a year's maturation.

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