The Chianti of Poliziano have evolved over the course of generations to represent a salient and essential enlightenment into the wines of Montepulciano. A medium bodied Chianti which expresses the splendour of Sangiovese grown to good vineyards in the Montepulciano Denominazione di Origine Controllata. A wine with excellent balance between bright cherry fruit flavours and refreshing, savoury tannins. Match Poliziano with pepperonata and melanzane, fried sardines or fresh Tuscan Scarmorza cheese, grilled over an open fire.

$2499each $299DOZEN EACH DOZEN Poliziano are fully focused on improving the health of fruit and quality of wine every year. Poorly performing vineyards are routinely eliminated. Significant replanting of select clones and rootstocks, is a major part of the viticulture. Poliziano train their vines, planted in sandy clay soils rich in marine deposits, to take full advantage of an idyllic microclime. At harvest, the grapes are ripe and offer intense flavours, translating into wines with lovely aromatics and elegant structure. Parcels of Sangiovese Prunolo Gentile, Canaiolo Nero, Malvasia and Trebbiano are all separately vinified in fermentation vats over the course of seven to ten days. The finished wine matures unoaked until bottling in March the following year.

Bright plum red in colour. Wonderful fresh nose of raspberry, cherries and violet. A fruity wine with a palate of red and black berries with sufficient dryness to make it an excellent match with food. Ample textures of vinosity, suppleness and stalk, making it ideal for early drinking. A versatile Chianti, ideal to accompany risotto and pasta, or more ambitious old world faire like coniglio and capretto.

Pondalowie was established with particular wines and styles in mind. Pondalowie have taken an impressive number of international awards, cementing their reputation as a leading producer, highlighting the strength of Bendigo as an elite provenance of world class Shiraz. A profound construct of Bendigo Shiraz, rich and complex with lovely integration between intense dark fruit flavours and fine, ideally suited to juicy meats, trimmed by caramelised onion and dressed in red wine jus.

$4499each $539DOZEN EACH DOZEN Dominic and Krystina Morris have spent many years working consecutive vintages in Australia and Europe. They chose the Bendigo region to plant a vineyard with varietials that they were passionate about. A highly capable winemaking team together, both bring to Pondalowie unique skills and experiences gained from their backgrounds in the wine industry. Krystina has a degree in Oenology from Adelaide University and has worked as a winemaker in the Barossa and McLaren Vale, as well as in the Alentejo and Douro regions of Portugal. When the Douro Valley winery that Dominic worked for won International Red Wine of the Year, Dominic was invited to stay on and continue as star winemaker.

Deep scarlet in colour. The addition of Viognier adds elegance and seductiveness to the aromatics and transforms the tannins to silk without compromising any of the full bodied power and rich blackberry, dark cherry fruits and complex spices of the Shiraz. Pondalowie has fantastic palate structure, balance and length, matured in older oak barrels to retain the rich fruit concentration.

Poole’s Rock are crafted by the highly awarded Cockfighter's Ghost team, they know their work well and embrace the philosophy that great wines really are made in the vineyard. Not a bad effort for a Pinot Noir that's grown and vintaged in Tamar Valley but actually made at the Cockfighter's Ghost wineworks at Pokolbin in the heart of Hunter Valley. Established by a McQuarie banker who knows his wine, nothing short of the finest Pinot Noir has been sourced to be treated to an extravagant, no expense spared vinification.

$3399each $407DOZEN EACH DOZEN Pooles Rock can call on harvests of intensely flavoured Pinot Noir from the most splendid vineyards in Tasmania's Tamar Valley. The winemaking team inspect vines throughout the growing season and work very closely with a canon of dedicated growers. The time of picking is crucial, determined by a schedule planned to collate parcels as they achieve complete ripeness. Grapes are harvested and crushed into small, two ton open top fermenters. The must is cold soaked for two or three days and hand plunged twice daily throughout the ferments, followed by transfer to a selection of French oak barrels for completion of malolactic and ten months maturation before assembling into the finished wine.

Cherry red colour. Aromas of cherry and blueberries, mulberries and truffle over spicy vanillin oak. Flavours of ripe red and black berry fruit, morello and mulberries. Hints of spice with a milk chocolate texture and sweet fruit velvet textural finish. The Tasmanian Pinot Noir of choice to accompany gourmandise duck or rare lamb, salmon steaks and brie.

At just three kilometres from Frederick Henry Bay, Butchers Hill can count on the sobering maritime winds to challenge the vines and restrict the harvest to small yields of the tastiest fruit. The winemaking is unhurried, wild ferments and good oak complete a curvaceous cuvée. It's Pinot for the punctilious, the sugars are intense, the textures satin smooth, the tannins toothsome and assured. Its crimson purple countenance, presages ripe raspberries, roses and fragrance of bay, a shave of ginger and sprinkling of soy, lingering over a length of crunchy cherry acids and glossy graphite tannin.

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Planted in the 1980s, Cooinda Vale is constrained by a shallow rooting depth which limits vigor and limits the vines to low yields of the highest quality Pinot Noir. Grapes are completely whole bunch fermented through the action of wild indigenous yeasts, pressed to a luxuriously high proportion of new French oak barriques for a timely ten months of age. Tightly wound with black pepper, stalky tannin and blue berry redolence, its punchy strawberry jube fruits, seasoned by bay leaf, shitake and red gravel undertones. A mere hundred dozen are made.

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Three generations of the Pooley family have grown up amongst the difficile vineyards of Coal River Valley. Here is a place that grows Pinot Noir of marvelous complexity, the ancient terrains and lowly latitudes make a mean microclime for a bounty of the most stubborn harvests. Priority is given to the sanctity of the soil, take care of mother nature and she will reward you with simply awesome Pinot Noir. Redolent of violets, cranberries and soy, the lip smacking fruitiness of black cherry cola, driven by the stalk of whole bunch ferments, aged in a cosset of the finest French oak.

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The Balnarring property is one of Port Phillip's more recent acquistions, two and a half hectares of vine which yield a conspicuously pastoral style of Pinot Noir. Foliage, minerals and twig appeal in equal measure, Balnarring articulates the nuances of vineyard and countryside, it will excite true pinotphiles and appeal to enthusiasts who delight in wines which can evoke a sense of actually being there. Its herbes de Provence and succulent acid tannin structure will court a crispily skinned duckling and match her moist meat with a fine length of cherry ripeness.

$3699each $443DOZEN EACH DOZEN Balnarring was established to vines in 1997 and welcomed into the Port Phillip fold ten years later, treated to the most exacting standards of environmentally friendly viticulture, plantings are all cane pruned and vertically shoot positioned. Parcels of destemmed and whole bunch fruit are treated to a mix of traditional large format wooden foudres and fermenters for maceration and inoculation to wild indigenous yeasts. After three weeks of ferment, batches are filled to a selection of seasoned and new French oak barriques for spontaneous malolactic and a year's maturation.

Vibrant garnet colour. Highly perfumed and complex with dark cherry, plum and violet aromas over underlying savoury notes. The palate exhibits a tight and focused core. Initial ripe strawberry and raspberry characters move into the deeper territory of black cherries, liquorice and a touch of tapenade, subtle meatiness adds complexity. Fine tannins balanced with a stony acidity lead to a long, powerful finish.

Blessed by the finest microclimes in Mornington, the Port Phillip property is a decidedly cooler suntrap amongst the undulating folds of scenic vistas near Red Hill. There are a mere half hectare of Port Phillip Shiraz vines, fully mature and cosseted with care, they yield the most engaging quality of harvest on the peninsula with each and every vintage. A wine of concentration, brooding fruit and evocative savouryness, the Shiraz of choice to decant and breathe, before service alongside charred meats, crackling pork or Chinese duck.

$3699each $443DOZEN EACH DOZEN The viticulture at Port Phillip is proudly old fashioned, biological farming systems focus on the health of soil through the use of compost teas, mulches and natural plant conditioners. Grapes are all picked by hand and any questionable bunches are discarded. Shiraz is harvested and treated to a traditional old world vinification in a mix of open top concrete and wooden vessels, a portion of whole bunches are included in the macerations, inoculated to the action of wild indigenous yeasts, for three weeks of ferment. Upon completion, batches are filled to seasoned French oak barriques for spontaneous malolactic and sixteen months maturation, bottled without fining or filtration.

Deeply coloured. Cracked pepper and char, a complex mix of red and black fruits, wet forest, seasoned by charcuterie and lithe spice. The medium weight palate is laden with blackcurrant, mixed dark berry and fleshy plum flavours, a twist of milled pepper and trade spice, audacious, framed by cherry oak and supported by agile tannins, all the way to a long sustained finish.