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These wines begin to drink at their best after five years in bottle and for a decade beyond that.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bindi","offers":[{"title":"Each","offer_id":51322917224735,"sku":"10024880_B","price":139.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0785\/8418\/5119\/files\/BindiQuartzChardonnay2024750ml.png?v=1761292362"},{"product_id":"bindi-kaye-pinot-noir-2024-750ml","title":"Bindi Kaye Pinot Noir 2024 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a very sentimental wine from our most elevated vineyard that pays tribute to my mother, Kaye. It's a vineyard with a grand perspective over the other vineyards, the winery, house and to the forests and hills beyond. There are some lovely metaphors, no doubt. The site has a lot of quartz and mudstone, a smattering of volcanic soils that have eroded down from the volcanic plateau above, and produces a wine of fragrance, structure and complexity. The 2024 Kaye is showing depth and power at this early stage. The nose has red fruits, potpourri, ginger and earth. The palate is intense, structured, full and drives very long. It will evolve well for a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bindi","offers":[{"title":"Each","offer_id":51322917323039,"sku":"10024881_B","price":119.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0785\/8418\/5119\/files\/BindiKayePinotNoir2024750ml.png?v=1761292340"},{"product_id":"wantirna-estate-amelia-cabernet-sauvignon-2023-750ml","title":"Wantirna Estate Amelia Cabernet Sauvignon 2023 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eA large proportion of the grapes for this wine come from the original 1963 plantings of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Francvines. The remainder is from the more recently planted—1989—Petit Verdot. Whilst the proportions differ every year, depending on fruit set and cropping levels, roughly speaking, the breakdown is as follows: 65% Cabernet sauvignon, 30% Cabernet franc and Merlot, and 5% Petit Verdot. The addition of Petit Verdot grapes in the 1990s gave the wine a backbone of tannin and natural acidity. With its long growing season, Petit Verdot grapes are the last to be harvested, usually in mid-April.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2023 Amelia Cabernet Merlot blend is a classic from this label. Approachable now with its complex mix of black berries, generous weight and those lovely long tannins that we get from the low yielding 60 plus year old vines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wantirna Estate","offers":[{"title":"Each","offer_id":51338039197983,"sku":"10024985_B","price":110.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0785\/8418\/5119\/files\/Wantirna_20Estate_20Amelia_20Cabernet_20Sauvignon_202023_20750ml.webp?v=1761712536"},{"product_id":"wantirna-estate-lily-pinot-noir-2023-750ml","title":"Wantirna Estate Lily Pinot Noir 2023 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe vineyard has three distinct blocks of Pinot Noir, all hand-harvested separately. Despite the vineyard area being only 10 acres in total, the different blocks each deliver unique characters, and often there is up to two weeks’ difference in the harvest dates. The mature block—with vines dating back to the early 1970s—gives the wine its savoury tones and fine tannins. The Front block fruit is spicy, while the Fruit Tree block is generously fruity. Each component adds complexity when blended together, creating the Pinot Noir style for which Wantirna Estate is known.\n\u003cbr\u003eThe 2023 Lily Pinot Noir is becoming a bit of a favourite of ours. Plush with spicy fruits, savoury intertwined with terrific tannins. With 20 months in bottle already, it is lovely right now and has many years ahead of it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wantirna Estate","offers":[{"title":"Each","offer_id":51338039296287,"sku":"10024984_B","price":110.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0785\/8418\/5119\/files\/Wantirna_20Estate_20Lily_20Pinot_20Noir_202023_20750ml.webp?v=1761712536"},{"product_id":"wantirna-estate-isabella-chardonnay-2024-750ml","title":"Wantirna Estate Isabella Chardonnay 2024 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Chardonnay vines are grown on an east-facing, gentle slope, allowing early morning and late afternoon sunshine. This aspect is perfect for growing top-quality Chardonnay grapes. Today, the average age of the vines is over 40 years, which adds to the fruit’s complexity.\n\u003cbr\u003eThe Chardonnay grapes are hand-harvested early in the day and pressed in an airbag press. The juice is then chilled, settled and inoculated with yeast before being transferred to a cool underground cellar for fermentation in new, one and two-year-old French oak barrels. The wine is left to age on the yeast lees with regular stirring to increase texture. After around 11 months, the wine is fined and sent to bottle.\n\u003cbr\u003eIt is a classic Isabella with a textured roundness, lovely balancing acidity and a combination of New and \n\u003cbr\u003eOld World. Drinking beautifully already, but with plenty of ageing potential. -\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wantirna Estate","offers":[{"title":"Each","offer_id":51338039394591,"sku":"10024983_B","price":110.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0785\/8418\/5119\/files\/Wantirna_20Estate_20Isabella_20Chardonnay_202024_20750ml.webp?v=1761712536"},{"product_id":"wantirna-estate-hannah-cabernet-franc-merlot-2023-750ml","title":"Wantirna Estate Hannah Cabernet Franc Merlot 2023 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eA special release wine of which only one barrel is made each year, producing approximately 288 bottles per year. A blend of around 50% of each variety, the wine is aged in a new barrique from the Burgundian cooperage of Dargaud and Jaeglé. To capture the fragrance and perfume of Cabernet Franc and the mulberry character of Merlot, the recent wines have been bottled after 12 months in barrel. The wine is released after a further 15 months of \n\u003cbr\u003ebottle ageing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrst made from the 1999 harvest, the wine is inspired by the beautiful wines of St-Émilion, in particular Château Cheval Blanc. The 2023 Hannah Cabernet Franc Merlot blend exudes \n\u003cbr\u003ea fabulous perfume of the Cabernet Franc. Juicy and ripe black and blue berries, with a hint of oak from the single French barrique it is made in. Ripe and ready to drink, but will just keep on growing \n\u003cbr\u003ein bottle. -\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wantirna Estate","offers":[{"title":"Each","offer_id":51338039558431,"sku":"10024982_B","price":196.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0785\/8418\/5119\/files\/Wantirna_20Estate_20Hannah_20Cabernet_20Franc_20Merlot_202023_20750ml.webp?v=1761712536"},{"product_id":"by-farr-rp-pinot-noir-2023-750ml","title":"By Farr RP Pinot Noir 2023 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is easy to forget this is made from grape juice. I can’t imagine a more remote starting point to something that gives so much pleasure. The transformation from sweet one dimensional juice, to multi faceted wine is nothing short of alchemy, or so it seems. I know it sounds creepy, but I just rolled this wine around in my mouth. Drinking it, almost unnecessary, but ultimately, too hard to deny.\n\u003cbr\u003eThe nose of this wine is endlessly complex, as the previous wines were, but it is more fully \n\u003cbr\u003eresolved. In that I mean it is riper, less herbal, softer and more fully formed. The wine makes you salivate, and is the very type of wine that helps define vinous descriptors like “peacocks tail”. In the abstract sense, these words, like so many others, seem like flummery, but the description comes from the sense of a broadening and greater intricacy, and indeed volume, that the wine exhibits. It is how the wine delivers more beauty towards the “end” of the palate, as it is swallowed. The RP is seamless. I can’t find anything to fault in the RP, it is luxurious and the zenith of Pinot Noir expression in my opinion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Farr","offers":[{"title":"Each","offer_id":51372888031519,"sku":"10025057_B","price":172.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0785\/8418\/5119\/files\/By_20Farr_20RP_20Pinot_20Noir_202023_20750ml.webp?v=1762826710"},{"product_id":"by-farr-gc-chardonnay-2024-750ml","title":"By Farr GC Chardonnay 2024 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eI drank this on two occasions. Straight from the box, at “room” temp and straight from the \n\u003cbr\u003efridge at “way too cold” temperature, or so I thought.. This type of polar experience in terms of temperature usually highlights a wines imperfection. The colder option is usually the most telling, as insipid wine offers nothing but wetness when too cold. The GC, as expected, is anything but insipid and delighted at both ends of the temperature spectrum.\n\u003cbr\u003eThis wine was surprisingly delicious straight from the fridge. Likewise, straight out of the box the wine was also wonderful. It showed me the complexity of the wine and the depth of flavour too. A wine balanced with acidity and richness. There are notes of lemon and vanilla custard, chantilly cream and dry tropical fruits. Despite the two notes of dairy, there is nothing garish about the wine, nothing buttery or overblown. And, whilst it is full of flavour, so much of that generosity is driven by ripe fruit and beautifully handled acidity. The GC chardonnay is a wine that offers Chardonnay expression with flavour, and it does so unapologetically. There is, thankfully, a way for these top end wines to taste of the grape that makes them, without the baggage of winemaker artifice. I’ve spoken before of the hand of Farr, and the ease with which these wines dance so intricately and beautifully with the appearance of ease. It is this simple elegance that is the skill, and the intricate complexity, that doesn’t appear to be so, that is the joy. As always the GC is a \n\u003cbr\u003ebenchmark wine for Chardonnay lovers\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Farr","offers":[{"title":"Each","offer_id":51372888260895,"sku":"10025056_B","price":169.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0785\/8418\/5119\/files\/By_20Farr_20GC_20Chardonnay_202024_20750ml.webp?v=1762826710"},{"product_id":"by-farr-tout-pres-pinot-noir-2023-750ml","title":"By Farr Tout Pres Pinot Noir 2023 750ml","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tout pres vineyard is a terribly good site. Apart from being photogenic, and physically demanding to prune, harvest and generally take care of, the wine that is produced from this daunting site is always terrific. If you aren’t familiar with it, it is laid across the gentle slope past the winery overlooking the moorabool valley. It’s barely an arms width between rows, and most of the work has to be undertaken while hunched. It is no friend to tall people, or particularly wide people either. Thankfully through struggle comes more complex wine. Tout Pres always seems more delayed in how it reveals itself. This shyness most obvious in the \n\u003cbr\u003enose, not least as that’s the first interaction you have with it. The wine always sits a little lower in the glass than the others, it feels just out of each. The palate gives more immediate notes of peppery spice, not pepper so much, but a prickly, tighter spice with a little more attack. There is a dried earthy note here, some cola, dark cocoa and black cherries. It feels almost brittle at  times, certainly in its youth, but you wouldn’t mistake that for delicacy. 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