Wine & Spirits

This is a well-priced Chardonnay that champions the distinct character of Australia's coolest climate winegrowing region. It offers flavors of melon, peach, ginger and toasty oak nuances. It's both corpulent and refreshing, linear and crisp, with a salty mineral note adding complexity to the fleshy fruit and spice flavors. CHRISTINA PICKARD

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A muscular, rich wine, this opens with heady, almost raisiny red-berry fruit, with licorice, earthy herbs and spices, touches of floral notes and vanillin oak. Tannins are chewy and drying, showing a good lick of oak along with the ripe fruit. There's a likability about the fruit profile, though, that suggests that time in bottle might offer lots of interest and drinkability in future. Drink. CHRISTINA PICKARD

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Mollydooker The Scooter Merlot 2018 Product Description Brilliant Ruby in color with a bright cherry and violet nose, the 2018 Scooter is tantalizing from the outset. The first sip fills the palate with intense red fruit like raspberries and fresh plum. As these vibrant flavours continue to develop on the palate, soft tannins complement notes of mocha and dried herbs, creating a unique Merlot.

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Mollydooker Carnival Love Shiraz The 2018 Mollydooker Carnival Of Love Shiraz is a bold, lively, and expressive Shiraz that begins with raspberry and cassis leading the aromatics, with soft hints of butterscotch. The red fruits are rich with layers of toffee and coconut weaving through the darker plummy fruit that fills the palate. Mocha and spice add more dimensions to an already impressive array of flavors, creating a true celebration of single vineyard McLaren Vale Shiraz.

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Mollydooker The Boxer Shiraz 2018 Mollydooker's 2018 The Boxer Shiraz delivers what fans of this producer have come to expect: huge fruit, plenty of ripeness, tasty oak and oodles of flavor. Cedar, chocolate and mint accent cola, plum and berry fruit on the nose, while the full-bodied palate is round, supple and expansive. It's creamy-ripe, yet the wine ends silky and mouthwatering. -Joe Czerwinski, Jul 2020Reviewed by: The Wine Advocate - 91 pts

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Bin 311 Chardonnay is sourced to style from a single, cool-climate region. In 2016, fruit sourcing has again come from Tumbarumba – one of Australia’s most exciting, cool-climate, high-altitude, viticultural districts. Penfolds has worked with chardonnay from Tumbarumba since the early 1990s. The Bin 311 style typically exhibits lemon/lime aromas and a mineral acid backbone, complemented by barrel fermentation and maturation in seasoned oak. Minimal filtration is employed, preserving elegant fruit flavours. ColourVery pale straw.NoseFruits instantly arise ever so effortlessly - guava, lychee, green mango.Followed by (theorised) barrel fermentation-induced nougat, and wafts of freshly-baked apple galette.And to sign-off, whilst there is acknowledgement of a whiff of cordite (lees-derived?), no oak registers…PalateThe generosity promised on the nose is certainly delivered on the palate.A beguiling creamy texture energised by fresh, chalky acidity.Flavours of honeydew and tangelo fruits merge with those of slithered pistachio, cashew.Refreshing. Inviting.

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  Region: Yarra Valley Variety: Chardonnay Vintage: 2016 Closure: Screw Cap Alcohol: 12.50% Cellar: Drinks well now Guide: Dry white

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Winemaker Notes This wine is a powerful example of Cabernet Sauvignon, the regional hero in Coonawarra. It has complex aromas of black currant and oak and a rich, full-bodied palate with wine, lingering tannin. A wine for celebrating, now or any time over the next 10 years. Winery: HandpickedGrapes: Cabernet SauvignonRegion: Australia / South Australia / Limestone Coast / CoonawarraWine style: Australian Cabernet SauvignonAlcohol content: 14.3%Allergens: Contains sulfites

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Winemaker Notes With fruit from vineyards in the Tamar Valley and Pipers River, this wine has pretty floral perfume and bright fruit with hints of herbs and oak complexity. Winery: HandpickedGrapes: Pinot NoirRegion: Australia / TasmaniaWine style: Australian Pinot NoirAlcohol content: 13.8%Allergens: Contains sulfites

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Winemaker Notes Concentrated blueberries, mulberries and plums give density to a nose that also exhibits black cardamom, anise caramel and hickory. There is subtle lift with rose petals and violets offering further fragrance. Black and blue fruits dominate the palate with upfront weight and texture. Woven fruit layers meet subtle smokey oak creating a layered palate, laced with a finely balanced acid line.

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Winemaker Notes Hickinbotham Clarendon Vyd Trueman Cabernet Sauvignon McLaren Vale 2015 This is the most homogenized, smoothly-assimilated Cabernet in recent years from Hickinbotham, reminiscent of those made by Stephen Hickinbotham in the early ‘eighties. While its aromas of bergamot and blueberry have yet to lock in and settle, the palate’s already there: fine, fresh and strapping. It’s an elegant, savory wine now, but will smooth out and flesh up to memorable opulence with a decade or two in the cellar.  

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Winemaker Notes This is the most finely-structured and elegant of our three vintages of Hickinbotham Vineyard Shiraz. It's another step in ourdetermined effort to get the best from this distinguished upland site. Each of our three Shiraz vintages is a little further from thetraditional high-alcohol, full-bodied McLaren Vale Shiraz from the lower, warmer country in the south of the region.  

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