Whilst Moondah Brook has been a little lost of late, there remains some surprising jewels within it's forgotten range. Like this Shiraz, a medium bodied Frankland River red that has plenty of the sort of savoury, spicy, black olives and plum fruit...

The wine exhibits deep colour and the primary fruit is dominant. Brambly and quite intense blackberry like aromas precede savoury characters on a rich mouthfilling palate. Quality French oak integrates with spicy notes and smooth tannins to give a...

Easily the most impressive wine in the Nottage Hill range, this marries the sort of smooth affability that you'd expect in the Nottage Hill wines with an extra filip of dry leafiness that is rather welcome. Approachable yet not sickly simple vino.

There is no point in dressing this wine up really for it is what it is. That means a simple, fruity, light style of red that is easy to get your head around but hardly super complex. It does provide well enough flavour to do what is required and d...

Mojo is the second label of the South Australian virtual winery Rockbare wines (virtual as they don't actually have a winery, or a vineyard, just a name) whom have a whole plethora of different wines out there to choose from. This generous and bou...

It's an interesting beast is Margaret River Shiraz, the wines built more herbal, more savoury and genuinely less masculine than their equivalents from the warmer Australian wine regions (eg Barossa, Grampians etc). This is actually a rather juicy ...

Sadly there are no camels in Heathcote. In fact, Mount Camel itself is about as far from your typical arid camel habitat as you'll get - rather, it's an extinct volcano that is now more of a giant plug of rich volcanic soils. Volcanic soils that a...

Forget the clichés. Forget the chorizo and paella and salsa dancing references. We’re not going to talk about any of that today. Nor or are we going to talk about Rafael Nadal, or Alberto Contador or that Spanish soccer player. None of it. Inst...

With the move to more shared eating that is pervading our culture it seems only natural to be drinking medium bodied styles that fit in to the European mould and Sangiovese fits that mould perfectly. The McLaren Vale and the Mediterranean have alw...

The Truffle Hill Shiraz is for all you truffle dogs out there sniffing out the best bargains on Cracka. This Reserve Pemberton Shiraz has got a little bit of French style about it, all earthy and spicy, with some superb sweet blackberry blackberry...

As the name suggests, this is a very easy sort of 'drinking' wine - a wine of simple flavours, juicy fruits and a hint of sweetness. A wine for drinking out of tumblers on a warm afternoon after digging holes. Easy refreshment.

Peak drinking: Drinking very well upon release and we expect the strong primary fruit focus will diminish over two to three years, however an estimate of long term ageing potential would be premature given our limited experience with the wine styl...

Peak drinking: Drinking well now and will show further integration in 2011. Will reward careful cellaring beyond 2020. Food matches: Slow roasted shoulder of lamb with fresh green beans and redcurrent jelly. Colour: Deep red with violet h...

This wine can be best summed up in two words... Not terrible. Obviously that sounds a little like damning with faint praise, but here us out. To put it bluntly, most budget Pinot Noir is plain awful. It's sickly sweet or dried out and raw, ofte...

Do you know what the only criticism of this wine is? That's not exactly Burgundian (ie from Burgundy) in style. As a result if you prefer a more delicate, Pinoty style then look away now, for these aren't the droids you've been looking for. If ...

What makes a wine collectable you ask? Is it the copious show medals that it recieved (more than one or two for this wine)? Is it the rave reviews (ditto)? Or is it just that there isn't much of it (also true)? Regardless, this is pretty clever wi...

There is a reason why this has picked up a little spread of medals and accolades - it's really rather handy wine, particularly now that it has reached five years of age. What those extra (welcome) years have done is to soften out the harder edges,...

Arguably the best wine in Barwick's White Label range, this shows much of the mid weight glory that good cool WA Cabernet can show. The only problem really is the white label. Why white? Deadly boring we see. Why not gold? At least a little bit se...

Produced entirely from the Blackwood Valley (which incidentally produces some great cherries) this savoury, though still sufficiently juicy, Shiraz even shows a little cherry flavours to in amongst all that earthen, dark olive fruit.

They've scoured high and low for the grapes for this red, from the beautiful Blackwood Valley to Margaret River to Pemberton in the cool south of WA. All this blending eventually brings together a very friendly medium bodied red blend that combine...