Tyrannosaurus Rex. Diplodocus. Blue whale. Wooly Mammoth. All of these things we now are large. Very large in fact. The question is though, what would you drink with such large things (not that we're condoning eating whales or extinct mammals and ...

Hunter Shiraz has a cult standing around the world, thanks to the fact that it’s generally lighter bodied, savoury and has the ability to age. No one understands that better than Rhys and Garth Eather who continue to carve a niche making Hunter Sh...

The mystery starts here - sourced from a particularly famous winery in the Grampians region of Western Victoria, this medium to full bodied Shiraz is known for it's spiciness and for it's minerally richness. As usual with a mystery wine such as th...

Anyone would be honoured to have a wine like this named after them, as it’s a scintillating blend of Cabernet, Petit Verdot and Malbec. Like liquid gold, this wine exhibits blackcurrant and violet aromas with a hint of mint. It’s balanced and long...

Greg Follett the winemaker behind the legendary Lake Breeze wines in Langhorne Creek has blended a ripper of a wine that deserves a place in your wine rack if you want to rely on affordable mid-week reds. It’s a drink now red, which means it reall...

Want a wine that’s as rounded and curved as a Zeppelin? Well that’s what you’ll get with this bold red made by Kym Teusner. This is unashamedly masculine stuff, the wine of barbecue discussions where sausages are poked and prodded until charred an...

It's a floral sort of beast this wine - which effectively means that it smells of flowers. Which flowers I'm not entirely sure. A little roses maybe? Regardless it has a nice fragrance with wood smoke, chocolate, peppercorns and more. Like many Ma...

Another super hot wine in the 'Mystery Series' (which sounds more like a range of paperback thrillers than a range of wines), this red blend was given 91 points from James Halliday and we think it's even better. A blend of Wrattonbully and Coonawa...

A largely unoaked blend of Grenache Mataro and Shiraz, this is a light to medium bodied red that shows rather pretty red fruit characters in abundance. An easy red made for early drinking and with a big emphasis on fun. Easy.

A little bit of love goes into every wine released by the Little Wine Company. This Hunter husband and wife winemaking duo often play around with varieties seldom seen in the Hunter Valley, though this little Latin grape is showing plenty of poten...

Who is Violet Beauregard? Turns out she was the character in Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory who had a penchant for chewing gum and ended up turning into a blueberry. Thankfully you’ll just be tasting blueberries rather than turning into one...

Welcome to the remote ranges of Central Otago where Rabbits run wild or so goes the legend, it’s also said that these rabbits pilfer the Pinot grapes and eat them; obviously these are rabbits with sophisticated palates. This is attractive, easy dr...

It’s not often you see WA Pinot championed on this site, to be honest it’s not always a successful combination, but the Harewood Estate warrants a bit of a fuss. We think this is a fine effort and made deliberately in an old world style with arom...

A rather chunky Cabernet this one, a wine that, like a good maitre'd, seems pretty assured of what it's meant to be doing... The joy of a wine like this though is that whilst it is rich and exuberant it's also a wine of voluptuousness and fun - a ...

The Dandelions are a bunch of vignerons that cherry-pick the best vineyards in South Australia to make wines that are intelligent and well flavoured. Winemaker Elena Brooks is already showing what a rare talent she is having won a swag of awards. ...

The irrepressible energy of this brand more than matches the quality of the wines that are stylishly made by the very talented Elena Brooks. The brand actually has no winery but cherry picks the best fruit from vineyards from all over South Austra...

Step X Step might sound like some new Gym class but gladly we can report it’s a far more pleasurable proposition. It’s actually a winery making superb, value for money wines using South Australian fruit. This is textbook Shiraz with a rich and cho...

The name wild south was chosen to mirror the raw beauty of Marlborough and to capture the essence of the region in every wine they make. Raw beauty is what winemaker Christie Brown has caught in this Pinot. We love its varietal aspect, showing viv...

Waipara is so hot right now. Hot like a tar road on a sunny January Sunday. Hot like a bowl of soup straight out of the microwave (without that annoying hot/cold thing that microwave soup gets). Suffice to say it's hot... Wines like this show us ...

Bold hearts, bold wine, particularly from the bold 2010 vintage which will go down as a particularly great year for the region. This fittingly has lots of flavour, plenty of impact and density ahoy, all the good things you would want in this sort ...