Saperavi Wines

Perhaps 'Black Ops' should be 'Black Sheep', or maybe it's an homage to the 1970s American TV series 'Black Sheep Squadron' about WWII rogue flying aces. Whatever the case, it's what's in the bottle that counts with this red blend. Black fruits ab...

Now for something completely different! Saperavi is a native grape variety of the republic of Georgia, and the first thing that will impress you about this wine is its bright colour. Red and dark berry fruits rise out of the glass, whilst the pala...

If ever a wine was designed to reflect its variety, it is this one; saperavi is a Russian variety noted for the depth of its colour, here so dense there is no hope of seeing through it. There is lots of structure in the palate, rather like a Mecca...

Deep, dense purple-crimson; floods the palate with red and black cherry, warm spices and fine, soft tannins; carries its alcohol with ludicrous ease.

Almost black in colour, with pretty cherry/rhubarb aromas. Interesting blackcurrant fruit flows along the well-structured palate.

Intense, brooding number with big hit of licorice-like flavours on a mouth-puckering, tannic palate.

Great nose with an inky/cassis/blackcurrant bouquet and dark and brooding palate with a massive mouthful of flavours, serious tannins and big hit of acid." Has ageabilty plus!" 5++

Lives up to its name with incredibly dense purple colour; despite its alcohol, the wine has some brooding green edges that, paradoxically, are not unpleasant. Exactly what the future holds is far from certain, but the journey will never be dull.

Has the intense, saturated colour of the variety; this is a full-on wine in every way, with essence of black cherries and licorice folded together, but is not too tannic or extractive; the question is whether daylight will ever penetrate to provid...

Hand-picked and hand-sorted, open-fermented and plunged 3 times each day, then basket-pressed at 1 baumŽ. Bottled after 14 months in oak, a gas-covered triple-racking technique. When first poured the wine is quite aggressive on both the bouquet an...

Has the impenetrable colour for which the variety is renowned (saperavi is Russian for dyer); it is mouth-coating, fleshy and full-bodied, but neither tannic nor hot. Very difficult to forecast its future.

Very interesting dense, inky style of wine with an incredible concentration of soft, spicy fruits and a fabulous core of velvety-smooth tannins. All it need now is more time.

One of only two known saperavis in the Australian market, this King Valley number is a delicious, brilliantly coloured red wine with lots of grunt. And a bit of an accent, because saperavi is from Georgia (former Soviet republic of, not US state o...

Hot, rich and viscous style filled with young, sweet stone-fruits and balancing drying oak.

As it should be, densely coloured; the wine has a powerful entry with lots of flavour, but is like a Chambourcin on steroids, falling away on the finish and aftertaste.

Intense, dark purple-red; luscious but powerful, with a mix of bitter chocolate, blackberry, plum and licorice; excellent structure, bright acidity.

Full but not death-defying colour; gently savoury/earthy/leathery spectrum of aromas and flavours.