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West Australia
New South Wales
South Australia
PEEL ESTATE
We were delighted to be appointed agents for
Peel Estate
for the United Kingdom some 9
years ago
and the wines go from strength to strength. Established in 1973 by Will Nairn,
Peel Estate has long
been considered one of the leading boutique wineries in Australia with total
production of only 5000 cases.
The winery receives a coveted 4½ star rating in
James Halliday’s Wine Companion..
The Chenin Blanc is one of Australia’s
most extraordinary white wines with a huge peachy nose and
charry wood aromas. This is a wine that will age for over ten years and develops
wonderful complexity
in the bottle. The Verdelho is just about my favourite white wine.
Unoaked, it has delectable greengage
and lime fruit with elegant acidity. Don’t miss the excellent Premium White with grassy fruit
from the Margaret River.
 
2006
Peel
Estate
Premium White Baldivis (SC)
Price: £9.99
Bin No. AU922
2009/10
Peel
Estate
Verdelho Baldivis (SC)
Price: £10.99
Bin No. AU93
2006/07
Peel
Estate
Chardonnay Baldivis
Price: £11.99
Bin No. AU91
2003/05
Peel Estate Chenin Blanc
Baldivis
Price: £11.99
Bin No. AU92
Three quite stunning reds that are only available in tiny
quantities as the wine has achieved a
cult status in Australia. The
Cabernet Sauvignon is made in a classic
French style and
Will rates the 2001 as one of the best he has ever made. Aged
in French oak, it has a
wonderful integration of fruit and wood. The flagship
Shiraz has an astonishing structure
and concentration
of flavour: allspice, cloves and intense black fruit.
Both reds can be drunk
from now to 2020.
 
2006
Peel Estate Premium Red
Baldivis (SC)
Price: £9.99
Bin No. AU33
2003/4
Peel Estate
Shiraz/Cabernet
Baldivis (SC)
Price: £10.98
Bin No. AU34
2003
Peel Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Baldivis
Price: £14.98
Bin No. AU31
2001/3
Peel Estate Shiraz
Baldivis
Price: £14.98
Bin No. AU32
As Will says on his website: ‘Most
of the new Australian roses range between
medium sweet and sickly sweet. Peel’s
is uncompromisingly dry’.
Made from a blend of Merlot and Cabernet Franc
2009
Peel Estate
Rosé
Sec
(SC)
Price: £9.99
Bin No. AU999
I have to admit that I have never
understood why Oz Clark insists that he would
have a Sparkling Shiraz on his desert island, but Will’s is as good as they come
with delicious ripe plum fruit and good balancinig acidity..
N/V
Peel Estate Sparkling Shiraz
Price: £12.98
Bin No. SW11
South Australia
Dry River
This entry-point range of wines
from south-east Australia should not be disregarded because of their low price.
All three are excellent, well-made wines that show good varietal
characteristics.
2009/10
Dry River Chardonnay
(SC)
Price: £4.89
Bin No.
AU79
2009/10
Dry River Pinot Grigio (SC)
Price: £5.49
Bin No.
AU78
2009/10
Dry
River Shiraz (SC)
Price: £4.89
Bin No.
AU09
WIRRA WIRRA WINERY
Sadly the collapse of the pound has
meant that these excellent wines would all be going up by such a frighteningly
large amount that it is no longer viable stocking them, so make the most of them
at this price!
2008
Scrubby Rise Sauvignon Blanc - Semillon - Viognier (SC)
Price: £8.48
Bin No. AU84
2006
Sexton Acre unwooded
Chardonnay (SC)
Price:
£8.48
Bin No. AU61
2007
Scrubby Rise Shiraz -
Cabernet - Petit Verdot
(SC)
Price: £8.48
Bin No. AU04
2005/07
Church Block Cabernet - Shiraz - Merlot
Price:
£10.99
Bin No. AU01
2006
Dead Ringer
Cabernet Sauvignon
Price:
£27.95
Bin No. AU02
2003
RSW Shiraz
Price:
£27.95
Bin No. AU03
HOLLICK -
Coonawarra
An independent, family-owned vineyard located on one of the
original Coonawarra ‘blocks’
in the cool south-east corner of South Australia.
Aged in a mixture of French and American
oak for 12 months, this Pinot Noir has
depth of flavour but unusual elegance for an Australian Pinot.
2007 Hollick Pinot Noir
Limestone Coast
Price: £13.99
Bin No. AU14
Stickies
2004 Hollick 'the Nectar' Botrytis Riesling 37.5cl
Coonawarra
Price £8.99
Bin No. DW29
TAMAR RIDGE
– Tasmania
An
independent, family-owned vineyard located on one of the original Coonawarra
‘blocks’ in the
cool south-east corner of South Australia. Aged in a mixture of French and
American oak for 12 months,
this Pinot Noir has depth of flavour but unusual elegance for an
Australian Pinot.
2009/10
Devil's Corner Sauvignon Blanc (SC)
Price: £10.99
Bin No. AU71
2009/10 Devil's
Corner
Pinot Noir (SC)
Price: £10.99
Bin No. AU011
GRANT BURGE -
Barossa Valley
Grant Burge’s
unoaked Barossa Vines Chardonnay
has superb tropical fruit, and comes from his
own Barossa fruit. He is the largest private landowner in the area, but never
makes any sacrifice in the
quality of his wine. Grant Burge’s Barossa Vines Shiraz is a classic:
packed with ripe hedgerow fruits - as
indeed is the ‘Old Vine Shiraz’, his ‘black monster’ flagship wine: quite
stunning. The Holy Trinity – his ‘
hommage’ to Châteauneuf - has proved an enormous success and is a blend of
classic Rhône varieties: Grenache,
Shiraz and Mataro. Grant Burge’s 10 Year Old Tawny is made from Shiraz,
Grenache and Mataro aged in oak
quarter casks under the solera system and makes a delicious summer aperitif or
or pour over the Christmas pudding!
2009/10
Burge
Vines Chardonnay
Barossa Valley
(SC)
Price: £7.49 Bin No. AU64
2009
Burge
Vines Shiraz
Barossa Valley
Price:
£8.49
Bin No. AU20
2008/09
Grant Burge
Shiraz
Old Vine - Filsell
Price:
£17.99
Bin No. AU18
2006/07
The Holy
Trinity
Grenache/Shiraz/Mouvèdre
Price: £17.99 Bin No. AU08
Stickies
Grant
Burge’s 10 Year Old Tawny is made from Shiraz, Grenache and Mataro aged
in oak quarter casks under the solero system and makes a delicious summer
aperitif
or digestive. Hollick made its first botrytised wine in 1985 and now
has something of a
reputation for this style. The 2004 is a luscious wine with
intense honey and citrus
flavours with a fresh finish.
NV
Grant Burge 10 year old Tawny
Barossa Valley
Price: £18.99
Bin No. DW10
New South Wales
TRENTHAM
ESTATE
Since listing these wines for the
first time at the end of 2002, we have been
delighted at the success we have had
with them. The Murphy family were pioneer
winemakers in the Murray River valley
and their vineyards now spread over 50 hectares.
After spending 11 years at Mildara Blass, Anthony Murphy returned to the family
estate as winemaker and
they now win numerous medals, including a gold
medal for the
Viognier
at the Melbourne show.
2009 Lantana
Semillon Chardonnay
Murray River
Valley (SC)
Price: £6.99
Bin No.AU81
2009 Murphy’s
Big River Chardonnay
Murray River
Valley (SC)
Price: £7.49
Bin No.AU90
2009
Trentham Estate Viognier
Murray River
Valley (SC)
Price: £10.99
Bin No.AU96
2010
Trentham Estate Pinot Grigio
Murray River
Valley
(SC)
Price: £10.99
Bin No.AU961
2008/09 Lantana
Shiraz/Cabernet Murray
River Valley (SC)
Price: £6.99
Bin No.AU15
2008/09 Murphy’s
Big River Shiraz Murray
River Valley (SC)
Price: £7.49
Bin No.AU40
2009
Trentham Estate Pinot Noir
Murray River Valley
(SC)
Price: £9.99
Bin No.AU061
2009
Trentham Estate Shiraz
Murray River
Valley
Price: £9.99
Bin No.AU46
2006
Trentham Estate Nebbiolo
Murray River
Valley
Price: £10.99
Bin No.AU06
2008
Trentham Estate Petit Verdot
Murray River
Valley
Price: £10.99
Bin No.AU56
Stickies
2006 Trentham Estate Noble Taminga 37.5cl
New South Wales
Price £7.99
Bin No.DW31
MCGUIGAN WINES
The Black
Label red, Black Label Merlot and the Black Label Shiraz
are
all made in the typical Brian McGuigan’s style with lots of fruit and a gentle
sweetness. The Merlot winning a gold medal in a recent International Wine
Challenge.
McGuigan’s Black Label
Chardonnay
Hunter Valley
Price: £5.99
Bin No. AU83
McGuigan’s Black Label
Gewurztraminer/Riesling
Hunter Valley
Price: £5.99
Bin No. AU88
McGuigan’s Black Label
Hunter Valley (SC)
Price: £5.99
Bin No. AU11
McGuigan’s Black Label Merlot
Hunter Valley
(SC)
Price:
£5.99
Bin No.
AU05
McGuigan’s Black Label Shiraz
Hunter Valley (SC)
Price: £5.99
Bin No. AU30
Finch’s
Line
Made by the extremely talented Miles
Corrish who combines being a Master of Wine with
a serious cricketer, this multi-layered Shiraz from 60 year old vineshas
been hand-picked
and fermented with indigenous yeasts before ageing in French barriques for 15
months.
Very different to Barossa Shiraz in style, it has an almost Rhône-like elegance.
2006/07 Finch's Line Shiraz
Hunter Valley (SC)
Price: £17.99
Bin No. AU10
De Bortoli
De Bortoli is
a large family-owned winery, which is most famous for its remarkable
botrytis Sémillon. Darren De Bortoli developed the wine during the 1980s at the family
winery at Bilbul in southern New South Wales. It is now widely accepted as
Australia's
benchmark pudding wine. The Trentham Noble
Taminga is a complex, botrytised
blend of Riesling, Traminer and Ferrano.
Stickies
2001
De Bortoli Noble One
Barossa Valley 37.5 cl
Price: £14.98
Bin No. DW34
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