These six excellent, highly-rated reds will blow you away for sheer value. A range of styles from light-bodied to full but all of them are extremely high quality.
$189.00$170.00
If you love highly-rated bargain Australian reds at a special price, you've come to the right place!
Each of these highly-reviewed wines exudes class, and importantly, value for money.
There is a range of styles and varieties included: from a fine, elegant Pinot Noir, to an all time favourite Grenache blend, to deep and contemplative Shiraz and Cabernet...
Each wine is received a minimum of 95 points from the Halliday Wine Companion (or James Halliday himself), and are a fine showcase of some of the best brains in Aussie winemaking right now. This is the best value red pack of highly Halliday rated wines in the country right now. At this price, it won't be available for long!
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"A magic carpet of 7 clones (in separate blocks) were picked between March 20 and April 16, making mainland pinot noir makers (myself included) green with envy. All batches were destemmed and hand plunged in small open fermenters. The wine was matured for 10 months in French oak (20% new). The colour is a massive come on, deep in pinot terms, and the palate duly delivers. Its texture and structure are spot on, with spicy tannins running through black cherry and plum fruit in an even, lingering stream." - James Halliday (Halliday Wine Companion)
Read more about 2021 Holm Oak Pinot Noir95 points & Top 100 Wines of 2022
"Wild yeast fermented with over a month on skins to extract the tannins, doing so with skilled restraint. No kick in a private part of the male anatomy. Sure, the wine has a savoury carapace, but its overall impact of cherries of every kind provides balance." - James Halliday (Halliday Wine Companion)
Read more about 2021 La Prova Sangiovese95 points
"The 90yo grenache from the Swan Valley (65%) makes a return, with 20/10% tempranillo/graciano from Hilltops, oh and 10% monastrell from Ricca Terra Farm in the Riverland. Yep, long way around. Parcels of fruit spent 2-3 weeks on skins then matured in used puncheons for 9 months. A very good Iberian outcome. It's super-savoury, even if it has a core of dark red fruit plus pomegranate juice. Earthy, with lots of Middle Eastern spices from sumac to a more complex ras el hanout, with grainy and lightly if pleasantly drying tannins. It gets better and better in the glass; moreish with every sip." - Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)
Read more about 2021 Ravensworth The Long Way Around Tinto96 points
"The memory is hazy in Moppa in the northwest of the Barossa Valley. The vineyard was planted sometime in the 1940s or 1950s and managed organically for the past 40 years. It's all red plum and cherry fruit with a splash of raspberry coulis, along with hints of spice, ginger cake, earth and stone. It's concentrated but 40% whole bunches in the ferment opens the wine up beautifully, highlighting the crunchy, pure fruit, fine sandy tannin and savoury palate shape. Wonderful drinking." - Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)
Read more about 2020 Spinifex Moppa Grenache95 points & Top 100 Wines of 2022
"Elegance is the feature of all the Head Red wines from grenache, to GSM, to shiraz and cabernet sauvignon. Balance is a sine qua non traveller of elegance; drilling down further, Alex Head's handling of tannin is masterful – as here, at 13.5% alcohol! That's meant to be impossible, but clearly it's not. Blackcurrant/cassis floods the mouth, and other fruits (plum the most obvious) join in." - James Halliday (Halliday Wine Companion)
Read more about 2021 Head Red Cabernet Sauvignon95 points & Best New Winery
"Ex 2 sites separately vinified, blended at bottling; Selectiv' harvested, whole-berry wild ferment in open picking bins, 10 days on skins, matured in French oak (10% new) for 10 months. The bouquet exudes licorice, black cherries and berries, pepper and a waft of cinnamon stick. The freshness of the long finish is a highlight." - James Halliday (Halliday Wine Companion)
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A really interesting, varied bunch of reds. Enjoyed every one. Recommended.
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These wines are all top notch. The Durif blend was not really to my taste, but I'm pretty fussy about Durifs. Everything else was outstanding. 4.9 stars. Different Drop are worth 5 stars as well. I have very limited choice of wines where I live and DD never fail to offer a great selection.
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