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This excellent value mixed pack features six highly-rated white wines that boast accolades and high acclaim from the Halliday Wine Companion Tasting Team.
This iteration of the pack features a stack of excellent recently released wines. All at a great price with great reviews.
- 2025 Two Tonne Tasmania TMV Riesling
- 2024 Usher Tinkler Wines Big Bad Bill Semillon
- 2025 Mulline Pinot Gris
- 2025 Corymbia Chenin Blanc
- 2025 CRFT The Arranmore Gruner Veltliner
- 2024 Nick Spencer Tumbarumba Chardonnay
2025 Two Tonne Tasmania TMV Riesling
Riesling from the Tamar Valley here (TMV) from young winemaker, Ricky Evans.
This is a tightly coiled and refined Riesling of streamlined fruit character and finesse. A smidge of residual sugar gives this a lovely balance in the mouth, making it brilliant to drink immediately and a gem for the cellar, depending on when you like to drink your Riesling.
Ricky continues to impress, a rising star of the Tasmanian wine scene and one to keep a close eye on. If you love Riesling from cooler climes, this is absolutely worth a look.
Read More95 points
"There's a lovely balance and tension to this wine, with pristine apple and citrus fruits framed by a tight, nervy acidity and a cascade of minerals."
- Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)
2024 Usher Tinkler Wines Big Bad Bill Semillon
We absolutely love what Usher Tinkler is doing right now. His wines are a genuine breath of fresh air in the Hunter Valley, and the 'Big Bad Bill' Semillon is a perfect example of why.
Named in honour of his father, Bill - a local legend with over 50 harvests under his belt - this is sourced from a tiny 1.4-hectare block of vines Bill planted himself back in 1980. Grown on classic Hunter red terracotta clay, the site naturally delivers serious fruit concentration and purity.
The winemaking here is clean and completely unadorned to let that old-vine fruit shine. It is hand-picked, destemmed, and whole-berry pressed straight to stainless steel for a cool fermentation. It sees zero oak and no malolactic fermentation. Just pure, precise Semillon.
In the glass, it is bright, zesty, and highly refreshing. You get a core of lime citrus and a faint tropical note, all pulled tightly together by a driving mineral edge. It is dangerously drinkable right now, but like all top-tier Hunter Semillon, it has the structure to easily cruise in the cellar for 20 years if you want to see it evolve.
Read More96 points
"A fabulous example of single-site, old-vine semillon and a simply delicious glass of wine."
- Toni Paterson (Halliday Wine Companion)
2025 Mulline Pinot Gris
Pinot Gris (or Grigio) has come a long way in Australia. From humble beginnings in southern Victoria, it was the first 'alternative' variety to officially graduate the AAVWS and be seen as a mainstream variety.
It's easy to see why when you look at the Mulline Pinot Gris. This is definitely more Gris than Grigio, with lifted florals, ripe stone fruits and a bit of spice coming through.
The wine also saw a small amount of skin contact to provide colour and texture, which rounds out the rich palate and makes this incredibly more-ish.
Read More96 points
"Beautifully poised with its aromas of redcurrant, nectarine, pear and blood orange. Even better on the palate, where the flavours and texture are perfectly balanced by subtle time-on-skins tannins, before finishing orange-pithy and long. Should age nicely, too. Excellent."
- Philip Rich (Halliday Wine Companion)
2025 Corymbia Chenin Blanc
Rob and Genevieve Mann at Corymbia have become the benchmark for modern WA Chenin. This is an excellent Swan Valley white; it’s a focused, dry-grown powerhouse from the Mann family's "Rocket’s Vineyard". Named after Rob’s dad, the legendary Test cricketer Tony “Rocket” Mann, this site was hand-planted by the father-son duo over thirty years ago and has never looked better.
The 2025 release is all about tension and freshness. Despite the Swan Valley heat, the fruit retains a crunch that’s hard to find elsewhere. Wild yeast, a bit of old oak, and plenty of time on lees but this simple recipe delivers a wine with massive personality. It’s got classic Chenin waxiness, but it’s the saline, sea-spray finish that really keeps you hooked.
Expect a wine that’s bright and plush at the same time. It’s packed with green apple and citrus, but there’s a savoury, herbal flicker underneath that screams for food. Whether you’re cracking it fresh at a BBQ or tucking a few away to see the honeyed complexity develop, this is a proper Swan Valley essential.
96 points
"Preserved lemons and sorrel leaves, a backseat full of beach towels baking in the sun. Margarita rims and melon rind. A masterclass in building texture in white wine without oiliness or clunky phenolics. A waxy sheen and taut saline seam like the finest flakes of fleur de sel have been sprinkled through. As good as chenin gets."
- Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)
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"The level of bang for buck here is ludicrous. One of Australia's more complex, exciting textural white wines lays in the glass... An impressive wine of detail in fruit, florals, minerality and yet one that holds attention for high-end drinkability, too."
- Mike Bennie (Halliday Wine Companion)
2025 CRFT The Arranmore Gruner Veltliner
CRFT has become a specialist in Gruner Veltliner, but the Arranmore release is their most personal. It’s sourced from just eight rows of estate-grown vines at their Carey Gully home - a cold, breezy, east-facing slope that sits at a lofty 550 meters. It’s a site Candice and Frewin farm organically, and the relentlessly cool conditions are exactly what this variety needs to find its energy.
The 2025 was wild-fermented on full solids in seasoned French barriques, followed by full malolactic fermentation and regular lees stirring. It’s a process designed to build texture and weight while allowing the vineyard's shale and ironstone bedrock to guide the wine's shape.
It leads with citrus blossom and lime leaf, but the real interest lies in the true Gruner secondary notes: white pepper, fennel seed, and a slate-like minerality. It’s a sophisticated, textural white that proves the Adelaide Hills is a legit home for this variety.
Read More95 points
"Far out, this is outstanding... It's fragrant, medium weight yet refreshing, distinctly varietal and ends up being a stellar 'textural, salty white wine'. Stripes earned for persistence with the variety."
- Mike Bennie (Halliday Wine Companion)
2024 Nick Spencer Tumbarumba Chardonnay
"Nick Spencer is one of the better winemakers in this country.”
- Gary Walsh
"Australian wine can be a brash place, but it still manages to provide harbour to some considered, thoughtful souls, of which Nick Spencer is one. He is the real deal, in short. His wines are more than wines. They are their grapes laid bare
- Campbell Mattinson
Nick Spencer has been championing Tumbarumba Chardonnay for two decades now, and the 2024 release shows exactly why he’s so committed to this high-country region.
The fruit comes from a unique vineyard in the Maragle Valley, sitting unusually low for Tumbarumba at 500 metres, but close enough to the Snowy Mountains to feel the chill each night as mountain air rushes through. Warm days, cold nights – it’s a recipe for flavour and freshness in perfect balance.
2024 was a standout season here, delivering fruit with richness and intensity without tipping into heaviness. Nick hand-picked and pressed the grapes into a mix of French oak puncheons and amphora, where the wine rested for 14 months on lees. It’s a style that gives depth and texture but keeps everything finely tuned.
This is Chardonnay with drive and personality – elegant but not shy – and a wine that will sit comfortably at the table now while also rewarding a few years in the cellar. Another strong reminder of why Nick is one of NSW’s leading voices for cool-climate wines.
"A wine that not only marks 20 vintages of Chardonnay from this incredible region for me personally, but may well be one of the finest expressions we’ve ever produced."
- Nick Spencer
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"This is a beautiful chardonnay... Wonderful wine."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)
Customer Reviews
| Price Bracket | $30 or Less |
| Type | White |
| Feature |
High Score |
| Reviewed By |
Halliday Wine Companion |
| Size | 8 |
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