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Cozy up this winter with our carefully curated Winter Warmers Pack, featuring six rich and robust red wines perfect for those chilly evenings. Whether you’re by the fireplace or at a festive dinner, these wines were specifically chosen to help you get your winter glow on!
This pack comes in at $26.50 a bottle delivered with 20% OFF the full price of the pack!
- 2023 Koerner The Clare
- 2023 Spinifex Esprit
- 2024 Inkwell Road to Joy Shiraz Primitivo
- 2025 Margan Breaking Ground Barbera
- 2023 Nick Spencer P.A.R. Hilltops Malbec
- 2023 Ricca Terra Vintners Bullets Before Cannonballs
2023 Koerner The Clare
'The Clare' is a wine designed to showcase both the history and the future of this great region, through the eyes of one of Australia's brightest young producers.
The base of this wine is a classic Clare Valley varietal marriage of Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Cabernet Franc, with a splash of Grenache, Carignan and Sciacarello adding plenty of spice, nuance and pizzaz!
Contrary to the classic Clare Cabernet blend, this is a lively, juicy red wine ready to be tucked into immediately. "Bordeaux varieties made in a Loire style", as Damon Koerner puts it.
Super wine!
94 points
"I swilled this and thought, gee, Damon Koerner must really like cabernet. He must, as the wine is so good... A portrait of Australia, its landscape, the dried bush elements, the neighbours coming over – it speaks of these things very well."
- Katrina Butler (Halliday Wine Companion)
2023 Spinifex Esprit
When Pete Schell started Spinifex back in 2001, wines like Esprit completely changed the conversation about what the Barossa could be. It shifted the focus away from sheer power and moved it toward perfume, finesse, and structure. Fast forward to the 2023 release, and it’s still one of the most compelling Grenache blends in the country, especially when you consider the pedigree of the fruit.
Pete sources this from eight different patches of dirt across the valley, including spots in Ebenezer and Williamstown. Some serious history here - the vine age ranges from 75 to over 150 years old. While the blend moves around occasionally, the Grenache was so strong this year that it really had to be the hero. It makes up over 80% of the blend, rounded out with bits of Shiraz, Counoise, and Cinsault.
It's textbook Spinifex winemaking, using wild yeasts and seasoned oak so the fruit does the talking. It’s not a heavy, syrupy red; instead, it’s deeply characterful and complex with a lovely savoury edge.
If you’re a fan of old-vine Barossa reds that prioritise character over brute force, this is exactly what you should be looking for. Honestly, for the price, it’s hard to find anything else in the region that comes close to this level of quality.
2024 Inkwell Road to Joy Shiraz Primitivo
Dudley and Irina at Inkwell are doing some of the most interesting vineyard work in McLaren Vale. This Road to Joy is not your typical "brick wall" Vale Shiraz. By splashing in 15% Primitivo, they’ve turned up the brightness and created something a little more supple and exotic.
It's organic viticulture on 100. The fruit is grown on thin loam over sandstone, which gives the wine a bit of that refined, stony mineral character we love. It’s wild-fermented and spends sixteen months in a mix of French and American oak, but the wood is just a whisper here. It’s all about the interplay between the dark, peppery Shiraz and that warm, brambly lift you get from the Primitivo.
The wine drinks like juicy blackberries and plums with a savoury hit of liquorice and clove. It’s got a great tannin backbone, but it stays fresh and light on its feet thanks to that lively acidity. It’s a total crowd-pleaser that still has a little nerd-factor.
2025 Margan Breaking Ground Barbera
The Breaking Ground Barbera is Ollie Margan’s exciting take on this Northern Italian variety, proving how well it handles the Hunter's warm climate. Sourced from the estate's red volcanic soils, this is all about Ollie’s desire to move away from heavy, high-alcohol reds towards something far more smashable. It is a creative, forward-thinking red that brings a completely fresh, light-footed alternative to the table.
The 2025 vintage delivered immaculate fruit, packing a heap of varietal spice and Barbera's naturally electric acidity. Ollie kept things unforced in the cellar, utilizing a gentle fermentation and aging the wine entirely in older, large-format oak casks. This approach completely skips any heavy oak impact, keeping the focus entirely on the bright, high-energy primary fruit.
The nose is incredibly vibrant, throwing out a mix of sour cherry, dark plum, and a nice kick of dried Italian herbs. The palate is medium-bodied and crunchy, loaded with juicy red berry flavour that flows over a smooth bed of fine tannins before a bright wave of acid cleans it up.
This is a brilliant, food-friendly red that swaps out heavy-handed structure for pure, vibrant drinkability.
2023 Nick Spencer P.A.R. Hilltops Malbec
"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
P.A.R. is a new label from Nick Spencer, started with the intention of focusing entirely on emerging/alternative varieties in Australia, seeing fermentation and maturation only in sandstone amphoras.
The Malbec for this wine is sourced from a vineyard 600m above sea level with decomposed granite soils located around Young in the Hilltops region. The fruit gets picked and sent to amphora for fermentation and further ageing for 18 months.
It comes out bountiful in aromatics and flavour, with it's purple fruited heart to the fore thanks to the lack of oak.
94 points
"You can tell it’s Malbec, but also, gee, it’s a lot like a good Teroldego. I really like this."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)94 points
"This is light and juicy, but, wow, does it finish the job beautifully through the finish! There's no heaviness to this wine – it's essentially built on acidity – but for character and complexity, it really has it going on, and at least, if not more importantly, it's really up there for drinkability too. As they say, delicioso!"
- Campbell Mattinson (Halliday Wine Companion)
2023 Ricca Terra Vintners Bullets Before Cannonballs
Ash Ratcliff is one of the sharpest minds growing grapes in Australia with a vision towards a new Riverland.
The "Bullets Before Cannonballs" concept is something Ash has used extensively during his time in the Riverland. The idea being, you shoot loads of 'bullets' - small trials of new varieties - and when you see one excelling you light the fuse on a cannonball and go deep on that variety.
It's a methodology which is yielding great results for Ricca Terra Farms. This wine is a fiery blend of the red varieties that have excelled for him so far: Tempranillo, Shiraz, Lagrein, and a touch of Lambrusco.
The finished wine is flush with dark fruits and exotic spice. Great value to be had here and a super versatile red for any night of the week.
95 points
"Tempranillo, lambrusco, shiraz, lagrein. Ricca Terra craft wines that feel quite alive in the glass, perhaps due to their deep agricultural understanding and farming practices. I could be romanticising, but this wine is a living thing. Soft leather, aniseed rings, fresh fig and dry earth. Dark chocolate and blood plum. The tannins have a lateral extension within, beyond the spine of the drink, leaf vein-like. For its close-to-earth rusticity, it certainly polishes up and carries an elegant composition further endorsed by impeccable balance."
- Katrina Butler (Halliday Wine Companion)
Customer Reviews
| Type | Red |
| Body | Full Bodied |
| Size | 6 |
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