Description
- 2023 Kopp Urgestein Riesling Feinherb
- 2022 Yangarra Estate Blanc
- 2024 Garagiste Le Stagiaire Chardonnay
- 2023 Nick Spencer Gundagai Light Dry Red
- 2023 Olivier Riviere Rioja Tinto Rayos Uva
- 2023 Dune Blewitt Springs Shiraz
2023 Kopp Urgestein Riesling Feinherb
Johannes Kopp’s Feinherb Riesling is all about balance - just enough sweetness to round things out, but still fresh and vibrant. Made from 20- to 45-year-old vines grown on a mix of silty, granite, and loess soils, it’s a great example of why Baden Riesling deserves more attention.
Fermented and aged in stainless steel for seven months, it keeps the focus on pure, juicy fruit with bright acidity. At 18 g/L of residual sugar, it sits between dry and off-dry, making it super versatile. It’s the kind of Riesling that works just as well on its own as it does alongside spicy food, seafood, or a good cheese board.
Since it’s only made in certain years, this is the kind of wine you grab when you see it. Great value, seriously drinkable, and always worth having a bottle in the fridge.
2022 Yangarra Estate Blanc
Yangarra Estate are absolutely one of our very favourite producers and a winery that is making serious waves in the Australian wine industry.
This is the beginning of a large project for the Yangarra team.
Yangarra have every one of the Chateauneuf-du-Pape varieties planted on their Blewitt Springs vineyard. The plan is to eventually produce a blend from the 13 varieties allowed to grow in the famous French region. This white blend is the first step along the way.
It's a medium-bodied, savoury white wine with fresh, glassy texture and a briny finish. The perfect all-round food wine. An exciting, great value release from this McLaren Vale juggernaut.
95 points
"The palate is powerful with fresh acidity."
- James Halliday (The Weekend Australian)
94 points
"It’s a little bit juicy, with white fleshed fruit, some bright tangerine acidity and flavour, plenty of chalky texture, and a dusty and subtly nutty/briny/lemon peel finish of excellent length. I really like it."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)
94 points & Top 100 Wines of 2024
"While Yangarra has forged a global reputation for stellar grenache and shiraz from distinctive McLaren Vale soils, their work with the Rhone Valley’s white varieties yields spectacular results too. This compelling and complex blend of roussanne, piquepoul, bourboulenc, clairette and grenache gris is a masterclass in textural tension and flavour delivery with restraint. A peek into an exciting future for Australian white wine."
- Nick Ryan (The Australian)
2024 Garagiste Le Stagiaire Chardonnay
Another fantastic release here of one of Victoria's best-value Chardonnays.
This year’s blend brings together fruit from some of Garagiste’s top vineyards—65% from Balnarring, with smaller portions from Merricks North and Tuerong—where vines averaging 25 years old bring depth and concentration to the fruit.
Pressed as whole bunches and wild fermented in 500-litre puncheons, this Chardonnay is all about texture and finesse. It spent seven months on lees, building a round, supple mouthfeel balanced by a bracing saline streak that keeps everything lifted and refreshing. You’ll find layers of citrus, white flowers, and stone fruits, with just a hint of oak adding subtle structure.
There is never a lot of this wine around and given the value on offer, it's no wonder. Great buying.
94 points
"Complex and quite umami in character. Grapefruit, apple, saline, nutty, Japanese ginger, and a little struck match. It has bright acidity, a certain juiciness in with all that nutty almost sake-like character, creamy almond, fine chalky texture, and a finish of excellent length. Really good Chardonnay, and all things considered, jolly good value. Charismatic, is my last word on this wine. Say no more."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)
2023 Nick Spencer Gundagai Light Dry Red
Inspired by the classic ‘Burgundies’ of 1950s–70s Australia, Nick Spencer’s Light Dry Red is a fresh, modern take on those elegant, medium-bodied Shiraz-Pinot blends that once defined the Hunter Valley. This is bright, aromatic, and built for effortless drinking, but with enough depth to keep things interesting.
A 50/50 blend of Shiraz and Pinot Noir, each variety was picked and fermented separately - 100% destemmed and fermented on skins for 14 days, before spending 12 months in old puncheons and amphoras. The 2023 vintage is silky, pure, and bursting with red fruit freshness.
Aromatically, it’s blueberries, red cherries, and spice, with subtle notes of cassis and earth adding dimension. The palate is supple and juicy, with fine, powdery tannins and a clean, mouthwatering finish.
Complex yet carefree, serious yet smashable - this is modern Aussie red wine at its best.
94 Points
"This is exquisite. It’s a delicacy. It’s fine and floral and spicy and berried, its flavours built on acidity, its nuances intricate. This is the polar opposite of the smack-you-in-the-face red wine style. It’s just itself, light to medium in weight, of the garden, summer berries glancing over at autumn, some apple to the acidity, its charm somewhere between studied and neglected. It won’t be everyone’s cuppa I guess, you have to slow down and take a listen to it, but for me personally this wine brings joy into the room."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)
2023 Olivier Riviere Rioja Tinto Rayos Uva
Olivier Rivière is shaking up Rioja, and Rayos Uva is proof. This is his early-drinking, fruit-driven blend - 40% Tempranillo, 40% Garnacha, and 20% Graciano - sourced from the Aldeanueva de Ebro area in Rioja Baja. Aged only in tank, it’s all about freshness, vibrancy, and purity of fruit.
Originally from France, Olivier came to Spain in 2004 to convert vineyards to biodynamics and never left. His approach is more Burgundian than traditional Rioja, focusing on site expression rather than ageing classifications. Farming biodynamically, using wild ferments, and keeping winemaking minimal, he’s making some of the most exciting wines in the region.
Rayos Uva is the most approachable wine in his lineup, built for immediate enjoyment but still showing the finesse and attention to detail that defines his work. A great introduction to the new wave of Rioja.
2023 Dune Blewitt Springs Shiraz
The 2023 Dune Blewitt Springs Shiraz is a cracking example of what makes this McLaren Vale sub-region so special.
Crafted by Duncan and Peter Lloyd from their organic vineyard, this Shiraz leans into the sandy soils of Blewitt Springs, bringing a softer, medium-bodied style with fine tannins and plenty of character.
It’s all about balance here—dark fruits, a touch of spice, a savoury edge, and that hallmark chalky texture from the sands. The Lloyd brothers keep the winemaking simple, letting the vineyard do the heavy lifting, and the result is a Shiraz that’s ripe, vibrant, and ridiculously drinkable.
Whether you’re sharing it over dinner or enjoying a glass on its own, this is McLaren Vale Shiraz with a difference—elegant, layered, and ready to go now. Perfect for those who love their reds approachable but packed with interest.
93 points
"There’s so much to like about these Dune wines. Stylish (visually as well) and well-priced. Lots of perfume and exotic spice, some black olive and dried herbs, fresh blackberry and cherry. It’s medium-bodied, supple in fine-grained tannin, has a sort of glassy acidity, quite meaty, with something of a fresh black berry tang, and a long gently grainy finish. Lovely wine. Understated, but complex."
- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)
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