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- 2025 Forest Hill Block 2 Riesling
- 2024 Yelland and Papps Blanc
- 2024 Paco y Lola Ophalum Albarino
- 2025 William Downie Cathedral Pinot Noir
- 2024 Ponce Clos Lojen Bobal
- 2024 Inkwell Road to Joy Shiraz Primitivo
2025 Forest Hill Block 2 Riesling
The Block 2 vineyard is a special piece of Western Australian history. Planted back in 1975, these old vines sit on a site that consistently produces some of the most intense, textural Rieslings in Mount Barker. While some Great Southern Rieslings are all about lean, bracing acid, the Block 2 is a slightly textural style, thanks mostly to those old vines.
The 2025 season was a dry one, but without the aggressive heat spikes of the year before, allowing the fruit to develop a complex profile of Meyer lemon, persimmon, and jasmine tea. To build on that natural intensity, about 15% of the blend was fermented in large Austrian oak demi-muids with a healthy amount of solids. This, combined with extended time on lees, gives the wine a lovely, fleshy texture that balances out the racy acidity.
It’s lip-smacking and incredibly refreshing, but it’s the "lemon oil" weight and crushed-stone finish that really sticks with you. It’s a serious, high-energy Riesling that offers way more than just simple citrus, it's a dream for anyone who loves the more textured, complex side of the variety.
97 points
"This is a magnificent wine, and while I often prefer the Block 1 over the Block 2, it is not so this year. Is there a touch of residual here? If so, I like it. The vineyard block was planted in 1975."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
95 points
"A pleasing and generous style of riesling, unashamed of its origins and feeling pure and natural as it goes. Delicious. Serious. Complex."
- Mike Bennie (Halliday Wine Companion)
2024 Yelland and Papps Blanc
If a white wine full of body and texture at a great price is what you're after, then look no further than the Yelland and Papps Blanc.
The Rousanne grapes are handpicked at the perfect balance of flavour and natural acid, then they get gently squished and pressed to French oak for fermentation on with natural yeasts. The lees get stirred frequently, and it ages for a further 6 months in large French oak puncheons.
And boy oh boy does it produce a wine that packs a real flavour punch. Stone fruits, lemon, custard and peaches with an opulent texture and a zip of acid to balance it all out.
2024 Paco y Lola Ophalum Albarino
Paco y Lola is one of the most iconic cooperatives in Spain’s Rías Baixas, representing over 400 small growers in the premium Salnés Valley. With average family plots measuring just half a hectare, this is essentially a community of backyard vignerons who are entirely focused on sustainable and organic farming.
The Ophalum is their entry-level Albariño, and it is easily one of the best-value seafood whites on the planet. To differentiate it from their flagship bottling, the winery uses a touch more press juice to capture a slightly riper, more generous style of fruit. It’s fermented cool in stainless steel and aged on fine lees to give the palate a bit of textural weight without losing its shape.
In the glass, the 2024 vintage hits with green apple, citrus peel, and a soft wave of tropical notes like pineapple and lychee. Of course, it wouldn't be classic Salnés Valley without that signature Atlantic influence - there is a great lick of sea spray and flinty minerality from the granitic soils running right through it. It’s crisp, lively, and an absolute steal for anyone who loves fresh, saline whites.
2025 William Downie Cathedral Pinot Noir
William Downie is a bonafide star of the Gippsland wine movement, having garnered his expertise from Burgundy and Australian icons like Bass Phillips and De Bortoli.
The 2025 Cathedral is Downie’s best yet made by a seriously good vintage and a smart blend of sites that came together just right.
King Valley leads the charge (70%), backed by parcels from the Yarra (20%) and Upper Goulburn (10%). It’s a darker, more spiced expression this year - plum, black cherry, pomegranate molasses and a flicker of poached pear, all tied together with some gentle grip and savoury spice. Mace, five spice, crushed rock - it’s got more going on than you’d expect for a wine at this price point.
Still, it’s not a brooder. The structure’s there, but it drinks with ease. As always, it’s bottled unfined and unfiltered. Call it serious Pinot for not-so-serious moments. An absolute bargain, this sits somewhere between glou-glou and serious sipper.
91 points
"Easy access style, yet with some sophisticated restraint and coolness to. An attractive drink and a bargain for the bucks."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
2024 Ponce Clos Lojen Bobal
Clos Lojen is the entry point into the Ponce world, and it remains one of the greatest "case-buy" bargains in Spain. Sourced from seven different parcels of 40- to 60-year-old vines, it’s designed to be a pure, high-energy expression of Bobal. Because Juan Antonio uses 100% whole-bunches and carbonic maceration - a nod to his time spent in Beaujolais - the fruit stays incredibly bright and "crunchy."
The 2024 season saw lower yields due to an ongoing drought, which has given the wine a bit more structure and muscle than the 2023, yet it maintains its signature 12.5% alcohol. It’s packed with stewed cherries and blood orange, underpinned by earthy savouriness, toasted hazelnuts, and what Mike Bennie describes as a "gravelly haze" of fine tannins.
It’s an effortless, "soif" style of red that sits somewhere between a top-tier Gamay and a spicy Italian red. While it’s built for immediate, high-volume drinking, the limestone-clay soils provide enough complexity and grip to make it a serious food wine. If you're looking for the ultimate value-for-money Spanish red, this is it.
93 points
"This could be my value Spanish wine of the year – nuts! ... Loose but with a gravelly haze through it all, lots of perfume, brightness under the savoury elements. Effortless drinking."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)
93 points
"It's a champion for quality/price, one to buy by the case." - Luis Gutiérrez (The Wine Advocate)
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.
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| Size | 3 |
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