From the guitarist, Matthew Aulich who was a founding member of Hobart band The Paradise Hotel, comes an annual hit that’s full of red frogs, red cherries and currants. It’s super good with a lazy summer evening pizza, and you can even put it in the fridge to dial up the refreshment.

Blood Moon Sang de Etoiles Sangiovese 2024

Iconic. Sits in the glass full of fleshy lemon wax, and some salty melon notes too. Take it to lunch and sip your way through both mediocre and brilliantly engaging conversations with flavour! It’s great gifting wine and one for your Australian bucket list.

Jasper Hill Georgias Paddock Riesling 2024

All melody, no naïvety. This is the latest in our series on place and focuses on a darling region, Heathcote. This has everything we love because home is where we want to be, so there’s mulberry, peonies, compote spice and liqueured forest berries delivered glass after glass. There’s no need to speak in tongues, this is approachable and for everyone at the table.

This Must Be The Place Heathcote Shiraz 2023

Aromatics are pure, with heaps of tobacco leaf and some ripe cherry, black currant and just a nib of cacao. Goes very well with a light-to-heavy pullover.

Osicka Selection Colbinabbin ( Blue Label ) Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

The Ghost guys have really hit their straps with this one, it’s all blood plum and blackberries eaten on the farm, fresh from the pickers’ hands. There’s also some elevating black pepper spice and tannins that develop on the palate.

Gravity Wine Co. Ghost Syrah 2022

Heathcote Grenache from Willoughby Bridge that was pressed immediately to produce a translucent, transfixing, white wine. Tastes ripe and full of pear but is savoury and will go well with your favourite picnic foods and a little sunscreen well into Autumn.

Jean Paul Trijsburg Grenache Blanc de Noir 2022

Bindi's Pyrette Shiraz is a satellite venture in the winery's lineup, made using fruit coming from a vineyard near Colbinabbin on the Mt Camel Range in Heathcote. It's a pure, expressive Heathcote Shiraz, unadorned by excessive oak and picked earlier for freshness.

Bindi Pyrette Shiraz 2021

This is some dinki-di Heathcote Shiraz right here. Ripe blackberry and plum, with some white pepper spice and fine-grained tannins. Phenomenal value!

Strata Shiraz 2020

This carefully handcrafted wine boasts purity in spades and is overflowing with character and charm. Fruit for this wine came from a unique vineyard overlooking the Goulburn River, sitting on rich alluvial soils in an area that’s home to many retired volcanoes—Dane has told us more than once that the quality of fruit from this spot is incredible! The Syrah is a blend of two separate ferments, which both underwent semi-carbonic maceration with 10 days on skins. In the glass, expect bright and lifted fruit flavours, with intermingling notes of bramble berries, boysenberry, and raspberry coulis. There’s a fresh acidity and energy to the wine that make it perfect for summertime drinking. It’s fantastic as is, but if we were you, we’d chuck this one on ice before drinking.

Un-Grafted #26 Momento Mori Carbo Syrah 2022

This lightly sparkling offering from the Chalmers family in Heathcote is sure to be a hit! Sherbety citrus, lychee florals, and Schweppes lemonade with a slight tingle of spritz to keep things light and refreshing.

Montevecchio Frizzante Moscato 2022

This could be the perfect match for your Middle Eastern feast of falafels, hummus, baba ghanoush and chickpeas. With its early-picked fruit and skin contact, there's a fresh acidity and a savoury lemon-laced chalky pith and grip, plus a lick of cinnamon quill and sandalwood spices.

Momento Mori Fistful of Flowers 2023

A powerful expression of Shiraz with enveloping dark chocolate, purple fruits and a shovel of fresh, turned earth. Mouth-coating tannins follow on the palate, adding depth and structure to this warming Shiraz. This is the bottle you'll want to reach for when the next cold night rolls around.

Paul Osicka Majors Creek Shiraz 2022

Well here that is, flowing with nothing more than delicate spices and savouriness that are outshined but that little ball of tannin and white pepper that we love in this Grenache. Grown on bush vines, and raised in seasoned oak for 8 months, great winemaking and farming allows this wine to just feel… right.