An essential inclusion into many of Champagne's most prestigious marques, Pinot Meunier is rarely seen as a pure varietal. Mornington has seen over thirty vintages of this bespoke, esoteric wine, redolent of red berries, violets and spice, an experience not to be missed by all adherents of the abstruse, artisanal style. Circe craft a Pinot Meunier of structure, clarity and length, it shares a remarkable kinship with her patent sibling's brightly lit translucence of cherry, sasafras fruit. Match your Meunier with lamb, rare breast of duck, or terrine of offal, walnut dressing and thyme.

$3699each $441DOZEN EACH DOZEN

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The winemaking at Circe is all about excellence, about maintaining the healthiest vineyards, all things are done according to best practice, with an uncompromising respect for nature. As a Mornington grower, it's not easy to get your fruit selected for Circe, the Messrs Buckle and Drummond will only consider the most outstanding parcels and there are never any quotas. Assembled from the pick of Red Hill fruit and treated to the full regimen of Burgundian traditions, a dulcetly perfumed Pinot Noir of seamless complexity and textural whole bunch richness.

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Ruby purple colour. Wild strawberries abound, morello, sen-sen and stalk, rose petals and herb. A ripe palate of classy red fruit flavours, cranberries and currant cream, seasoned by undergowth, eucalypt and clove. Elegantly medium bodied, defined by its rich pinosity and pastoral appeal, its exceptionally fine line of yielding tannins in support, all the way to a warm, lingering finish.

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To maintain the unique qualities in their Sparkling Shiraz, Cofield have chosen to create a more complex and complete wine by blending small amounts of older vintages. Crafted to the traditional Methode champenoise, Cofield is treated to an ancient process called tirage, where sugar and yeast are added to the base wine, initiating a second ferment in bottle. This is what creates the sparkle, infuses complexity and introduces texture.

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Dark ruby with crimson edges and a creamy mousse. Bouquet exhibits sweet red fruit and chocolate with hints of nutmeg. The palate reflects the nose and shows rich red fruit with dark chocolate and spice. Mouthfilling with great complexity and length.

Cofield practice careful hand picking of fruit and rigorous barrel selection to enhance the ultimate quality in their wines. The careful culling of fruit and barrels also leads to smaller production, limiting quantities of each wine from between 100 to 600 dozen, dependent on vintage quantities and quality. Cofield take aim at assembling one of Australia's most essential sparkling red wines each year, based on the best stocks from the finest vintages.

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With well in excess of a hundred hectares under vine, completely estate owned and operated, Coldstream Hills can exercise their options to source grapes from a litany of Upper Yarra as well as Lower Yarra Valley vineyards, ensuring that only the best quality fruit is included into their profound Chardonnays. In lesser years, Coldstream does not release a Reserve, directing all their finest parcels into this very wine. The classically cool climate style of Chardonnay, with excellent intensity of fruit, rejuvenating acids and tightly reined in, well controlled oak.

$2849each $341DOZEN EACH DOZEN The Yarra Valley's cooler, slow ripening climes yield the most distinctive wines. Chardonnay typifies the Coldstream Hills style, with good varietal expression foremost on the bouquet and palate. There is an emphasis placed on showcasing the fruit and deriving length of flavour. The aim is to construct a wine characterised by elegance and finesse, enhanced by subtle oak complexity. Grapes are selected on the basis of heightened flavour profiles, good balance between natural sugar and acid. Barrel fermented and matured in a combination of new and seasoned French oak barriques, puncheons and vats with occasional lees stirring, completed without any malolactic to remain an essentially fruit driven style.

Pale straw green in colour. The nose shows attractive characters of citrus, nectarine and quince with underlying toasty oak. White peach, nectarine and lemon characters dominate the palate, nougat and cashew nut barrel ferment characters, toasty French oak and slatey minerality providing additional complexity.