There are few winemakers as predisposed as Ben Riggs, to appropriate the best parcels of McLaren Vale Shiraz, which are vinified alongside a component of superlative Langhorne Creek fruit, to achieve a juicy and textural, mouth filling wine. Riggs long and intimate association with McLaren Vale gives him a comprehensive knowledge of the most splendid sites and dedicated growers. A stylish construct of Shiraz with an alluring bouquet, layered complex palate and malleable tannins, Black Chook has gained fans across Australia and around the world.

$1499each $177DOZEN EACH DOZEN A collaboration between Ben Riggs and Tony Parkinson of Penny's Hill, Black Chook is the bigger sibling from the Woop Woop wineworks. The backbone of Shiraz is sourced from good vineyards in McLaren Vale, sites that are nourished by a Mediterranean climate, winter dominant rainfall, warm, dry summers and low humidity. A further component from Langhorne Creek infuses the palate with exciting blackcurrant and eucalypt characters. Vinified in a combination of fermenters, a period of maceration on skins intensifies the deep rich colour and extracts firm tannins, while time spent ageing in a selection of fine oak barrels serves to soften and integrate the palate, developing the velvety mouthfeel.

Bright garnet colour. A plum and chocolate nose filled with hints of ripe berries and gentle spice. The palate is smooth and layered with rich flavours supported by supple vanilla oak and firm tannins, culminating in a long lingering finish of soft varietal plum and cherry characters, but not without the varietal punch of ground pepper and spice. A suitable accompaniement to flavourful braises and grilled meats.

From good vineyards in the McLaren Vale and Langhorne Creek, an assemblage of Shiraz wines that have been vinified and aged separately, isolated on the basis of character and complexity, then woven into a tapestry of remarkable integration. Tiraged and treated to a secondary fermentation in bottle, Black Chook has developed a rich chocolate and cherry ripe palate with light biscuitty oak and gummy, chewy tannins. A luscious Sparkling Shiraz, sagaciously balanced, destined to compliment pork, turkey, and every festive engagement.

$1799each $213DOZEN EACH DOZEN The Galvanized Wine Group's collective approach to strategic viticulture, stratification of style and triangulated approach to vinification, includes the highly successful Woop Woop (out there from out there) and its sibling Black Chook label, all are wines of charm and character. The multi vintage Black Chook sparkles to the tune of an effusive, opulent persona, predominantly three to five year old Shiraz wines, aged in a combination of seasoned French oak barrels, where they develop layers of smooth integrated fruit and a rich weighty texture across the palate. These are assembled with a touch of younger Shiraz wines contributing ripe juicy fruit characters. Alcohol 13.0%

Bright red/ brick colour with light purple foam and a fine, persistent bead. Aromas of floral and light oak, mulberry and violet, dates and sweet coffee. A big palate of red and black fruits, lively spice, charcouterie and leather.

Black Chook clucks to the sparkle of a lively tune. An assemblage of vintage Shiraz wines, aged in older French oak barrels where they develop layers of fruit and a rich weighty texture across the palate. A component of younger wine contributes ripe juicy red and black berry flavours. Destined to compliment turkey and pork or the richest desserts, to be served at every celebration.

$1299each $153DOZEN EACH DOZEN Shiraz is sourced from the McLaren Vale and Langhorne Creek. A Mediterranean climate with winter rainfall, low humidity and long warm summers makes the quality of McLaren Vale Shiraz the fruit of choice for this rich style of wine. The flood plains of Langhorne Creek yield parcels of aromatically seasoned Shiraz grapes with exemplary tannins which translate into sparkling wines with exceptional palate weight and complexity. The Galvanized Wine Group's collective approach to strategic viticulture, stratification of style and triangulated approach to vinification, includes the highly successful Woop Woop (out there from out there) and its sibling Black Chook label, all are wines of charm and character. Alcohol 13.0%

Bright red/ brick colour with light purple foam and a fine, persistent bead. Aromas of pepper and floral, mulberry and violet, dates and sweet coffee. A big palate of plum and mixed berry fruits, lively mixed spice, charcouterie and leather. Supple vanilla oak and solid tannins in firm support.

Bleasdale are Langhorne Creek's founding winery, as well as Australia's second oldest, family owned and operated estate. Bremerview Shiraz is vinified from fruit grown to unique soils, a drier, full flavoured wine which shows the distinctive local characteristics of rich blackberry flavours, eucalypt aromaticness and earthy, warming tannins.

$1599each $189DOZEN EACH DOZEN The entire range of Bleasdale's exquisite wines are modern classics. The management of the vines and the vinification of the fruit is very much a hands on affair by the fifth generation of a family that pionered and established Langhorne Creek as a premiere winegrowing region. The Potts family lead a dedicated winemaking and cellar team who are very proud of their work. Whilst Bleasdale is steeped in yesterday's history it has been outfitted with the latest technology. Today's winery still abides by the family traditions, retaining the philosophy of producing honest, consistent and reliable wines. Bremerview is treated to maturation in a combination of new and prior use 300 litres American oak hogsheads.

Deep, dark scarlet in colour. Intense varietal characters of dark cherries and ripe plums, complexed with fragrant spice aromas and toasty oak characters achieved by the extended maturation in tight grained American oak hogsheads and barriques. Generous fruit and supportive, mouthfilling tannins, Bremerview will continue to develop its rich earthy and chocolatey characters. Approachable upon release and always a winner with your favourite faire.

The traditional Australian claret style of Shiraz and Cabernet with a touch of Malbec, Bleasdale's been at it for generations, the masters at producing honest, reliable red wines. Patriarch Lloyd Stanley Sticky Potts was a motorcycling enthusiast all his life, the label depicts him practicing a broadside turn.

$1399each $165DOZEN EACH DOZEN Bleasdale was Langhorne Creek's first winery and remains today Australia's second oldest, family owned operation. The vineyards are situated on the fertile plains of Bremer River, which floods annually nourishing the soils. Historic cellars, constructed from eucalypt and limestone house a massive redgum lever press which fifth generation winemaker, Michael Potts still uses to crush grapes. Much of Langhorne Creek's fruit traditionally went into multi-regional blends and wasn't acknowledged until the 1990s when a group of growers, most notably Bleasdale, started promoting Langhorne Creek as a pure regional wine. Broadside is matured for a year in a selection French and American oak barrels. Alcohol 14.0%

Red with robes of purple. Nose of pepper, violets and five spice, red and black berries, dried herb and savoury leaf. A harmony of varietal fruit on the palate, blackcurrants and Cabernet cassis, chocolates, pepper and Shiraz plum, boysenberry spice of Malbec. A juicy finish exhibiting persistent flavours and smooth velvety tannins. Enjoy with hearty stew, lasagna or cassoulet.

Frank Potts established the Bleasdale vineyards in 1850, his eponymously labelled wine commemorates a legacy of innovation and resourcefulness. Frank Potts is a Bordeaux styled Cabernet which may contain varying portions of Malbec or Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc or Merlot depending on the performance of vintage. A litany of trophies and gold for the Bleasdale flagship, highly rated in many Jimmy Watson taste-offs, Frank Potts has also claimed gold and trophy for best Australian red at the prestigious London International Wine Challenge.

$2699each $321DOZEN EACH DOZEN Langhorne Creek's founding winery, Bleasdale Estate is today owned and operated by the fifth generation of the Potts family. A cépage of Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec, Petit Verdot, Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the very best parcels grown to Bleasdale's vineyards are reserved for Frank Potts. The essential qualities of this wine are derived from the precious vines which are mostly flood plain grown, planted to rich, silty soils which provide the nourishments for this stirring wine. Grape yields may be low but the quality is always superb. Frank Potts is treated to an extended maturation in a combination of new and prior use French and American oak 300 Litres hogsheads before a light egg white fining. Alcohol 13.9%

A deep, red/purple coloured wine. Frank Potts explodes with a great perfume. Powerful flavours of blackberry and cassis, chocolates and mint, raspberries and plum, dark cherries and violet, richness and texture, all integrating beautifully with the very subtle French oak, finishing long with a lovely sweet fruit richness.

The benchmark in Langhorne Creek Chardonnay, vinified from the choicest parcels of fruit grown to some of the nation's most fertile soils. Whilst Bleasdale is steeped in the history of Australian red winemaking, it maintains a flair for impressive whites. A dry unwooded style showing attractive fresh lingering flavours of pear juice, melons and peaches. This is a wine to enjoy while it is young and lively, match with chicken and seafood dishes for maximum enjoyment. Bleasdale is full, round and lively, with a soft, creamy texture and inspired, lingering flavours.

$1699each $201DOZEN EACH DOZEN Founded in 1850, Bleasdale make honest, consistent, reliable wines which are enjoyed throughout the world. The vineyards are situated on the fertile flood plains of the Bremer River, which runs parallel to Langhorne Creek. The region still experiences natural floods from the high rainfall that gushes out of the Adelaide Hills and heads towards the sea from time to time. The deluge gives vines a deep soaking drink just before the parching Australian summer. Bleasdale is treated to a cold temperature controlled fermentation with select yeasts, followed by prompt bottling to achieve a well balanced Chardonnay with fruit dominance and good complexity while retaining vibrant aromatics. Alcohol 13.5%

Pale yellow colour. Aromas of citrus and peach, delicate fragrances of honey dew and granny smith. A palate of bright varietal characters showing pear, lemon and melons.

Bleasdale is Australia's second oldest family owned winery, established in 1850 by English migrant Frank Potts. A prolific accumulator of trophys and gold medals, Bleasdale has claimed Best Australian Red Trophy at the prestigious London International Wine Challenge. Mulberry Tree is the essential Langhorne Creek Cabernet, exhibiting fragrant dark berry characters with hints of eucalypt and mint, supported by chewy, toothsome tannins. A wine of great heritage, named after an ancient mulberry tree growing in the middle of the vineyard.

$1599each $189DOZEN EACH DOZEN The Bleasdale vineyards are situated on the fertile flood plains of the Bremer River, which produce superlative wines year after year. The growing conditions around provide for exceptional flavour profiles and development of fine tannins in the grapes. Great wines are made in the vineyard, and the conditions here deliver fruit of the highest quality. Langhorne Creek generally, and Bleasdale in particular, produce some of Australia's most highly esteemed Cabernet Sauvignon wines. Grapes are sourced from an ancient site planted to Cabernet Sauvignon vines eighty to ninety years of age. The final wine is treated to an extended maturation in a selection of seasoned French and American oak barrels. Alcohol 13.5%

A deep crimson colour with robes of purple. Fragrant mixed berry characters balanced with dark chocolate and violet bouquets. Silky smooth with juicy sweet fruit flavours and fine chalky tannins. Spice box and cedar, blackcurrants and tobacco in a medium to full bodied wine. The palate is plump and fleshy, rich and round, yet displays elegance, warming acids and a long, lingering finish. Enjoy with a rack of lamb or good old fashioned steak.

Frank Potts planted Verdelho cuttings from the isle of Madeira on the rich alluvial flood plains of Langhorne Creek in the 1860s. Today, Bleasdale's Verdelho is fast emerging as one of Langhorne Creek's most savoury and pleasant drink now whites. Some of the grapes are hand picked from vines over eighty yeas of age. An estery, lifted fruit style of Verdelho wine, unwooded and dry, crisp and refreshing with zippy acidity and ripe fruit salad flavours, seasoned by a touch of lithe perfumed grassyness.

$1699each $201DOZEN EACH DOZEN Bleasdale is Langhorne Creek's founding winework and Australia's second oldest family owner/ operated winemaking estate. The grumpy and shy bearing old vines which yield some of the nation's finest Verdelho deserve respect. In the cool of the night you'll find Michael and Robbie Potts with their merry band of growers, carefully harvesting the wonderful old vines fruit. The early ripening Verdelho is treated to low temperatures throughout the vinification process, producing a crisp white wine which exudes lifted fruit salad aromas and lively tropical and citrus flavours. Fermented to dryness and bottled whilst young to capture the freshness and vital herbaceous characters, so important to the finished wine. Alcohol 12.5%

Light green straw hue. Fresh lifted aromas of lemon zest with floral notes and hints of fresh herb. Zippy bouquets packed with loads of fragrant orange blossom, melon and kiwi fruits. The palate follows through with ripe lemon and lime citrus flavours, complexed by stonefruits, a fresh zippy acidity and extra length. Broad in texture, with floral characters and a gentle leafyness that opens up, lingering on the citrus finish. The rich and lively fruit on the palate, working in fine tandem with a wildly refreshing acid, make Potts Catch a natural food wine in it's youth, to be enjoyed alongside fish and seafood recipes.

Bleasdale have been at it for generations and are highly specialised with Malbec, a key component to the estate's flagship wine, the icon Frank Potts. Malbec is rarely seen as a pure varietal, but at Langhorne Creek it performs well enough to earn its stripes all on its own. Showing vibrant primary fruit flavours of plum, red berries and spice in its youth, it finishes soft and round on a length of velvety smooth tannins.

$1599each $189DOZEN EACH DOZEN Malbec is a grape with a past, found in some of France's most baronnial Bordeaux Crus where it contributes lifted fruit aromas and softness to the wine. In Langhorne Creek it performs extremely well on its own, and Bleasdale has been bottling Malbec since 1961 The vines sprout moderate yields which are fashioned into a pure wine exhibiting recognizable regionality and a fine concentration. Crafted from exclusively Langhorne Creek grapes, the finished wine is medium bodied and displays the strong, spicy, plummy fruit flavours, that are so expressive of Malbec, as well as the toastyness brought about by maturation in a mix of French and American oak barrels. Alcohol 13.5%

Bright red in colour. A lovely bouquet of dark fruits swathed in chocolate, roasted meats with mint, briar and violet, followed by a fine essence of lifted cassis and red berries. It leads to a medium bodied palate exhibiting pure varietal flavours, a quenching acidity, savouryness and light gamey, meat character. Velvety smooth tannins and a soft finish.

What's any special occasion without Bleasdale? Effusive and generous, Bleasdale's effervescent red gives so much more. Fruits steeped in liqueur, mint and ribena following quickly on the heels of a luscious coconut/ carob oak, cherry ripe palate.

$1799each $213DOZEN EACH DOZEN A richly flavoured sparkler, the poly-vintage Bleasdale, derived from base wines through several years and topped up with a strong liqueur to initiate a secondary fermentation. The magnificence of barrel aged Shiraz characteristics are balanced by the sweetness from the doseage liqueur. The historic cellars constructed from red gum and limestone house a massive red gum lever press which fifth generation winemaker Michael Potts still uses once a year to make a very limited release wine. While the Bleasdale wineworks are steeped in history, the estate has installed the latest technology, still maintaining the founding philosophy of producing honest, consistent and reliable wines. Approx 13.5%

Colour is very dark and purple, an anxious, persistent effervescence. Nose is quite busy, awash with developed fruit characters and complex liqueur nuances. There is nothing subdued about this wine. It comes on like an ebullient, cream and froth driven chocolate torte, heavy on the maraschino cherry. There's deep rancio qualities and a fine balancing act by virtue of a cleansing acidic backdrop that makes this red sparkler perfectly rounded and just too easy to guzzle. Vibrant in appearance, rich in flavour and aromatics, its colourful bead leads to a sweet berry and confection palate before culminating in a lingering aftertaste. A wine to be enjoyed with christmas pudding or duck, roast meats or just on its own.

Bleasdale was established in 1850, is classified by the National Trust and is listed on the State and National Heritage Registers. Fully conversant with the soils, the microclimates and the cycle of flooding which nourishes the unique terroir of the estate's vineyards, fifth generation winemaker Michael Potts cultivates the old Grenache and Verdelho vines destined for inclusion into the Wise Old Tawny. A smooth rich Port wine full of rancio and nutty flavours obtained through a slow maturation over many years under small oak casks.

$1599each $189DOZEN EACH DOZEN Assembled from a reserve of barrel aged wines from various vintages, Wise Old Tawny is a mostly Grenache fortified wine with smaller components of Shiraz, Red Frontignac and Verdelho, in roughly equal measure. The historic cellars where the wine is aged were originally constructed with redgum members and limestone blocks. Today the cellar still houses a massive redgum lever press which fifth generation winemaker, Michael Potts uses to make his small batch wines. Though steeped in history, Bleasdale has installed the latest winemaking technology to retain the best qualities of matured reserve wines, whilst delivering to the connoisseur an authentic Fine Old Tawny of consistency and value. Alcohol 18.5%

Colour has developed into a nut red-brown. Appealing bouquets of plum and ginger, sticky figs and ripe date puddings, smokey peat and fine spirit. On the palate lie characters of treacle and walnut, marmalade, beef suet and orange rind, notes of unslated roast nuts and sweet black cherries, strawberry and hints of maple. The wine is deep and rich, the alcohol soothing and suitably attired, flavoursome and beautifully focused, the tannins whisper past with a sigh of relief at being unnoticed. Tawny rancio characters, old barrels and history, Old and Wise and complex, yet offering much freshness and vivacity for such a well developed wine. It calls for Stilton, after dinner coffee, and liquored chocolatey desserts.