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25 - 36 of 108 Yarra Valley Red
Dominique Portet Fontaine Cabernet Sauvignon
Yarra Valley
Available by the dozen
From harvests of estate grown Cabernet Sauvignon, assembled off the salubrious Dominique Portet vineyards. The temperate seasons of Yarra Valley allow for complete ripening of fruit, components grown to climes further afield at Heathcote or the Pyreness encourage the development of fragrant pepper spice and the most graceful tannins. The lucky grapes are all hand picked, destemmed and very gently crushed, to be fashioned into a sublimely integrated accord, showing suppleness on the palate after an engaging nose of delicate perfumes.
$2499each
$299DOZEN
EACH
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Dominique Portet did his training at some of the world's most illustrious red winemaking estates. He qualified at the Montpellier University of Oenology and during a compulsory one year military service was the Legion's wine purchasing adviser. Portet spent vintages in the Medoc, Rhone Valley, Provence and with Moet et Chandon. Following vintages in the Napa Valley, the founding of Taltarni and Clover Hill, vintage 2000 would see the establishment of the Dominique Portet label. Choice harvests of Cabernet Sauvignon are treated to a three day cold soak, vinified and left on skins for two to three weeks before maturation, mostly in a selection of fine French oak barrels.
 
Bright purple red in the glass. Juicy dark fruit aromas and flavours that focus on blackberry, plums and red cherry with a floral lift. A wine of supple texture and intense fruit, clear crisp acidity makes the flavours evolve over lovely soft tannins, making this elegant red blend so very easy to drink right now, ideally alongside pink butterfly lamb, Coq au vin or egg ribbon pasta with meatballs.
Giant Steps Applejack Vineyard Pinot Noir
Yarra Valley
Available in cartons of six
The capriciousness of the hard to grow, early ripening Pinot Noir makes its expression of site all the more sublime. The winemaking at Giant Steps is holistic and closely micro managed, a particular objective is to enhance the natural microflora for the facilitation of indigenous fermentations in the winery. The Yarra Valley's cool, slow ripening aspects, afford Pinot Noir the time to develop its seductive labyrinth of aromas, showing bright red fruit notes underscored by earthy complexity.
$6399each
$767DOZEN
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Giant Steps Fatal Shore Pinot Noir
Yarra Valley
Available in cartons of six
$6999each
$839DOZEN
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Currently out of stock
Giant Steps Harrys Monster
Yarra Valley
In exceptional years, parcels of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot are separately fermented. The best lots are assembled into a multiple trophy winer named Harry's Monster and treated to an extravagant maturation in the finest oak. Very strong in primary fruit, generosity and mouthfeel, its ripe seed tannins are simply singing in its youth, showing exceptional balance on a long lasting finish.
$5399each
$647DOZEN
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Grapes are hand picked, destemmed and crushed to small open fermenters. A mix of indigenous and cultured yeasts initiate several days of warm vinification to dryness. Ferments are well aerated, hand plunged and gravity rack returns for a fortnight. Upon completion, the cap is submerged for a two or three weeks to integrate and polymerize tannins. Batches are treated to an airbag press and racked off gross lees to a mix of seasoned and new French oak barriques for malolactic and eighten months maturation.
 
Deep crimson colour. A dark, brooding bouquet of black cherries and kalamata, violets and bramble. Full palate, densely layered with rich dark fruits and earthy, gamey complexity over a structure of sleek, polished oak and extensive tannins.
Giant Steps Light Dry Red Pinot Syrah
Yarra Valley
Available in cartons of six
The Sexton family live in the middle of their eighty acre vineyard on the high north face of the Warramate Ranges, within the dress circle of Yarra Valley's most eminent estates. The vineyard is introducing organic practises with the express purpose of further distinguishing the site and improving grape and wine quality. An assemblage of Pinot Noir and Shiraz, treated to a traditional course of ferments and judicious term of oak, fashioned into an immensely satisfying, seamless yet complex and engaging, bucolic old world style.
$3899each
$467DOZEN
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Currently out of stock
Giant Steps Lusatia Park Pinot Noir
Yarra Valley
$4999each
$597DOZEN
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Currently out of stock
Giant Steps Nocton Vineyard Pinot Noir
Yarra Valley
$6499each
$777DOZEN
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Giant Steps Primavera Vineyard Pinot Noir
Yarra Valley
Available in cartons of six
$6099each
$731DOZEN
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Giant Steps Sexton Vineyard Pinot Noir
Yarra Valley
Available in cases of 6
Sexton Vineyard is wonderfully intricate, exuding notes of wild blackberry, dried mushroom, mulberry bush and braised plum, cinnamon stick and sour cherry. The coolest slopes of Sexton are planted to five Pinot Noir clones, managed according to biodynamic principles, providing several threads of expression to weave into the final wine. Sexton's fruit focus and fine tannins are enhanced by a judicious treatment of Burgundy styled oak.
$6599each
$791DOZEN
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Clones MV6 and 114, 115 and G5V15, 777 and Pommard are hand picked into 300kg crates and chilled. A third of the fruit is worked as whole bunches in small open fermenters, the remainder destemmed but uncrushed and added on top. Three days of soak without any cap work is followed by a fortnight of wild indigenous yeast ferments, light plunges, drain and returns. Batches are treated to an airbag press and racked off gross lees to a mix of new and seasoned Fench oak barriques for malolactic and a year's maturation.
 
Bright scarlet purple colour. Lovely rustic charry notes, cinnamon, cloves, dark chocolates and ginger. Poached cherry, olive, cinnamon and treacle, orange peels and vanilla bean. Pretty and supple. An eager, youthful Pinot Noir with engaging complexity and good support from fine French oak and firm tannins. To accompany pink veal cutlets or a melt in the mouth, roast suckling pig.
Giant Steps Syrah Carignan Grenache
Yarra Valley
Available in cartons of six
There's a confident assuredness about Yarra Valley Shiraz but there's also the chiselled elegance of Rhone Valley varieties, Carignan and Grenache, grown, harvested and crafted in the old world way. An assemblage of choice blocks from the Sexton and Tarraford vineyards. A combination of hand picked grapes and whole bunches, treated to cold soak in separate vats and seeded for ferments, pressed at completion to dryness and gravity fed into a selection of Flarge and small oak barrels for a year an a half, assembled in the spring, racked and bottled without fining or filtration.
$3899each
$467DOZEN
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Currently out of stock
Giant Steps Tarraford Vineyard Syrah
Yarra Valley
Established 1988 to a bounty of rich, grey loam clays at Tarrawarra, the eminent Tarraford site enjoys a fortuitously slower ripening season than its neighbouring climes. Planted to a diversity of aspect and clones, managed to a regimen of old world biodynamic farming practices, Tarraford delivers a magnificent harvest of Rhone styled Shiraz each year. Redolent with licorice, pepper and meats, pursing dark, cherry oak tannins and the astringency of wild bramble, its herb infused palate supported by characuterie notes, sasafras and game.
$5299each
$635DOZEN
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Giant Steps Wombat Creek Pinot Noir
Yarra Valley
Available in cartons of six
$6599each
$791DOZEN
EACH
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