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Richard Bailey planted one of the first Glenrowan vineyards in the 1860s. The Bailey estate survived the downturn of the Victorian gold rush, the ravages of phylloxera and excesses of the Kelly gang, it endures to this day, producing some of the nation's most intensely flavoured and historically significant wines. A precious block of distinguished, dry grown old vines planted in the 1920s, yields a limited harvest of parched and concentrated Shiraz berries. The succulent red wine of choice to accompany the finest beef wellington or wagyu sirloin.

$5999each $719DOZEN EACH DOZEN Baileys of Glenrowan are amongst the earliest pioneers of Victorian viticulture, inaugurally vintaged in 1870, internationally renowned for their intensely flavoured and richly structured wines. A family managed operation to this day, Baileys can call on a quality of fruit reserved for Australia's most eminent and stately balels. An opulent single vineyard wine crafted from parcels of hand picked Shiraz, batches are treated to a traditional old world style of vinification, open ferments and passage through a hundred year old basket press. Following vinification, components are transferred to a selection of new and prior use French oak barrels for a year's maturation before assembling into the finished wine.

Deep dark violet with purple edge. Dark jube fruits and earthy notes, allsorts and blackberry, liquorice and spice. Rich and ripe flavours of bramble and blackberry and liquorice, a soft mouth warming mid palate tending to sweet fruit flavours of chocolate, supported by rich and round velvety tannins.

Rutherglen is the world's most arcane and prestigious appellation of Durif. The vines here carry great distinction due to perpetual quarantine, after a devastating nineteenth century outbreak of phyloxera. Baileys have assembled parcels from their Glenrowan property around a weighty backbone of Rutherglen fruit, a mouth filling accord of ripe flavours and assertive tannin grip, to satiate the most demanding Durif devotee. Fifteen months in seasoned American oak puncheons, infuse anise and cocoa malt into a beguilingly captivating wine of mulberry and liquorice opulence.

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The Baileys of Glenrowan property is endowed with some of Victoria's oldest plantings. After the devastation of phylloxera at the turn of last century, vines were replanted in the rich granite soil below the Warby Ranges. Bailey's wickedly moreish fortifieds are all made entirely from fruit grown to the estate's quarantined Glenrowan vineyard, carefully barrel aged under perfect conditions to ensure a memorable drinking experience upon release.

$3999each $479DOZEN EACH DOZEN Glenrowan is renowned for its luscious fortified wines and rich red wine styles. The fortuitous soils and lie of the land provide a unique grape growing mesoclime with cool air flowing down from the ranges, tempered by warmer airflow from the lake. In the hot summer months, the lake acts like a giant air conditioner, cooling the vines at night. Bailey's are Glenrowan's eldest vineyard, originally planted by Varley Bailey in the 1860s. Bailey produced his first vintage in 1870 and the site has continued to produce iconic wines ever since. Following fermentation, individual parcels of are aged in old oak barrels before being assembled into the final wine.

Russet red in the glass. Aromas of fresh fruit, earthy, luscious, tongue hugging sweet complicated essences. Delicate barrel complexity, light and elegant on the palate but has intense flavour and a lingering rancio finish. Serve with ripe aged cheeses or after dinner chocolates.

Steeped in history, the original Baileys store was situated next door to the Glenrowan Inn where widow Jones hosted Ned Kelly's siege. Following the gold rush, the Baileys turned to farming and settled on a property which they named Bundarra. Rural life was harsh and the Glenrowan countryside was stubborn. But the Baileys persevered, eventually sowing one of the most enduring vineyards in Australian history.

$3599each $431DOZEN EACH DOZEN Baileys of Glenrowan manage some of Victoria's oldest plantings. After the devastation of phylloxera at the turn of the last century, vines were replanted to the rich, deep, red granite soils below the Warby Ranges. The favourable growing seasons at Glenrowan are characterised by long warm summers with very little rainfall, encouraging the fruit to develop intense flavours and high natural sugar levels. Following harvest at the peak of full physiological ripeness and a timely fermentation that's arrested by the addition of brandy spirit, parcels are treated to a spell of extended ageing in a mix of well seasoned large format oak. The final wine is assembled from a selection of barrels across several vintages.

Caramel, dense brown red in the glass. Nose exhibits varietal aromas of orange blossom, rose petals and dried fruit. The palate is generous and lush, full of complex fruit flavours resolving on a carefully balanced sweetness.

Glenrowan Durif for those adherents who are in the know, is their any nobler style of Victorian? A slightly gentler construct than the more substantially built Rutherglen Durifs of tradition and lore, treated to an extended term of fifteen months in a selection of seasoned and new French oak barriques. An opaque maroon wine of comely violet floral perfumes, lavender and sweet spice, graphite and earth. The perfect balance between ribald richness and refined restraint, blueberries, blackberry and cinnamon spice, over a length of fine leathery tannins.

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The Bailey's property at Glenrowan contains fifteen blocks of Shiraz, including some of the oldest vines in Victoria. Full bodied, traditionally styled, generous and august, yet marvelously approachable in its youth, after a term of fourteen months in a selection of French and American oak puncheons, characterised by its affability, seamlessness and style. Ripe plum and cherry fruit characters, enriched by dark licorice, espresso and malt, its robe of finely integrated oak and supportive length of gummy tannins, define a Shiraz of provenance and graceful old world charm.

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Glenrowan is a place of great natural endowments, it grows the finest fruit and hosted a famous gold rush. Glenrowan has remained quarantined from any exchange of viticulture since the 1890s, a felicitious quirk of history which has preserved the provenance of some great old vineyards. Varley is a compilation of the very best parcels Baileys Shiraz, treated to the time honoured traditions of open ferment, pumpovers and a course of extended age in the pick of fine French oak. Its impenetrable purple black hues, presage a prosperous palate of blood plums, bramble and dark earthen spice.

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Enter Brokenwood's response to the modern day enthusiasm for finely structured Chardonnay with more balance, lower phenolics and timely oak. Established 1988 on the of brisk altitudes of the Orange uplands, Forest Edge Vineyard gives its fruit to a regimen of whole bunches and wild ferments in a mix of new and seasoned French oak, powered by the splendid complexity achieved through indigenous yeasts and lees sediment battonage, its creamy mealyness makes Brokenwood the ideal accompaniement to west coast marron, truffled spatchcock or bugs mornay.

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Pale yellow with hues of green. Plenty of tropical fruit to the bouquet, apple and stonefruits over a veil of background oak, grapefruits and lime. Lees stirring bran meal characters add texture to the laden palate, layered with fresh citrus and stone fruit flavours supported by perfect acidity. Refined finish on a generous length of fruit and lingering afertaste, a match to rich seafood recipes and delicate white meats.