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Giovanni Maglieri worked at Pirramimma in the late 1950s. He was joined by 17 year old Serafino in 1963, the father and son team bought forty hectares of scrub and set about the task of clearing it for vines. After founding one of McLaren Vale's most eminent wineries, Serafino embarked upon his own label, cultivating a lineage of the most memorable vintages in McLaren Vale viticulture. The idyllic growing seasons and pristine soils along historic Kangarilla Road contribute to the creation of outstanding wines which express the uniqueness of terroir, sunshine and clime.

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A pure Mourvedre wine from fruit grown to good McLaren Vale sites, parcels are vinified for two or three weeks on skins before being pressed to French oak barriques for malolactic ferment and fourteen months maturation. Earthy bouquets, cherries and plum, a tad spice, cinammon, pepper and sangria. A frolic of toothsome dark berries on the animated palate, strawberry and black currant, refreshed by light and exhilarating acids. A complex wine with full integration between vibrant fruit and subdued treacle oak, immediately ready to enjoy and immensely suited to good food.

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A great, understated treasure of Australian viticulture is the softly spoken bequeath of ancient Barossa vineyard Mataro. Much of the priceless old rootstock was brought over by the first waves of settlers, an incalculable endowment which continues to keep on giving, generation after generation. Soul Growers grew up amongst venerable old vineyards such as these, practised and versed in the arcane art of encouraging the fruit to sing as a pure, personable wine. Lithely spiced, elegantly structured, voluptuously fleshed with the mouth watering succulence of opaque olive and black bramble fruits.

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Soul Growers source fruit across the Barossa Valley floor, out to the high country of eastern Eden Valley ranges, from vineyards which are living history. Seppeltsfield and Tanunda, Krondorf and Langmeil Roads, Kalimna and Nuriootpa all make contributions. The work is completely manual, traditional techniques with minimal handling. The sacred cépage of Shiraz, Mourvedre and Grenache, has always been an essential tradition of Barossa winemaking, assembling the fruit of some glorious old vines into a seamless experience of heady perfumes, succulent fruit and gently undulating tannins.

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Victorian accords of Grenache, Shiraz and Mourvedre are sufficiently rare, ideally, an estate must have a heritage which dates back to early settlement before they can consider crafting such a wine. The first nascent plantings at Tahbilk were sown with cuttings from Valley Rhone. Shiraz, Grenache and Mourvedre have taken to the local surrounds and today yield the finest harvests in Victoria. A deeply charismatic wine of provocative sweet and savoury fruit characters, exquisitely balanced over a length of elegant, tensile tannins.

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Bright scarlet colour. Cherry smoke nose, apricots and char, chocolate box aromas over a background of spiced oak. Opulent, elegant palate, fleshy, nutty and luscious with layers of red berries, viscous with fruit, seamless, the cherry spice of Grenache, the bramble plum juiciness of Shiraz and savoury tannic grip of Mourvedre, finishing long, velvety and fine.

Giovanni Tait was a cooper who migrated to Barossa Valley in 1957, he took up work with B. Seppelt and Sons, where he took a hand in the élevage and maturation of the most memorable vintages. Tasteful and judicious use of oak remains an essential component of the winemaking traditions at Tait, none more so than the topical Rhone styled blend of Grenache, Mourverdre and Shiraz. Tait source fruit for the Wild Ride from choice sites on the southern Finders ranges, treating each parcel to an individual regimen of oak, a mere thousand cases are produced.

$2599each $311DOZEN EACH DOZEN Parcels of Grenache, Shiraz and Mourvedre are picked off vineyards, planted to typically clay soils, only when completely physiologically ripe. All components are handled separately and are assembled into the finished wine just before bottling. Grapes are de stemmed into fermenters and pH is adjusted, for a week or more of vinification at 24C, plunged and pumped over, two or three times daily. Batches are passed through an old fashioned basket press for completion of ferments and a course of malolactic. A combination of seasoned and new American oak barrels are treated to rack and returns throughout a year's maturation, to achieve a natural clarification without the need of fining and filtration. Alcohol 15.5%

Garnet purple colour. Blackberries and cherry nose, charcoal and spiced plum notes. Juicy cherry ripe palate, darker characters of carob and bitter chocolate oak in support of boyeneberry and chewy gelatine jube flavours, its gentle framework of oak and malleable tannins around a core of ripe red berry flavours, resolving on a sweetly drying, savoury black olive finish.

Made from the most intensely flavoured grapes, grown to a parcel of fortunate land, Terra Felix have fashioned their Mourverdre to sensational Rhone styling. Not often seen as a pure varietal wine, fruit is sourced from a small vineyard north of Bendigo, planted to a terroir which is highly akin to the soils and clime of la Vallée du Rhône. Match to European cuisine, braises and bay leaf recipes or wine based soups.

$1899each $227DOZEN EACH DOZEN Terra Felix was originally launched as the second label to the highly respected Tallarook Wines, it has grown in stature to become a unique label in it's own right. Using excess grapes from Tallarook and surrounding vineyards, Terra Felix immediately caught the attention of the industry press. It was decided that Terra Felix should reposition itself and concentrate largely on using Rhone varietals. And why not? The growing conditions around Tallarook bear an uncanny resemblance to the northern Rhone. Harvested from a special site near Bendigo which is trained to deliver vintages of the finest Mourverdre grapes, yields are kept moderate, producing grapes of outstanding flavour and intensity.

Deep crimson with plum hues. Lifted raspberries and rose petal aromas, cherries and currant, dark berry fruits seasoned by herb and savoury notes. Palate of plum and morello flavours, bramble, black olives and savouryness, supported a length of smooth, velvet tannins all the way to a lingering, fruit filled finish.

Half Grenache with the balance of Shiraz and Mourvedre, grown to some fantastic old vine stock, most are a century of age, treated to a spell in well seasoned barrels. The oak influence is minimal, serving to complex and mature the wine rather than to impart flavour. So marked must be the profile of fruit to make the cut for Avatar, that initial classification of the components takes place immediately after vintage. Well balanced and round, a wine of earthy, savoury complexity, displaying ripe fleshy fruits, bramble and licorice spice.

$3599each $431DOZEN EACH DOZEN The operations at Teusner are focused on exceptional wines, by being very selective about the quality of grapes, grown to old, well maintained vineyards. The sources are predominantly family and close friends. Parcels that are recognized for their suitability to barrel age are held back, as individual components, for a year before assembling. Grenache and Mataro are picked off some stately old vineyards in Ebenezer. Shiraz hails from younger but mature vines at Williamstown. Components are treated to several days of cold soak, followed by ferments peaking at 28C. Upon completion, batches are filled to a selection of seasoned oak puncheons and hogsheads for a year's maturation.

Scarlet red, darker robes. Aromas of deep set plum and dark berry fruits leap from the glass, Asian spice, roasted meats and earth, licorice and dark chocolate. The palate displays excellent texture with ripe plum and blackberry fruit, five spice, mocha chocolate and licorice. The generous, supple fruit flows over to a prolonged finish, clean and well balanced, with ripe, fine grained tannins over a seam of bright acidity.

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