Never too far from perfection, Hill of Grace continues to develop in bottle with each passing year, knitting silken textures not found anywhere else on earth.

Nice wine if you can get it. The impression here is of all those lovely preserves you had in your youth, citrus and berry, spread liberally on toasted rye fruitbread.

A wine of vigour and substance, dark plums and anise, peppermint, black currant and warm toasty oak.

Flavours of red and green capsicum on the front leading to more blackberry and satsuma plum, rivulets of rich foamy mocha and minarets of piquant spice. The wine is highly expressive, it extolls it's virtues with a flourish, and brandishes the distinctive regionality of good Barossa Cabernet. Sandpiper finishes with fine length, leaving behind hints of chocolate and cherry balanced by silky, seductive tannins.

Suitably attired under some pretty classy packaging, she grows after a little breathing into a proper dame with dark ruby fruits, winsomely endowed, fully fleshed and finely figured. Share and share alike, but make sure you put some of her away and revisit annually.

Generously proportioned and gently oaked, Louis will appeal to the Pinot enthusiast for it's ample complexity and pure varietal fruit. The casual drinker will appreciate the seamless palate, clean finish and stealthy tannins.

Flagship McLaren Vale red named for one of the nation's oenological matriarchs. Clovey spice, prune, blueberry with cigarbox oak, formulated to good old fashioned styling, pure, pruney, tightly knit and gratifying.

Conjures up visions of liqueured fruits under couverture. A ganache and cherry flavoured wine, infused with sweet herb, lifted by a chassis of pliant tannins and aromatic oak. Certainly, pour yourself a glass but leave me with the bottle.

Smooth, fig and chocolate palate, bound by luscious red liquorice fruit and hints of mint, a long finish framed by mighty tannins.