Monday November 24th
6-7:30pm
$58pp including canapes
Reservations Essential*

*Tickets are transferable, no refunds will be provided

Judged as number 1 in the Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines for 2013.

Like visiting an old friend’s cottage,  where you let yourself in, hang your jacket, dust off your pants and sit down to a warming plate of stew by the fireside. So much to give. Satin-textured with savoury elements make it compelling. The wine blossoms unfolding lively, poised and graceful wafts of fresh red fruits, bitters and Campari and finishes with long herbal tones to keep your finger tapping on the table for more. With a resounding sense of homeliness and comfort, suppleness plays its hand. This is the ultimate experience in drinkability.

Judged as number 2 in the Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines for 2013.

It’s over the top, but wow, there’s so much interest and complexity here – super concentrated, deeply coloured and gloriously perfumed. Superb show of richness in an unctuous, life-affirming sweet fluid. And so fresh! Deconstructed crème brulee with a purity that makes for super drinkability. Exotic honey, citrus rind and cut apricot make it a sinful, hedonistic pleasure.

Judged as number 3 in the Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines for 2013.

A complex wine which flirts with the nose. Commitment comes on the palate, opening the page to a long and focussed relationship. Layers of fruit and vibrant minerality, its elusiveness makes it all the more attractive as it wafts across the palate. Pithiness, citrus lime, floral – a bouquet of complexity, freshness, alpine orchards and beauty. Delicate texture of light rain, but a gossamer line of acidity keeps the wine fresh. Candy skin, rose water and musk swirls – a scented boudoir transported to glass. Thirst-slaking in the essence.

Judged as number 4 in the Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines for 2013.

The cosmos conspires in orange pith, wild herb and undergrowth, there’s a headiness of wild, brambly berry fruits in tow. Long, succulent and juicy with the most natural and savoury of fruit tannin. In a gorse bush covered in summer red fruits, bergamot wafts through. Complex, but then it finishes with an amaro-like tang and freshness. Simply vibrates on its own frequency. Bravo.

Judged as number 5 in the Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines for 2013.

Running through blackberry bushes, this juvenile red imbues all the sappiness of bramble while celebrating each plucked berry of black. Tobacco leaf, hickory and cassis fruit, there’s plenty of persistence and depth to show how far the wine will go. A rugged finesse, almost granular, but meshed and lashed to the wild briar of fruit.

Judged as number 6 in the Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines for 2013.

You could lose afternoon hours at a bar with this wine’s strawberries squashed into a harlot’s lipstick-stained mouth. You’ll need some cured meats and a few cheeky grins as company. Musky, raw and soft with a mix of pulpy and fresh fruit. It’s fresh and it will blossom in the glass. Cranberry tang finishes the wine overlain the sweetness of the red fruit upfront.

Judged as number 7 in the Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines for 2013.

Showing tangy, pithy, grapefruit flavours and a hint of briny tang for freshness, the work in the shed shows in gunflint and smoke. Cedary oak veils the sheathed white orchard fruit characters.

Judged as number 8 in the Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines for 2013.

Lifted, lemon talc and a touch of sea spray; all flavours are nicely interwoven with a sense of seriousness but with a joyous sweetness of fruit and a shy depth of halva, yeast-derived complexity. Then the fizz – vibrant and coursing across the palate, ultimately refreshing and titillating.