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 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 9 in the Adelaide Review’s Hot 100 South Australian Wines for 2013.

There’s timelessness to this wine. A sepia-toned call to wines of yesteryear. A curve of ripe fruit showing vitality of blueberry and rose hip with a subtle integration of both bitter and sweet. Smoky oak gives stasis and yet a comely lean of nougat and lathed pinewood.