2024 Clonakilla O'Raida & 2022 Beauregard Moulin a Vent

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2024 Clonakilla O’Riada Shiraz
RRP: $48 | Offer: $44
O’Riada Shiraz is grown on both Clonakilla’s estate vineyard, and on three other Murrumbateman/Canberra District sites. 20% whole bunches, up to three weeks on skins, both free-run and pressings combined, into French oak for 12 months, 25% new.
This is top notch. It has flavour and length, but it’s the spread of that flavour and the tannin that comes with it that makes you sit up and take notice. This wine is where the smart money’s going. Cherry-plum, five spice, anise, mint, dark soy and florals, with a talc-like feel to the tannin and a general feeling of etching. Super release of O’Riada.
95 points - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

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2022 Chateau de Beauregard Moulin a Vent “la Salomine”  Vines Over 100yo (1912 Plantings) 
WAS $129 | now: $79 
Frédéric Burrier’s excellent wines from the Mâconnais are well-known and rightly celebrated but his outstanding work in Beaujolais is still pretty much an insiders’ secret. From estate-owned vines in the region’s best Crus, Burrier produces a range of top-notch wines that, unsurprisingly from a white wine specialist, showcase vibrancy, balance and finesse. Neil Martin, Vinous
This is a wine I would probably pick as Burgurndy in a blind tasting. Earl-grey tea, strawberries, dark cherries, pepper, rose and violets with gravely earth and firm tannins thanks to the rare gamay clonal selection of “Gamay Nicolas” or “Fin”, with its small bunches and berries. These vines are over 100yo and the 0.6 ha Salomine site sits at 400mt, facing south on sandy pink granite soil just on the border of Fleurie. It’s made from mostly crushed fruit and it’s aged in truncated cone shaped wood vats (the famous trunconics) for a year. This will age for over 50 years if the history of this wine and the quality in the glass is anything to go by. Randall