2024 Amen Break Central Otago Pinot Noir 
$37.00 | $27.90 $26.90 in 3-packs - (or $25 in doz lots.)

This label is owned by the Harrop Bros. Matt and Steve (and families). Steve is based in North Otago’s Waitaki Valley, not far from the Central Otago sites that supply pinot noir for this wine. With decades of vineyard development and wine experience, Steve has a sharp eye for sourcing the right fruit at the right price — a skill that’s earned him quiet legend status in the trade.

Matt lives in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges, where he grows grapes for his family label, Silentway.

The label is a musical nod to the iconic drum solo from “Amen, Brother” by The Winstons, but the wine itself is made by grapes grown in Bendigo on the famed Chinaman’s terrace (home to icons like Prophet’s Rock). This pinot tastes nothing like a sub-$30 wine. The colour is deep (for a pinot) and youthful, with an instantly expressive and smile inducing, enticingly aromatic nose of blue and red berries, ripe cherries and subtle floral notes (like violets). The palate flows on with plenty of fruit and ripe complexity, but a certain restraint that is sometimes missing in pinots of this region. There is good density and depth and a little herbal, Campari-like savory intricacy. This is really bursting with lovely fruit and some nice tannins in balance. We reckon it is even better than the ever popular 2023. Bravo Harrop brothers! Cheers, Randall

2025 Joshua Cooper Balgownie 1970 Old Vines Cabernet Sauv.
$110 | $95

'This is be the last vintage we will ever see of this wine and site?

It’s a substantial and quietly powerful wine. Massive inward concentration, inky texture, grippy, silty tannin in a web shaping things, huge perfume of wild berries and mint and chocolate and sooty spice. The palate, a delight, a flowing, sleek thing of darkness, woody spice and savoury things. Dustiness here in a good way. There’s a distinct kind of old school, good school feel here, perhaps pushed through a modern lens, but leaning into more laid back, wine-for-cellaring vibes. And yet, the finesse seeps into things and convinces you to drink now. Compelling.'
95+Pts - Mike Bennie The Wine Front

BEST BANG FOR BUCK GRENACHE IN THE WORLD?

2019 Heartwines Highsands Block 'Archie' Old-Vine Grenache
$33.00 | $19.90
Lovingly hand-picked from ancient bush-vines on the Highsands' block and made by the late great Pete Fraser and the team at Yangarra.

This wine is “close to our hearts”. I bought the organic grapes from the Yangarra Highsands' block (planted in the 40’s) of bush vines of high pedigree! Peter Fraser and Shelly Torresan made the wine at Yangarra in a very hand-crafted way using whole berries and open fermentation with hand-plunging, followed by ageing in older oak barrels. It’s a perfumed, slightly reserved young wine at present, but it’s silky and beautifully textured red with enough ripe tannins to age for a decade or more. This is pure! - Randall

2022 Domaine Font de Courtedune Cotes du Rhone
$37.00 | $29

From vines near the sandy sector in the north of Chateauneuf near Corthezon. 'Black fruit, raspberry jam, quite meaty and nutty, a little spice and dried herb. It’s medium to full-bodied, quite savoury with meat, dried herbs and black olive, some juiciness to red and black fruit too, with firm grainy tannin grip, balanced acidity, and a dry, spicy and nutty finish of good length, some bitter dark chocolate in the aftertaste.' 90Pts - Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

2023 Bindi Dhillon Col Mountain Heathcote Grenache
$44.00 | $39

'This smells of a baker’s kitchen – full of Chinese Five-spice, pepper, nutmeg and more. Some sarsaparilla, plums and a touch of red lollies on the palate, but also ripe and unripe flavours come and go. Mid-weighted with sandy, if light, tannins. Best to have this with food and drink it in its youth.' 
88 Pts. - Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion

2023 Sierra de Tolono (Sandra Bravo) La Dula Rioja Garnacha
$59
Sandra is a bit of a legend in my eyes. I haven't mmet her, but I tasted her wines, and I am a disciple! Randall.

'In the space of just six vintages, this superb Garnacha has developed a world-wide following. Sourced from vineyards over 650 metres in Rivas de Tereso, this is foudre fermented and clay amphora aged, with violet, laurel and wild thyme aromas, ample minerality, sculpted tannins and sappy raspberry and black cherry fruit flavours.'
96 Pts. - Tim Atkins MW

2023 Yangarra Ovitelli Grenache
$85.00 | $78

"A vintage like this really illustrates the kinship with the avant-garde grenache of Gredos, and with Barbaresco, and refined Etna Rosso (Girolamo Russo in particular), rather than almost anything from the Rhône. Savoury, dried red fruits, cranberry, cherry and redcurrant, warm terracotta, bergamot, potpourri, sumac, ground cinnamon, star anise, so tightly coiled, but also tensile, finely expansive in its flavour delivery. There’s tension aplenty, and it promises to unfurl over a long life. Superb.' 97Pts - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion

2023 S.C. Pannell Old McDonald Grenache
$95 | $85

“From 81-year-old vines planted to deep Maslin Sands. Fermented with 12% whole bunches over two weeks, then settled in tank for a month; élevage in a 4500L old French oak vat. This is spicy, lifted, with the depth that this site always displays, the layering of fruit, spice and mineral inflection all visible, but the old-vine intensity viewed though through a cooler lens. Red fruited, with berries, cherries and pomegranate, fresh red florals, musk and blood orange, the tannins so impeccably fine and graceful, yet no less purposeful and savoury. The fruit clings to the tannins – like flesh to a cherry pit – without spilling out. It’s a beautifully poised iteration of this cuvée, and just such a delight." 97Pts - Marcus Ellis, Halliday Wine Companion

2020 Domaine des Tours Vin de Pays de Vaulcuse Rouge
Special Offer: $120

This is the home domaine of Emmanuel Reynaud (of Rayas) who died recently, Chateau des Tours produces beautiful, fresh, clean and elegant wines with rose petal / potpourri character that often bear more than a passing resemblance to the more prestigious wines of Rayas. This wine has complexity, deliciousness and an ethereal crushed berry, floral fruit that belies its fairly light (but relatively youthful) colour. I wonder how they do it?  These wines always amaze me. Randall.

2016 'Reserve' Château des Tours Vacqueyras Rouge
Special offer: $225

I tasted a 2010 two weeks ago and was blown away! This one, fresher and with plenty of time on its side punches way above its (not cheap- but good value) price! Very rare.

"Seduces from the first pour as it unfurls in waves of ripe kirsch, dark licorice, wild stems and sun-warmed herbs, all laced with a whisper of forest strawberry that lends it an irresistible Reynaud-esque perfume. On the palate, it's full-bodied and voluptuous with a fleshy richness that glides across the tongue. The finish is long, layered and luxuriously dense, translating into pure finesse. In short, this is the finest Vacqueyras from Château des Tours I've ever tasted." 95Pts. - Nicolas Greinacher, Vinous

2012 Chateau Rayas Chateauneuf-du-Pape
Last Bottle - Special offer: $3595

"Presented in three components, as is Reynaud's custom. #1: High-pitched red berry and floral aromas show superb purity and focus. Racy, crisp and concentrated, offering intense raspberry and cherry flavors and a bracing mineral nuance. Finishes long and spicy, with a whiplash of zesty minerality and lingering red fruit. #2: Deeper and darker in profile, offering sweet black raspberry and cherry-cola aromas and flavors and a hint of licorice. Shows impressive power on the close, with dusty tannins coming on late. #3: Spicy, floral dark berry aromas, with an exotic Indian spice note in the background. Stains the palate with powerful blackberry and bitter cherry flavors that are complicated by notes of smoky minerals and lavender. Suave and seamless on the finish, which lingers with excellent tenacity and smooth, harmonious tannins." 95 pts! - Josh Reynolds, Vinous

2021 Domaine de Tours Vin de Pays Du Vaucluse Blanc
$88 - Extremely Limited! 2 Bottles

In the world of wine, Emmanuel Reynaud (who tragically passed in November 2025) is known foremost for his haunting, inimitable Rayas reds. However, it would be a grave mistake to look past the beguiling whites here which rival those famed reds in delivering an entirely unique and rivetting experience.

2021 'Reserve' Les Tours Vin de Pays Du Vaucluse Blanc
$125 - Extremely Limited!

2021 was a dream year: aromatic intensity, cool acidity, creamy texture — everything in equilibrium. The result is a white wine found nowhere else: opulent, mineral, exotic  and taut at the same time, generous and fresh. This is 100% clariette from vines planted in 1982, harvested from the sandy bottom of the slope where there are richer soils than the Côtes-du-Rhône. Once malolactic fermentation is completed, the wine is aged for 8-9 months before bottling. Very rare and of utmost quality in its unique, full-on style, this is a wine to try!