Producer Spotlight: Craiglee Shiraz of Sunbury Victoria
Museum Release Magnums
You can enjoy now, I mean really enjoy it; or keep it for 100 years, if history repeats itself! Jane Faulkner of The Wine Commpanion said:
"If he can’t make great shiraz, then we should all shut up shop. He’s only been doing so at Craiglee for, oh, about 40-plus years. There's a DNA imprint to this, with a whorl of dark fruit, warm spices shot through, cedary oak and wafts of red roses. Very savoury though, fuller bodied with archetypal Craiglee tannins supple, shapely and ripe. Yes, a lovely wine made by a legend."
2024 Domaine de Bieville Chablis
2024 AC Chablis
Offer: $59 | Magnum: $129
This 45-hectare Domaine was planted by Jean-Jacques Moreau in the 1970s as he purchased many small farmlets on the famous, and is now owned by Louis and Anne Moreau, who farm it with great care (ceased using all pesticides and ploughing between rows instead of spraying). It’s one of the largest contiguous parcels in Burgundy and is planted on a south/southeast-facing slope. Its orientation and soils are very similar to some of the best Premier Cru vineyards. As the vines have aged (50 years old now), the fruit character has evolved to include a more definite mark of the chalky, limestone minerality for which Chablis is famous, and 2024 is a cool and classic year emphasising this.
Today the wine has everything, from minerality and snappy acidity to weight and rich stone fruit notes. It’s a complex and beautiful expression of this old-vine site.
2023 Domaine Font de Courtedune "Le Mourre" Vieilles Vignes
$52 | Offer $39 | $37 in 12-Packs
“Light, fresh raspberry aromas, with a touch of cherry. Fresh and precise. Only medium-bodied, this is very drinkable. A light mineral touch brings further freshness to the finish, which is surprisingly long for a Côtes-du-Rhône. Not overly fat or heavy. Grown around the house on sandy soils, 60-year-old vines on average. This is a steal - a delicious Côtes-du-Rhône.” - Decanter Magazine
Courtedune is less than 2km from the legendary Ch. Rayas, the superstar of heady, classy, powerful, rose-petal and raspberry-fruited southern Rhones. Courtedune vines are on the same Courthezon sandy soils and even this 2023 Cotes du Rhone exhibits some impressive characteristics reminiscent of Rayas. This wine is generously flavoured, fully fruited and silky soft - but not too soft! It also has exotic incenses notes and a sweet, musky Arabian sook-like nuance. As Decanter magazine says above, it’s a steal!
