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2025 Decades Coal River Pinot Noir
Offer: $79
"Our 2025 Pinot Noir has all the classic blue fruits that come from the Coal River Valley’s unique black clay soil. The fruit characters are dense, with a touch of Campari spice aroma, from the small whole bunch parcel. The region does fruit density exceptionally well, but we’ve tried to tease out a little perfume delicacy.
The fruit was hand-picked in two parcels. The first parcel fermented entirely as whole bunches. The second was de-stemmed, then cold soaked for 5 days before a slow wild fermentation. Both parcels were pressed into small seasoned French oak for malolactic fermentation and left on lees for 9 months.
The wine was bottled on 4th February 2026 and is limited to only 350 cartons."
- Producer Note
2025 Kumeu River Village Chardonnay
Offer: $24.90 | $24 in 6-Packs!
One of the worlds best best value chardonnays! Fermented 40% in old French oak barriques, and 60% in stainless steel, there is very little oak influence on either nose or palate. Vibrant fruit shows through beautifully with lively lime and lemon aromas and a flinty, mineral edginess with hints of almond meal and white peach.
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2024 Amen Break Central Otago Pinot Noir
Offer: $28 | $25 in 6-Packs!
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 palate, enticingly fruity with ripe cherries and subtle floral notes (like violets)and Campari-like savory intricacy.
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2021 Domaine de l'Aste Santenay Pinot Noir
$76 |Offer: $69 | $59 in 6-Packs!
This is a silky, red-fruited and authentic red Burgundy. David Moreau's village red comes from 3 plots close to the Chassagne-Montrachet border: 0.7ha of the 0.9ha total comes from a plot called Champs Claude which sits adjacent to 1er Cru Morgeot. This red emphasises the highly perfumed floral and berry compote aromas and fleshy, juicy palate richness that David's wines have.
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2025 Stargazer Riesling
Offer: $39
This is a more traditional Aussie Riesling, fermented in stainless steel. It has amazing drive and vitality, but also a little exoticism from the wild ferment. The texture is much finer that of the single site expression without the palpable phenolic texture. The freshness, balance, fruit-salad of flavours and mineral finish all combine masterfully. A bargain for all this delivers!
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2025 Stargazer Palisander Riesling
Offer: $49
A powerful, dry riesling fermented in ceramic and concrete egg for a unique, leesy and textural riesling with all the markers of Coal River expression. The fruit comes exclusively from Stargazer's Palisander vineyard in the tea tree subregion of Coal River Valley, planted in 2002 on brown dermosol on Jurassic dolerite. Hand-picked, destemmed and left on on contact with skins for more than 12 hours prior to gentle pressing; wild fermented in concrete and ceramic eggs (25%) before finishing with a 10-month snooze on lees. Owner and vigneron Samantha Connew is very pleased with this eight iteration of the wine, describing its nose as a 'combination of wild fennel seed and bay leaf spice overlaid with some white blossom waxiness.' Expect a supercharged palate balanced with a 'custard apple generosity,' with no hard egdes but rather a sherbetty, fruit-inflected finish.
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2025 Stargazer Chardonnay
Offer: $69
This staff-favourite chardonnay sources its fruit from Palisander vineyard in Coal River Valley, plus high-quality grapes from growers in Richmond and Penna. The Stargazer plot was established in 2017 on primarily brown dermosol on Jurassic dolerite, south facing. Vinification sees hand-picked, whole bunch pressed for a 100% wild ferment in Mercurey French oak puncheons, 23% of which are new. Full malolactic and no lees stirring, left in barrel for 10 months before blended in tank for 8 weeks until bottled. Owner and vigneron Samantha Connew describes the 2025 as a fresh, lemon zesty wine typical of Coal River with distinct floral notes of tea tree and manuka.
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2025 Stargazer Pinot Noir
Offer: $69
This is another stunning and alluring single site expression from Coal River Valley. The colour is vivid, almost electric, and the bouquet is lifted, vibrantly alive and brimming with berry fruit, amaro herbs (like Campari) and sweet Asian spices. Some new oak aroma and flavour, although 20% of the 500lt barrels were new, is firmly buried beneath the fruit intensity. Flavours are fresh, super-youthful and juicy; with red cherry, small strawberry, raspberry pulp and pomegranate to the fore, with the 20% whole bunch stemmy / herbal complexity way in the background. This is a precision balanced wine, with generosity and power, but also a reticence and reserve. I want to see this wine many times through the next decade! - Cheers, Randall.
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