Small Gully "Mr. Black's Concoction"

South Australia, Australia
96% Shiraz / 4% Viognier

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Deep garnet in color, the Mr Black's Concoction Shiraz has pronounced savory aromas of smoked game, toasted nuts and espresso over warm mulberries, dried plums, fresh figs and kirsch. Crisp in the mouth with medium to firm, very finely grained tannins, this is a big, weighty, opulent wine with a good balance of savory, spice and berry flavors. It has a long, layered finish. Viognier is added as a ode to France's Rhone Region to give the fruit a "Lift."

Morse Code Shiraz, Padthaway, Australia
100% Shiraz

Deep garnet-purple in color, it is intensely scented of warm blackberry, eucalyptus and a touch of forest floor. Great acid and plenty of berry fruit with soft tannins all play well together and leads to a long dark berry finish. The winemaker, Renae Hirsch creates this wine with amazing zip and feel!

Padthaway has a very diverse and site specific range of soils. This provides many outstanding opportunities for blending options which then allows for the development of the complexities so evident in Padthaway wines.
The climate of Padthaway is best described as Mediterranean with the coastal influences, days during ripening are generally dry and sunny and the nights cool.

Morse Code Chardonnay, Padthaway, Australia

100% Chardonnay

Chardonnay has a style that allows the fruit to be forward and present, but kissed with oak to allow a more complex and rounded feel. Melon and hints of toasted spice, with a round and soft texture leads to crispy-clean, long finish.

Old Plains, "Fun House," S.E. Australia

100% Pinot Grigio



Fun-house Pinot Grigio; melon, white fruit, peach, and white flowers play across the nose and palate, making this bone-dry white crisp and delicious. Enjoy chilled in the summer, and come back in the winter.

Engine Room Sparkling Red NV, Australia

50% Shiraz / 25% Cabernet Sauvignon / 25% Malbec



Sourced predominantly from McLaren Vale

Dark red fruits with a soft but vibrant feel with  long "chocolately" tannins. Fruity but dry!

Morse Code, Padthaway, Australia

100% Shiraz

Deep garnet-purple in color, it is intensely scented of warm black-blueberry, and a touch of forest floor. High acid and plenty of juicy berry fruit with soft tannins are all in harmony leads to a long and pleasing dark-berry finish. Intensely beautiful!

Misfit Wine Company “Brujeria”

66% Shiraz - 17% Cab - 11% - Garnacha - 8% Tempranillo

Brujeria is "old school" Ribera del Duero, Spanish style, hence the Cab, Grenache and Temp with an Australian twist (insert witty remark about Shiraz here), retaining the funk. All four components were kept separate up until blending. I’m not saying that if you drink this you’ll become a Brujos. However with that it mind, this is suppose to be a kick ass out there style, with shades of the label gripping your palate with fear of more flavor, more grip, more excitement... striking fear into the hearts of critter labels nationwide.

A mix of exotic spices and red ripe berries.
Production: 1400 cases “Collaring:” 3-5 years

Brujería is the Spanish word for witchcraft. Brujeria also refers to a mystical sect of male witches in the southernmost part of Argentina. Both men and women can be witches, brujos and brujas respectively. Brujos is the plural term that can mean either a group of male witches or both male and female witches.

Moonlighters Red Blend, South Australia, Red Heads Studio

Dark, almost opaque colored wine has nice aromas of blackberry and licorice. The juicy, full-throttle flavors hold true to the nose with blackberry, espresso, licorice and pepper on the medium length finish.

Englishman Tony Laithwaite (you could call him the British equivalent of Dan Philips) bought an old bar called Red Heads in McLaren Vale, Australia and renamed it Red Heads Studio. He outfitted it with wine making equipment and invited young, fresh out of college winemakers to try their hand at making small batches of wine with grapes that are usually very ripe from various sources in the region. The attraction is that these new winemakers usual starting jobs are working in wineries as "Barrel Monkeys" whose job is to move hoses and barrels around in a winery. The Studio gives them the opportunity to make wine which is what they really went to school for! This is one of those wines, which also has a completely irreverent label sort of explaining the whole Barrel Monkey job. We can only say that these Barrel Monkeys produced a wine that fans of in your face fruit bombs will enjoy!

First Drop "The White One" 52% Arneis 48% Chardonnay, Adelaide Hills, Australia

 


First Drop "The White One", 52% Arneis and 48% Chardonnay, Adelaide Hills, Australia
Deep, slightly smoky green apples and hints of almonds. Deliciously different.

Arneis is the white grape of Italy's Piedmont region. It produces a lightly styled white wine with gentle citrus edged orchard fruits that recalls pear and apricot and a slightly bitter floral note that can resemble almonds on the palate.
Depending on where it's grown and how it's fermented, Chardonnay can taste semi-sweet or sour, heady or light. Typical flavors are apple, tangerine, lemon, lime, melon, and oak.

Monsters, Monsters, Attack! Clare Valle, Australia

Complex fruit basket of a nose, displaying fresh melon, nectarine, and melon aromas. Slighty sweet on the palate, with concentrated honeydew hugging citrus enrobed by tangy lemon zest. Blends sweetness and cut smoothly, finishing with excellent clarity and persistence. This is Amazing! With the better Rieslings having an amazing combination of sweetness and acidity, Riesling is an especially versatile wine with food. It works well with fish or pork and is one of the few wines that can hold its own again spicy cuisines like
Indian, Chinese, and Thai.

Fetish Wine Company, "The Watcher"

Fetish Wine Company, "The Watcher"

Those darn Ausies are at it again with the creative names and that almost always means creative wine!

Vibrant, this is a medium-weight wine stuffed with blackberry-plum-white-pepper! A kiss of white chocolate enlivens the finish. This Barossa Valley wine is 15% shaven French oak, 30% shaven American oak, and the rest in third-fill American wood for 10 months. Wow, does not suck!