Savvy buyers can help beat the cost-of-living squeeze with these bargain bottles, writes Sky News Australia Wine and Travel Editor Des Houghton.
Tahbilk, the oldest family-owned winery in Victoria based out of the Nagambie Lakes region north of Melbourne, has released four charming whites and a rose each priced at $21.40.The same could be said for a lively red from the magical McLaren Vale that sells at outlets for $20, well below the recommended retail price.
It is Hardy's Tintara McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 which shows a surprising depth of flavour with spicy black currant and chocolate notes. Elderton Wines from the Barossa Valley has also weighed in with a surprise bargain. Elderton makes some of the nation’s most collectable wines from $30 to $130, often drawing fruit from vines planted more than a century ago.Now it offers classical Barossa ripe fruit flavours, spice and chocolate in Elderton 2020 Bullet Shiraz for $22 for cellar door and website sales.Deep Woods is a five-star winery that recently was named as the best value winery in the nation at the James Halliday Wine Companion awards. There are few better summertime white wine quaffers than the Tahbilk 2022 Marsanne, writes Des Houghton. Picture: Supplied Halliday sang the praises of Deep Woods Shiraz et al 2020, which he said had “layer upon layer of red and black fruits”. Its $20 price tag “beggars belief”, he said. Deep Woods sells its prized grand selection Yallingup cabernet sauvignon for $130 alongside a $20 sauvignon blanc.I don’t think there is a better summertime white wine quaffer for the price than Tahbilk 2022 Marsanne. It’s a stunner. And what a welcome challenger to the humdrum New Zealand sauvignon blanc that has flooded the Australian market. Tahbilk is a marsanne specialist and this vintage has exotic floral aromas - leading to flavours of citrus, stone fruit, honeysuckle and brioche. And there is a cleansing mineral riff. “Time in the cellar will undoubtedly bring on a toasty, honeysuckle and orange marmalade richness and complexity,” said winemaker Alister Purbrick in his tasting notes. It was Purbrick’s final vintage as he headed to retirement. He handed the reins to Joanne Nash, who not only became chief winemaker but Tahbilk's general manager. Nash, a mother of four children aged from 10 to 16, studied business and accounting at La Trobe University and was working for a Japanese investment bank in London when she became seriously interested in wine.They made the marsanne, riesling, pinot gris, viognier and rose with Tahbilk’s other winemakers Brendan Freeman and Alan George - Purbrick’s brother-in-law. Tahbilk Grenache and Mourvèdre Rose 2022 was made in steel tanks in the dry fruit driven"Provencale" style with cherry, musk and raspberry flavours. The mourvèdre contributes savoury nuances. More bargains: The redoubtable Potts family’s Bleasdale winery at Langhorne Creek an hour south of Adelaide offers around a dozen different wines for $22 a bottle or less.
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