Mixed Six: Six wines to buy and try

Mixed six

Ranging from the best wines selected for the Hot 100 by The Adelaide Review to unsung local heroes, you can take our word for it – this mixed six pack is worth a try!

Bleasdale 2017 Frank Potts Cabernet Blend

Named for Bleasdale’s founder, this wine is consistently well received across vintages, regularly picking up awards and glowing reviews, including best red of show at the 2018 Perth Royal Wine Show. Not a bad effort for a wine from Langhorne Creek competing in the heart of WA cabernet territory. This Bordeaux blend is layered with red berry and darker fruit aromas, supported by fine oak tannin. Enjoy it young, or cellar for 10-20 years.

Zonte’s Footstep Nature’s Crux Organic 2019 Shiraz

All around the world the bee is a superstar in our ecosystem, a bellwether one could say. Zonte’s Footstep view the bee as the barometer to their vineyard’s health and its biosphere. Healthy bees mean happy vines! In tribute, the Nature’s Crux is adorned with a busy bee. This vibrant shiraz smells of bramble, mocha, nutmeg and cinnamon interlaced with fresh blueberries and tarragon and displays plum, liquorice and highlights of blackcurrant.

Sherrah 2019 McLaren Vale Fiano

Sherrah is an exciting new McLaren Vale small batch producer with a bright future, having already snagged the inaugural Hot 100 ‘New to the Game’ award in 2018 and five stars from James Halliday. This wine is crisp, dry and refreshing with bright and lifted aromas of lemon zest, white florals and hints of sea spray giving way to the signature texture and length Sherrah has become known for.

Dyson 2017 The Isadora Shiraz Viognier

Created from Dyson’s low tonnage, sustainable vineyard at Maslin Beach, handpicked and bottled under the highest quality cork, the 2017 Isadora is their first blend of these varieties and the resulting wine has been well worth the wait. Featuring rich, ripe berries and toasty oak that mingles on the nose with slight leafy notes, the tight, elegant and subtle complexity on the palate rounds this wine off beautifully.

Yangarra 2017 Shiraz

Yangarra Estate is devoted to producing wines from the best southern Rhone grape varieties. The combination of rare geologies, elevation, cooling breezes from the southern Mount Lofty Ranges, and a Mediterranean climate provide the perfect conditions for these varieties to thrive. These factors coalesce in their 2017 Shiraz, which offers a cooler climate expression than the typical McLaren Vale style. It presents complex and concentrated flavours of dark berry fruits and spice.

Oliver’s Taranga 2017 Sagrantino

Sagrantino has its traditional home in Montefalco, Umbria, Italy. Choc-full of wonderful black cherry flavour and violet florals, this dark, ripe red wine is full of plush fruit and swaddled in bittersweet chocolate tannins; the intensity of the tannins is what sets this variety apart. It’s showing promise in the cellar but has also been asserting itself at the Taranga vineyard as the guest of honour at our regular cellar door Porchetta Parties. Sagrantino + pork = delizioso!