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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.41
12 bottles: $11.52
Our red blend bears the same traits as those banished to Australia. Defiant by nature, bold in character. Always...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.41
12 bottles: $11.52
In making 19 Crimes "The Uprising" we selected particular wine parcels for their spice and concentration of flavor...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $11.00
12 bottles: $10.45
A dark red blend that is brooding with richness. Like the wine rations served on convict ships, every sip deserves to...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.14 $21.20
12 bottles: $17.42
Don’t let this masterful blend escape you. Each powerful note brings you one step closer to a night filled with...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.57
12 bottles: $9.51
19 Crimes Revolutionary Red Blend is a stout-style red blend - Rich, round, and distinctly sweet with vanilla aromas...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $38.65
6 bottles: $37.88
A perfumed nose of plums, black cherries, violet and paprika. Medium- to full-bodied with lovely ripe red and black...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.50 $18.33
The 2021 Secateurs Red has a lovely nose with brambly red fruit, an attractive floral note emerging with time. The...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $10.90 $12.13
Made from a blend of Cabernet and Syrah, the 2021 The Curator Red Blend offers a fresh nose of red fruit with a spicy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $16.63 $18.48
12 bottles: $12.35
#48 TOP 100 BEST BUY 2021. This cherry-hued blend is fresh and modern. Despite some jammy characters, the strawberry...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.94
12 bottles: $25.42
Juicy and fresh, with earthy notes of forest floor, matcha, wild strawberry and tangy cherry, plus hints of jasmine...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $26.45
12 bottles: $25.92
The 2017 Arboretum Bordeaux Blend is a blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. This...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $99.89
6 bottles: $98.20
I've been chipping away at a bottle of this 2021 Shiraz Viognier all week of a nighttime, and a very interesting and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $109.94
Diana is a wine built to last the ages. It's expressive now, though, via layers of heady aromas like black currant,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.64 $19.60
Inky magenta. High-pitched red and blue fruit aromas are complemented by suggestions of candied flowers, allspice and...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.48 $13.87
Robust and peppery, with dense tannins and abundant earth and black olive overtones to the core of wild berry...
Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.94
12 bottles: $23.46
At the end of our old vine garden path there is a historic Menagerie of three grape varieties, adjoining blocks of...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $31.94
12 bottles: $31.30
Composed of 38% Grenache, 36% Syrah, 10% Cinsault, 9% Carignan and 7% Pinotage, the 2020 Elpidios comes from 12...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.92 $21.20
6 bottles: $19.52
Beautifully perfumed with notes of violets, cherry liquor, blueberries, and herbs/fynbos. An intricately constructed...
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Red
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle: $76.95
Blackberries, blackcurrants, earth, chocolate and cigar box. It’s full-bodied with round, fine tannins. Creamy,...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $42.55
6 bottles: $41.70
The 2022 Henry's Seven leads with a vibrant core of raspberry seed and bramble, five spice and blood plum skin. In...
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Melon de Bourgogne Red Blend Australia South Africa 750ml

One of the more unusual French grape varietals, Melon de Bourgogne has been grown in and around the Loire Valley for several hundred years. In fact, this grape was first planted in the Loire region of Pays Nantais back in the mid 17th century, after a devastating frost decimated most of the red grapes which were typical in the area. The winemakers of Pays Nantais were keen to cultivate vines which were hardy, high yielding, and capable of surviving another such frost, and so turned their attention to Melon de Bourgogne for this very reason. The native home of the varietal is actually in Burgundy, where it is still grown to a lesser extent.


Because Melon de Bourgogne produces naturally heavy yields, the vintners of Pays Nantais go to great lengths to reduce the amount of fruit the vines bear. This allows the finest characteristics of the grape to come forward, and also opens up the opportunity for it to express the wonderful granite and schist soils in which the vines are grown. Melon de Bourgogne is a minerally white wine grape varietal, with a very subtle set of fruit flavors. It is prized for its freshness and brightness, and is seeing a revival in the twenty first century as an excellent wine for pairing with a wide range of foods.

Whilst most of Australia consists of arid deserts and dense bushland, the oceanic coasts to the south of the country have a terrain and climate ideal for vine cultivation and wine production. It took several decades of failed attempts at the end of the 18th century in order to produce vines of a decent enough quality for making wine, but since those first false starts, the Australian wine industry has continued to grow and grow. Today, wine production makes up for a considerable part of the Australian economy, with exports in recent years reaching unprecedented levels and even overtaking France for the first time ever. Whilst the greatest successes in regards to quality have been the result of the Syrah grape varietal (known locally as Shiraz), Australia utilizes several Old World grapes, and has had fantastic results from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Riesling, Chardonnay and more. As the Australian passion for locally produced wine continues to develop, wineries have begun experimenting with a wider range of grape varietals, meaning that nowadays it isn't uncommon to find high quality Australian wines made from Petit Verdot, Sangiovese, Tempranillo and Viognier, amongst many others.

Situated on the very tip of the African continent, South Africa has proved itself over three centuries to be an ideal location for producing a wide range of wines. Benefiting from something not dissimilar to a Mediterranean climate, with long, hot summers complemented by both Atlantic and Indian Ocean winds, the grapes which grow on the valleys, mountainsides and plains of this fascinating country can ripen to their fullest capacity, producing wines packed full of fruity flavors and an array of interesting and enticing aromas. As a former colony, South Africa has long since been home to a range of different nationalities, who each brought something of their wine culture with them. As such, many European grape varietals such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Riesling and others have been given time to flourish in South Africa, allowing the country to develop a diverse group of wine types which are proving increasingly popular around the world.