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Red
750ml
Bottle: $27.20
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Rated 93 - Piercing aromas of cassis, mulberry leaf, pencil shavings, dried sage and bay leaf, draped across the...
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93
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93
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White
750ml
Bottle: $31.86 $35.40
12 bottles: $29.35
Rated 92 - Aromas of baked lemons, pink grapefruit, white peaches and sweet thyme. Medium-bodied with rounded texture...
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92
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $20.80
12 bottles: $20.38
Rated 89 - Pool party sort of sauvignon that manages to maintain structural integrity with juicy acidity and a soapy...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $20.80
12 bottles: $20.38
Rated 88 - Juicy and fresh, with blood orange, raspberry and maraschino cherry flavors and accents of clove, rosemary...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $57.82
Rated 96 - From a cool year, this is perfumed and intense. With buoyant acidity, the silky, cedar-edged cassis,...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $37.95
Rated 95 - Leeuwin Estate is investing heavily in Shiraz and it shows. New plantings, clones, whole-bunch ferments...
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95
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $42.16
Rated 94 - Aromas of pitted cherries, grilled herbs, overturned earth and whole nutmeg. Medium- to full-bodied with...
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Australia Margaret River West Australia

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.

When it comes to the south-westerly part of Australia, the Margaret River is by far the most important and productive of the area's wine producing regions. The region itself currently has over five thousand hectares of land under vine, and there are almost one hundred and fifty wineries operating there, making the most of the humid and warm climate many experts claim is remarkably similar to that which is found in the Bordeaux region of France. Such a climate can only produce fantastic yields of grapes of exceptional quality, and indeed, Margaret River currently produces almost twenty percent of Australia's wines. Both red and white wine grapes grow in the region, with Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Chardonnay and Sémillon being the varietals most commonly and widely grown.