Jim from Mount Pleasant accentuates a Shiraz with a cleanly structured mulberry and redcurrant with soft liquorice notes and a persistent high quality backbone.

Vigneron's Selection Thunderbolt Shiraz presents a purple red colour with a dark rim. This tempting Shiraz offers interesting aromas and flavours of blackberries, fresh spices and mocha. Spicy oak and velvety tannins integrate with the layered palate to end the wine in a delicate and seamless finish. Serve this beautiful red wine with paprika-roasted leg of lamb, or Indian-spiced short ribs, to truly relish its grand flavours.

This wine exhibits all the hallmark characteristics of Hunter Valley Shiraz, with a good level of spice backed up with a red berry palate, showing strength and complexity. We have aged this wine for a few years to ensure that it is ready for enjoyment on release.

Mike and the team at De Iuliis have made some sensational Rosé in recent years, and this is another example, made from a mouth-watering mix of Sangiovese and Merlot.Pale salmon pink. Fresh red fruit, watermelon and rose water aromas. A restrained and savoury expression with a tight core of bright red fruit, attractive wet rock minerality, zesty acidity and a fresh, lively finish.

This is a rich red wine displaying layers of red and blue fruits that are well complemented by sweetness ands tructure from the oak barrels. The presence of fine tannins and spicy notes contributes to the seamless palate, delivering a wine of greater character, intensity and balance. The wine is ready for immediate drinking but also has excellent potential for careful cellaring up to 10+ years.

In the glass: Vibrant deep purple. On the nose: Blackberry, black cherry, plum, pepper and earth.On the palate: An elegant Gold medal winner with a velvety mouthfeel, intense and juicy layers of black fruits and peppery spice with seasoned oak and fine tannins.

First Creek are really winning over a lot of new fans, especially wine drinkers who may have previously not given the Hunter Valley its fair dues. In the glass: Deep garnet to purple. On the nose: Black and blueberry fruit, and spice. On the palate: Medium to full-bodied with luscious texture and soft tannins. Showing black cherry, blueberry and vanilla alongside red liquorice notes. Long and moreish.