We’ve compiled all our most celebratory Aussie Fizz & Champagnes to help bring some sparkle to all your festive activities this summer. Whether it be a long family lunch, a catch up with an old friend, or a quiet Friday night in, make sure you add some bubbles to the mix! 🍾 AUSSIE Airlie Bank Yarra Valley, Victoria - NV Airlie Bank Sparkling RRP $28 “Excellent bang for your buck here. Citrus, honey, some red fruits and just enough freshly baked biscuits to make it interesting.” Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion…

We've tucked away a special stash of excellent vintages to wait, evolve and age until the perfect moment bring them out. And that time has come! Developing more complexity, depth and flavour, these wines are rare gems with remarkable character. Aged riesling from Clos Clare, Aglianico from Chalmers, Shiraz from Dalwhinnie, Pinot Noir from Holyman & TWR. Get ready to embark on a journey through time as we take you back to these incredible years.   2015 Clos Clare Riesling RRP $51 Touch of fenugreek-like stink, apple, sweet herbs, tangelo, peach and grapefruit. Big burst of flavour,…

It’s time for the annual release of Deep Woods Reserve wines, and this year has lived up to the hype! One of the most beguiling things about the team at Deep Woods is their capacity to delivery not only ridiculous value across their full suite of wines, but also to deliver world class quality too. The Reserve releases aspire to not only be the best in the West, or even the best in Australia for that matter, rather the team strive to be making the…

Welcoming A. Bergere & Thierry Fournier to the CellarHand Family... 🥂 We are so excited to announce our two latest Champagne producers... A. Bergere and Thierry Fournier! We feel super privileged to work with around 100 or so family growers from near and far at CellarHand and hold each grower close to our hearts, having worked with many of them for going on 25 years. We’ve always had a deep interest in the thirst quenching and compellingly complex wines of Champagne & we’re delighted to introduce to you the latest…

After proudly operating relatively "fee-free" for 25 years, we have finally had to relent and fall in line with the rest of the industry in regards to some costs that we simply can no longer absorb. We have worked hard to ensure the new fees are limited to minimum delivery quantities and split-case charges, which are the two logistical factors that we feel will have the smallest impact on you, but a large impact on our sustainability.  By passing on just some of these costs we are…

GATHER ROUND GEOLOGY NERDS… Planet Earth’s Eocene epoch lasted from 56.5 to 35.4 million years ago.  At the beginning of the Eocene, Gondwana, the ancient supercontinent from which our country was formed, had been splitting apart for some time, however Australia and Antarctica remained joined.  Fast-forward to around 40 million years ago (plus a few extra details that we won’t delve into here…), Antarctica eventually split away from Australia and drifted south, creating a large, ridged valley, exposing the volcanic seams that then deposited lava flows around the more elevated parts of what we…

I am writing to you on the launch of my 2021 Smart Grenache and 2021 Old McDonald Grenache. Setting these wines free is always a moment of great release, and a signal that the current vintage is over. But this year it is not so, and I find myself asking questions: Firstly, will my 43rd vintage ever end? A year of inopportune rain and unseasonal cold culminating in a late harvest, reduced yields and too much time for reflection and contemplation, and amongst the swirl,…

  This year marks the second year of an Australian landmark: Chalmers Bush Block.   This really is the Chalmers family making its mark, and we are so excited about this next release - the people have been asking, and it is finally here! Bush block is undoubtedly Australia. Inland Australia, with its own rhythm, its warm, red dirt and blazing sun. It is a place where grapes – millions of tonnes of them – have grown. But till now, none have grown like these...…

This year’s single-vineyard release from the Frankland Estate clan is tinged with touch of sadness as it’s the first since Barrie Smith’s passing late last year. But I tell you what, he would be proud of these releases AND the way that the Smith-Cullam clan continue to tell their story and live out his dreams through the wines! The release has been beautifully summed up by the winery here – all that’s left to do for the rest if us is to sit back and…

Cellarhand is so pleased to introduce you to our new producer, Velich and his amazing wines coming straight from the eastern Burgenland in Austria.   They say you can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family…. One of the great things about working with the best winegrowers from all over the world is that there is never a shortage of quality producers getting in touch looking for someone to represent them,thanks to the appeal of being bed-fellows with some of the greatest names in…

New single vineyard beauties from the Onannon trio now available      Can you have unassuming rock stars? Certainly, in the local wine scene, the three winemakers behind Onannon fit the definition of ‘rock stars’. You’ve got Will Byron (‘ON’), formally long-time winemaker at Stonier and a nominee for Gourmet Traveller WINE ‘Winemaker of the Year”. Then there is Kasper Hermann (‘ANN’) who has been responsible for the trajectory of Toolangi and Rochford over recent vintages. Finally, Sam Middleton (‘ON’) who carries the family torch…

Named in 1973 after the Scottish Highlands town of his ancestors by founder Ewan Jones,  Dalwhinnie has had a long and illustrious history of producing some of the Pyrenees region’s best Chardonnay, Shiraz, and Cabernet. Patrick Walsh recalls going there back in the early 90s and having the famous BBQ rib-eyes and back vintages of Shiraz in the unique setting amongst the vines, and as a young sommelier at the time thinking life was pretty good! It feels almost a full circle moment from those…

‘Immune to hyperbole, this is an estate to watch (and buy, and drink). Hearty congratulations are due’, says Erin Larkin for the Halliday Wine Companion. In a sea of fierce competition, Deep Woods Estate is continuing a non-stop run of awards with an ever-growing count of sensational reviews, gold medals and trophies - most recently included in James Halliday's Top 100 Wines of 2022 with the 2020 Deep Woods Reserve Chardonnay. Deep Woods Estate was originally established in 1987 and since that time has gradually…

With Lowestoft scooping the pool with trophies for the best Pinot Noir at both the 2022 and last year’s Royal Melbourne Wine Awards, at the National Wine Show of Australia, and winning Best Pinot Noir of the Year at the recent James Halliday Wine Companion Awards, people are starting to wonder where this newcomer Tassie label has appeared from, seemingly out of nowhere. Read on…! Lowestoft is the Tasmanian string to the Fogarty Wine Group’s bow, whose Australian beginnings date back to the mid-1800s when…

The heart of the Chalmers family has always been in the Murray Darling wine region. Merbein, just outside Mildura, is where the family’s home is, and the location of the Chalmers’ vineyard and vine nursery. This unique and diverse land is also the adopted home to every variety they’ve imported to Australia over the last twenty years. It is the source block for supplying millions of vines planted across Australia’s wine regions, hence the name ‘Mother Block’.  These Mother Blocks have given the Chalmers family…