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Rosé Rundown Spring/Summer 2017/18

Good rosé needn’t be a seasonal drink. I mean, it makes no sense does it? If it’s fragrant, refreshing and tasty – with texture to play nicely with food – why would you want to go neglecting it for a few months every year? Even so, we do it pretty much instinctively. We think pink…

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CellarHand Newsletter October 2017

October’s rocking already, with a slew of bright new things going on. On the events front, there’s more detail added to the Riesling Downunder program, and Austria is inviting one and all to a celebration of its National Day with a grand tasting in Melbourne. Some headline releases, too, this month. Those lovely Egans of…

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CellarHand Newsletter December 2017

  Welcome to our last newsletter before Christmas. We hope this missive finds you winding down after a successful year, or at least vibing on the madness and drinking some good wine when you get a chance.  First things first, and we’ve been saying it for a while, is to make sure that you get…

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CellarHand Newsletter March 2018

Happy autumn, everyone. It’s been a while between newsletters following a very busy start to 2018. Most of our Aussie and Kiwi producers are in the midst of the madness of vintage, though not too exhausted to convey vast optimism about the harvest. Always something to look forward to with wine… But what about now?…

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Barolo Jewel G.D. Vajra Joins The Portfolio

By now I have run out of superlatives for Vajra. Suffice it to say these are some of the finest, artisan wines being made in Piedmont today. Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media It is with enormous pleasure that we welcome G.D. Vajra of Barolo to the CellarHand portfolio. We’ve long been enormous fans of the wines…

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Pannell Show: Shining A Light On Provenance

“Open a bottle of Stephen Pannell’s wine and you will enjoy it. No, you will probably love it.” So wrote wine writer Ray Jordan earlier this year in selecting a seriously diverse quartet of wines that epitomised Steve’s approach to this whole wine thing. “He combines the best features of the vineyard with sympathetic fruit-enhancing…

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CellarHand Newsletter June 2018

No signs of things cooling off on the home front this winter! We have warm celebrations for the wonderful Smith Cullam family at Frankland Estate, toasting 30 years since planting Isolation Ridge with a great set of ’17 single-vineyard Riesling plus the ’17 Isolation Ridge Shiraz and Olmo’s Reward Cab Franc-dominant Bordeaux blend. Stephen Pannell,…

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S.C. Pannell: Grenache In All Its Guises

“Beguiling – that’s probably the word that sums it up,” says Stephen Pannell of a grape variety with which he is, he confesses, obsessed. The beneficiary of this obsession is the winelover, with the S.C. Pannell range spanning several guises of Grenache – from rosé and the natural-feeling, super-slurpable Basso, via a traditional McLaren Vale…

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CellarHand Newsletter August 2018

It’s the last newsletter of the Aussie winter, and it’s Italy that hogs the limelight. We have a complete introductory offer from Barolo’s brilliant G.D. Vajra, also including the wines from Luigi Baudana – the Serralunga-based garagiste estate of which the Vaira family is custodian. On top of that, we have new Barbera and Barbaresco…

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Rob & Gen Mann’s Corymbia Joins The Portfolio

Corymbia is the deep-rooted, far-sighted vision of husband-and wife-team, Rob and Genevieve Mann. The Mann name is synonymous with Western Australia’s Swan Valley, where Rob’s pioneering grandfather Jack worked a remarkable 51 consecutive vintages for Houghton. Rob was just a boy when he joined his father – former Australian test cricketer Tony – in planting…

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CellarHand Newsletter September 2018

It’s been a monumental month on the imports front, so let’s start with that. A lot of conversations, laughs and tastings from our European trip in March this year have resulted in some amazing wines landing on these shores. Joining the portfolio this month are: Frédéric Mabileau of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil in the Loire Valley; Domaine Latour-Giraud…

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Koomilya Dreaming: Pannell’s Supreme ’15s

Koomilya – A Dedication by Stephen Pannell After working 39 vintages, including nine in Europe, I’ve spent plenty of time in vineyards and wineries to ponder: Why do I love wine? Why do I love making wine? What is it exactly that makes a great wine? I think that all great wines obey a set…

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CellarHand Newsletter November 2018

Summer’s coming, and great wine shows no sign of running dry round here, with November providing epic excitement on both the domestic and international front. Here at home, there’s a host of high-profile releases: Nick Farr’s close-planted GC, RP and Tout Près; Wantirna Estate’s ’17 Isabella and Lily and ’16 Amelia and Hannah; Stephen Pannell’s…

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CellarHand Celebrates 20 Years At Forefront Of Taste

An all-star cast of international winegrowers is heading down under to celebrate the 20th birthday of their Australian importer. Producers from 25 estates covering Champagne, Alsace, Burgundy, Beaujolais, the Loire, Piedmont, Germany, Austria and beyond are on the way to mark CellarHand’s milestone in February 2019. They will be joined by some of the best-loved…

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CellarHand Newsletter April 2019

CellarHand’s 20th Anniversary celebrations – don’t get us wrong, it’s a year-long thing – have meant a brief hiatus for the CellarHand newsletter, but here it is, back with a vengeance. The domestic releases are headed this month by the super ’16s from Sandra de Pury of Yeringberg, and by the 2017 single-vineyard releases from…

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