Description Treat yourself to a first-class Italian classic Soave, and a rich, elegant white Bordeaux with three Golds (normally $46), and a citrussy, mineral-edged seafood classic Picpoul. From home enjoy two 94pt Margaret River top-estate releases, one Chardonnay and one “very good” SBS (Halliday). Save $83 on this exquisite Six Pack. Affordable luxury!
Lauded by the critics and selling like hotcakes by the glass in the trendiest bars, Picpoul has become a favourite grape. This delicious, lemony crisp 2023 is from Floris Lemstra’s Languedoc family estate, Château Canet. Characterful and zippy.
The Halliday Wine Companion's Jane Faulkner puts it quite succinctly "A very good drink" and awards it 92pts and a Special Value star.
Very impressive Hunter Valley Chardonnay from the Margan family’s Timbervines vineyard planted over 50 years ago on red dolorite soils hand harvest and fermented in new French oak. It boasts great finesse and intensity, Gold and 95pts.
Soave is a revelation – with delicately nuanced fruit, creamy body and a stony freshness that helps the wine age gracefully.
This is a Gold, 95pt Single Vineyard Fumé Blanc from Orange. Fumé Blanc means ‘smoked white’ – the Sauvignon being at least partially exposed to oak to lending a smoky flavour and greater texture. and a portion of this was fermented in French Oak.
Traditionally Bordeaux's Castillon is ‘reds only’, but Tony Laithwaite had long wanted to make an estate white at La Clarière. Now, with some top vineyards he's crafted this oak-fermented, lees-aged ‘outlaw’ white. Citrusy, spiced and long.
