Festive Lunch Award-Winners

We have put together the ultimate lunch wines to show off to your friends and family over the festive season. Including a 2x gold medal-winning Rosé sparkling from Tasmania; Australia's best Sauvignon Blanc (Royal Sydney Wine Show 2022); a 96 points Tasmanian Chardonnay; a Best in Show winner at the prestigious Decanter World Wine Awards; a stunning 97 point Victorian Shiraz; and the nectar of the Gods - also known as Pedro Ximénez and the ultimate Christmas cake pairing. 

1 x Thalia NV Rosé

1 x Evans & Tate 2022 Wild Cape Sauvignon Blanc

1 x Lowestoft 2019 Chardonnay

1 x Evans & Tate 2018 Redbrook Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

1 x Dalwhinnie 2020 The Pinnacle Shiraz

1 x Millbrook NV Pedro Ximénez

Australian Sparkling Wine Show 2022

Tasmanian Wine Show 2022

Halliday Wine Companion 2024

A pinot noir-dominant blend with 36 months on lees and a dosage of just over 8 g/L. The palest of blushes in the glass with aromas of red apple, cranberry and raspberry along with hints of tart tartin, biscuity spice, roasted cashews, lemon butter, white flowers and stone. There is lovely red-fruited richness and a swell of biscuity complexity that expands before being reeled in by crystalline acidity scooting off for a sustained finish.

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Royal Sydney Wine Show 2022

National Wine Show of Australia 2023

Margaret River Wine Show 2022

Halliday Wine Companion 2022

Hand-picked fruit from the Tasman Peninsula, Coal River and Tamar Valleys. Fermented on full solids and matured 10 months in 35% new French oak hogsheads. Launching Tasmania's most exciting new premium label, the Fogarty Group sure has hit the ground running. This is pitch-perfect chardonnay that embraces the generosity of a warm season and frames it intricately in crystalline acidity, top-class oak and just the right whif of struck-flint reduction. Masterfully assembled and a joy to taste for the first time.

Decanter World Wine Awards 2023

Best in Show 

Perth Royal Wine Awards 2021

Perth Royal Wine Awards 2020

Royal Hobart Wine Show 2021

Margaret River Wine Show 2021

Margaret River Wine Show 2020

Halliday Wine Companion 2023

Matured for 15 months in French oak (22% new). Potently intense fruit here – the wine enters the mouth with fanfare and pomp; the fruit that gathers there is riddled with cassis, raspberry leaf, black tea, pepper, exotic spice and more. Classical cabernet from Margaret River, from a great vintage. Exactly what we have come to expect from the Redbrook Reserve range.

Ray Jordan Wine Guide 2023

From the wonderful 2018 vintage, which continues to amaze with its red wines in particular. This is a cracking wine. Leafy black fruits on the nose with a trace of brick dust and bay leaf, black olive. The palate is smooth and seamlessly structured with fine minerally tannins. A super wine with years ahead of it.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate 2022

The 2018 vintage was lush and excellent, and this 2018 Redbrook Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is an accurate barometer of what we can expect from both the region and the season. It features abundant fruit wrapped in velvety tannins. This is age-worthy and slowly evolving and hasn't yet approached its first stage of development—it is still ascending.

Halliday Wine Companion 2024

Fabulous wine. Powerful, complex and long. Pure plum into meaty spice into forest berries into fragrant herbs. You can taste the fruit, the soil and the wood, but it all presents as one. And then there's the finish. What a finish. Structured, textural, flavoursome and long. This wine is the complete package.

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Swan Valley Wine Show 2023