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Palate gymnastics follow and you are left feeling like you’ve been ravished by a crate of renegade limes.Ģ007 The Gum, Sauvignon Blanc, Adelaide Hills, SA £10 GN The barrage of citrus notes coupled with the trademark, grassy, Margaret River Semillon theme is irresistibly mouth-watering. You will immediately smell why this wine is a must this year. It is great to welcome Vasse Felix into our line up for the first time since we started this initiative five years ago. This is precisely what this wine is for – use this knowledge well.Ģ007 Vasse Felix, Semillon / Sauvignon Blanc, Margaret River, WA £10 RH You will be powerless trying to resist the urge to cook up an Asian Fusion storm and even less successful in not inviting a team of mates around for a feast.

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With a pretty nose of sweet and sour fresh fruit and a spicy, crunchy, grape skin finish, there is no point denying the fact that you are already locked into this wine’s tractor beam. So often ‘concept wines’ fall so far short of expectation – CC, however, leads the pack.Ģ007 Chapel Hill Verdelho, Fleurieu, SA £10 GN With this in mind, I am totally relaxed about introducing this moreish entry level white to a large and thirsty congregation. I haven’t let the word ‘crisp’ or the hypnotic, day-glo green label muck around with my brain I assure you. This is a truly world class sparkler – that successfully turns the world upside down.Ģ007 McWilliam’s Hanwood Estate Crisp Chardonnay, SEA £8 BC In the same way that Krug is as subtle as a brass band, but somehow manages to captivate your entire olfactory system, Arras pulls off the same trick, but at an earlier moment in its timeline.

The only reason that this wine works is that there is sensational acidity, tightly coiled, Cobra-like, at its core. With its ball-stamping acidity it is likely to live for five years with ease, so perhaps we should start putting some cases away for a rainy day? After all you won’t see this region’s boundaries getting any larger in the near future – pity we can’t say that about dear old Champagne.Īs elegant as Jean-Claude Van Damme in a nightie, this is a massive mouthful of seriously decadent fruit and there is staggering power here, too. Wincingly tight and yet somehow impressively rich and involved on the palate, Croser Brut raises the bar as every vintage passes and at this rate it will soon glide past all-comers, making it the best value Antipodean fizz on the market. Australia is rosé Champagne mad and if a few commentators could be convinced to put their Billecart down for a moment, they might discover that GPR is a worthy substitute at a fraction of the price.Ģ005 Croser Brut, Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills, SA £15 RH This is a very subtle wine with a tear-jerkingly beautiful hue, balletic lift on the nose, staggering length and a challenging, racy finish. This may be the wine that convinces the UK consumer that fizzy reds really are a style to get to know intimately.Ģ004 Green Point Vintage Rosé, Australia £14 BC In 2008 it is this stunning, briary, beautifully balanced, dry-but-not-tannic, sparkler. Over the last few years we have always managed to find a handful of JC wines worthy of inclusion in this imperial list – a sterling effort from Phil Laffer and his brigade.

It surprised us as much as it probably will surprise you, but there is no denying the fact that this finely-tuned, leviathan of a company has done it again. NV Jacob’s Creek Sparkling Shiraz, Australia £9 BC

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