Featured Wines

Wine is an adventure for wife and husband team, Yoko Luscher-Mostert and Andries Mostert. An adventure that involves finding the best fruit from the best growers in Denmark, Western Australia, and there’s no shortage of it in this wine!

This wine’s a blend of no fewer than six grape varieties, three white and three red! The resulting wine is a light, juicy, aromatic red, best served chilled, with explosive aromas of crunchy red and blue fruits.

An excellent red to have as an aperitif or chilled with cold seafood.

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When Éric Laguerre took over his family’s vineyards in 1999, he and his wife Corinne decided to go back to basics, farming biodynamically and making wine naturally. Their high-altitude French region of Roussillon, next to the Spanish Mediterranean border, lends itself to structured yet lively wines.

This wine is a blend of two local indigenous varieties, Grenache Blanc and Macabeu. It’s all about energy and texture backed with a bit of body, aromas of white peach, and a bit of pleasant grip on the palate.

This wine is incredibly versatile but it’s ideal pairing would be white fleshed fish served with beurre blanc.

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Simone, Alessio and Fabio Cecchetto, the three brothers who run the Ca’ di Rajo winery in Veneto, the historic home of Prosecco, are quite the innovators. Chief among their innovations is the Bellussera vine training method, which elevates the vines 4m off the ground allowing food crops to be grown underneath.

This wine is a Prosecco the way Prosecco used to be made – fermented naturally in the bottle instead of a giant industrial tank. A crisp yet juicy sparkling wine with aromas of mandarin and green apple with some bitter lemon undertones.

Drink it very cold as an aperitif or with light vegetarian dishes.

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In his youth, Barossa winemaker Wayne Ahrens spent a year living in Spain, and this Australian wine is a tribute to the kinds of wines he drank out of stemless glasses in bodegas over there. Joven means ‘young’ in Spanish, and it’s used to describe unaged, easy-drinking red wines.

Like its Spanish inspiration, the blend is predominantly Tempranillo and Garnacha (Spanish for Grenache), but with a bit of Monastrell, Bastardo and Tinta Amarela thrown in. It’s medium-bodied yet light on its feet and energetic, a little rustic but full of juicy, fresh red fruit, with a touch of earthiness at the end.

Any kind of paella would be perfect with this wine, but feel free to improvise!

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Honorio Rubio is a winemaker well outside the mainstream of his Spanish home region of Rioja. He is one of the last defenders of a style of wine that time has forgotten called “clarete” – pale rosé made from a blend of red and white grapes.

Being a blend of white Viura and red Garnacha, this wine is an excellent example of the style. Light-bodied, energetic and lively, with aromas of pink grapefruit and wild strawberry.

This would go great with a vegetarian quiche, fried seafood, or while lying on the beach.

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Sometimes a wine is more than a wine, it’s a movement. At least that’s what this wine represents for winemakers Yoko and Andries Mostert in WA’s little-known Denmark region. A movement towards fun, juicy wine that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

A blend of mostly Vermentino and Sauvignon Blanc, the wine simply jumps out of the glass. It’s incredibly vibrant and refreshing with aromas of Meyer lemon and pineapple with some welcome texture due to limited skin contact.

This can and should be drunk on a warm, sunny day along with whatever light snacks are around.

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Rhen Dodd and Janelle De Gabriele are all about making wines that are invigorating, which makes their label Ephemera a most appropriate name. They also must have a passion for taking unusual grape varieties and making them shine because that’s exactly what they’ve done with this wine.

Negroamaro is a red grape from the south of Italy, but for whatever reason, here it’s been grown in Heathcote and used to make a most curious and delicious white wine! The wine is decidedly medium-bodied, with aromas of white rose, white peach and guava and has a smooth, silky texture while still being crisp.

This would go great with some barbecued seafood!

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Diane Cauvin did a big tour of France’s wine regions before taking the reins of this estate in the South-West of France, just north of Toulouse. Here all efforts are made to preserve the soils and rare vines growing in it by farming biodynamically and holistically.

This wine is made from a grape called Négrette, a very rare variety virtually non-existent outside of the tiny sub-region of Fronton. Light and ethereal, with aromas of raspberries and blueberries on the palate and a distinct scent of violets, coincidentally the emblematic flower of Toulouse.

For authenticity points, drink this with cassoulet or a stew with a similar soul.

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