Check out the wines featured in March. Each one has been hand-selected by Owner/Sommelier, Amelia Birch, with you in mind. They are wines she loves and wants to share with you. Whether you are a wine lover or wine curious, you will find something to enjoy.
- Traditional Sparkling
- Chardonnay and Pinot Noir
- Pipers Brook, TAS
- Natalie Fryer | Bellebonne
Wine Description
A pale salmon, traditional method sparkling from the Queen herself! With exceptional Tassie fruit, this fizz finds tension between layered fruits of blood orange and wild strawberries, with a creamy, luxurious honey and custard richness. Nat is known for her precision and depth of complexity, this wine does not disappoint!
About the Winemaker
- Non-Traditional Sparkling
- Semillon and Chardonnay
- Hunter Valley, NSW
- Leesa + Samuel Mealing | Bad Neighbours Wine
Wine Description
This lightly frothy and heavily fun ancestral fizz has a wild side and we’re here for it! Its slight oxidation gives a lush cashew, baked apples and salted caramel vibe, with a red-current lift that no one expected...this sparkling is the perfect antidote to the beginning of Autumn. We’ve got you.
About the Winemaker
- Medium White
- Savagnin
- McLaren Vale, SA
- Alicia Basa + Mark Warner | Borachio
Wine Description
Certainly not where we expected this wine to land on the list, but this textural, waxy, nutty, steely and aromatic white has a racy side with lingering brightness that just goes and goes and goes. One of our fave varietals, this wine captures the essence of the coast, the rocks, the earth. GO!
About the Winemaker
- Light White
- White Blend
- Adelaide Hills, SA
- Anna Martens + Eric Narioo | Nord Sud
Wine Description
From a couple who make wine on Mt Etna and in the Adelaide Hills, and who love the complexity and dynamism of blending varietals, this wine is wonderfully balanced. It has a zippy and taut freshness with saline minerality, tempered by a floral lift and a herbal, grassy, resinous roundness.
About the Winemaker
- Light White
- Roussanne and Viognier
- Hebei, China
- Shofang Hu + Levi Li | Shofang
Wine Description
This is a fascinating white from China - where the Great Wall meets the sea - that we’re very excited to share! It is perfumed from the start - think chalky musk, gardenias, rose petals and dried apricots on the nose - with a wonderful salty, white tea, nutty palate, that is pretty and lush.
About the Winemaker
- Orange, Light White
- Fiano
- Puglia, IT
- Anna Maria Passarelli + Francesco Dibenedetto | L’Archetipo
Wine Description
A surprising skin-contact white wine with a lovely menthol, liquorice, grapefruit pith and honey nose, and a waxy, saline palate with marmalade and tea-like tannins. This is wine made with a strong intention towards regenerative agriculture, and with minimal sulphur, and. It. Pays. Off.
About the Winemaker
- Orange
- Cartoixa Vermell
- Catalunya, SP
- Antoinella Gerosa | Partida Crues
Wine Description
This month’s list has a lot of salty, mineral-rich wines, and none more-so than this one! This very serious orange wine is viscous, smoky, racy, mossy, juicy and salty, with that ‘marine’ (Amelia’s fave descriptor at the moment), sea spray freshness that can’t help but show you where it’s from - 5km from the Med! 100 year old vines add lovely depth, texture and subtlety.
About the Winemaker
- Rosé
- Pinot Noir, Malbec, Merlot and Shiraz
- Orange, NSW
- Rebecca Milne + Aaron Onegin-Ward | Grape Pirates
Wine Description
This pink is not your average...IT’S SO MUCH BETTER! Think super creamy and generous thanks to Malo, like full-fat yoghurt, with red fruits, rose, watermelon, and stewed rhubarb. There’s an alluring freshness that captures some oyster-shell, citrus zest and subtle dried herbs. Must try!
About the Winemaker
- Light Red
- Pinot Noir
- Whitlands, VIC
- Janelle De Gabriele + Rhen Dodd | Ephemera
Wine Description
The value in this wine is exceptional! Gentle maceration, hand-plunging and 1 year in neutral oak barrels really comes through in this light red wine. It’s got a compelling tension between red and black-fruits, an edgy dried peppermint and aromatic spice, with an iodine, inky distinction.
About the Winemaker
- Chilled Light Red
- Garnacha
- Rioja, SP
- Janire Moraza | Bodegas Moraza
Wine Description
My favourite medium-bodied varietal that shines with old-vine sophistication. This is definitely on the ‘natty’ spectrum, the nose is all peaches, cherries and grassiness, with dried tarragon, stoniness, pomegranate and leathery cigar box on the palate. We’re chilling this bad girl down...
About the Winemaker
- Light Chilled Medium Red
- Zweigelt
- Gols, Burgenland, AUT
- Susanne + Stefanie Renner | Rennersistas
Wine Description
A medium-bodied red with lots of opulent, indulgent red to black-fruited characteristics, some mulberry jam and a spicy, charred wood complexity. Held together with lively, classic Austrian acidity and structured tannins, this wine is sensual without being heavy.
About the Winemaker
- Light Medium Red
- Cabernet Franc
- Saumur Champigny, FR
- Caroline Meurée + Hervé Malinge | Domaine des Sables Verts
Wine Description
This wine expresses a rich, ancient, primordial character; the 75 year-old vines are rooted deeply in their terroir. It has a resplendent nose of blueberries, cherries, eucalyptus, pine, liquorice, dried oregano and bell peppers, which carries through on the palate with a chalky, briny, full-bodied texture.
About the Winemaker
- Traditional Sparkling
- Chardonnay and Pinot Noir
- Pipers Brook, TAS
- Natalie Fryer | Bellebonne
Wine Description
A pale salmon, traditional method sparkling from the Queen herself! With exceptional Tassie fruit, this fizz finds tension between layered fruits of blood orange and wild strawberries, with a creamy, luxurious honey and custard richness. Nat is known for her precision and depth of complexity, this wine does not disappoint!
About the Winemaker
- Non-Traditional Sparkling
- Semillon and Chardonnay
- Hunter Valley, NSW
- Leesa + Samuel Mealing | Bad Neighbours Wine
Wine Description
This lightly frothy and heavily fun ancestral fizz has a wild side and we’re here for it! Its slight oxidation gives a lush cashew, baked apples and salted caramel vibe, with a red-current lift that no one expected...this sparkling is the perfect antidote to the beginning of Autumn. We’ve got you.
About the Winemaker
- Medium White
- Savagnin
- McLaren Vale, SA
- Alicia Basa + Mark Warner | Borachio
Wine Description
Certainly not where we expected this wine to land on the list, but this textural, waxy, nutty, steely and aromatic white has a racy side with lingering brightness that just goes and goes and goes. One of our fave varietals, this wine captures the essence of the coast, the rocks, the earth. GO!
About the Winemaker
- Light White
- White Blend
- Adelaide Hills, SA
- Anna Martens + Eric Narioo | Nord Sud
Wine Description
From a couple who make wine on Mt Etna and in the Adelaide Hills, and who love the complexity and dynamism of blending varietals, this wine is wonderfully balanced. It has a zippy and taut freshness with saline minerality, tempered by a floral lift and a herbal, grassy, resinous roundness.
About the Winemaker
- Light White
- Roussanne and Viognier
- Hebei, China
- Shofang Hu + Levi Li | Shofang
Wine Description
This is a fascinating white from China - where the Great Wall meets the sea - that we’re very excited to share! It is perfumed from the start - think chalky musk, gardenias, rose petals and dried apricots on the nose - with a wonderful salty, white tea, nutty palate, that is pretty and lush.
About the Winemaker
- Orange, Light White
- Fiano
- Puglia, IT
- Anna Maria Passarelli + Francesco Dibenedetto | L’Archetipo
Wine Description
A surprising skin-contact white wine with a lovely menthol, liquorice, grapefruit pith and honey nose, and a waxy, saline palate with marmalade and tea-like tannins. This is wine made with a strong intention towards regenerative agriculture, and with minimal sulphur, and. It. Pays. Off.
About the Winemaker
- Orange
- Cartoixa Vermell
- Catalunya, SP
- Antoinella Gerosa | Partida Crues
Wine Description
This month’s list has a lot of salty, mineral-rich wines, and none more-so than this one! This very serious orange wine is viscous, smoky, racy, mossy, juicy and salty, with that ‘marine’ (Amelia’s fave descriptor at the moment), sea spray freshness that can’t help but show you where it’s from - 5km from the Med! 100 year old vines add lovely depth, texture and subtlety.
About the Winemaker
- Rosé
- Pinot Noir, Malbec, Merlot and Shiraz
- Orange, NSW
- Rebecca Milne + Aaron Onegin-Ward | Grape Pirates
Wine Description
This pink is not your average...IT’S SO MUCH BETTER! Think super creamy and generous thanks to Malo, like full-fat yoghurt, with red fruits, rose, watermelon, and stewed rhubarb. There’s an alluring freshness that captures some oyster-shell, citrus zest and subtle dried herbs. Must try!
About the Winemaker
- Light Red
- Pinot Noir
- Whitlands, VIC
- Janelle De Gabriele + Rhen Dodd | Ephemera
Wine Description
The value in this wine is exceptional! Gentle maceration, hand-plunging and 1 year in neutral oak barrels really comes through in this light red wine. It’s got a compelling tension between red and black-fruits, an edgy dried peppermint and aromatic spice, with an iodine, inky distinction.
About the Winemaker
- Chilled Light Red
- Garnacha
- Rioja, SP
- Janire Moraza | Bodegas Moraza
Wine Description
My favourite medium-bodied varietal that shines with old-vine sophistication. This is definitely on the ‘natty’ spectrum, the nose is all peaches, cherries and grassiness, with dried tarragon, stoniness, pomegranate and leathery cigar box on the palate. We’re chilling this bad girl down...
About the Winemaker
- Light Chilled Medium Red
- Zweigelt
- Gols, Burgenland, AUT
- Susanne + Stefanie Renner | Rennersistas
Wine Description
A medium-bodied red with lots of opulent, indulgent red to black-fruited characteristics, some mulberry jam and a spicy, charred wood complexity. Held together with lively, classic Austrian acidity and structured tannins, this wine is sensual without being heavy.
About the Winemaker
- Light Medium Red
- Cabernet Franc
- Saumur Champigny, FR
- Caroline Meurée + Hervé Malinge | Domaine des Sables Verts
Wine Description
This wine expresses a rich, ancient, primordial character; the 75 year-old vines are rooted deeply in their terroir. It has a resplendent nose of blueberries, cherries, eucalyptus, pine, liquorice, dried oregano and bell peppers, which carries through on the palate with a chalky, briny, full-bodied texture.
