“How the hell is this wine so cheap? I'd buy a case!”- Tamlyn Currin for JancisRobinson.com

If there were a device that could measure value and you pointed it at this wine, it would overheat. The quality is truly astonishing for the price. The Grenache grapes were hand-picked from gnarly, 90-year-old vines in Seppeltsfield on Barossa’s western ridge, then fermented with indigenous yeasts, with 20% whole-bunch fruit, and the remainder destemmed, before being gently basket-pressed into seasoned French oak hogsheads where it matured for 12 months. There is nothing about that sentence that says £15.95 and there is nothing £15.95 about the way it tastes either. Decanter Magazine awarded it 95 points and you can read about what the judges had to say below. It’s rich in spiced cherry and black plum flavours with a savoury, earthy undertone, notes of tobacco and a smooth palate that offers ripeness and creamy roundness. A wine for chocolate lovers, perhaps! 14% alc. Drink now-2032.

Press reviews:

Decanter (Sara Muirhead MW): “Musky spiced raspberry aromas. Ripe blackberry flavours with some spice and tobacco. Toasty vanilla sweetness and zippy acidity on the finish.” 95 points

Decanter (Ben Chan): “Maraschino cherry, violets, oak spice, nutmeg. Opulent and full-bodied, with waves of complexity and savoury meat and cigar notes. A very long finish.” 95 points

Decanter (Beth Pearce MW): “Cola, vanilla and cream. Mouthwatering acidity, plum and blackberry. Bold, concentrated, with dark, brooding flavours that build to a rich finish. Overt oak flavours may soften with time.” 95 points

JancisRobinson.com (Tamlyn Currin): “There is a blackbird who lives, we think, in the recklessly unruly verbena hedge in one part of our garden. Crack of dawn on summer mornings he struts a bit and then settles himself on the increasingly mossy stone table under our study window where the morning light spills first. It's here the light sifts through roses, verbena, philadelphus, but always leaves the leaves in peace to dapple enough shade to keep the wild strawberries looping their babies from one flagstone crack to another. The blackbird loves this place. He comes back every year. And he sings. He so damn sings. The purity and the thrill and the lusty, uncensored, untrammelled, all-heart, all-soul welcome to the sunrise is beautiful enough to make you laugh. And cry. And stop. And rethink life. If I could somehow bottle all that, I know it would taste like this wine. How the hell is this wine so cheap? I'd buy a case! VGV (TC). Drink now-2030.” 17 points

Jancis Robinson.com (Florencia Gomez): “Pale crimson. At first the nose suggested very ripe and jammy fruit. However, on the palate it shows fresh, very pure-fruited and modern. Tannins are delicate and velvety. The wine is long, savoury and very inviting to take the next sip. Love it. Glad I found this wine. GV (FG)” 16.5 points