Here we go. This has the crackle of quality. It’s well fruited, is bursting with spice, has flint tucked into its shirt and fig slung around its neck. Acidity tears through the wine like a kid at a new bike. Flavour chases right on after it. This is one of those ‘all we have learned’ wines. You can feel history past and present informing its every step. I’m not mentioning value. The wine does it for me.
Rated : 95 Points Winefront.com.au

Intense , highly lifted aromas of grapefruit and white flowers combine with white stone fruit and gun smoke. The palate has a creamy flow supported by a saline, chalky texture encapsulated by long mouth-watering acidity.

Here the intensity of the wine on the palate is expressed through the mouthwatering grapefruit flavours. This, Smiths Vineyard and Baxendale Vineyard all have unmistakable signatures - chardonnay isn't being used to do tricks, this is terroir (in the full sense of that term) speaking loud and clear.
96 points James Halliday

From two vineyards at Blewitt Springs, open-fermented with varying percentages of whole bunches, 11 months in French puncheons (15% new). Exceptional power and complexity, yet retains nigh on perfect balance and structure. The combination of Blewitt Springs and '17 provides shiraz that will be remembered with awe for years to come. Super-fragrant spices and flowers leap from the glass, the glazed shiraz rounded and succulent yet not cloying.
97 points James Halliday

Sensory Features: Bright ruby red, vivid, full and intense. Intense aroma of red fruits, spices and red flowers. Warm, full, soft and well-balanced, with aftertaste of red fruits during the ending.
Best served with: Pasta with rich sauces, meat and seasoned cheeses.

Pale straw with slight green tinge. The intriguing bouquet displays fresh passionfruit and thyme aromas with hints of dried herbs / kaffir lime and the subtle influence of judicious oak use lingering in the background.The lively palate is medium bodied with wonderful clarity offering citrus flavours, crunchy tropical fruits, lemon thyme and spice. A beautifully structured wine, layered with lovely textural elements yet maintaining a crystalline backbone of quartz and zesty acidity. The influence of wild fermentation in barrel has added a touch of complexity to this otherwise quintessential crisp, fruit-driven blend.

2017 was a beautifully medium-bodied season in Hilltops, giving birth to a wine that captures the fragrant and spicy personality of shiraz with great detail. It entices with rose hip and white pepper over a core of red cherries and greengage plums but it’s the lingering finish that really sets it apart, structured with magnificent, finely textured tannins. Tyson Stelzer

I’ve liked a great many of the previous releases of this wine but this is my favourite of the lot. It’s a ripper. Balanced, well fruited, spice-laden, perfumed, floral and then sweetly exotic. It smells and tastes beautiful, and is so finely etched with tannin; it has everything exactly where you’d like it to be. I’d send a case of this straight into the pool room but I’d like my stash kept a lot closer to me than that and, besides, I don’t have a pool room anyway. Buy".  Rated : 94 Points Winefront.com.au

I’d best get to that huge backlog of Barbara this week, but this was open and poured for me. An offer I could not refuse, so to speak. Importer: Giorgio de Maria Fun Wines

Incredible purple colour, and also, kind of purple to taste. Spice, florals, deep and rich in fruit, with a cocoa-like spread of fine tannin, bright clean minerally acidity through it, meaty and spicy to close. Long too. Floods the mouth, but does not overwhelm, and it has a ‘feel’ and X-factor that pulls it above the ruck.

Rated : 95 Points Winefront.com.au

Massimo's Langhe Nebbiolo offers a fragrant and perfumed expression of Nebbiolo from Monforte. For Langhe Nebbiolo this is seriously structured with complexity that is not normally seen at this price point. Campbell Mattinson commented on the 2016 vintage in this wine by saying 'Nebbiolo producers all over the world would probably prefer that you didn’t see this wine. If you’re of a Nebbiolo kind of mind, this is about as exquisite as value gets. Given that it retails for $30 this is almost ridiculously good. Every itch is scratched, every promise fulfilled. ' Whilst the 2017 is a different wine (a touch more brooding but also expressive) the generalisation about what Massimo and value rings true. This is a fantastic wine and has the added benefit of being sealed under screwcap.

There';s a lot to admire with Hoddles Creek Estate and the decision to employ no new oak on the grapes destined for this 1er release is one of them. This is swish. Straw-yellow in colour, stone fruit riddled, shy on the nose but textural and alive on the palate. A gentle creaminess, spice notes, slate even, honeysuckle and toast. Extremely pure. Flowing robes of flavour. Grapefruit-like bite to the aftertaste, as a distinct positive. It's still gathering itself but already it's a treat to drink. A beautiful, beautiful wine. Rated : 95 Points Winefront.com.au

From two vineyards in Woori Yallock and Macclesfield, hand-picked, 90% whole-bunch pressed to barrel, 10% fermented on skins, 10% mlf, matured for 9 months on lees in French oak (15% new). Until the finish you think this is simply a good Yarra Valley chardonnay, then the power of the finish and aftertaste hits you.
Great stuff. 95 points James Halliday

From Gladysdale and Macclesfield, it’s a perfect illustration of the limpid freshness and vitality that characterises ’17 Yarra Pinot. Vibrant raspberry fruit aplenty in a light and pure mode, the flavours suggest more ripeness than the modest alcohol, with a character that Matt describes as ginger (and I like). 30% whole bunches in one parcel which helps give this some drive and tannins to finish. Real tension and lovely bright red fruit. A win.Best drinking: Now or up to five years time.
18.5/20, 94/100. 12.9%, $28.80 direct in 6 pack. Would I buy it? Mad value at those dollars. I’ve had many a $50 Yarra Pinot that sits behind this wine. Buy. Australian Wine Review

The wine is typical Eden Valley showing amazing floral aromas of white blossom and sweet spice.The Riesling is very giving on the palate, with brown citrus notes, lime cordial, nectarine and some peach. The wine is balanced nicely and keeps on giving.