$38.90
100% Coonawarra
Single vineyard Ezra is the angel who encourages writers and helps people open doors to their ability and self expression.
Vineyard comments
The 2012 Coonawarra vintage is – in most winemakers opinion – one of the best Coonawarra has seen, along with good winter rains resulting in a full soil moisture profile and ample vine carbohydrate reserves. No pesticides, and only 3 purely organic sprays for mildew prevention for the whole season. 100% new French oak barrels for 2 years, 0% residual sugar, and below organic levels of sulphur (89 parts per million only). It will age well to 2032 and beyond.
We are very proud of our wines - we hope you enjoy them.
Dru Reschke - owner and vigneron
$31.90
This Heirloom Vineyards Cabernet was produced from a remarkable Coonawarra Cabernet Vineyard whose clones and viticulture embody the very best in cutting edge but old school viticulture and winemaking. Hand tended vines, sorted bunch-by-bunch, naturally open fermented, basket pressed and stored in French oak barriques from bespoke coopers.
The colour is remarkably vibrant, a bright crimson purple that reflects the 2 years in oak. A core darkness indicates the wine's ripeness and concentration.
It has a classic lift of essential Cabernet fruit aromas, a perfume of dark mulberries with a lift of white mulberries, tayberries and bramble-berries that have been baked with a fresh pie crust. A great heady aroma with rich red ripe fruits but also some hints of crushed violets and whiffs of mushrooms, olives, dried herbs and suggestions of briar and undergrowth wisping in and out. There is also a shot of old school glossy tri-coloured boiled sweets character to this most complex Coonawarra Cabernet. Two years in oak has allowed a meshing of some spice and cedar oak maturation to complex.
The palate is in a word, powerful. Also 3 dimensional. Although serious dark fruits, almost Bordeaux like on the nose, it reveals Super Tuscan type flavours on the palate. Once full-bodied and tannic, now medium bodied, supple and flavoursome. Blackcurrant is dominant but more mulberry fruit on entry, gently fleshy and with elegant and appealing tannin backbone. Good acidity too to balance the generous textural palate with flavours of plum, berry and hints of spearmint chocolate to make a second glass, and we hope a second bottle irresistible. Will age with grace over the coming decades.
An extraordinary Single Vineyard Cabernet from Coonawarra that will cellar well but is so deliciously perfect now any argument for delayed gratification is perhaps academic.
$22.90 $24.90
This Cabernet Sauvignon shows robust colour depth, and is driven by fresh aromas of black currant and liquorice.
The elegant aromas marry beautifully with sweet liquorice and dark chocolate flavours.
Awards
SILVER
2016 Royal Queensland Wine Show
BRONZE
2016 Sydney Royal Wine Show
2016 Limestone Coast Wine Show
$16.90 $17.90
The calibre of this multi-award winning wine is immediately apparent by the lovely dense purple colour. Abundant fleshy fruit characters of mulberry and stewed plums fill the mouth whilst subtle oak tannins add length to the palate. This wine shows true characteristics of Merlot; it is soft round and elegant and will enhance any dining experience.
Awards
SILVER
2015 Rutherglen Wine Show
2015 National Cool Climate Wine Show
2016 Limestone Coast Wine Show
BRONZE
2015 Australian Boutique Wine Makers Show
2015 Limestone Coast Wine Show
2015 Winewise Small Vignerons awards
2015 Cairns Wine Awards
2015 Royal Perth Wine Show
2016 Cairns Wine Show
$18.90 $20.90
A rich purple colour, with aromas of classic dark fruits, leading into a palate of black current, ripe cherries and a hint of spice.
A well rounded medium bodied wine, with nicely balanced tannins and a lingering finish.
This wine is made from select parcels of fruit from blocks four, five and six. Picked slightly earlier than average, the Cabernet Sauvignon had a Baume of 14.3, and the Merlot 14.7.
The wine has been aged for twelve months in a combination of French and Russian barriques.
This wine can be enjoyed now and will continue to develop in the bottle for many years.
Awards
GOLD
2017 Limestone Coast Wine Show
SILVER
2017 Cairns Wine Show Awards
BRONZE
2017 International Cool Climate Wine Show
2017 National Cool Climate Wine Show
$23.90
100% Coonawarra
When wine is aged in fine oak barrels, a portion of it evaporates - winemakers call this the ‘Angel’s Share’. It was on this sentiment the Koonara angel was born.
We love the people who make the journey to come and visit our cellar door; they have Wanderlust. They are the daring explorer, the lover of life with tales of adventures and experiences from their many trips.
This wine’s for you, intrepid travellers...
Winemakers comments
This wine has huge colour and decanting this wine for an hour will allow you to see the true depth of flavour, but also show you that this wine is almost unique at this price, in that it will get better over 10 years.
Tiny berries went into this wine - you can tell by the deep colour. The flavour comes from the skin, so the smaller the berry, the more colour and flavour.
No residual sugar, below organic levels of sulphur, and organically grown.
This wine will age beautifully until 2030.
We are very proud of our wines - we hope you enjoy them.
Dru Reschke - owner and vigneron
$22.90
100% Coonawarra.
In our Shiraz vineyard lives the Golden Orb spider. During the summer they catch vineyard pests, which is one reason why we haven’t used pesticides in the vineyard for over ten years.
Tasting notes
Aged in French oak barrel’s for 2 years, this is a elegant cool climate shiraz, that will age well until 2025. Our aim is to make a complex sparkling shiraz, so some years it will be a straight vintage, and others a blend; which ever gives us the very best results. The oak age has given some nice Christmas cake complexity, but still with fresh blackcurrants and licorice. Balanced acidity means it doesn’t look acidic (or tart) when ice cold, and with just a touch of residual sugar means it won’t taste sweet if it warms up in the glass.
We are very proud of our wines - we hope you enjoy them.
Dru Reschke - owner and vigneron
$36.90
100% Coonawarra
Single vineyard Ambriel is the angel of communication and guides us to truth and clarity.
Winemakers comments
No expense has been spared to make the best wine possible: these grapes were grown with only organic additions in the vineyard (for the past ten years), and minimal intervention, with only 4 organic sprays for the season. 2013 was a fantastic vintage in Coonawarra, this wine will age well until 2030 and beyond.
We are very proud of our wines - we hope you enjoy them.
Dru Reschke - owner and vigneron
$17.90
$17.90
Colour
Rich dark crimson with cherry red hues.
Aroma
Fresh cherries, spice, chocolate cake, briar and caramel. Vibrant aromas with herbaceous hints, rhubarb, blackberry and some forest floor.
Palate
Fresh, juicy acid with red fruits on the mid palate and food fruit sweetness coming through in black cherry and berries. Black currant, mushroom and bramble savouriness, good length completes a well structured wine.
Parker
$17.90
$96.90
The Big Guns is a tribute to my father Trevor Reschke, who was in the Australian national team for clay target shooting, and the state team over 20 times. More often than not you would find him shooting crows in this vineyard just before vintage. To this day crows still avoid it.
This 3 acre vineyard produces tiny, intense berries, growing only 1 tonne per acre. Aged for 24 months in the finest French Oak barrels; from these, the finest barrels are selected. This year only 3 barrels made the cut, creating only 100 cases, with only 880 bottles being released to the public.
Here’s to you Trev.
We are very proud of our wines - we hope you enjoy them.
Dru Reschke - owner and vigneron
$96.90
The Head Honcho was created from our 10 acre single Cabernet vineyard. This vineyard produces small bervries full of intense flavour, harvesting a tiny 1 tonne per acre. In the 2012 vintage, it had only organic additives, and no pesticides (none have been used in this vineyard for 10 years).
We aged this wine for 24 months in the finest French Oak barrels. From these, only the most complex flavours from the finest barrels were selected. This year only 3 barrels made the cut, creating only 100 cases, with only 880 bottles being released to the public.
We are very proud of our wines - we hope you enjoy them.
Dru Reschke - owner and vigneron