Best Buys Below $30 - Gourmet Traveller Wine
Best Buys Under $30.00 - Gourmet Traveller Wine.
Max Allen is one of Australia's most respected wine journalists. He's worked very hard to promote wine education, including some excellent blogs which you can download from itunes, and his book "Red & White" is a fantastic read for anyone getting interested in wine.
"After stints at Wirra Wirra in McLaren Vale and heading up a wine distribution company in New Zealand, Jonathon Hesketh has established his own label, sourcing wines from regions far and wide.
No surprise, then, to find the first releases are the better-than-average 2006 Hidden Garden Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and this delicious shiraz (with a splash of Adelaide Hills viognier thrown in for good measure). It’s refreshingly medium-bodied, with gently aromatic spicy black fruit and fine, silky, almost creamy tannins. MA"