Best Buys
Sydney Time
Copyright © Ric Einstein 2008
Lets face it, we all like to get good wine at great prices. Many of these wines I have tried and are happy to recommend, some are difficult to obtain.
Direct from small wineries
Thomas Vineyard Estate - single vineyard wines, very high quality, over-delivers on price, especially the standard Shiraz.
Winter Creek - sensation fruit driven, hand crafted wines of excellent, refined quality and sensible prices.
Marius Wines - single vineyard high quality wine at a fantastic price
Picardy -
another single vineyard (cool climate WA) producer making very high quality wines at great prices.Smallfry - a new micro producer who is worth watching. The wines are well made and reasonably priced.
Kurtz Family Wines - the wines are right back on form and sensationally priced.
Sylvan Springs - are not only back to form, their wines are a step up in class.
Torzi Matthews - terrific wines for the price.
Mailing Lists Worth Buying From - if you can get on them!
Burge Family Kaesler Wines Kays Kalleske Noon Wendouree
Schubert Estate Tim Adams Turkey Flat Veritas Wayne Dutschke
Woody Nook
Other
Viking Wines have ditched retailers in Oz are now sold at wholesale prices to mail order customers.
Warrabilla Wines - the reds are of heroic proportions, are reasonably priced and the wine club offers tremendous value.
Check out Brian's Red Bigots Ongoing Good Buys
and Brian's Red Bigots Buyers Guide
for daily updates.
Wine-Searcher.com is worth checking out and can be very useful. They have a free version
but if you are buying a reasonable quantity of wine, you will recoup the US$29.95 annual subscription price very quickly.
Both Brian and I have been using it (subscription version) for years as a research tool.
