"Two years in French oak and only 100 dozen made. Leather, sweet blackberry, cedar wood and woodsmoke flavours present as simultaneously complex, mellifluous and direct. Essentially, it's a gutsy red that's easy to like. There's a churn of well-massaged tannin through the finish, but this is really all about flavour, gently developed, and a good amount of it."

Rated : 93 Points
Tasted : Oct 2022
Alcohol : 14.6%
Price : $70
Closure : Screw cap
Drink : 2020 - 2030+

Campbell Mattinson

"Bold fruit flavour, straight down the line. Blackberry, plum and red cherry with sweet spice and cedar-wood notes happily married therein. There's some alcohol warmth here but it has the flavour to go with it. Mint and game-like notes add some play around the edges."

Rated : 91 Points
Tasted : Oct 2022
Alcohol : 14.5%
Price : $40
Closure : Screw cap
Drink : 2020 - 2027+

Campbell Mattinson

"A dusty, fluid, juicy cabernet that’s true to its variety and yet, also a unique expression. It's more boysenberry than blackcurrant, more dust than tobacco, more red berry than dark. It still manages good form on the finish and, in the context that it is showing some signs of development, is pretty much already in its drinking prime now."

Rated : 91 Points
Tasted : Oct 2022
Alcohol : 14.2%
Price : $25
Closure : Screw cap
Drink : 2020 - 2075+

2017 Red Edge Tinto Mezclado 
This is pretty damn close to the wine I had in mind when I thought about planting my own vineyard in Heathcote 20 years ago. A robust blend of the Spanish red varieties tempranillo, monastrell, graciano and touriga, it has heaps of glossy black plum fruit, all wrapped up in spicy, perfumed, tangy tannins. Exactly the kind of wine you want on the table when someone’s cooking paprika- and garlic-spiked lamb skewers. 

2018 Red Edge Sparkling Shiraz 
A new addition to the Red Edge line-up, and a welcome one. I really enjoy a good sparkling red – as long as it’s not too sweet and has a decent savoury quality that helps it drink well with food – and this certainly fits that mould: perfume of ripe purple shiraz fruit lifted by sandalwood and sarsaparilla (both typical of Heathcote shiraz), supple, medium-bodied, satisfying on the tongue. Drink with chargrilled ’roo tacos. 

2016 Red Edge 71 Block Shiraz 
One of the things that fascinates me about old vines is that, despite the very low yields that come with age – intensified in this case by the fact that the vines are unirrigated – the wines they produce aren’t always rich and powerful. This shiraz, made from vines heading for their sixth decade in the ground, is a great example: it has lovely, bright, fresh blackberry and mulberry fruit that floods the mouth with a pippy brightness that belies its great depth of flavour. Great now with rare porterhouse, but also well worth stashing some away in the cellar. 

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