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Incidentally, the 2011 Serpico you mentioned is now on Winemarket for $24 (before cashbacks etc.). Mind you, that vintage got a pretty harsh review even from Halliday with 85 points. So no guarantee the 2008 will turn up on Winemarket later too.

Got some for a similar price from WineDirect when they had their 30% off thing. It seems extraordinary that it's labelled as a cabernet, the malbec character is extremely prominent on both nose and palate, if I'd tasted it blind I'd have said it was a malbec. If that floats your boat it's...

I wasn't intending to damn with faint praise but just realised that my comments do look a bit like that in retrospect. It is indeed a very good wine. It didn't wow me simply because its flavour profile was nothing unusual to me (which I wouldn't expect at $20 but which is something I'd be...

I couldn't possibly comment on the value proposition because RWT is way out of my price range. But for some raw data.... I got some of the Blass at $20/bottle in an eBay sale from Grey's. (At that price it is decent, not the best red I've had at that price point but a quality, medium bodied...

I think the 2013 Biodynamic Shiraz is actually Brackenwood. (Take a look at the winery description on the VM listing and the one on the Brackenwood website and see if you don't come to the same conclusion.) 94pt Snowy Mountain Shiraz previously ID'd by AC as Coppabella, ditto the 93pt Hilltops...

Agreed. For that sort of money I think you couldn't hope to do better than 2013 Uncut. It is more than competitive with anything else in the range of its usual asking price of $18 or so. And you can get on the share-a-case thread if you don't agree - I don't think you'd have any trouble...

Unfortunately the Norfolk Rise can only be bought in lots of 12, so I can't see how you could add anything pricier to get the spend up to $150 without buying a whole other case (thereby halving the per-bottle discount) or buying less than a case and paying a surcharge for the partial case. With...

... which wasn't bad, but it's $12.82 with the Winestar / Amex deal if you have it. And minimum of 2 bottles so you can mix it with some others to make up a dozen. They also have a couple of well-rated (by Halliday) West Cape Howe 2014 reds (Cab/Merlot and Shiraz) at $13.99 / $14.99 that...

Here are a few more possibly decent ones for a more modest budget. I can vouch for the first two. Yalumba The Scribbler 2012 @ $14.45 Dandelion Pride Of The Fleurieu Cabernet 2013 @ $16 Laurance "Icon" Cabernet 2011 @ $16 West Cape Howe Cabernet Merlot 2014 @ $12.85 Willow Bridge Estate...

The 65 down to 19.9 Adelaide Hills Shiraz? Brackenwood 2013 Reserve is my guess. Brackenwood Vineyard

$25 that you have to spend at Vintage Cellars isn't really $25 though, given their usual pricing and especially given how slow they are to issue those Cellar Shares. Call it equivalent maybe, but you can buy them in multiples of just two at VC, and you see the label and don't feel the...

Tasmania may be the pits for wine delivery, but for storage the mild climes are probably a lot better than other parts of Australia. My personal experience is mainly informed by a case of Ring-Bolt Cabernet from a good year that I put down for 10 years or so and then consumed all of in the...

When it was originally listed, they had an "about the producer" section on the page which named Gapsted as the producer. Again, not conclusive if they make their pages by just starting out with a copy of previous one, but hmmm.

Based on previous discussions, Mitolo Savitar.

10 Chains perhaps? (Like the Cabernet that someone identified as 10 Chains it was $30 down to $9 and it was listed at about the same time.)

I'd be pretty dirty at them if they advertised the code and cashback as going together, as they did, and then accepted the code but didn't honour the cashback. As it turns out, I not only got a tracking email (after a couple of hours) it's for 15% of the undiscounted price (minus GST), which...

I got the Paraview 2010 in a mixed six from Winemarket. Delicious lovely wine. Well presented too in its distinctive bottle. But with that bottle design you get a cork closure (boo!). Wouldn't pay RRP but at say $22 I'd grab more.

Wynns Siding is certainly good value at $10. I picked up some Metala 2014 at $10 from VC, but I think it's the weakest Metala vintage for a while, a bit overcooked. I got a case of the Ferngrove Limited Release Malbec 2013 for a ridiculously low price from Winemarket. It's a bit...

For $12 it would be a decent drink-now proposition. I'm not good at wine reviews but I'll try: Ripe dark fruit and lots of it, but only a slight hint of warmth, plenty of vanillin oak, just a wisp of tannin (it could do with a little more for my taste, but it's there), generous and rather...

I didn't realise that was her. I've never tried those myself, but like you I would've if I'd known of that association. The winery write-up by Halliday (Sister's Run Wine & Winery | Australian Wine Companion) makes a clever fist of implying rather indirectly that the label is more marketing-...