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GWD has owned Colonial Estate since about 2010, so 2012 vintage made by them. Boozebud also sells them (not sure of the connection between them now, Boozebud nearly folded and was resurrected and still seems associated with GWD). I bought a 6-pack of Emigre 2021 Shiraz for $67 from Boozebud recently. The higher RRP wines are/were under cork, the cheaper ones Screwcap, might be changing now. TCE wines were never worth the asking price, hence their demise under the original owners. You can turn down/off marketing communications for GWD in your account settings.Sadly getwinesdirect is still the only place Colonial Estate wines are sold as otherwise their spam emails and annoying phonecalls from Nambour are so so so annoying.
I note that the 2017 was still using cork, but I think the 2019 vintage has moved to screwcaps looking at the photo on their website.
I agree that sooner or later the quality of the Exile shiraz will drop to match the selling price of $25/ bottle, but I have been buying a dozen on and off since their 2012 vintage and still seems to be going along with consistent quality. Cellarable for 10-12 years in my opinion.
Update: I bought 2006/2008 Exile for $31pb from GWD in 2011, some of the last made by the original owners, rocking in at 15%. And I'm not a big fan of GWD, refused to buy there for many years after an extended email run-in with the (in)famous Tony Sells and still buy there infrequently long after his departure.
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