Jeremiah Diaz

9.4

Clear, pale ruby in color; on the nose, it’s clean with pronounced primary aromas of black cherries, dried strawberries, and tobacco; on the palate, it's dry with high acidity, medium tannins, medium alcohol, medium body, and pronounced primary flavors of red fruit roll-ups, blueberries, hibiscus, and tar with a long finish. This wine is balanced and complex. Overall, I rate this wine as very good. Nellie didn't like it. — 15 days ago

with Nellie

Sydney Gamble

9.3

Sweet fruit, very easy to drink. Delish! — 4 years ago

Steve Cunneen

9.0

Very light, a bit dry, good partner for chips and salty snacks. — 5 years ago

caleb tenenbaum

9.4

yum!! juicy and fruity but not sweet.. balanced by nice acid and funk. label just says THE RIVER in purple seems like the importers put a totally new label on it — 6 years ago

Daniella DeVera

9.5

dark fruit, blueberry, honey. dry earth and a little mineraly at the end. — 6 years ago

Amanda Wadeson

9.0

From Australia Wine Geek Week, floral, delicate, dry, Muscat — 7 years ago

with Zach

Tony Bubbles

8.9

No pretensions and quite pleasant — 8 years ago

Donald Williams

9.4

I’d better hide the rest, or it won’t make it through the summer. — 2 months ago

with Bonnie

DANIEL SMITH

9.4

Juicy tasty tangy and just what I needed. Want to get this juice again. — 4 years ago

David Gillespie

9.5

Just delicious, amazing to see what people are getting up to in Australian wine. — 4 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.1

From the warm Riverland area this is a very tasty Monte. Fresh and spicy. Smooth tannins with a slippery mouthfeel. A great bistro wine to serve by the glass. Postscript: The ultimate Pizza Wine. — 5 years ago

Beth Hamilton

9.5

The bottle describes this wine this way: “putting your feet up” And that’s exactly what it is. It strikes a brilliant balance of Welches juicy grape juice with actual thoughtful wine. Perfect for glugging and relaxing. — 6 years ago

with Parviz

Tina Cox

9.0

Another great astor wines suggestion. I served chilled. Very cool label/bottle — 7 years ago

Brandon

9.5

Smooth Shiraz! Low in Tannins just like the bottle says! Great for casual drinking — 8 years ago

Lindsay

9.8

Unique and delicious! — 9 months ago

Paul Secombe

9.0

After introducing itself by punching you in the nose, it follows up with a Liverpool kiss. This wine is huge, and needed 48 hours to properly mellow. It packs a punch with alc/vol exceeding 9%, and was almost undrinkable on night one. By night 3 the sheer violence it threatened had softened from a ferocious roar, to the low level grumble of a big V8 engine. Give this one time and space and the rewards are well worth it — 2 years ago

Cordelia Copelan

9.0

basking in the sun and eating pineapple after swimming in the quarry. fizzy and fun! — 5 years ago

Bob McDonald

9.2

A rare and unusual grape variety native to Puglia in the heel of Italy. This is fermented on skins. Very textural with a great mouth feel. Ideal for warm climates - this is from the Riverland. Drought tolerant with thick skins. — 5 years ago

Will Bean

9.0

This lower tier wine from Hightower stands up to time very well. Well balanced fruit and structure 8yrs in. Thanks Tim&Kelly! — 6 years ago

with Jack

October Cleveland

9.3

The most intense label I’ve seen on a wine, but unlike some pretenders, that intensity carries through everything: colour, nose and flavour concentration. Red frogs, lingonberry soda on opening, turning to a super fragrant middle eastern spice mix and lamb drippings and - this is intended as a compliment- burnt strawberries and rhubarb shrub (the vinegar cordial kind). Great structure and pitch perfect savoury finish, tightrope tannins. Was expecting frivolity, but this pipe blew me away. — 7 years ago