Ferngrove has long been one of my favourite Western Australian makers. I’ve long respected the integrity and value its wines typically deliver. The other day I found – to my surprise – a bottle of its Frankland River Malbec 2018 in a box I hadn’t opened for a while. The wine was a gold and perhaps even trophy winner at the Perth Show, which I won’t hold against it, and it opened into a charmingly smooth, flavoursome and polished red of medium to fullish weight that massively over-delivered on the $20 investment it would have represented. You absolutely do not have to spend a lot of money to appreciate keeping wine for a few years after release.