With a deepish colour and a heady, floral bouquet of red cherries, blueberries and beetroot backed by gentle cedar/chocolate oak and musky spice, this is a pinot of medium to fullish weight with plenty of richness and flavour. Its mouthfilling core of dark fruit drives long and fleshy down a spine of fine, crunchy tannins, finishing savoury with a lingering note of licorice. Scorpo’s third-tier pinot is better than many top level versions priced much, much higher.

Classic Great Western shiraz given the full Champagne treatment – one of the finest examples of Australia’s unique sparkling wine. 2012 delivers a vintage whose exceptional bouquet of mulberries, cassis, dark plums and dark chocolates reveals nuances of sous bois, mushrooms and cigarbox. Long, crackly and creamy, it delivers a vivacious core of blackberries, blueberries, cassis and dark plums underpinned by a fine chalkiness. Given crunch and texture courtesy its fine effervescence, it reveals a hint of sweetness that is finely balanced by tannins and acids. Superbly balanced, already complex, it’s set for the ultra long term.

Punchy, ripe aromas of lychees, gooseberries and passionfruit backed by suggestions of cassis precede a juicy, penetrative palate whose mouthfilling core of flavour drives long and generous before being neatly wrapped in a taut, lemony acidity. A frisky, focused sauvignon blanc without a trace of the herbaceous aspects often associated with the variety.