Bass Phillip’s least-known wine….for now. With a depth of both colour and flavour, this won’t stay a secret for long. Plenty of rose-petal, violet and pepper, along with the standard mouth-watering tannins of the variety. Ripe, deep and with real presence.

Australias always been a land with a brave and pioneering spirit – from building settlements in the desert, to the national pastimes of crocodile wrangling, shark punching and perhaps most dangerous of all, Aussie rules football. It is with this national taste for adventure and new sensations that Bass Phillip was founded in Victoria, a winery which takes its name from two explorers who first mapped this part of the country. For about twenty years, Bass Phillip has been on the front line of the new Australian wine scene. Phillip Jones, the founder, has recently stepped aside, but the wines remain as strong as ever, in part thanks to the input of Jean-Marie Fourrier, a famed Burgundian winemaker. Bass Phillip is regularly cited as being outstanding, and is way up there with the other big names of Australian wine production….this doesn’t look like changing any time soon.