Seven regions, one for each stop on the tour. You will taste four of them at the bench — the four that grew nearest the room you are standing in. There is no cart on this website and there is not going to be one.
Rutherford & Dray · Semillon · 2024 · 11.0%
The Hunter's own trick: picked early, no oak, eleven per cent, and it tastes like nothing much for five years before it turns into toast and lime and one of the great white wines of the country.
Rutherford & Dray · Chardonnay · 2023 · 12.8%
Wild-fermented in one-third new French oak and left on lees until it stopped arguing. White peach and curd lemon with a chalk line running underneath.
Kellerman Wines · Pinot Noir · 2023 · 13.2%
Thirty per cent whole bunch, foot-trodden, and pressed before anyone was quite ready. Red cherry, wet stem, and a savoury edge that makes the second glass better than the first.
Kellerman Wines · Chardonnay · 2024 · 12.5%
From the highest, coldest block on the property. Picked nine days before anything else and kept in old oak so it stays taut — green apple, white flowers, a saline finish.
Halverson Estate · Shiraz · 2022 · 13.8%
Nine hundred metres up on decomposed granite, which is not where anyone expects Queensland wine to come from. Medium weight, dark plum, a line of pepper straight through the middle.
Halverson Estate · Verdelho · 2025 · 12.0%
The variety Queensland actually does well and almost nobody talks about. Nashi pear and lime leaf, bone dry, and cold enough to be dangerous on a hot afternoon.
Oberon Vineyards · Grenache · 2023 · 14.0%
Bush vines planted in 1948 on sand over limestone. Red berry, dried herb, almost no tannin to speak of, and served slightly cool it is one of the easiest bottles in the country to finish.
Oberon Vineyards · Riesling · 2025 · 11.5%
Off the top of the Hills where the frost still catches people out. Lime pith, green apple, wet slate, and acid that arrives about two seconds after you think it is finished.
Barrowman & Co · Cabernet Sauvignon · 2021 · 13.9%
The reason Margaret River exists. Cassis, bay leaf, fine chalky tannin, and a structure that will still be standing when everyone who made it has retired.
Barrowman & Co · Chenin Blanc · 2024 · 12.2%
Old chenin off vines nobody bothered to pull out in the eighties, which turns out to have been the right decision. Quince, beeswax, and a long dry finish.
Tindale · Sparkling Chardonnay Pinot · NV · 12.0%
Made the slow way and disgorged by hand. Pale copper, strawberry skin, bone dry, and the bubble is fine enough that people ask what it is every single time.
Tindale · Pinot Noir · 2023 · 13.0%
Tasmania does this better than anywhere else in the country and the rest of Australia is still catching up. Dark cherry, forest floor, and tannin like fine sand.
Gundagai Road · Shiraz Viognier · 2022 · 13.5%
Co-fermented the old northern Rhône way, which lifts the whole thing and makes it smell like violets and white pepper before you have even tasted it.
Gundagai Road · Riesling · 2025 · 11.8%
Six hundred metres up, where the growing season is short and the nights are cold enough to hold everything in place. Lemon blossom, lime, and a finish that goes on longer than it has any right to.
Every one of these is made in small enough volume that a national mail order would empty the cellar by March. More usefully: each wine was chosen to sit beside a particular work, in a particular room, poured by somebody who can tell you why.
Take two bottles home from the bench and the session fee comes off. That is the only transaction on offer, and it happens in person.