Christmas Offer

We’ve teamed up with fine-wine specialists CellarHand to bring you another fundraising offer. It’s one that we hope will provide your festive gatherings with lovely wine to share, while also sending 20% of proceeds to the St John’s Pantry Appeal.

Simply select your wines from the list below, in the quantity you desire. Or, if you’d be happier delving into the whole CellarHand range (it’s impressive!), you can shop the entire site and the same deal appies.

The most important thing, however, is to please remember to enter the fundraising coupon code PANTRY APPEAL when you go to the checkout.

Thank you again for your generous support, and have a very merry Christmas.

Name	Critic reviews	Price	Buy
2024 Punt Road Pinot Gris		$26.00	Add to basket
2019 Balnaves The Blend	Fruit from the Dead Morris and Old Paulownia blocks. Cabernet co-fermented with 4.8% petit verdot. Matured for 18 months in French oak (52% new). The indefatigable fruit here is a solid match for the oak – at no point does it wither beneath the weight of it. This is a classically styled, almost old-school cabernet, but it has been handled with class. That fruit, as mentioned, is glorious. A beautiful wine which will no doubt age gracefully. 95 points. Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion	$23.00	Add to basket
2023 Punt Road Pinot Gris	At the Punt Road winery in Coldstream, we aim to produce wines that reflect the heritage of our vineyard, and the creative energy of the Yarra Valley. We select parcels of fruit from the Napoleone Vineyard that stand out for freshness and balance. We practice wild fermentation, skin contact and barrel maturation to produce a fresh but savoury pinot gris, with notes of nashi pear and cirrus. Our pinot gris was sourced from two blocks of D1V7 at the Napoleone Vineyard. We harvested earlier than usual, at around 11.9 baume, due to ideal ripening conditions. To extract maximum texture and flavour, we pressed the grapes hard. The wine was naturally fermented in old oak puncheons, with 20% being fermented in tanks to preserve the aroma. Regular stirring of the lees enhanced the wine's complexity and mouthfeel. We bottled the wine early to maintain freshness. - Jarrod Johnson, Punt Road	$26.00	Add to basket
2018 Glaetzer Eye of Ra Shiraz	98 points - Erin Larkin The Wine Advocate 19.5+/20 - Matthew Jukes, MatthewJukes.com	$652.00	Add to basket
2021 Glaetzer Bishop Shiraz	Glaetzer Bishop is a true expression of old-vine Barossa Shiraz is subtle yet expressive on the nose, with black cherries, dried spice and licorice. Then it's bright and complex with a wonderful rich mid-palate that maintains balance and finishes with texture. Flavours of dark plum and blackberry fused with dark chocolate and dried spice. Generous yet restrained tannin provides exceptional palate length and persistence. - Ben Glaetzer	$37.00	Add to basket
2020 Yeringberg 'Yeringberg' Cabernets	A blend of 61/10/10/10/9% cabernet sauvignon/cabernet franc//merlot/petit verdot/malbec from vines planted at this historic winery Yeringberg from 1969-2000. Matured 19 months in French barrique (39% new). A medium and bright ruby red. Even in a cooler year, this always great wine delivers the goods. Aromas of subtle cranberry, blackberries and brambly blackberry leaf, together with a little clove and fresh vanilla bean from the well-handled oak. Medium bodied and beautifully poised, this has fine, elegant tannins contributing to a wine that, as delicious as it is now, boasts a track record that means you can cellar it for as long as you have the patience to do so. An under-priced icon wine. 97 points. Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion 2023	$107.00	Add to basket
NV Airlie Bank Yarra Cuvée Sparkling	“80/20% chardonnay/pinot noir. Charmat method, with the NV wine sitting on full lees in tank. 6g/L dosage. A pale, bright green gold. Excellent bang for your buck here. Citrus, honey, some red fruits and just enough freshly baked biscuits to make it interesting. The palate is just dry enough, finishing clean and crisp.” 90 points. Philip Rich, Halliday Wine Companion 2022	$28.00	Add to basket