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Strand Cellars, 12 The Strand, Sydney (2025)

19/12/2024

Family the most important

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Christmas Tasting Friday
Tyrrell’s Wines
Tonight from 5pm in The Cellar
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This week smile activist Danny Lim was on The Strand, reminding us at Christmas what is the most important:

Family

As is family tradition, Anthony recently received a hand-written Christmas card from the Tyrrell Family of the Hunter, thanking him again for his loyalty and support throughout the year.

Now in their fifth-generation, know a thing or two about the importance of celebrating Family, through loyalty, legacy and longevity.

This Friday’s tasting is centred on these foundations.

Legacy will be in the Vat 1, Vat 47 and Vat 9, still named as such since their inception by the legendary third-generation winemaker Murray Tyrrell.

Loyalty comes from the Mother’s Shiraz, the vines planted on the site where Murray’s mother lived for all of her married life.

As for longevity, .comino.58 brings something to share from his own home cellar: a Vat 6 Hunter River Dry Red made by Murray himself in 1973. This is the very same year that our Strand Cellars Wine Merchants was established in Croydon!

Now Christmas is all about sharing, but between a little ullage with some of the liquid shared already by the Christmas angels, and the old-school bottle only have 738ml to begin with, you might want to get in early to taste history, but never fear, we will have plenty of room for all down in The Cellar to toast to the end of 2024!

On pour:

* Tyrrell’s Blanc de Blancs 2015
* Tyrrell’s Hunter Valley Semillon 2024
* Tyrrell’s Hunter Valley Chardonnay 2023
* Tyrrell’s Hunter Valley Shiraz 2022
* Tyrrell’s Mother’s Vineyard Shiraz 2022
* Tyrrell’s Vat 1 Semillon 2017
* Tyrrell’s Vat 47 Chardonnay 2021
* Tyrrell’s Vat 9 Shiraz 2018
* Tyrrell’s Hunter River Dry Red 1973

Merry Christmas from Anthony & Vlad,
and all of the Strand Cellars Family!

19/12/2024

Oui Oui Oui to Strand Cellars celebrating 25 years of business, french connections and christmas. 🎈🇫🇷🎄

Our patron Anthony invited us to an evening at in Potts Point. It’s not often we’re all together, particularly sharing a meal with Anthony and Vlad’s better halves Kim and Vesna. We can confirm Anthony and Vlad shared a delicious cut of steak 🥩 neither were cooking the bbq that evening.

Thanks to we brought our own wine with their BYO option on Monday and Tuesday nights. The sommelier carefully handled the pouring. Peta prepared a beautiful tasting menu, to guide us through the list. and Anthony procured the bottles from their personal cellars, their selection guided us from Champagne with 2009 Le Sourire de Reims through Burgundy 2014 Les Combettes Puligny-Montrachet and domaine_trapet 2002 Latricières-Chambertin, to the Rhône Valley 2016 Saint-Joseph, South Australia 1980 Grange Hermitage and Bordeaux 1980 Sauternes before finishing in the heartland of Barossa Valley with a 1946 Para liqueur port which Anthony confirmed has now all magically ‘evaporated’ over a few days.

The evening was very enjoyable and we’re thankful to Anthony for his generosity. Now’s it’s time to prepare to celebrate with our Croydon community tomorrow evening for our Christmas drinks.

📸 Peta Wood

13/12/2024

Back to Beechworth

Wine Tasting Friday
Fighting Gully Road
Tonight Friday the 13th from 5pm

Last week Stephanie .girl and Will took us “Back to Burgundy”, enchanting with stories of their time living in Burgundy.

They taught us about Chardonnay across the villages, the terroir, the climatic challenges, and how the maker of Will’s highly desirable Mystery Wine, Vincent Dauvissat, is just a “really nice dude”.

This week Stephanie and Will join us again to share insights working with some other “really nice dudes” as we go Back to Beechworth.

Before our Rhône Girl first moved to France to work with Syrah in the Northern Rhône (followed by swapping out the Syrah for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in Burgundy), Stephanie sought employment at with famed vigneron Mark Walpole and his vineyard manager Tony, to work not only with their Syrah, but also their stunning Chardonnay from the famed Smiths Vineyard.

Mark and Tony are masters of grafting, allowing them to introduce new varietals into their vineyard, fuelled particularly by Mark’s passion for Italian varietals such as Sangiovese, Aglianico and Verdicchio.

Mark and Tony are also masters of inoculation, being the first on mainland Australia to produce truffles. Cold nights in the Victorian high country’s winter are warmed by the heavenly yet earthy taste of the truffle as they employ expert hunters, Tony’s labradors Hammer and Petra, and their snuggly sleuths of adorable offspring, to help find them!

Alas, whilst Christmas tables in Italy might be laiden with truffles right now for their celebration of Natale, here Down Under it is not the right season. What we will have on offer though is a selection of beautiful wines from Fighting Gully Road which will all feel perfectly at home on your Christmas table.

Join us tomorrow night for the second last tasting of the year, as Stephanie and Will bring us Back to Beechworth!

On pour:

* Fighting Gully Road Verdicchio 2023
* Fighting Gully Road Chardonnay 2023
* Fighting Gully Road Smiths Vineyard Chardonnay 2021
* Fighting Gully Road Rosé 2022
* Fighting Gully Road Pinot Noir 2023
* Fighting Gully Road Sangiovese 2023

09/12/2024

And we’re bound for Botany Bay!

Nah, scratch that, they can come to us...

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A Study in Botany: A Christmas Beer & Gin Festival
All Brewed and Distilled in Botany
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The Cellar
12 The Strand, Croydon
5:30pm - 7pm
Tix: $10, redeemable upon purchase of a 4-pack of Slow Lane beer or a bottle of liqueur/spirits from Banks & Solander
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Alex and Yvonne started brewing out of their tiny apartment when they were living in NYC. Marty and Ed decided to fashion their own hand-beaten copper still from scratch when their backyard gin-distilling hobby exploded in demand.

They all share the same passion: crafting small-batch, family-owned and run, no-corners-cut, thoughtfully-made artisanal beverages from the backstreets of Botany.

Alex and Yvonne are Slow Lane Brewing.
They “specialise in modern interpretations of old world European ales and lagers”.

Marty and Ed are Banks & Solander Distillery.
Their “passion is making fine spirits... from the best possible ingredients for you to enjoy”.

This Thursday we have invited these “specialists in Botany” to talk about their craft, as you taste through their incredible respective range of beers and spirits.

Alex from Slow Lane will be pouring his interpretations of the old world styles inspired by the master brewers of England, Germany and of course Belgium, sharing each of their fascinating origin stories along the way.

Zac from Banks & Solander will take you on a “spiritual” journey from Gin to Rum to their range of Lemon- ( and other assorted citrus) -cello.

There is sure to be something for everyone, whether you are looking for a nice, refreshing beverage to serve on Christmas Day or something a little more substantial to share as a perfect Christmas gift.

04/12/2024

Back to Burgundy

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Strand Cellars is thrilled to have Stephanie .girl and Will back home from their vinous adventures in Burgundy to present an extra special Wine Tasting Friday down in The Cellar!

With their shared passion and expertise for the power and elegance of Bourgogne Blanc (White Burgundy), Stephanie and Will will present a few select wines from importer .euan and will be joined in The Cellar by Euan’s wine rep extraordinaire, Ian

Stephanie, Will and Ian will take you on a journey through the different expressions of Burgundy Chardonnay across Chablis to the Mâconnais, before exploring Burgundy-style high density planting back home in our own Mornington Peninsula.

On pour:

Cuvée Préférence Brut NV (on arrival)
Chablis 2022
Cuvée Flavie Bourgogne Blanc 2020
En Chailloux Mâcon-Prissé 2019
Chardonnay Mornington Peninsula 2023

Date: This Friday 6th of December

When: The Cellar open from 6pm (Champagne on arrival)
Tasting from 6:30pm

Where: The Cellar, Strand Cellars, 12 The Strand, Croydon

Tickets: $25 a head
Please pay at the shop’s front counter on arrival and you will be directed through the store, down to The Cellar

RSVP: email [email protected]
or phone 02 9747 5438

29/11/2024

Are You Gam-ay?

They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Tonight we'll learn that you shouldn't judge a wine by its label either.

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Wine Tasting Friday
A Trip Around Aotearoa
Tonight, 29th November from 5pm

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The Mills family had been farming on the picturesque and weather-protected shores of the vibrant turquoise Lake Wānaka in New Zealand's South Island for generations, but it was Rolfe Mills who was the first to venture into planting vines. His service during WWII had him positioned in Portugal, and the schist slopes of the Duoro Valley reminded him of his own home turf. Rolfe and Lois experimented with a number of cuttings they had nursed after a visit to France, finding that Pinot Noir felt most at home in its new world.

In 1987 the experimental phase saw Rolfe and Lois plant 12 rows to Gamay. It was used exclusively to make Rosé until their son Nick (who took over the winery in 2003) realised just how special the fruit from the ungrafted Gamay vines was. Nick started vinifying the fruit as a red wine that quickly gathered a cult following, his winemaking inspired by Beaujolais.

And special it was- wine critics and cult followers alike had often heralded the Rippon Gamay as being rather Pinot-esque.

In June, Nick decided to request a DNA analysis of the infamous vines. The results confirmed why the Gamay had been regarded, as Stephen Wong MW writes "unusually serious, age-worthy and structured for Gamay": turned out it is in fact an as-yet-unidentified clone of Pinot Noir!

Join us tonight as we take you on a little trip from New Zealand's North Island to its South with Urlar, Rippon and Escarpment, and come try the best Gamay you've never had!

On pour:

* Urlar Pinot Gris Gladstone 2024
* Urlar Sauvignon Blanc Gladstone 2022
* Rippon Sauvignon Blanc Lake Wānaka 2021
* Rippon "Gamay" Lake Wānaka 2022
* Rippon Mature Vine Pinot Noir Lake Wānaka 2019
* Escarpment Noir Martinborough 2021
* Escarpment Pinot Noir Martinborough 2020

22/11/2024

Metala Vertical Tasting

Wine Tasting Friday
Tonight 22nd November from 5pm

Join us tonight for a very special journey through time where we will explore the classic Shiraz-Cab blend from with vintages spanning the 70s, 80s, 90s and today.

Not to be missed!

On pour:

Metala Cabernet-Shiraz 1971
Metala Shiraz-Cabernet 1981
Metala Shiraz-Cabernet 1983
Metala Shiraz-Cabernet 1988
Metala Cabernet-Shiraz 1993
Metala Shiraz-Cabernet 1997
Metala Shiraz-Cabernet 2022

15/11/2024

175 Years Young

Wine Tasting Friday
175 Years of Yalumba
Tonight, 15 November from 5pm

Peramangk Country has always been fertile and giving. The Peramangk People lived respectfully with the lands, gifted in return with an abundance of its resources.

And so when the European explorers happened upon this fertile and resourceful land that we now know as the Barossa Valley, they deemed it to be “fine cattle country”.

Initial contact was generally peaceful; the Peramangk people would provide their new pale-skinned neighbours with possum skins and shelters to keep them warm, teaching them how to identify edible plants as well as how to hunt possums.

Unfortunately though by the 1840s, the relationship was far from peaceful. So it comes a bit of a surprise that 175 years ago, in 1849, a recently arrived English brewer from Dorset would acknowledge the traditional owners of his land by naming his vineyard ‘Yalumba’, the Peramangk word for ‘all the countries around’.

But in the now six generations of family winemaking and custodianship since founder Samuel Smith planted the region’s first Shiraz vines 175 years ago, things have always been done a little differently at Yalumba. And in the mindset of their founding great-great-great grandfather, always with great respect for the past, and an even greater consideration for the future.

Join us for this special anniversary tasting of Yalumba as we look back on their 175 years and six generations of winemaking. Don’t miss the ‘Signature’ Aussie red, the institution that is the Cab-Shiraz blend, the flagship ‘Octavius’ Shiraz aged in Yalumba’s own Octave barrels, and of course, the ‘Menzies’ Cabernet, named for the Prime Minister who so loved it!

* GEN Organic Pinot Grigio 2024
* Eden Valley Roussane 2023
* Eden Valley Viognier 2022
* Eden Valley Chardonnay 2023
* Barossa Grenache 2023
* Barossa Galway Vintage Shiraz 2022
* Barossa Shiraz 2022
* The Octavius 2018
* The Signature 2021
* Sanctum 2021
* The Menzies 2019

08/11/2024

Birds of a feather

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Wine Tasting Friday
Pinot Gris, Pinot Rosé, Pinot Noir
Tonight, 8th November from 5pm

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Join us tonight as we explore Pinot in a rainbow of tastes and textures, from Pinot Gris and Pinot Rosé from the Adelaide Hills, to a tour of Tassie, Australia’s cool-climate hotspot for Pinot Noir!

On pour:

🦢 Bird in Hand Sauvignon Blanc 2024 🦢
🪿 Bird in Hand Pinot Gris 2024 🪿
🦩 Bird in Hand Pinot Rosé 2024 🦩
🐦‍⬛ Nocton Estate Pinot Noir 2022 🐦‍⬛
🐦‍⬛ Nocton Willow Pinot Noir 2018 🐦‍⬛
🐦‍⬛ Lost Farm Pinot Noir 2022 🐦‍⬛
🐦‍⬛ Corryton Burge Pinot Noir 2023 🐦‍⬛

01/11/2024

Strand Cellars Vertical:
Talking Up 50 Years on The Strand

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Wine Tasting Friday
Tonight, 1st November from 5pm

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Earlier this year, Anthony and Vlad celebrated a milestone:

25 years of being “stranded together” at Strand Cellars.

But what is even more extraordinary than an independent, family-owned and family-run local bottle-o surviving a quarter of a century in the business is the fact that the liquor store has been here, serving our Croydon community, for half a century!

Our Strand Cellars wine merchants, formally known as Croydon Cellars, started trading, this week in fact, back in 1973, with Vlad reporting for duty in 2006 and Anthony taking the reins in 1999. With a cumulative half-century between them, on The Strand they have watched people and businesses come and go, and they certainly have a story or two to tell!

This week at Strand Cellars Anthony and Vlad look back, as the store enters its second half of a century, with 51 years of local stories and a vertical tasting of Strand Cellars’ own label.

Anthony observes of this week’s line-up: “yes, Strand Cellars does like Shiraz!”.

“This tasting will never be repeated” says Anthony, “closing out 50 years in business and 25 years as Strand Cellars, wine merchants. Don’t miss it!”

On pour (and purchasable):

Eden Valley Riesling 2024
Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2021
Maywald 1926 Barossa Syrah 2021
Woodcutter’s Shiraz 2022
The Struie Shiraz 2022
Filsell Barossa Old Vine Shiraz 2016

On pour (and priceless):

- Strand Cellars Artist Series Clare Valley Riesling 2016
- Strand Cellars Clare Valley Chardonnay 2014
- Strand Cellars Barossa Shiraz 2022
- Strand Cellars Barossa Shiraz 2012
- Strand Cellars Barossa Shiraz 2010
- Strand Cellars Barossa Shiraz 2008
- Strand Cellars Barossa Shiraz 2007

24/10/2024

It’s a Family Affair with Don, Harold, Bruce, Maurice, Rob & Les…

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Wine Tasting Friday
IZWAY WINES
Friday 25th October from 5pm

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Sometimes a picture speaks a thousand words...
.. and sometimes we should all try to be a little more like Bruce

On pour this week:

• Izway Maurice Barossa Valley Grenache 2022
• Izway Rob & Les Barossa Valley Shiraz 2019
• Izway Bruce Barossa & Eden Valley Shiraz 2021
• Izway Harold Eden Valley Shiraz 2017
• Izway Don Barossa Valley Shiraz 2016

18/10/2024

The Grace of Japanese Winemaking

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Wine Tasting Friday
Grace Wine
Tonight, 18th October from 5pm

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Join Michael from and the team in-store tonight as we talk Japan, pretty pink grapes, horizontal vines and a century of Japanese winemaking across five generations with

On pour:

🌸 Grace Gris de Koshu 2023
🌸 Grace Kayagatake Koshu 2022
🌸 Grace Koshu 2021
🌸 Grace Koshu Hishiyama Vineyard 2022
🌸 Grace Yamanashi de Grace 2021
🌸 Grace Akeno 2020
🌸 Plus a few Japanese surprises!

10/10/2024

A Tasting 322 Years in the Making

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Wine Tasting Friday
Tahbilk Marsanne Vertical
… AND …
Best’s Great Western
Tonight 11th October from 5pm

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It may have been a short week this week, but it’s been a long time between drinks...
.. 322 years in fact!

Celebrating their 158th birthday this year, were established in 1866. And first cultivated just some six years prior, the winery formally known as Chateau Tahbilk is celebrating their 164th year.

have always paid homage to the Northern Rhône with its selection of varieties, and today boasts some of world’s oldest productive pre-phylloxera Shiraz vines, planted back in 1860!

Tonight though we focus on another significant Northern Rhône grape: Marsanne.

Although the original plantings of Marsanne have not stood the tests of time quite like the Tahbilk Shiraz, Tahbilk’s Marsanne vines are considered the world’s oldest and largest single planting of the varietal, with the vines dating back to 1927!

The almost centenarian vines thrive in the rich ferric soils of the region, nurtured by the cooling influence of the network of lakes, billabongs and creeks on Taungurung country’s “tabilk-tabilk”, or “place of many waterholes”.

The Purbrick family have long picked the fruit early to retain a higher natural acidity, great for longevity. As Marsanne ages, its aromas of honeysuckle and quince are enhanced, and the palate develops a delightful texture of beeswax.

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Join us tonight as we present a very special tasting: a vertical of Tahbilk Marsanne spanning seven vintages from 2022 all the way back to 2007!

And for those worried that we skimmed over the mention of Shiraz, favouring the tasting around the white Northern Rhône varietal, never fear:

We have saved the Best’s for last!

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03/10/2024

Long weekender blender!

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The message is short...
Classic Aussie Blends on pour.
The weekend is long.

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Wine Tasting Friday
Friday 4th from 5pm

On pour:

- d’Arenberg The Stump Jump White Blend 2021
- Torbreck The Steading Blanc 2022
- Kilikanoon Killerman’s Run GSM 2022
- d’Arenberg The Stump Jump GSM 2019
- Cabernet Blend 2021
- Yalumba The Signature Cabernet Shiraz 2016

Be safe, enjoy the long weekend.
Cheers,
The Strand Cellars Team

27/09/2024

What’s Up???

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Wine Tasting Friday
What’s Up in Margaret River
Tonight, 27th September from 5pm

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Cowaramup, Gnarabup, Wilyabrup, Yallingup...

There is a lot to look “up” to down in the south-west corner of WA.

For the Noongar people, the suffix -up means “place of”. The convention for naming places was in fact used a navigational tool by the many different groups of the Noongar as they traversed their expansive Boodja, or country. The place names serve as a descriptor of what might be found there: a particular food source, a weather warning or even drawing one’s attention to a particular geographic feature. Wagerup for example means “place of the emu”. Yallingup is the “place of holes”, or caves, as in “watch out for those holes!”

And the Noongar name for the Margaret River is Wooditchup, or “place of Wooditch”, the magic man who created the river and its surrounding caves in the Dreaming.

The river makes its way through ancient soils over a granite base, as it carves its way to the ocean. The Wadandi, or saltwater people who have known for millennia just how special this “place” is, describe the six seasons of their calendar year, based on patterns observed in the plants, the reptiles, the fish and the animals, as they live on Boodja.

For the wine world though, the understanding of these six seasons is often simplified to the Margaret River being described as Australia’s Bordeaux.

An isolating/liberating drive three hours south of Perth, the region is surprisingly cool, thanks to maritime climate influenced by both the Indian and Great Southern Oceans, and the stabilising effect of the Leeuwin Current.

The ancient soils are alive with a diverse microbiome, and whilst sandy soils create a rich and opulent Chardonnay, the well-drained, heat-retaining gravelly soils are ideal for Cabernet Sauvignon!

Come on down tonight as we drink UP to this special place with two iconic wineries, and !

19/09/2024

Happy International Grenache Day!

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Wine Tasting Friday
Willunga 100
Tonight, 20th September from 5pm

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Join Brand Ambassador David in-store tonight as he presents a study in old bush vine Grenache across Blewitt Springs, Clarendon and the greater McLaren Vale.

On pour:

Willunga 100 Grenache Rosé McLaren Vale 2024
Willunga 100 Grenache McLaren Vale 2022
Willunga 100 Trott Vineyard Grenache Blewitt Springs 2021
Willunga 100 Smart Vineyard Grenache Clarendon 2021
Willunga 100 The Tithing Grenache McLaren Vale 2018

18/09/2024

The wine of kings 🍷

Strand Cellars, pouring

- at our Wine Tasting Friday
- MMario's Pizzeria Croydon
- on the weekend at home
- on holiday in France

12/09/2024

Lust for Life!

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🍷Wine Tasting Friday🍷
Meet the Winemaker in-store!!!
Iggy Wines
Tomorrow 13th September from 5pm

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Igor “Iggy” Kucic joins us in-store this Friday to chat about his winemaking influences from around the world, as we pour his wines from Barossa Valley and surrounds. All welcome!

We started the conversation with Iggy early this week, over dinner at Croydon institution and during a drive to his wine trade appointments across Sydney.

After a lengthy discussion on Iggy’s winemaking journey and the importance of terroir across his adopted home in the Barossa, his birth home in Slovenia and his borrowed homes in NZ, US and France, I had to ask Iggy if he would indulge me one “stooge” of a question...

I explained that “in our Croydon Community of Friday Wine Tasters, we have many fans of the Great Aussie Sparkling Shiraz. Would you consider using your Syrah to release an Iggy Pop?”.

Iggy laughed, but then reflected before giving a very considered answer.

As much as he embraces the rule-free winemaking lifestyle offered in a non-appellation-abiding society like Australia, where he is free to experiment and push the boundaries, he and his partner Timna are only a small winery; it is better to make a few things well rather than try to be everything to everyone.

And there is a great message in that wisdom of considered rule-breaking:

A lust for life… but in moderation.

On pour:

- Iggy Deda Barossa Valley Roussanne/Marsanne 2022
- Iggy Forreston Adelaide Hills Syrah 2021
- Iggy H&C Eden Valley Syrah 2021
- Iggy Maywald 1926 Barossa Valley Syrah 2021

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