| Good Australian Wines | | | | five years. Mount Edelstones first vintage was in |
| Some Australian wines have become highly prized | | | | 1952 with consecutive vintages, this full bodied |
| for their excellence and are sought after not just | | | | wine has consistently been a medal and trophy |
| for their taste but for their potential as | | | | winner at major Australian and International wine |
| investments. The most well-known is the Penfolds | | | | shows. Ideal drinking ranges from ten to twenty |
| Grange and this and some of the other classic | | | | years. Wynns |
| Australian wines are discussed in this article. | | | | Wynns winery is located at Coonawarra in South |
| Penfolds | | | | Australia. Wynn’s John Riddoch and |
| Penfolds is a South Australian winery based in the | | | | Wynn’s Cabernet Sauvignon are both |
| Barossa Valley. Penfolds Grange is considered the | | | | regarded as classic cabernet sauvignons. John |
| definitive red wine in Australia and since 1951 it | | | | Riddoch was first made in 1982 and is only |
| has been a model of style and consistency. It is | | | | produced in good years, a full bodied powerful |
| based on Barossa shiraz with some cabernet | | | | wine with pronounced French oak character. Ideal |
| sauvignon. It has won a host of medals and | | | | drinking ranges from fifteen to twenty five years. |
| trophies in major wine Shows and was a | | | | Wynns Cabernet Sauvignon was first produced in |
| well-kept secret until 1995, when the 1990 vintage | | | | 1952. This would be one the best value wines in |
| was awarded Wine of the Year by the American | | | | Australia, offering the consumer a wine ready to |
| magazine Wine Spectator. This has helped take | | | | drink upon release. It is also a wine with good |
| the price of 1990 Grange from $100.00 per bottle | | | | ageing qualities from ten to twenty years, with a |
| to over $500.00 | | | | good vintage. Lindemans |
| Penfolds Limited Bin Reds are also highly regarded. | | | | Lindemans in South Australia has two classic wines |
| Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon is a | | | | with St George and Limestone Ridge. Lindemans |
| multi-region blend matured in American oak which | | | | St George is a cabernet sauvignon . Theyfirst |
| represents the pick of the South Australian crop. | | | | started making this wine in the early 1970's with |
| Henschke’s | | | | the most famous being the 1980 vintage winning |
| Henschke is a small South Australian winery with | | | | the 1981 Jimmy Watson Trophy. A medium to full |
| old vine plantings in Eden Valley as well as some | | | | bodied wine ideal for drinking after eight to fifteen |
| relatively modern plantings in the Adelaide Hills. | | | | years. Limestone Ridge is an excellent example of |
| Henschke’s Hill of Grace and | | | | a shiraz cabernet blend with shiraz being the |
| Henschke’s Mount Edelstone are both | | | | dominant grape. A consistent medal and trophy |
| classic shiraz wines. Hill of Grace first vintaged in | | | | winner on the wine show circuit. This is ideal for |
| 1958.It is generally regarded as Australia's most | | | | drinking after eight to fifteen years. |
| sought after wine after Grange. This single | | | | Other classics include Mount Mary cabernets and |
| vineyard wine is produced from old low yielding | | | | chardonnay, Seppelts Dorrien Cabernet and Great |
| vines, producing a full bodied complex wine which | | | | Western shiraz and Hardys Eileen Shiraz and Eileen |
| marries firmness with velvet like fineness with | | | | Chgardonnay. |
| optimum drinking ranging from fifteen to twenty | | | | |