This category has in excess of 1000 wines including current releases and an extensive range of back vintages reds from our vintage cellar. All wines listed have been purchased from suppliers at the time of release and cellared in our underground cellar. It is Leura Cellars policy not to buy wines from the secondary market as we cannot guarantee that such wines have been cellared correctly. Examples include Penfolds Grange from 1965-2000 and numerous vintages of Penfolds Bin 707, St. Henri and super premiums from most of the major suppliers.
Pronounced: cab-er-nay so-vin-yon Cabernet Sauvignon has small berries with thick skins and produces the worlds best known full flavoured robust red wines. As red wine flavours come substantially from the skins where the colour, tannins and flavours build up, Cabernet Sauvignon readily prodcues deep colored tannic full berry flavoured reds.
Pronunced: sher-arz and sher-ra respectively. Shiraz can produce some of the worlds finest reds with intense spicy peppery flavours and excellent long term cellaring protential. In Australia it is the principal red variety used for the production of dry red table wines.
Some of the greatest red wines in the world have been produced with blends of different varietals. In Australia, the art of red wine blending has been taken to a new level with the blending of red varietals from different regions to produce wines of great complexity and quality. As an example, the famous 1962 Penfolds Bin 60A was a blend of Coonawarra cabernet and Kalimna shiraz. This section has many stunning examples of high quality red wine blends.
Pronounced: mer-low.
Merlot is increasing in populartity in Austalia as a varietal wine that offers an abundance of soft fruit flavours and silky tannins creating an easy drinking wine experience.
Pronounced: pee-no nwah
Pinot Noir is an ideal cool climate grape variety producing medium bodied wines with strawberry/raspberry fruit flavours with soft tannins that give a generous fruit driven mouth feel.
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