We compare the best selection of brand name wines for you to buy online in Australia. Save money and time when you buy wine online from the best Australian online wine stores.
Don't pay too much! When you buy wine online you take advantage of low overheads and fantastic deals resulting in much lower prices for you. There are some great bargains to be had ranging from the cheaper wines under $10 a bottle through to top of the range, premium wines.
Buy Wine Online – Top 5 Hottest Deals This Week
Roger Harbord Coonawarra Cabernet 2008, Less Than Half Price
Classic Coonawarra Cabernet from Roger Harbord, Winestate Wine of the Year at less than half price!
Langhorne Creek Shiraz Under $8 a Bottle
Great, full flavoured Langhorne Creek shiraz at a fantastic price. Cancelled UK export order and much less than half price.
Mixed Case of Brand Name Red Wines: Great Savings
This mixed case of brand name red wines is fantastic value averaging $10 a bottle with free delivery. It contains big names such as Penfolds, Hardy’s, Wynns, Peter Lehmann, Grant Burge, and Jamieson’s Run. Great savings on quality red wines.
Big Savings on Grant Burge Holy Trinity GSM
From a 5 Star James Halliday rated winery and awarded 91 Points from Wine Spectator (April 2010). This price is fantastic. Save $18.85 a bottle!
Hardys Nottage Hill Shiraz 2008 – half price!
Fantastic price for this popular brand plus free delivery! Save over $7 a bottle.
Wine Brands
Grant Burge Wines»Grant Burge is a highly respected, fifth generation winemaker from the Barossa. His family has been in the winemaking business from around 1855. Grant Burge Wines was formed in 1988 in the heart of the Barossa Valley and is still family owned.
Grant Burge has developed a large number of quality vineyards in the Barossa Valley. [...]
Food and Wine
Wine and Food Matching: New Australian Book»If you have no idea what wine goes with what food or know some basic rules but would like to increase your knowledge then you’re probably going to be interested in a new Australian book on matching food and wine.
The book is called Ryn and Cordie’s wine rules after the two authors and contains lots [...]
Wine Regions
Langhorne Creek selected as Wine Partner for Food Industry Awards»Langhorne Creek is a lesser known wine region just south of Adelaide, famous for red wines and in particular cabernet sauvignon and shiraz. A wine industry was established there in the 1850s and at the time Bleasdale was the only winery there. Wolf Blass and Lindemans contributed to the growth of the region by establishing [...]
Shop Online
Tips for Buying Wine Online»There are deals to be had when you buy wine online that you just don’t see in bottle shops. This can be due to a variety of reasons:
The online wine stores have strong relationships with producers and get access to discounted wine.
Wine sometimes has to be sold off cheaply for reasons that have nothing to [...]
Wine Industry News
World’s Best Riesling Challenge»As reported by WineBiz, the 10th Canberra Riesling Challenge is taking place from 12-17 October in Canberra.
This event started off ten years ago as a small Canberra event to find the World’s best Riesling and is now a world class wine event. This year, the competition has broken previous records for the number of entries [...]
Grape Varieties
About Shiraz Viognier»
Shiraz Viognier is a blend of red and white grapes. The shiraz grape variety is the most popular red wine variety in Australia. Viognier is much less known but the blend of the two varieties has become popular in recent times.
The blending of wine usually occurs after the wine has been made. However, in the [...]
Wine Accessories
tchillbag: the funky, smart, ice bucket»
The Tchillbag is a new, funky, clever, wine accessory. It’s a sturdy, reusable bag made out of treated PVC. You add ice and water, put in your bottle of wine and enjoy a great looking and useful ice bucket. When chilled, the bag becomes rigid so it’s stable and won’t topple over. It’s also environmentally [...]
Wine Gifts
Mother’s Day Gift Ideas – Mother’s Day 2010 is 9th May!»
Mother’s Day is on 10th May, the second Sunday in May and it’s fast approaching so we’ve been scouring the best online merchants for some Mother’s Day gift ideas.
Everything But Flowers have put together a great selection of gift ideas for Mother’s Day such as pamper hampers, chocolates and champagne gift boxes. All are beautifully [...]
Merchants
Brewtopia: The people’s company!»We’re profiling Brewtopia today. They describe themselves as “not your average company”. In 2002 they created the people’s beer. Thousands of people from all over the world had a say in the development and production of a product. It was something different and it paid off for Brewtopia.
They’ve expanded into wine and have a fantastic [...]
wine and food pairings
Matching Wine and Chocolate On Valentines Day»
Wine and chocolate is a combination that springs readily to mind when thinking about romantic Valentine’s Day meals or a Valentine’s Day gift. It can be tricky to make this combination work however. Chocolate has intense flavours with the sweetness and sometimes bitter sweetness if you choose dark chocolate. It’s a complex tasting experience and [...]
Wine Education
Corks or Screwtops?»
It’s getting harder to find corks in wine bottles. Screw tops are dominant now which is an interesting development considering that wine bottles have been sealed with corks since the 1600s.
So what are the arguments for and against and what has caused the shift?
Wine History
A Very Short History Of Wine»
Wine making goes back 8000 years and is thought to have originated in Persia. It is almost certain that wine was discovered by accident due to the natural fermentation of the grapes.
Wine was known in all the ancient civilisations around the Mediterranean region. Ancient Egyptians are credited with developing pruning methods and stored wine in [...]
