Australian Made

South Australia

Wolf Blass Red Label Tawny 750ml

We stock it because it is number three in ALM's wine-other segment with 4.40% share, up from fourth last year. Tawny has a loyal and badly under-served audience.

750 mL17.5%10.0 std

South Eastern Australia

Hardys VR Shiraz 1L

We stock it because it is number three in ALM's national still red segment with 1.38% share, up from fourth last year. A litre of drinkable shiraz at this price has a permanent audience.

1000 mL13.0%10.3 std

South Eastern Australia

Banrock Station Moscato 1L

We stock it because it is number two in ALM's national moscato segment with 9.28% share, held from last year. Moscato buyers shop by brand and by format, and this is the litre answer.

1000 mL6.0%4.7 std

Australia

Divas VKAT Original 700ml

We stock it because it is number one in ALM's wine-other segment with 7.65% share, held year on year. It sells on price and format, and the demand for it is consistent.

700 mL22.0%12.2 std

Renmark, South Australia

St Agnes VS Brandy 150ml

We stock it because it is number two in ALM's other-spirits segment with 8.42% share, steady year on year. The small format reaches a customer the 700ml never does.

150 mL37.0%4.4 std

Queensland

Bundaberg Underproof Rum 700ml

We stock it because it is number two in ALM's national dark rum segment with 13.36% share, steady on last year. Dark rum is a brand-loyal category and Bundy is the brand.

700 mL37.0%20.0 std

Hunter Valley, New South Wales

Brokenwood Graveyard Shiraz

We stock it because the fine Australian red range cannot be all Barossa and Coonawarra. Graveyard is the Hunter's entry in that conversation, and it is the wine Hunter drinkers come looking for by name.

750 mL13.5%8.0 std

Barossa Valley, South Australia

Kaesler Old Bastard Shiraz

We stock it because old-vine provenance is the Barossa's real advantage over every other region on earth, and Old Bastard is one of the clearest statements of it.

750 mL14.5%8.5 std

South Australia

Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet

We stock it because shiraz cabernet is an Australian idea before it is anyone else's, and because this bottle is number five in the state while the two single varieties are one and three - the customers are not choosing between them, they are buying all of them.

750 mL14.5%8.6 std

Barossa Valley, South Australia

Yalumba Antique Tawny 375ml

We stock it because a fortified wine is the one bottle on this shelf that is better a month after opening than a week after, and this is the least expensive way to find that out.

375 mL19.0%5.6 std

Rutherglen, Victoria

Morris of Rutherglen Old Premium Rare Muscat

We stock it because it is the single most distinctly Australian thing in the range: there is no equivalent made anywhere else, and most people who try it have never had anything like it.

750 mL17.0%10.1 std

Barossa Valley, South Australia

Penfolds Grandfather Rare Tawny

We stock it because it is the bottle people buy for a birth year or a retirement, and because it will still be drinking well long after the occasion.

750 mL20.0%11.8 std

Barossa Valley, South Australia

Penfolds Great Grandfather Rare Tawny

We stock it because aged Australian fortified is world class and almost nobody markets it. It is also the strongest gift on the list for someone who already has everything.

750 mL20.0%11.8 std

Yarra Valley, Victoria

Chandon Vintage Brut

We stock it because it is the bridge between Australian sparkling and champagne. It carries a name customers already trust at a fraction of the champagne price, which makes it the easiest step up on the sparkling shelf.

750 mL12.5%7.4 std

Tasmania

Jansz Tasmania Vintage Cuvée

We stock it because Tasmanian sparkling is the category Australian wine is currently winning, and Jansz is the name customers already know. It anchors the shelf between Australian sparkling and champagne.

750 mL14.0%7.4 std

Eden Valley, South Australia

Irvine Grand Merlot

We stock it because the good merlot on most shelves is nearly all imported, and this is the strongest Australian answer to that. It is the bottle to reach for when someone says they do not like merlot.

750 mL14.4%8.5 std

Margaret River, Western Australia

Woodlands Cabernet Merlot

We stock it because it puts serious Margaret River cabernet under fifty dollars. That is where most of a cabernet range should sit, and very little of it is this good.

750 mL13.5%8.0 std

Wrattonbully, South Australia

Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard Merlot Cabernet Franc

We stock it because it is the clearest way to taste what Wrattonbully gives that neighbouring Coonawarra does not, and because a fine wine shelf carrying only famous names teaches nobody anything.

750 mL14.9%8.8 std

Margaret River, Western Australia

Cullen Diana Madeline

We stock it because Margaret River cabernet is the strongest claim Australia has to a world-class red style other than Barossa shiraz, and Diana Madeline sits at the top of it.

750 mL13.0%7.7 std

Coonawarra, South Australia

Petaluma Coonawarra

We stock it because Coonawarra cabernet is a style customers ask for by region rather than by producer. Petaluma is the name that answers that.

750 mL14.5%8.6 std

Coonawarra, South Australia

Yalumba The Menzies

We stock it because it is the value entry into serious Coonawarra cabernet, sitting well below the region's flagships without giving up the character.

750 mL13.5%8.0 std

Barossa Valley, South Australia

Yalumba The Octavius

We stock it because Yalumba is the oldest family winery in the country and Octavius is what it makes to be judged on. It belongs in the Barossa tier beside Torbreck and Kaesler.

750 mL14.5%8.6 std

Grampians

Best's Thomson Family Shiraz

We stock it for credibility at the top of the Australian shiraz range. Anyone looking at Grange, Hill of Grace and The Armagh expects to find Thomson Family beside them, and a list that stops short of it reads as incomplete.

750 mL13.5%8.0 std

McLaren Vale, South Australia

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz

We stock it because McLaren Vale deserves a place in the fine shiraz range alongside Barossa and Clare, and at this price Dead Arm is one of the best-value serious reds on the list.

750 mL15.0%8.9 std

South Australia

Penfolds Grange

We stock it because Grange is the most searched Australian wine there is. Whatever else is on the list, customers check whether Grange is on it.

750 mL14.5%8.6 std

Margaret River, Western Australia

Howard Park Abercrombie Cabernet Sauvignon

We stock it because it gives the cabernet range a second Western Australian voice below Cullen. There is a real gap between the sixty dollar and the hundred-and-sixty dollar cabernet, and this fills it.

750 mL14.0%8.3 std

Barossa Valley, South Australia

Torbreck RunRig

We stock it because Torbreck is the modern Barossa's loudest voice and RunRig is its statement wine. It sits naturally beside the Kaesler and Penfolds top tier.

750 mL15.0%8.9 std

Eden Valley, South Australia

Henschke Hill of Grace

We stock it because Grange without Hill of Grace is half a fine wine list. These two names are what a serious Australian range is judged on before anything else gets looked at.

750 mL14.5%8.6 std

Clare Valley, South Australia

Jim Barry The Armagh

We stock it because the top Australian shiraz shelf needs Clare beside Barossa and Eden Valley. Grange, Hill of Grace and The Armagh are the three names that set it.

750 mL13.6%8.0 std

Canberra District, New South Wales

Clonakilla Shiraz Viognier

We stock it because it is the most influential cool-climate shiraz in the country, and the one wine at this level made within driving distance of Sydney.

750 mL14.0%8.3 std

New South Wales

McWilliam's Royal Reserve Tawny

We stock it because it is number three in the state in its segment, and because it is the cheapest thing in this range that will still be good six months after it is opened - which is the whole point of a fortified wine and something no other bottle here can claim.

750 mL17.5%10.4 std

South Eastern Australia

Seaview Sparkling Shiraz

We stock it because it is number six in the state and number two nationally. It takes the place of two flavoured wine spritzes that outrank it locally, which are a different drink wearing this category's name.

750 mL13.0%7.7 std

South Eastern Australia

Gossips Sweet Lips Moscato

We stock it because it is number five in the state and it holds the entry price in a category where the entry price does most of the work.

750 mL7.5%4.4 std

South Eastern Australia

McGuigan Black Label Sparkling Shiraz

We stock it because it is number two in the state on 16.45%, and because it is the least expensive way into a style most people have only had at someone else's house.

750 mL13.0%7.7 std

South Eastern Australia

Andrew Garrett Sparkling Shiraz NV

We stock it because it holds 21.62% of the segment in New South Wales and is number one nationally, and because sparkling shiraz on an Australian Christmas table is a tradition no imported bottle can replace.

750 mL13.0%7.7 std

South Australia

Penfolds Club Tawny

We stock it because it is number eight in the state in a segment nobody merchandises any more, and because the customer who buys it has usually been buying it for forty years and cannot find it.

750 mL17.5%10.4 std

South Eastern Australia

Gossips Moscato Pink

We stock it because it is number four in the state and the cheapest bottle in this whole range, and because moscato is more often bought for a group than for a glass.

750 mL7.5%4.4 std

King Valley, Victoria

Brown Brothers Moscato Rose

We stock it because it is number two in the state, and because between the two of them Brown Brothers hold more than a quarter of everything sold in this category.

750 mL5.5%3.3 std

South Eastern Australia

Yellow Tail Bubbles Rose

We stock it because it is number two in the state, and because the same wine is on shelves in eighty countries - a customer who has had it in a hotel in Singapore can find it here.

750 mL11.0%6.5 std

South Eastern Australia

Tread Softly Rose

We stock it because it is number six in the state and it is the only line in this entire range whose argument is something other than price, grape or place - and because that argument is checkable, which is the test everything on this site has to pass.

750 mL12.0%7.1 std

Pipers River, Tasmania

Jansz Tasmania Premium Rose

We stock it because it is number five in the state and the only serious sparkling rose in the list. It takes the place of a second, nearly identical Yellowglen bottling that outranks it - a shelf with two of the same wine on it and nothing above forty dollars is not a category.

750 mL12.5%7.4 std

Australia

Yellowglen Pink

We stock it because it holds 32.83% of the sparkling rose segment in New South Wales. One bottle in three sold in this category is this bottle, and no other line in this range comes close to that.

750 mL11.0%6.5 std

South Eastern Australia

Tatachilla White Admiral Rose

We stock it because it is number five in the state and the cheapest rose here that is not a leftover, and because it holds the entry price point in a category where the entry price point does most of the volume.

750 mL11.5%6.8 std

South Eastern Australia

Jacob's Creek Sparkling Rose

We stock it because it is number four in the state and because Jacob's Creek is the name most often written on a shopping list where the list just says sparkling.

750 mL11.5%6.8 std

King Valley, Victoria

Brown Brothers Moscato

We stock it because it holds 18.81% of the segment in New South Wales and is number one nationally, and because it is the lowest-alcohol wine on this shelf by a wide margin - roughly a third the strength of the reds.

750 mL5.5%3.3 std

South Eastern Australia

De Bortoli Rose Rose

We stock it because it is number three in the state and the highest-ranked Australian rose here, and because a category led by a New Zealand bottle and a French one needs a local answer.

750 mL11.5%6.8 std

New South Wales

Tempus Two Varietal Prosecco

We stock it because it is number five in the state and it is the prosecco that sits under the King Valley bottle, and prosecco is the only sparkling style whose sales are still growing.

750 mL11.5%6.8 std

King Valley, Victoria

De Bortoli King Valley Prosecco

We stock it because it holds 5.96% of the sparkling white segment in New South Wales - the largest share of any single wine in this entire range - and because it is number one nationally as well.

750 mL11.5%6.8 std