Gold Medal International Reds

From France, enjoy Château Le Coin from Bordeaux with a Double Gold and rare Grand Gold, plus three Grenache-based beauties from down south. Pillastro’s Gold-edition special cuvée offers bags of lavish old vine fruit flavour from Italy’s Puglia, and there’s pure lush Touriga Nacional from Portugal on TRIPLE Gold-winning form. Spain offers two stand out releases from Rioja including a Gran Reserva normally priced at $45 a bottle, plus a Gran Selección from Valencia and the astonishing Camino de Seda Monastrell from Jumilla. This spanish quartet alone boasts ten Golds.Come home for the silky top Trophy Leconfield Merlot from Coonawarra, and Colab & Bloom’s Adelaide Hills Tempranillo “Vibrant… in red licorice, blackberries, blue & red fruits, chocolate & sweet spices” (Halliday). Value and class all round.