This is immediately likeable - a very plush, juicy nose, with lots of squished red berries, succulent and fresh. There's a pleasant mix of redcurrant, mulberry, rose petal and lavender, with the telltale Central Victorian touch of pepper and eucalypt. This really seems to come alive with some air, so decant it if you can and dive right in. Textured, balanced, delicious.

B Minor is the side label of superb winemaker Ben Haines, who has spent serious time working as chief winemaker for some of Victoria's best wineries, from Mitchelton to Yering Station to Mt Langi Ghiran. He jumped in with both feet in the 2018 vintage to devote himself fully to his own label - simply named Ben Haines - and hasn't looked back. Although he had made wine under his own label since 2009, he was always scampering to make things meet, with a full time job in some great winery keeping him busy. Did we mention he also popped over to France a few times and made wine there? Clever, but busy, man. His training was in the vineyard, and so his wines are expressions of place rather than of process. All the wines are intensely textural, with layering of flavour taking place. The structures of acid and tannin frame these wines, and give basis for subtle yet persistent flavours.