Easily the most impressive wine in the Marron Creek range, this ultra spicy red is drenched with black mushrooms, dark fruit and all these lovely earthen hints. It's like a hearty, slow cooked meal but in wine form. Just when you think this organic West Aussie red is going to get too firm and heavy, it ends up finishing with this warming, but not hard, savoury spice mediumness. Want to know what that unusual blackberry note is in the mix? That's the 5% Malbec putting a little extra berry flavour into the mix!

Marron Creek Wine Co. is the work of Brian Kent, who is also the chief winemaker at Western Australian star winery Frankland Estate. The Marron Creek project is centred around a forgotten jewel - a certified organic vineyard once known as the Old Kent River in the very south of the Frankland River region. Not only does the property boast forty-year-old vines, but they're surrounded by a series of ponds filled with local West Australian marron, hence the name. Who wouldn't want an old vineyard with ponds full of amazing local crayfish? The wines are impressive, too, with a trio of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Shiraz/Syrah that look cool, spicy and yet rather powerful. Not that we'd expect anything else for a winemaker who already produces some of WA's most famous wines under the Frankland Estate label!