Pale brick-red in colour, this wine is deceptively complex. It's delicately floral and bursts with bright red fruit alongside more savoury elements such as mushroom, dried herbs and rose petal. Soft, supple and yet with a sting in the tail. Great stuff.

Sometimes, you come across a wine in which you can truly taste the passion, drive and love that went into making it. More often than not, such wines come out of Australian regions such as McLaren Vale. Our favourite example at the moment? It’s got to be the wines of SC Pannell, a genuine passion project founded by husband and wife team Steve and Fiona back in 2004, and which has grown from strength to strength to become an award winning business with a global fanbase. This is a winery which has an almost unhealthy obsession with Shiraz and Grenache grapes, and genuinely goes the extra mile when it comes to ensuring sustainable methods, capable of bringing out levels of flavour and aroma that set a new benchmark for McLaren Vale as a whole. Steve Pannell’s love of wine is one which has taken him around the world multiple times. He’s worked multiple vintages in the famed region of Barolo, and has a deep love for Nebbiolo. This led him to take on the Protero vineyard in 2019, just prior to the bushfires. He replanted most of it, but left the Nebbiolo, which had been there since 1999. This is the first release from that vineyard, made before Steve officially owned it.