This is a fab example of a very serious rosé. Crafted from handpicked Shiraz and Pinot Noir grapes from the slopes of the Thousand Candles vineyard, it's a wine that feels at once bright and quite ripe but also savoury and nuanced and sophisticated. It's pink wine for grown-ups!

Thousand Candles is a Yarra Valley estate with an almost mythical aura about it. Based around the old Killara Estate vineyard and farm that was bought by a mystery Malaysian businessman in 2009, Thousand Candles famously landed with a bang in 2012 with the release of a single super premium Shiraz Pinot blend. That wine essentially broke the wine internet, with the hype machine going into hyperdrive thanks not only to the ambition and intent, but also the dream team of viticulturist Stuart Proud and winemaker Bill Downie behind the wines. While the ridiculousness of that time has now passed, the organic and biodynamically famed, close-planted superstar vineyard continues to be the backdrop for these wines, with the Thousand Candles range now about a small selection of highly detailed, minimal intervention Yarra Valley reds and whites of rare detail that we really like.