Christmas Gifts for Wine Lovers

If you’re all out of ideas (and socks just aren’t going to cut it), we’ve created a list of beautifully presented Yalumba wine gifts for just about every wine lover on your Christmas list.

Featuring: A bottle of The Signature Cabernet Sauvignon & Shiraz 2014 and two Riedel crystal glasses

This is the ideal gift for the person who has everything, and takes their wine very seriously.

Launched in 1962, The Signature is a rich, complex and generous 100% Barossa Cabernet & Shiraz blend that is uniquely Australian.

The Signature is a celebration of wine and people, with more than 50 vintages, 50 names and 50 stories encapsulated in this one historic Cabernet & Shiraz.

Our limited-edition gift pack includes a bottle of The Signature Cabernet Sauvignon & Shiraz 2014 with two fine Riedel Veritas Cabernet Sauvignon & Shiraz crystal glasses. These glasses were specifically designed and crafted by Riedel for the first release of our most prestigious wine, The Caley Cabernet & Shiraz 2012.

It’s also beautifully presented in our custom The Signature gift box.

Featuring: Block 2 Grenache Rosé, Vine Vale Grenache, Carriage Block Grenache

Know someone who loves to entertain? This is the pack for them!

We call Grenache the “Pinot of the Barossa” for its lighter style and chameleon ability to go with just about any type of food.

Our refreshing Block 2 Grenache Rosé pairs perfectly with seafood, the Carriage Block Grenache is the ideal accompaniment to a Sunday roast chicken with rosemary potatoes, while the beautifully complex Vine Vale Grenache with layers of fruit and savoury structure is ideal with barbecued lamb chops.

For the jazz listening, cake baking, black and white movie watching person in your life, this pack is a winner.

There’s something about dessert wine that makes the nostalgic heart sing, whether it’s a tipple shared before dinner, or a dash or two in a homemade trifle, the rich, spicy, raisin fruit-filled flavours of our Tawny, Muscat and Botrytis Viognier are sure to give them plenty of options to work with.

Serve with blue cheese, or rich desserts like crème brûlée.

Featuring: The Octavius Shiraz 2015 (new release)

Is there someone you need to impress? The Octavius Shiraz is your saviour!

The Octavius Shiraz 2015is a quintessential Barossa shiraz, with its deep red colour, vibrant aromas of dark cherries, aniseed and liquorice, and a rich and powerful fruit palate.

The Octavius is handcrafted and matured in fine French oak and Yalumba coopered American octave barrels. These unique barrels, which offered inspiration for the wine’s name, are just one of the many harmonious components in the symphony that is The Octavius Shiraz.

Just make sure you’re invited to dinner when he finally takes it out of the cellar in 10 years’ time!

Featuring: The Caley Cabernet & Shiraz 2013 (new release)

The Adventurer who loves a good story will marvel at this fine wine.

The Caley is the pinnacle of a long winemaking journey of excellence that rightfully honours one of Yalumba’s most adventurous sons, Fred Caley Smith.

The grandson of Yalumba’s founder Samuel Smith, Frederick Caley Smith, shared the story of Yalumba with the world when he set off from his home in Angaston in 1893 for a grand scientific tour that would take him around the world in 635 days: from the USA, Canada, England and Europe to the Middle East, India and Sri Lanka.

A blend of Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon and Barossa Shiraz, The Caley is a classic marriage of two noble varieties and two great Australian wine regions.

The new release The Caley Cabernet & Shiraz 2013 is a deep, dark, purple-red wine with complex aromas of fresh spices, cedar and currants, and rich and textured palate with fine tannins that provide excellent length. Ideal for long-term cellaring.

Featuring: The Virgilius Viognier 2017 with Rare & Fine Gift box

This is a wine for someone who loves cooking exotic foods. Viognier is a robust, textured white wine and pairs perfectly with all kinds of cuisines, but particularly with the spicy, sweet flavours you find in Asian food, like chilli, ginger, and lime.

The Virgilius is Yalumba’s most distinguished Viognier, a wine that shows power with restraint.

Pale gold with green highlights. The nose has intense aromas of early season apricots, cardamom, white pepper and fresh ginger.

Lifted ginger spice is layered on the palate with a mineral texture and complex apricot and almond savouriness. The trademark Viognier lusciousness of the palate makes this wine complex while at the same time showing purity and restraint. This is a wine that will take the most well-travelled adventurer on a sensory journey.

Featured: The Cigar Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 (new release)

Know someone who likes to stoke up the barbecue and cook for a crowd? Look no further than our robust, luscious, yet easy drinking, The Cigar Cabernet Sauvignon.

“The Cigar” is a name given to the unique cigar-shaped strip of rich red terra rossa soil in the Coonawarra, where the grapes for this succulent wine were sourced.

Home to some of Australia’s most famous vineyards, the secret of Coonawarra lies in the intimate bond between its terra rossa soil, limestone layers, pure water and a long cool ripening season.

Fortunate to be part of this iconic place, Yalumba salutes the region’s pioneers and those privileged to inherit its future with this deep, crimson wine.

With aromas of plum, licorice allsorts, and heady violets, the palate is rich and supple, showing great depth, with dark blueberry fruits are complemented by a savoury mid palate of tapenade and dried herbs.

Perfect when paired with barbecued lamb loin chops or mushroom, tomato and basil lasagna, or a box of dark chocolate truffles!