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The Ultimate Centrepiece Gift | Aphelion 2025 Magnum Rosé
Louise Rhodes
Feb 08, 2026
Cellar Door exclusive · 1.5L · just 320 made
The Rosé Magnum Made for the Middle of the Table
Bring the bottle everyone remembers.
Some celebrations deserve more than a standard bottle. This is 1.5 litres of Mourvèdre + Counoise rosé in a sculptural pyramid-based bottle, finished with a lace label inspired by Louise's wedding dress.
It pours the second glass for everyone. It becomes the centrepiece before dinner. And when the wine is gone, the bottle becomes a vase — a keepsake from the day you opened it.
Too tall, too precious and too beautiful for us to trust to the post. Come and capture one at our McLaren Vale Cellar Door.
Plan Your Cellar Door Visit
The wine
65% Mourvèdre + 35% Counoise from Yangarra Vineyard, Kangarilla. Strawberries and cream, cranberry, red cherry, fresh acidity and a creamy lees-built texture.
The moment
Long lunches, engagements, weddings, milestone birthdays, hen's celebrations — or the glorious decision that today deserves a magnum.
The keepsake
A sculptural pyramid-based bottle with Guipure lace detail. When the last glass is poured, wash it out and put flowers in it.
The useful bit
Is this the right bottle for your occasion?
Hosting? A magnum is approximately two standard bottles - fewer trips back to the fridge and a proper centrepiece on the table.
Gifting? It has the presence of a significant gift without becoming another object destined for a cupboard.
Travelling? This one is Cellar Door collection only. If a friend is coming through McLaren Vale, deputise them.
Dinner, sorted
The Rosé Magnum Table
Don't save it for a mythical perfect occasion. Make the occasion by opening it.
🍽️ Food
A generous table: grilled prawns, tomato salads, charred vegetables, roast chicken, good bread.
🧀 Cheese
Fresh chèvre, creamy cheeses and salty little things to pick at while everyone arrives.
🌞 Life
When lunch quietly becomes afternoon and someone pulls another chair up to the table.
🌡️ Serve
10–12°C. Cold enough to refresh; not so cold that you lose the texture and perfume.
What's inside
Much more than a frivolous rosé.
The fruit comes from the organic and biodynamically certified Yangarra Vineyard in Kangarilla. Mourvèdre (65%) and Counoise (35%) were hand-picked and co-fermented.
After gentle pressing, the wine fermented in a single 700L seasoned French oak foudré. Lees stirring every fortnight built the creamy texture beneath the bright red fruit.
12% ABV · Vegan · Unfined · DIAM Origine cork · drinking beautifully now with 2–4 years of cellaring potential.
Why can't you buy it online?
Because sometimes the sensible ecommerce answer isn't the right answer for the wine.
The bottle is unusually tall and sculptural. We produced only 320. We would rather hand one to you safely at Cellar Door than put something this precious into a freight network and hope for the best.
So this is your excuse to come and see us.
How to get yours
Your plan
1. Come to Aphelion Cellar Door at 67 Kays Rd, McLaren Vale — and taste some Grenache while you're here.
2. Not coming our way? Enlist a friend, family member or willing wine lover travelling through McLaren Vale to capture one for you.
3. Still stuck? You could even try arranging a local pickup through a service such as Airtasker. The important bit: the magnum needs to be collected from Cellar Door rather than posted by us.
4. Get it cold, invite your people and build the occasion around it. Put it in the middle of a spring picnic, carry it onto the patio for a summer lunch, or arrive at the celebration holding the bottle that makes everyone ask, “What is THAT?”
A little rosé pedigree
Rob has form with Mourvèdre-led rosé.
Before this magnum came our now-sold-out Welkin Rosé 2022. Ned Goodwin MW, writing for Halliday Wine Companion, opened his review with: “It would be hard to find a better rosé than this.”
“Succulent, intense, weighty enough and fresh, all at once. Too often a difficult equation. Mourvèdre-dominance sweeps away excess fruit while serving up loganberry, musk stick, frangipani, orange zest and dried thyme, all skittering across a sandy fretboard, while a ferrous chord evinces authority. Excellent drinking.”
Ned Goodwin MW · Halliday Wine Companion · Welkin Rosé 2022
That wine is gone. We think this Mourvèdre + Counoise magnum takes the idea somewhere even more special — although, admittedly, we may be a little biased.
Questions, answered
Rosé Magnum FAQ
Who is this Rosé Magnum for?
For the person who wants the wine to be part of the occasion, not merely something poured beside it. It suits generous hosts, memorable gift-givers, rosé lovers and anyone who enjoys arriving with something nobody else is likely to have brought.
How can I buy one?
The 2025 Rosé Magnum is available for collection from Aphelion Cellar Door at 67 Kays Rd, McLaren Vale. It is not available for postal delivery because the sculptural bottle is unusually tall and precious.
Visit us yourself, ask a friend travelling through McLaren Vale to collect one, or arrange a local pickup service. You can also email us before making plans to check availability.
What is it made from?
It is 65% Mourvèdre and 35% Counoise from Yangarra Vineyard in Kangarilla, McLaren Vale. The varieties were hand-picked and co-fermented, then fermented in a seasoned 700L French oak foudré with lees stirring to build texture.
Is the fruit organic or biodynamic?
Yes. The fruit comes from Yangarra Vineyard, which is organically and biodynamically certified. The finished wine is also vegan and unfined.
When should I drink it?
It is drinking beautifully now, with 2–4 years of cellaring potential. But the better question may be: what moment deserves it? Think a spring picnic with proper glassware, a summer meal under the patio, a long Sunday lunch, an engagement dinner or a table full of friends.
This limited-release magnum rosé from McLaren Vale was created with those moments in mind: Valentine’s Day, hen’s celebrations, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, graduations, milestone birthdays and unforgettable girls’ nights. It sits proudly within our Rosé Collection and is one of the most distinctive wines we’ve ever released.
At double the size of a standard bottle and produced in just 320 magnums, this wine arrives with presence. It commands the table, invites sharing, and signals that something special is being celebrated.
If you’re searching for a meaningful gift or celebration wine — whether for personal milestones or corporate gifting — this is the sort of bottle designed to make the moment feel significant:
- Valentine’s Day: Romantic, limited and beautifully packaged for sharing.
- A hen’s party: A magnum rosé made for group celebrations and statement moments.
- Engagements & proposals: Symbolic, elegant and designed to mark a once-in-a-lifetime occasion.
- Weddings & anniversaries: A meaningful gift with ageing potential and a keepsake bottle.
- Graduation or milestone birthdays: A luxury rosé that feels significant and celebratory.
- Best luxury rosé gift: Limited, biodynamic, visually striking and impossible to forget.
This is that bottle.
How should I serve it?
Aim for 10–12°C: properly chilled, but not so cold that you hide the perfume and creamy texture. A magnum takes longer to chill than a standard bottle, so give yourself plenty of fridge or ice-bucket time.
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