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Regular bottled sunshine deliveries to your door â what could be more convenient than that? We sweeten the deal by making the club totally flexible, offering exclusive benefits, and free gifts as well.
A very special and exclusive set of rewards are in store for the most valued appreciators of our Aphelion wines - our Bottled Sunshine Wine Club Members.
Your commitment to us as a member is so important to the sustainability of our dream to make delicious wines to be enjoyed with food and your lifeâs best moments, that we offer a host of benefits to you, our Bottled Sun Lovers.
Your commitment to us as a member is so important to the sustainability of our dream to make delicious wines to be enjoyed with food and your lifeâs best moments, that we offer a host of benefits to you, our Bottled Sun Lovers.
Those benefits start with a handsome discount on your member allocations- fixed and frozen to the time you signed up. No price rises for you!
Why Join? How About These Benefits!
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- Free Shipping:Â On your allocations and on any additional purchases throughout the year.
- Complete Flexibility:Â Choose your frequency and number of wines at the click of a button. And if your needs change, your club changes with you. Want more or less wines? No problem, it's easy to switch. Need a holiday from your deliveries? You've got it! With your members' area, you are in control.
- Very Special Wines:Â Exclusive access to pre-release and rare museum wines.
- Exclusive Discounts: Your packs will always be higher in value than what you pay. It starts with your pack discount (5, 10 or 15% off core range RRP). Everything additional you purchase from our online store comes at a 10% discount with free shipping. Plus exclusive discounts for our events and wine dinners.
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Exclusive VIP Cellar Door Tastings:Â At our cellar door or in the vineyard, tastings are always free for you and your guests accompanying you. Plus we will give you the VIP treatment you deserve, like pre-release, museum and premium tastings.
- Surprise Gifts: Well if we told you - it wouldn't be a surprise would it?
- Low Minimum Term:Â Our minimum term of membership is just one year and 12 bottles across that year.
- No Exit Fees:Â Changed your mind? We can reduce your frequency and/or pack size. There are also no exit fees after your one year minimum term.
How Does It Work?
- Your Choice: Choose your frequency of deliveries and the Number of bottles per delivery. You can change your choices whenever you like and even take a subscription âholidayâ and skip a delivery. Even tell us if there are any particular wines you would like in your pack when you get your renewal notices, otherwise our winemaker Robâs expert selection will be hand selected for you.Â
- Charged On the 1st:Â Your first pack will be charged for on the first of the month after you sign up. Your first pack will then be hand picked, hand packed and dispatched shortly thereafter. Your renewals will then be processed on the first of the month according to the schedule you chose (monthly, quarterly or six monthly).Â
- Reminders:Â Youâll get a handy email reminder a week before your pack is due to be sent â a good time to update your contact or payment details, or to let us know if you would like certain wines in your pack.
- Value Forever: Your pack will always be worth more than what you pay. For starters, you get 5%, 10% or 15% off the core range rrp. Then you have a special free shipping & 10% discount coupon for additional purchases. Then we add value by putting money-canât-buy exclusives, bonus gifts and our higher value wines in your pack.
- Convenience:Â You deserve to enjoy receiving delicious wines to your door, sharing them with friends over dinner, at your favourite BYO restaurant, or on cosy nights in.
For Terms & Conditions (there arenât many, donât worry!) please view our âClubâ page.Â
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Three intriguing wines that explore the power of terroir within tiny, discrete micro-parcels of a single vineyard. Paired with the ability of Grenache to clearly express those differences.
Not only can McLaren Vale Grenache evoke sense of place of a whole vineyard, it can also highlight with great clarity the difference that mere metres can make within a vineyard - at a sub-vineyard, micro-plot level.
The extremely limited production Hickinbotham Series is from a triangle of three very small Grenache blocks at one of the highest elevation points of the whole Hickinbotham of Clarendon vineyard.
All picked the same day.
All made the same way.
Strikingly different, yet with the same exquisite core of balance.
The climate, sunshine, rain, geology, soil, topography and the soilâwater relations even as close as just meters apart are clearly discernible in these wines.
A special pack with all three Aphelion Hickinbotham Series Grenache Wines:
- 1 x Aphelion Hickinbotham Series Block 111 Grenache 2024 ;
- 1 x Aphelion Hickinbotham Series Block 112 Grenache 2024Â ;
- 1 x Aphelion Hickinbotham Series Block 113 Grenache 2024.
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Available as a 3 Pack, a 6 Pack, or a 12 Bottle Case.
Extremely limited production. Just 360 bottles of each wine.
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Fill your glass with this thought and conversation provoking trio.Â
They'll impress taking pride of place on your table.
Why not gather some friends and open one of each?
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About Aphelion Hickinbotham Series Block 111 Grenache 2024
111 is the smallest block located at the top of the triangle. The highest altitude wine in the series at 245m to 250m ASL, it showcases finesse and great elegance.Â
Tasting Note: Crunchy red berry fruit flavours are carried by juicy and crisp acidity. A light to medium body with a lovely purity. The fruit dances along the palate followed by the fine tannins which spread out to provide significant length of flavour.
Click For Tasting Note of Block 111.
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About Aphelion Hickinbotham Series Block 112 Grenache 2024.
112 a larger contour of the triangle, around twice the size of Block 111. The second highest altitude wine in the series at 240m to 245m ASL, it showcases spice, texture and structure.Â
Tasting Note: Cinnamon and nutmeg spices float from the glass with red berry fruit in support. Tannins are moderate with a catâs tongue texture and provide a good framework for the flavours through the palate. Acidity is slightly lower than the Block 111 wine which results in a rounder mouthfeel. Flavours linger long on the palate thanks to the good concentration and density of fruit.
Click For Tasting Note of Block 112.
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About Aphelion Hickinbotham Series Block 113 Grenache 2024.
113 hugs the base contour of the triangle and is slightly larger in area than 111 + 112 combined. The lowest highest altitude wine in the series, at 235m to 240m ASL, this wine showcases dark fruit, structure and vibrancy.
Tasting Note: The fruit moves into the blue and black spectrum and the body of the wine is medium â the fullest of the trio. Tannins are dense and well-rounded and carry the blackberry and plum fruit long through the palate. Fresh acidity keeps the wine vibrant and light on its feet, but this is undoubtedly the most hedonistic of the three block wines.
Click For Tasting Note of Block 113.
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More Information About the Hickinbotham Series
Detailed information about the vineyard, the Blocks, winemaking and resulting wines can be found on the Aphelion blog by clicking here.Â
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From $28.00 /Per Bottle
The Welkin Sparkling Chenin Blanc By Aphelion 2021 is part of our brand new special range of vibrant, early release, ready to enjoy, but delightfully complex wines.
Our first sparkling wine.
Pale straw colour in the glass.
Aromatics of red apple and lemon curd lead to a palate that is fresh and vibrant.
Great mouthfeel and length of the palate.Â
Raise a toast with the Welkin Sparkling Chenin Blanc 2021.
Goes With Food: Fresh oysters are a perfect match - the crispness and light body of the wine cut through the richness of the oyster perfectly.
Goes With Cheese: A high quality Parmesan will match the light brioche characters in the wine.
Goes With Music: Kanye â Ghost Town.
Goes With Life: Pop this wine to celebrate lifeâs best moments! Also a great start to any evening meal.
Serve At: 10-12 degrees Celsius.
When to Drink: Ready to drink now but will cellar well over the next 3 to 5 years.
ABV%:Â 11.5%
Select between a 6 bottle pack or 12 bottle case to Buy the Welkin Sparkling Chenin Blanc by Aphelion 2021.
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The Welkin Grenache By Aphelion 2024 is part of our special range of vibrant, early release, ready to enjoy, but delightfully complex wines.
We like to call the Welkin Grenache "furiously aromatic".
It fairly leaps out of the glass at you!
Delicately hand picked with 50% from a 20 year old Grenache vineyard towards the sea in Whites Valley and 50% from the hilly, sandy Blewitt Springs. Â
Revel in this wine's light body, heady spiciness and juicy acidity.
Meet Welkin Grenache
Tasting Note:Â Beautifully intense purple colour. Pure fruited aromas of redcurrant and cinnamon follow through on to the palate with fresh acidity keeping the wine lively and
vibrant. A small percentage of whole bunch fermentation in the wine adds a savoury element and herbal notes. The Welkin Grenache is a light bodied wine that works very well in an aperitivo setting.
Goes With Food: Perfect with light tapas or light to medium bodied cuisine.
Goes With Cheese: Fresh chevre matches this wineâs youthful vibrancy.
Goes With Music: Jake Bugg â Lightning Bolt.
Goes With Life: A great wine to kick off with, itâs light body keeps the drinkability factor high.
Serve At: 16-18 degrees Celsius.
When to Drink: Ready to drink now whilst it retains itâs youthful vibrancy but will drink well over the next 5 â 8 years.
ABV%:Â 13%
Unfiltered | Unfined | Vegan
Select between a 6 bottle pack or 12 bottle case to Buy the Welkin Grenache by Aphelion 2024.Â
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From $42.00 /Per Bottle
Aphelion Callow Grenache Blanc 2025
McLaren Vale Grenache Blanc | Organic Single Vineyard | Limited Release
Aphelion Callow Grenache Blanc 2025 is a vibrant, textural and spice-laced expression of Grenache Blanc from a certified Organic and Biodynamic vineyard near Kangarilla in McLaren Vale.
Hand-picked and whole bunch pressed, this wine balances purity and freshness with subtle oak complexity. Bright acidity and layered texture make it both immediately compelling and capable of medium-term cellaring.
Only 250 six-packs produced.
Tasting Notes
Intense and vibrant fruit aromatics mingle with citrus and spice. A fine textural edge gives the wine a distinctly food-friendly feel. Cinnamon and nutmeg spice complement nashi pear and stone fruit flavours, finishing long and precise with refreshing acidity.
- Variety: Grenache Blanc
- Region: McLaren Vale (Kangarilla)
- Vineyard: Certified Organic & Biodynamic Yangarra Vineyard
- ABV: 13.2%
- Closure: Screwcap
- Vegan Friendly
- Serve: 8â10°C
- Cellaring: Drink now or cellar 5â8 years
Winemaking
Hand-picked fruit was whole bunch pressed. 60% was fermented in stainless steel to retain freshness and varietal purity, with the balance fermented in one new Austrian oak hogshead and seasoned French oak barriques.
A slow, cool ferment preserved aromatics. The wine remained on full lees with regular battonage until bottling in December 2025, building texture and complexity while maintaining precision.
Goes With
Goes With Food: Bouillabaisse â the body and spice of the wine mirror the dish beautifully.
Goes With Cheese: ComtĂ© â structured yet not overpowering, allowing the spice characters to shine.
Goes With Music: Muse â Stockholm Syndrome.
Goes With Life: Textural and aromatic, perfect as the first glass of the evening or paired with the feature dish of the night.
Why Buy Callow Grenache Blanc 2025?
- Rare McLaren Vale Grenache Blanc
- Certified Organic & Biodynamic vineyard source
- Textural, spice-driven white wine
- Cellar-worthy for 5â8 years
- Limited production â only 250 six-packs
This is a wine for lovers of RhĂŽne-style whites, Chenin Blanc drinkers looking for something textural, and collectors of small-batch McLaren Vale releases.
Buy Callow Grenache Blanc 2025 Online
Select between a 6 bottle pack or 12 bottle case to Buy the Callow Grenache Blanc by Aphelion 2025.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Grenache Blanc taste like?
Grenache Blanc typically shows citrus, pear and stone fruit with spice and texture. The Callow Grenache Blanc 2025 highlights nashi pear, cinnamon and nutmeg with vibrant acidity.
Is this a dry white wine?
Yes. Callow Grenache Blanc 2025 is dry, textural and balanced with fresh acidity.
Can I cellar Grenache Blanc?
Yes. Thanks to vibrant acidity and lees maturation, this wine will cellar well for 5â8 years.
Is this wine organic?
The fruit is sourced from a certified Organic and Biodynamic vineyard in McLaren Vale.
What food pairs best with Grenache Blanc?
Bouillabaisse, seafood stews, roast chicken, and alpine cheeses like Comté pair beautifully with this style.
From $42.00 /Per Bottle
Our original Grenache. A wine that has been with us from the very beginning.
Some wines are simply part of the range.
Confluence is part of who we are.
It brings together fruit from some of the remarkable vineyards we work with across McLaren Vale - predominantly Blewitt Springs, with a touch of Clarendon - to create a Grenache that is complex, aromatic and beautifully drinkable.
And if you want to understand why we're so obsessed with Grenache, this is a pretty good place to start.
Meet the Confluence
Variety: Grenache Noir
Region: McLaren Vale - Blewitt Springs & Clarendon
The wine: Complex, aromatic and food friendly, but fantastically drinkable. It evolves in your glass, building layers of fruit and savoury character while retaining beautiful structure and length.
And then there's that signature Aphelion savoury finish.
The vineyards: 80% Blewitt Springs fruit from Brini, Hickinbotham and Plaisted's vineyards, with 20% Clarendon fruit from Hickinbotham.
It's a genuine confluence of sites - different vineyards, different expressions, brought together to create something greater than any one parcel could achieve.
The winemaking: 30% whole bunch fermented in stainless steel and small concrete open-top fermenters, then matured in 1,500L Drunk Turtle cocciopesto, seasoned French 2,800L foudre and demi-muid oak. Bottled in February 2026.
What does it taste like?
Vibrant red with purple hues in the glass.
At first there's a savoury core of olive and briar. Give it some air and crunchy raspberry and cranberry begin to emerge.
Then the palate opens up: Satsuma plum, wild strawberry and fine sandalwood, held together by fine tannins that give the wine exemplary length.
There's real intensity and concentration here â but never heaviness or cloying sweetness.
It's the kind of wine that rewards you for paying attention, but doesn't require you to.
Pour a glass.
Let it breathe.
Take another sip.
You'll find something new.
Goes With Food
Pan-seared duck.
The spice and body of the duck make a beautiful match for the wine.
Goes With Cheese
A quality Camembert or washed-rind cheese brings out the wine's mushroom characters without overwhelming its delicate structure.
Goes With Music
Nick Cave â Jubilee Street
Goes With Life
Out for a fancy dinner or aperitivo on the back deck.
When to Drink
Ready to drink now.
But if you have the patience, this is one to put away.
The 2025 Confluence has the structure, concentration and tannin to continue evolving through 2035.
Serve at 18°C.
The Aphelion Way
Unfiltered
Unfined
Vegan
14.0% ABV
A little something worth knowing...
We've only made 1,100 half-dozens and 100 Magnums of the 2025 Confluence.
So if Confluence sounds like your kind of Grenache, don't wait too long to make it yours.
Choose a 6-bottle pack or 12-bottle case and discover the 2025 Confluence.
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Our Wine Club is for people who'd rather have great wine quietly arrive at their door than remember to reorder it.
Members receive early access to new, museum and exclusive releases plus complimentary tastings, and wines you won't find elsewhere.
From $90.00 /Per Bottle
Discover one of the best McLaren Vale Grenache wines. Savoury, structured and made for moments to remember.Â
Aphelion began with Grenache. Our focus is Grenache. Our future is Grenache.
Our original 2014 "Grenache project" has evolved.Â
Each vintage we coax from the earth three exceptional McLaren Vale Single Vineyard Grenache wines.Â
Made the same way each year using 100% whole bunches, each highlights the diversity and beauty of Grenache and the many terroirs of McLaren Vale.Â
Guided by the deft and gentle hands of Rob Mack they sing of their purity and place.
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"Gorgeous wine...Canât fault this. Itâs exquisite." - Campbell Mattison for The Wine Front
"(F)ruit is impeccably ripe, and the site reflection bell clear. Excellent." - Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion
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The Wait Single Vineyard Grenache 2023 is sourced from the Top Bush block owned by the Wait family in the northeast corner of the Blewitt Springs area of McLaren Vale.
Planted in the mid 1940âs, this block is dry grown and provides small berries with intense flavour and prominent tannin.Â
The most structural and savoury wine in the range, brooding in character with earth and briary characters dominating the palate.
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Unfiltered | Unfined | Vegan
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Production: 800 bottles produced under Diam Origine.
ABV: 13.2%
Accolades:
96 points Erin Larkin for Robert Parker Wine Advocate
96 points Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion
95 points Gold medal - McLaren Vale Wine Show 2025
95 points Campbell Mattison for The Wine Front
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"Gorgeous wine. Plenty up its sleeve but ready to be consumed now too, should you wish. I wished. Herbs, undergrowth, boysenberry, red and black cherry, a graphite note, a gentle meatiness. This is juicy, fine, smoky and impeccably well structured all at once. Tannin is like a tickle in the dark; youâre not sure where it came from but youâre sure aware of its presence. Canât fault this. Itâs exquisite." - Campbell Mattison for The Wine Front
"Itâs brooding in a way, but also refined. Amaro herbs, preserved sour cherry, white pepper, a bastourma-like cured meat note, lingonberry, goji, dusky rose and a crackle of spice. This was picked on the earlier side, based on the final alcohol, giving a pleasing verve and linearity, though the fruit is impeccably ripe, and the site reflection bell clear. Excellent." - Marcus Ellis for Halliday Wine Companion
"(N)otes of Campari and blood orange, raspberry seed and poached rhubarb. On the palate, this wine really shines, and it shows the power and succulence of the 2024 season. This has surprisingly low alcohol, but it works really wellâthe fruit and tannins feel ripe, despite this. It is almost an entire degree lower in alcohol than usual." - Erin Larkin for Robert Parker
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Note: Please email if you wish to buy a 3 pack.
Select between a 3, 6 or 12 bottle case to Buy the Aphelion Wait Single Vineyard Grenache 2024. Psst...Like the sound of our exclusive pre-sale access, Members pricing ($81) plus perks like free shipping? Step right this way...
