Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is the grape that wine people get weird about. And honestly, fair enough. When it's right, it's transcendent: silky, fragrant, impossibly complex, and genuinely one of the more pleasurable things you can put in your mouth. When it's wrong, it's thin, jammy, and a waste of everyone's time.

The good news is that Australian Pinot has never been better. The Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Tasmania, and the Adelaide Hills are all producing world-class expressions that hold their own against anything from Burgundy. Plonk stocks nearly 1,000 of them, from entry-level crowd-pleasers to serious, site-specific bottlings with genuine cellar potential.

Buying Pinot by the case is especially smart because it's one of those varieties that rewards comparison. Get a few different regions in the same case and you'll understand the grape better after one case than after three years of reading about it. A$15 flat delivery Australia-wide.