Australian wine guru James Halliday has raised a glass to a wine made from Fleurieu-grown grapes in his latest edition of Cellaring Selections.

Halliday’s Wine Companion released the Cellaring Selections mini-magazine last month, listing around 50 top-rating wines that are ideal for laying down.

Among them is the 2016 Auld Family Strawbridge Langhorne Creek Cabernet Sauvignon, by Auld Family Wines, a Barossa Valley-based winery.

The publication suggests the wine, which retails for $42, could be cellared up to 2036.

The author sings the praises of grapes grown in the Langhorne Creek region, which, “can be relied on to produce shiraz and cabernet sauvignon full of flavour, but without strong tannins or alcohol impeding the course of the fruit's passage across and along the palate.”

The grapes for the 2016 Auld Family Strawbridge Langhorne Creek Cabernet Sauvignon were handpicked and sorted, and the wine open fermented and matured in French hogsheads (barrels, usually made of oak) for 12 months.

The wine is 14 per cent alcohol.

In stark contrast to this year’s Cellaring Selections, the Cellaring Selections released by Halliday’s Wine Companion in May 2019 included dozens of Fleurieu Peninsula-based wineries and wines made from local grapes.

They may be a little harder to get your hands on, but Halliday insists they’ll cellar well.

2019 JAMES HALLIDAY CELLARING SELECTIONS

CABERNET SAUVIGNON AND BLENDS

Dandelion Vineyards: 2017 Pride of the Fleurieu Peninsula Cabernet Sauvignon

Serafino Wines: 2017 McLaren Vale Cabernet Sauvignon 

Zonte's Footstep: 2017 Blackberry Patch Fleurieu Cabernet

PINOT NOIR AND GRENACHE

Heirloom Vineyards: 2017 Alcala McLaren Vale Grenache

Nick Haselgrove Wines: 2016 Blackbilly Single Vineyard Old Vine McLaren Vale Grenache 

SHIRAZ

Azur Estate Wines: 2016 McLaren Vale Shiraz

Bent Creek: 2017 Black Dog McLaren Vale Shiraz

Bleasdale Vineyards: 2017 Generations Langhorne Creek Shiraz 

Fox Creek Wines: 2015 Reserve McLaren Vale Shiraz 

Heirloom Vineyards: 2017 McLaren Vale Shiraz 

J&J Wines: 2016 Eminence McLaren Vale Shiraz

Kangarilla Road Vineyard: 2017 The Devil's Whiskers McLaren Vale Shiraz

Leconfield: 2017 McLaren Vale Shiraz

Mr Riggs Wine Company: 2013 The Chap

Patritti Wines: 2014 Lot Three Single Vineyard McLaren Vale Shiraz

Paxton: 2017 AAA McLaren Vale Shiraz Grenache

Nick Haselgrove Wines: 2016 Clarence Hill Reserve McLaren Vale Shiraz

Tomich Wines: 2017 McLaren Vale Shiraz 

Ulithorne 2017: Familia McLaren Vale Shiraz

Yangarra Estate Vineyard: 2016 Small Pot Whole Bunch McLaren Vale Shiraz

Zonte's Footstep: 2017 Chocolate Factory McLaren Vale Shiraz