Wine with Leslie: Iconic Australian wines worth seeking out - including a Cab Sav for €10

— and a hint of peat and dark chocolate, and a kick of pepper, spice, honey and wood smoke in The Liberator whiskey

Viticulturist Prue Henschke, at the 'Hill of Grace' vineyard

A focus on two icons of the wine world this week — some much sought after Australian icons.

Australia’s most sought after or expensive wine is Henschke’s ‘Hill of Grace’ from the Eden Valley which retails at around €700 for a recent vintage. The eight-hectare Hill of Grace vineyard was planted in 1860 and has been owned by the Henschkes since 1891 with some of those original ungrafted vines still living and joined by some other 100-year-old vines and some 'mere babies' planted in the mid-1980s.