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4worldlovers: You pick the moments - we provide the sparkle. We love delighting people with our Sparkling Wine, Still Wine and Spirit brands. It is the pure joie de vivre behind it all that fascinates us. That drives us. Every day. For the really big events and the many small moments in your life. And in ours.

Henkell Freixenet Australia is a full subsidiary of Henkell Freixenet, the world’s largest Sparkling Wine producer.

Henkell Freixenet is part of the family owned business of Geschwister Oetker Beteiligungen KG. We export our brands to over 150 countries worldwide and have subsidiaries in 30 countries. Globally, we have over 3,500 employee’s and an annual a turnover of €1.1 Billion.

As a leader in the Sparkling Wine category, our business is focused on meeting evolving consumer interests and partnering with leading Australasian businesses to deliver sustainable growth.

4worldlovers: After 25 years of making wine for some of Australia’s most iconic wineries, Yarra Valley legend – Rob Dolan, made the decision to channel his passion and skill into his own label. And so, Rob Dolan Wines was born.

Rob’s decades of friendships with the top growers of our region gives us access to the premier vineyards of the Yarra Valley. Rob believes the best fruit – with a ‘less is more’ approach in the winery – is key to creating wines with elegance, structure, and stunning depth of flavour. Wines that make you stop and savour. Wines with true character.

We are wine-makers, wine-incubators and wine-collaborators. We are not limited to any one patch of dirt. Instead our strong and enduring relationships with regional growers allow us to select the best possible parcels of fruit. And then we do justice to the fruit by creating the most complete, mouth-filling, delicious wines possible.

Our home in the Yarra Valley is both where our wine is created and one of the best places to enjoy it. Just a short 30-minute drive from the buzzing energy of Melbourne CBD, our winery and cellar door in South Warrandyte is a perfect introduction to the sweeping beauty of the region.

We’ve got a pretty great bunch of people here at Rob Dolan Wines. A collection of different characters from different backgrounds but with one unified passion—our love of making and sharing great wine.

4worldlovers: MGC x The European & The Melbourne Supper Club 25th Anniversary Gin

Sette has to be one of most engaging producers in Monferrato, shining the spotlight on the Barbera grape through a lense of elegance, vivacity and purity.

4worldlovers: Maybe its easiest to start with who and what we are not! We are not a supermarket, discount chain, lowest-common-denominator liquor outlet. In some ways we are not even a retailer who could be selling anything; tyres, widgets or beanie boos! We can only sell one thing…WINE!

What we are is an independently owned wine merchant, driven by our collective passion to source and share some of the greatest wines in the world with a similarly passionate group of punters…many of which are now friends and part of the PWS family.

There are two owners: Michael McNamara and Alex Wilcox (and their long-suffering wives) and together with 42 other committed (or perhaps should be committed) staff they run three wine retail outlets in South Melbourne and Sydney as well as a wine bar/restaurant Bellota and a wine cellarage business called Liquid Assets. In addition to this educate and have, for some years, now run the benchmark WSET qualification in Victoria and NSW and a suite of more informal courses written by the ourselves and our staff.


We import from a strong portfolio of producers from France, Italy, New Zealand and California that reflect our love of wines that are made by people who share our passion for great wine and wines that reflect their place.

4worldlovers: Every Grassl Glass is handmade by artisans with over 30 years of glass blowing experience. The result of their skill is a glass with remarkable precision, highest quality materials and unbelievable thinness that feels weightless in your hand. All shapes were developed with the feedback of world renowned winemakers to establish a clear benchmark for how their wines should unfold and be enjoyed by everyone.