For the past two months, however, the Hardys arm of Accolade Wines Group has been doing just that.

Up to November 30, anyone who buys a Hardys wine and is not satisfied with it can claim their money back by logging on to moneyback.com, provide the purchase receipt and explain in 15 words why they were unsatisfied with the buy.

Hardys says the aim is to showcase its wines' consistent quality and four of its classy current-releases are part of the money-back scheme. The wines are the $28-a-bottle Tintara 2018 Grenache-Shiraz-Mataro and 2017 Shiraz, the $35 Hardys 2020 HRB Clare Valley-Tasmania Riesling and the $154 Hardys flagship Eileen Hardy 2016 McLaren Valley Shiraz, which I reviewed on March 14.

Tintara is an icon of the Hardy wine company founded in 1853 by Thomas Hardy, a Devonshire farmer who migrated to Australia in 1850 at the age of 20.

Thomas in 1878 bought an old flour mill in the main street of McLaren Vale and turned into what has become one of South Australia's historic wine showplaces.

Tintara winemaking is run by Nic Bowen, the scion of a WA wine family, who first gained a commerce degree and took on a career in finance. An overseas trip and a vintage in Bordeaux led him into a Curtin University's Margaret River winemaking degree and a job with Accolade as a sparkling winemaker. From there he worked on Accolade's House of Arras, Yarra Burn, Bay of Fires, Hardys and Omni brands and in 2012 was appointed to Tintara.

HERE are some more of the available prize winners from the CCL Label 2020 Hunter Valley Wine Show:

McWilliam's Mount Pleasant Non-Vintage Rare Tawny (Trevor Drayton best fortified wine trophy) - $60 at mountpleasantwines.com.au and the Pokolbin winery.

Gartelmann 2018 Benjamin Semillon (2018 and older semillon gold medal) - $27 at gartelmann.com.au and the Lovedale cellar door

RidgeView 2015 Impressions Chardonnay (2018 and older chardonnay gold) - $50 at the Pokolbin cellar door and ridgeview.com.au

Silkman 2020 Single-Vineyard Blackberry Semillon (2020 semillon gold) - $50 only on silkmanwines.com.au website. Silkman 2019 Reserve Semillon - $50 at website and Wine House Hunter Valley, Pokolbin, and Silkman 2019 Estate Semillon - $30 on website and at Vintage Cellars stores (both 2019 semillon class golds).

WITH today's other wines, the 14.2%-alcohol Hardys 2017 McLaren Vale Shiraz is at hardyswines.com and bottle shops. It is deep purple and shows bouquet garni scents and intense blackcurrant front-palate flavour. Ripe cherry, mint chocolate, cloves and coconutty oak marry on the middle palate and the finish has earthy tannins.

PRICE: $28.

DRINK WITH: Turkish lamb koftas.

AGEING: four years.

RATING: 4 stars

THIS refreshing HRB (Heritage Reserve Bin) label multi-regional Hardys 2020 HRB Clare Valley-Tasmania Riesling is pale straw and has jasmine aromas and crisp ruby grapefruit front-palate flavour. The middle palate shows nashi pear, lemon curd and gunmetal characters with honey undertones and flinty acid plays at the finish.

PRICE: $35.

DRINK WITH: salad of baby octopus.

AGEING: five years.

RATING: 5 stars

THE 14.1%-alcohol, bright garnet-hued Tintara 2018 McLaren Vale Grenache-Shiraz-Mataro (aka mourvedre) has scents of berry pastille and anise and shows spicy blackberry flavour on the front palate. The middle palate introduces plum, rhubarb, dark chocolate, cloves and savoury oak and the finish has peppery tannins.

PRICE: $28.

DRINK WITH: lamb shanks in cacciatore sauce.

AGEING: five years.

RATING: 4.5 stars

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