Buying wine for yourself is hard enough. For your connoisseur dad? Forget it.
This Father’s Day the crew at Good Pair Days is making things easier.
Co-founded by former Attica sommelier Banjo Harris Plane, the wine retailer’s usual MO is subscriptions. Each month it sends members a new round of wines, which they rate and review via an app. You know how Spotify “learns” your taste and finds new music you actually like? Good Pair Days does the same, but with wine. Each shipment is tailored to each recipients’ taste, but the contents are a mystery until they arrive.
For Father’s Day, GPD is playing it a bit straighter. It’s put together four one-off boxes that include various dad-appropriate wines (plus tasting notes) and pairs of colourful Manrags Egyptian cotton socks (because what’s Father’s Day without socks?). Box prices start at $39 and shipping is free Australia-wide.
The basic Shiraz and Socks box includes a bottle of the “universally adored” Trentham Estate shiraz and two pairs of socks. The next level up, the Classic Dad box, contains the same shiraz, plus a West Australian merlot, a Victorian pinot noir and two pairs of socks.
Wine Lover Dad ups the ante with three pairs of socks and three slightly pricier bottles: an Argentinian malbec, a Barossa grenache-shiraz-mourvèdre and a Southern Highlands cabernet merlot.
Finally, for the Deluxe Dad, there’s an organic Marlborough pinot noir, a Victorian shiraz-mencia made by up-and-coming winemaker Owen Latta, and an elegant cabernet franc from the Loire Valley in France. And three pairs of socks – let’s not forget those.
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