Pat Tocaciu is a Coonawarra veteran, the winemaking equivalent of a 300 gamer the kind of guy who gets his name on the lockers, his photo hung in the clubrooms and his number retired for a couple of years after he gives the game away.

All that experience comes through in the 2004 Toccas Game Cabernet Shiraz, a supple athletic red built like a hard-running, strong marking half-forward flanker that takes it's name from the vigorous cheer that echoed around any football ground that Pat ever graced.
 
‘Go Toccas,’ the crowd would shout and Pat would always deliver.
 
Nothing's changed.
 
Plump, dark, cassis drenched cabernet fruit is given a sprinkling of spice from some pretty silky shiraz and the combination of the two great red varieties delivers the best of both worlds structure wise too, with shiraz draping a little flesh over cabernet's statuesque frame. The result is a pretty complete package packed tighter than a flooded forward line with great fruit flavour and finishing longer than a perfectly struck torpedo punt.
 
And the best thing? The price…just $5.99…that's cheaper than a pie at the footy these days.