Ten months later, when the finances finally permitted and the new Mitchell website was up I was on the phone to order a selection that covered most of the range on offer.

And while the range isn’t extensive - two whites, four reds, a sparkling shiraz and a sticky - I thought it was arguably the most consistently excellent range we’d sampled in the valley, or, perhaps, anywhere else.

Those judgements are subjective, of course, but in Hughesy’s personal pantheon of high class wineries this one is well and truly up there with the very best of them.

Five stars? You betcha. Along with three gold stickers and several red ticks....