Taste Five New Cake Wines for Free at the Archibottle Prize Tonight

Celebrated for their cheerleading of Sydney artists on their bottles, Redfern locals Cake Wines are hosting their adorably named Archibottle Prize exhibition tonight. Along with the announcement of five new Cake wines, one of thirty entrants will feature on the label for Cake's 2013 McLaren Vale Shiraz, set to hit shelves in October. Celebrating its third year running, the Archibottle is a pretty top prize for local artists — Ears and Sean Edward Whelan topped 2012 and 2013 respectively and have enjoyed spots on the wine rack since then.

But tonight's not all about art, there's plenty of booze news afoot as well. The event will also double as Cake's new vintage launch, with the team set to release five new wines — all yet to be revealed. After three years of winemaking and showing up to Sydney parties left, right and centre, Cake are taking things next level with this new batch of vinos.

"We’ve evolved as a business and as guys who love making great wines, the result is still an approachable, easy drinking range but we've really tried to push things with this release," say the Cake team. "We’ve tried to capture the real essence of the Adelaide Hills to showcase the relationship between individual grape varieties and their immediate surroundings. We wanted each wine to be highly aromatic with a mix of varietal fruit flavours on the palate."

You'll be able to taste Cake's 2013 whites and 2014 reds tonight, toasting the successes of the Archibottle winner and commiserating the runners up. Here are the finalists for the Archibottle, just for pretty's sake.

See the full versions of the finalists at Cake's website.

Find the Archibottle Prize exhibition from 6.30pm on Friday, September 29 at District 01, 7 Randle Lane, Surry Hills. Entry is free (and so's the wine).

Images: Cake Wines.