Frankland River

Frankland River

Shiraz

This is a thoroughly delightful expression of a modern shiraz from a great region. Thomas Yule was a colourful member of the original syndicate which purchased Houghton 1836. Highly perfumed aromas of red berry, light spicy plum and a little ironstone complexity. It’s bright and vibrant from the first take on the nose through to that exquisitely balanced palate. Fabulous...

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Cabernet Blend

A softer and more generous version of this wine, but still with that remarkable polished elegance that smacks of great fruit, an excellent season and skillful winemaking. Spicy floral notes on the nose with a little mineral ore character. The grainy palate provides texture to the excellent fruit. Elegant and stylish. Super stuff.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

While there are stylistic similarities with the previous vintage, this is a prettier and if anything, more delicate expression. Yet, there is ample engine room power here. It’s so bright and alive with energy from the first take on the nose through to the perfectly balanced and weighted medium bodied palate. Love the powdery tannins and super-fine-grained oak use. “Jack”...

Frankland River

Shiraz

This is the pinnacle of Cherubino's range of shiraz or syrah. Comes off the Riversdale vineyard from Block 7 which is made up of a variety of different clones. Interestingly, after hand picking and sorting, 30% whole clusters were added to bring out more of the spicy fragrances. It was matured in a mix of French oak, foudre, and puncheons...

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Nebbiolo

I've become a bit of a fan of nebbiolo in recent years, finding its structure, palate weight and complexity engaging. The issue has always been managing the tannins, and this is probably why, in this case, after hand-picking and sorting, it’s been given 100 days on skins before maturation in foudres. This has allowed the tannins to integrate perfectly, which...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Here's a wine that expresses so much about the Riversdale Vineyard and Frankland River. Loads of blackcurrant fruit, ironstone, liqueur cherry and dark chocolate provide a compelling aromatic beginning, then the palate reveals power, concentration and balance. The astute, restrained use of oak allows the fruit quality to shine. That touch of savoury ironstone, almost rusty nail, on the palate...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

This is an exquisite and poised example of Frankland River cabernet sauvignon. It comes off the specific Block 6 on the Riversdale property, which consistently produces outstanding fruit. The nose displays a lovely red and black fruit combination, while the palate presents with a slightly lighter body, although still concentrated and immensely powerful, delivering an effortless, elegant, and refined finish....

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Shiraz

Gosh, this is a good wine made from the 174, 470 and Waldron clones now being grown on the Riversdale Vineyard. After time on skins for about two months, it was matured in new and one-year-old French oak. It has tremendous concentration and richness, yet presents with the soft, rounded regional structure and opulent flavours. Aromas of plush plum, cherry...

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Red Varietal

This distinctive Spanish variety has proved a real hit from the Riversdale Vineyard. It's loaded with sweet, ripe fruit that offers a deliciously succulent and juicy palate. Tannins are soft and malleable, with the oak neatly managed. It’s complete, rounded, and thoroughly delicious. Best enjoyed in the first few years, while those vibrant, energetic fruit flavours bounce along the palate...

Frankland River

Shiraz

From the first take on the nose, you know you're heading into something special. This is made using a combination of clones 470, 174, 877, and Waldron, and it all contributes to a wine with beautiful aromatics and a plush, vibrant, high-energy palate expressing the variety from this region. There’s a spicy plum and cherry note on the nose, while...

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Grenache

This is an excellent grenache from what was a very good year in Frankland River. As the name suggests, this is a let-it-be wine with minimal intervention. With the fruit coming from the Riversdale Vineyard, it was carefully sorted, with almost nothing added during the winemaking process. The oak was French oak foudre for just six months, which has allowed...

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Grenache

If ever a variety was made for this type of winemaking using the giant egg ovoid to create a vortex of lees movement, then grenache is the one. And in this vintage, it has created something extra special. Bright florals on the nose with a beautifully medium to full-bodied voluptuous palate structure. It’s a wine of vibrancy and energy, evident...

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Red Blend

The influence of the Piedmont variety nebbiolo seems quite evident, first with the slightly brambly herby notes on the nose, then with the fine thread of firmish steely tannins on the palate. The ovoid method of allowing the lees to influence the palate has helped build a generosity and opulence while not losing those essential structured nebbiolo elements.

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Cabernet Blend

An opulent and rounded blend of these two varieties with the touriga certainly brings a soft and supple generosity to the middle palate, while the cabernet provides the structure and the length. Made in clay cement ovoids, which allow the lees movement to build the generosity and supple intensity to the palate. Plenty of ripe dark fruits here. Lovin’ it.

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Shiraz

Oh wow, I’m loving this beauty. It’s such a fine and silky smooth shiraz from this super vineyard, which sits on the banks of the Frankland River. Sweet ripe fruit flavours displaying mulberry and subtle blue fruits, while the fine chalky tannins gently control and define the focused, extended finish. Super wine.

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An excellent vintage has pumped some mighty good fruit into this classically elegant and refined cabernet from this great vineyard in Frankland River. Red and black fruits on the nose with a slightly floral perfumed lift. The flavours are held with control thanks to the fine, firm tannin influence and fine-grained integrated oak. Has a beautiful chalky minerally palate feel.

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Red Blend

This is a Bordeaux blend of cabernet sauvignon, malbec, petit verdot and cabernet franc from the Frankland River. It was generally a cooler vintage, and yet in the Great Southern things worked out pretty well. This is a cracking good wine, seamlessly woven together and laced with fine tannins and cleverly managed oak. It was made in micro detail with...

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Shiraz

An exquisite expression of Frankland River syrah in this marvellous vintage. It’s an important mix of clones 470, 174, 877 and Waldron. These clones are contributing to a new and exciting expression of syrah from this region. Plush and soft red fruits abound with a slightly grainy ironstone thread, bringing another layer of complexity. No fining or filtering at bottling...

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Shiraz

A delicious wine packed with ripe blackberries, plum, spices, and chocolate. It is well-poised with fine silky tannins and fine-grained oak, offering a lovely long finish. It’s a wine that offers so much and delivers well beyond its price point. Just love the textural grainy palate with its punchy, vibrant red fruits.

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Riesling

Beautiful, just beautiful. Intense aromas of lemon zest and bath salts lift immediately on the nose. The fruit is sourced from the two best blocks on the Riversdale Vineyard. The palate has a crunchy vibrancy with a lively flow that bounces off the slaty wet pebble character. Precise and pure with tremendous cellaring potential.

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Riesling

This excellent riesling comes from three vineyards – Riversdale, Acacia and Justin. There’s a bracing tension here, evident initially on the nose with the minerally flinty characters and then on the palate, where it is so precise and finely focused. Has just a slight bath salts edge adding to the finish.

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White Blend

A neat little blend of three varieties, with the traminer bringing a distinctive spicy edge, the riesling the citrus tang and the pinot grigio a little apple and pear crumble. It’s clean and crisp with a nice minerally lemon and rose petal nuance. Lovely current drinking.

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Riesling

This is a marvellous example of a Frankland River riesling that is just starting its journey into the next phase. It was made in a clay cement ovoid tank with the continual lees movement contributing to its generous and deep, textured palate. Has a nice lemon fragrance and palate character. Very attractive wine.

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White Blend

This is a wine that lifts what is often a fairly ho-hum combination into something special. It’s sourced from Frankland River in a good year and was fermented in a mix of stainless steel and older oak. The result is a wine of texture and richness, while retaining those high-toned aromatics of ginger and citrus from the two varieties. Pure...

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Shiraz

A generous and plush syrah that shows the seductive, smooth fruit qualities of this region. It’s been made in a style to promote the fresh and bright fruit characters evident on both the nose and the delicious palate. Plummy red berry with a little clove character. Nice wine in the short term.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

The varietal purity of this Frankland River cabernet is immediately evident on the nose, displaying blackcurrant and lifted blackberry notes over a red fruit underlay. The palate offers a mix of red and black fruits, with hints of chocolate and dark plum. Seamlessly integrated with fine, slightly chalky tannins and neatly applied oak, it’s elegant and poised—but deceptively powerful as...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

A juicy and supple expression of cabernet from Frankland River, showing aromatic red and blue fruits on the nose with a trace of perfumed African violet. The palate leans toward medium-bodied but retains the variety’s structure with a firm thread of chalky tannin and some well-played oak. It’s bright and energetic, finishing with good length and definition.

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Shiraz

A dark, concentrated and powerful expression of Frankland River shiraz, capturing some truly impressive characters. It opens with rich dark chocolate, plummy blackberry notes and a touch of spice. The palate is balanced and slightly textural, with grainy, peppery tones lifting it. A complete and compelling package from a great year—this is one of the most impressive wines yet released...

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Shiraz

A thoroughly delicious and impressive shiraz from Frankland River. The nose shows spicy, liquoricey plum characters with a bright, violet-like lift. The palate is soft, supple and juicy, delivering a succulent mix of dark plummy fruits, spices and a liberal sprinkling of dark chocolate. It all knits together beautifully with well-judged oak, and the balance is a particularly striking feature.

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Riesling

There’s considerable intensity in this finely crafted Frankland River riesling. The aromas are slightly citrusy and spicy, with subtle floral notes and just a trace of bath salts. The palate has a slatey, minerally character interlaced with classic citrus tones. It shows a degree of tension and precision, yet maintains a controlled and defined textural feel.

Frankland River

Riesling

A wine that displays so much of what is good about Frankland River and this variety. It was a warmer year, but good vineyard management has enabled the creation of a very precise and focused riesling. A striking feature is its slightly textural feel, while retaining the fine, crisp, citrusy minerality that gives it linear structure. An excellent wine with...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

This is the pinnacle of Singlefile's red wine portfolio, and it comes from the famous Riversdale Vineyard in Frankland River. Okay, this was a cooler year, and yet the vineyard has certainly pumped out some classy fruit that has been captured in this quite tightly refined expression of cabernet. First things first—give it a decent splash and decant to open...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

This is another of the wines Singlefile sources from Frankland, and this one speaks so much of region and variety—and, for that matter, vintage. It's medium- to full-bodied, but it has a subtlety and an understatement. Blackcurrant, dark plum, and slightly minerally ironstone nuances provide an engaging opening on the nose. The palate is smoothly integrated and presents with a...

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Grenache

Grenache. Frankland River. It just makes so much sense. And here is another example of how this variety is thriving in the southern region. This is in the medium-bodied zone and is simply bursting with bright red floral fruits—initially on the nose and then into that medium-bodied, refined, silky-smooth palate that captures this variety and this region so perfectly. Really...

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Red Blend

This is a juicy and delicious blend of mataro, grenache, and shiraz. So, it's your classic GSM blend, and it comes from Frankland River. Medium-bodied and loaded with bright red fruits, showing a mix of redcurrant, mulberry, a little cranberry, and some nice spices and dried herbs. The palate is just so appealing, with its vibrant, high-energy red fruits bursting...

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Shiraz

This was sourced from a vineyard in Frankland River and shows what a well-managed vineyard in a warm year can do. It also shows how good shiraz can be in Frankland. This one has a spicy, faintly peppery, plummy note with touches of blackberry. The palate is supple, but there is a chalkiness about it, contributing to a slightly gravelly...

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Malbec

Okay, here is the juicy, vibrant red fruit deliciousness that is malbec from the Great Southern. This is just thoroughly delicious—from the opening on the nose of its slightly plummy, herby, mulberry nuances through to the medium-weight, finely balanced and poised palate, supported by very fine tannins and just the faintest hint of oak. It's soft, it's round, it's ready...

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Shiraz

This wine comes from Frankland River, and it shows that even in a hot year like this, a combination of excellent vineyard management and astute, clever, light-touch winemaking can produce wines that are most impressive. Colour is quite brilliant with a deep red-crimson hue. The nose has a lift of spices and a slightly ironstone character working through the dark...

Frankland River

Shiraz

This one comes from what was an unseasonally hot vintage in Frankland River, and yet it's been harnessed, refined and defined into a really impressive example of what Frankland does so well. Loads of red and black cherry and spicy fruit on the nose, while the palate shows a buoyant brightness and lively feel with an intensity of fruit, all...

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Sauvignon Blanc

From the get-go, you know you are in a savvy zone with those aromas of crunchy passionfruit, guava and a bright citrusy character of fruit. There is a touch of cut grass herbaceousness as well. The palate has a crunchy minerality with a lifted gooseberry nuance. It's delightfully fruity, but with a fine holding acidity to sustain the finish. A...