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Blackwood Valley

Chardonnay

A light and fragrant chardonnay sparkling wine from the Blackwood Valley. Has a creamy lemony mix on the nose with traces of bready brioche emerging. The palate is fine and lingering with a fine persistence. Nice wine.

Blackwood Valley

Rose

A clean, crisp and lightly fruity shiraz-based rose. Lifted strawberry and subtle raspberry nuances on the nose. The palate is fresh and fruity with a fine acidity to define its finish.

Great Southern

Shiraz

This is just starting to knit together and reveal its excellent qualities. On the nose you get a beautiful mix of spices, chocolate and dark plum with a slightly savoury tweak. The palate is medium to full bodied with a neat combination of chalky tannins and lightly cedary oak. It works really well in the short term or for further...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

One of the best chardonnays released under this label. The year as pretty good for whites like this. The nose displays appealing melon and light butterscotch characters mingling with a light citrus touch. The palate has been created to be fresh and vital with no malo so it's a pure expression of the variety. Neat touch of oak finishes a...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine of polish and sheen. Floral red fruit notes on the nose with a leafy minerally character. The palate is medium bodied but packed with fruit intensity that flows effortlessly to a long finish. The chalky tannins hold the line with the fine grained oak underpinning. Refined and classy.

Margaret River

Chenin Blanc

A sparkling wine that shows what a good variety chenin is for turning into sparkling wine. This has slightly more fruit generosity than previous vintages but still retains that bracing crispness and fruit energy. Careful not to chill it too much otherwise you might lose those beautiful aromatics and palate flavours.

Margaret River

Shiraz

Shiraz has been one of the strong suits at Voyager for some time now. This is an example of the delicate refined qualities that can be achieved in a cooler year. Perfumed with high-end floral notes providing a stunning opening. The palate is seamlessly integrated with fine tannin and oak supporting spicy plummy fruit. Super value wine.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Oh, wow. Wait till you get your lips around this little guy. Crunchy vibrant fresh tropical fruit intensity strikes immediately. Loads of zippy passionfruit, lemon zest and a little gooseberry edginess. Has a lively crisp acidity to drive the palate through to a long finish. Ready to go.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A wine that reaches into the best parcels of fruit in the best years. It was a good year for white wines in Margaret River and this superbly crafted modern-style chardonnay captures it. Fine and delicate with chalky minerally edges to the fine mix of pear and cut lime that sit across the melon and lightly roasted cashew. A little...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A light bodied but appealingly flavoursome chardie that is all about the vibrant natural fruit flavours. It's a pure and punchy little wine with melon and light stone fruit merging with a faint cereal-like character. A splash of lemon and pear and there you have it; super current drinking.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A vibrant and juicy young cabernet with so much appeal. Bright red fruit notes on the nose with a delicious red fruity palate delivering plenty. Chalky fine tannin and just a smidgeon oak to underpin the fruit combine to produce a wine for drinking over the next few years.

Margaret River

Chenin Blanc

This is just so delicious as a current drinking white wine. Bursting with vibrant fresh tropical notes on the nose. A little passionfruit and citrus to add tang provide an engaging opening. The palate is crunchy and alive with so much fruit intensity. A little creamy textural feel completes an excellent wine.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A pure and almost pristine chardonnay from one of the region's best. Minerally with a citrus and sliced pear nuance on the nose. It's crunchy with spicy green apple and cinnamon characters on the palate. The integration of oak and fruit hits it right on the money. Very long finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Silky smooth, velvety palate is a feature of this exceptional cabernet. It's only just starting to reveal its qualities. Leafy black olive and subtle oyster shell minerality on the nose work neatly with the lively red and black fruit combination. Fine chalky tannins and a smooth introduction of oak have harnessed the palate and focussed it to a very long...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

One of the prettiest and most elegant of any wine under this Mallee Root label. Excellent year contributed to it for sure, but some astute winemaking has helped. Hand plunging in small open fermenters has contributed to the bright highly scented aromas. Lovely red berry with a little blackcurrant richness with fine chalk tannins and clever subtle use of oak....

Margaret River

Rose

This is a rose that combines the bright freshness you want in this style with a degree of complexity and sophistication, which is a result of fermentation in oak and time on lees with regular stirring. All this builds texture and palate completeness. Lifted perfumed aromas with such a beautifully presented palate. Excellent.

Margaret River

Pinot Noir

The vintage was a bit of a balancing act for winemakers with some pesky rain, but for these later ripening varieties it worked out okay. It's a tidy medium bodied wine showing that pinot noir can work rather well in Margaret River. Has a spicy raspberry cherry aroma with a little vanilla bean. The decision not to use any new...

Margaret River

Petit Verdot

These vines planted in 1997 are now reaching a level of maturity to supply fruit of excellent balance and concentration. This is a medium to full bodied wine with a firm core of tannin supported by largely older oak and a smidgeon of new French. Dark chocolate and slightly minerally plummy bac fruit provides the palate base. It's a fruit...

Margaret River

Malbec

A variety that is making quite an impact these days as a stand-alone varietal. And it seems that this cooler Margaret River vintage has suited this variety rather well, bringing a degree of elegance and refinement into the mix. Perfumed red fruits with a subtle leafy influence and a trace of liqueur chocolate. The palate is seamlessly integrated and medium...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This ever improving chardonnay comes from mature unirrigated vines. IT is a mix of Gingin and Dijon clones which combines power and elegance in once united presentation. It's whole bunch pressed to oak for 100% wild fermentation before 10 months in oak of which 38% was new. Has a creamy stone fruit middle palate with a trace of cashew and...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A thoroughly beautiful and refined cabernet sauvignon from this excellent vintage. There's a small amount of bright malbec in there bringing a juicy red fruit impact to the middle palate. IT's one of the more elegant and stylish cabernets from Victory Point displaying impeccable balance of fruit oak and tannin. Bright blackcurrant fruit on the nose with a leafy oyster...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This wine shows the benefit of an extra year in the bottle. Not the perfume of the 2018, but there is structure and poise here. Pronounced seaweed nori aroma with blackcurrant fruitiness and slightly toasty oak. This was a vintage that continues to reveal itself and should never be overlooked. It has such a seamless and slinky integrated palate that...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A wine of acute precision and freshness from a relatively cool season that turned out damn fine for chardonnay. It all comes from the Gingin clone with the fruit wild yeast fermented after whole bunch pressing. Spent about nine months in oak with some lees stirring. Has a crunchy lemon saline character with a savoury element adding further complexity. Intense...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

The vintage has resulted in slightly more power and flavour richness compared to the cooler 2021. Opens with a butterscotch and ripe fig and white peach character on the nose. The palate is textured with a crème brulee and lemon curd richness balanced by a fine savoury thread through to the finish. It's so well balanced with its palate length...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is such a good cabernet, especially when you consider the price of $30. It seems the Filius grows in sophistication and varietal expression each year. This was a cool year of course, but the fully ripe fruit delivers and then some. Has a little bit of malbec which is an important consideration for the wine, adding just that little...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A stylish and elegant expression of this very good Margaret River vintage. The smaller volume and tight berry factor have contributed to the intensity and power on the palate especially. Highly perfumed nose with leafy red berry and blackcurrant and with a trace of bay leaf and black olive. The palate is silky smooth and more in the medium bodied...

Swan Valley

Verdelho

Bursting with tropical fruit is this superb example of a Swan valley verdelho. The nose is quite beautiful with a slightly lemony stone fruit character. The palate is intense and sustained with a bright crisp acidity adding a final tick to the finish.

Swan Valley

Shiraz

This is a slightly tighter and firmer wine than the more opulent 2020. It's really a style thing and very much based on vintage. The essential characters of plummy fleshy fruit, mocha and dark chocolate are there but with a slightly savoury meaty addition. The palate has a more gravelly feel to it. But ultimately it is about flavour, and...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

Always a high point for Upper Reach and this excellent shiraz that comes off the Baskerville property is a great example of a variety the Swan Valley does so well. Loads of bright plummy fruit supplemented with a spicy cracked black pepper character with subtle mocha and dark chocolate nuances. It's classic stuff for the Swan. Soft and supple with...

Margaret River

Shiraz

It was a cool year but worked out well for producing an elegant style of wine from this region. A few extra years in bottle have certainly added another dimension with the original black pepper and sage withdrawing into the dark fruits to create a more harmonious seamless relationship. The palate is in the medium zone but the firmish chalky...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This wine has really started to move into its best work. A precisely defined cabernet showing the character of this vintage. Blackcurrant and scented cedary oak complement each other while the chalky tannins provide the structural base and palate definition. A little black olive and faint oyster shell minerality. The palate is really coming into its own.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This outstanding cabernet is a result of selection of the best barrels. Tasted a couple of years ago, but it has now moved up a notch or two. Still firm, structured and stylish in one fell swoop. The fruit is beautifully concentrated and set off against the powdery chalky fine tannins, creating such an elegant, poised palate. The aromas of...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A firmer, tighter, and more concentrated cabernet which captures the vintage with its tannin structure and fruit power. This was a year that things had to be managed well in the winery because of the power of the fruit delivers. This has been done very well here with a wine that is still so tightly held but which will with...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

The season turned out to be very good for the earlier ripening chardonnays in Margaret River. This is one of the finer and most delicate Specialist chardonnays yet. On the nose a combination of grapefruit and pear with an underlay of meal and almond provide an excellent opening. The palate has deeper stone fruit flavours with that edge of nectarine...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An elegant and refined cabernet from this small but concentrated vintage. Highly perfumed aromas of violets and fragrant red berry with a lift of bay leaf and edgy graphite. The palate is seamlessly stylish with a great integration of fruit, oak and tannin. Has a firm tight minerally core which threads through the effortlessly long and detailed palate.

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

The nose bursts with a powerful hit of black cherry and slightly earthy truffle like characters. The palate is fleshy with more strawberry dominant flavours emerging. The oak is well judged and sits with the chalky tannins to cradle the palate through to a sustained finish of dark chocolate and subtle limestone.

Great Southern

Chardonnay

A highly fragrant and bright chardonnay from Denmark. Notes of lemon curd, butterscotch and ripe nectarine and white peach. The palate releases flavours of cashew and stone fruit richness. The oak and fruit balance works so well, and it has a crunchy minerally finish with a little chalky edge.

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Zinfandel

This slightly cooler season has resulted in a more restrained and stylish zin. The nose opens with distinctive aromas of liqueur cherry and raspberry dominating over the slightly confectionary jubey characters. The palate is remarkably soft and supple with a vanillin oak influence emerging and some slightly grainy tannins sitting within. Smooth.

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Zinfandel

The liqueur chocolate and dark cherry and raspberry characters are evident initially on the nose. But there is a vibrant perfumed lift. The adoption of carbonic maceration techniques has produced that perfumed high tone red fruit aromatic on the nose, while bringing an energy and spritely touch to the palate. It's designed as an immediate drinking zin, and it works...

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Riesling

This is a sort of modern old style of riesling. Old in that it was fermented in old oak, modern in that many younger winemakers are dabbling in this throw-back approach. The approach seems to heighten the vineyard musk characters and mute the citrus. It's also created a more textural and less tense expression of the fruit. So, it's quite...