Mount Barker

Mount Barker

Cabernet Franc

A variety that works well in cooler regions, but still needs to be ripe, which in this season wasn’t a problem. The perfumed red fruits of raspberry and mulberry with a little violet scent working in are just beautiful. The palate is a striking feature. It has structure and poise but with a typical varietal elegance. One of the better...

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Chardonnay

A beautifully fragrant and delightfully presented chardonnay from this excellent season. The nose is a merging of vanilla bean and lemon curd with a light nectarine-like influence. The palate is so well balanced with a fine precise feel. Just a little light toast adds to the finish.

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Riesling

In any one year you can guarantee this outstanding vineyard will produce a great riesling. So, here’s yet another. It’s a tight tense style but there is still flavour intensity deep within. A mix of florals and steely wet pebble with a distinctive regional spicy minerality. The palate is arrow straight, long and tense with a bracing acidity sustaining the...

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Riesling

This excellent riesling comes from the Whispering Hill Vineyard near Mount Barker. Floral aromas merge with lemon rind and subtle green apple. The palate is slightly textured but retains a fine linear feel with excellent fruit intensity showing just a little regional spice.

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Riesling

An intense and lively riesling sourced from old vines on the Langton vineyard just on the edge of Mount Barker. Spicy aromas over a mix of lemon pith and green apple characters immediately engage. The palate is pure and lively with plenty of racy flavours building to a long finish. It was a hot season, but the cooler southern vineyards...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Deep dark secrets are lurking in this polished and impressive cabernet. It was a vintage of challenges after a good start. Some late rain came via the end of a cyclone but those with courage to hold on were rewarded as the warm weather returned. Dark chocolate blackcurrant and black olive all find their way into a complex aromatic mix....

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Pinot Noir

This is a mighty impressive young pinot from this super pinot season. Really captures the subtlety of the variety but there is structure and driving intensity here delivered on a light to medium body. High energy red berry aromas with a little limestone and damp earthy complexity. Has a fine defining acidity which carries through to the long finish. Will...

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Chardonnay

A wine brimming with ripe and intense stone fruit characters from the white peach and edgy nectarine notes on the nose through to the deeply intense palate. There’s a nice cashew and creamy peach thing happening on the palate with a fine acid adding precision and focus through to the finish. Really well managed wine.

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Riesling

Beautiful riesling from the famous Wyjup Vineyard in Mount Barker. Opens with a healthy aroma of lime dominant citrus against muted floral scents. Such a good season delivers fruit that intense yet precise and controlled with a fine natural acidity. The palate has a degree of tension creating a fine minerally thread through to the sustained finish.

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White Blend

A thoroughly beautiful sparkling blend of Mount Barker chardonnay and pinot noir. Greets with aromas of citrus and white peach with deeper meaty notes and a little oyster shell minerality. The palate is quite delicately poised yet with a deep and complete flavour profile. Palate has the citrussy and green apple characters with a traces of pie crust finishing. A...

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Pinot Noir

Sourced from early picked pinot noir off the Mount Barker vineyard. The aromas display a mix of strawberry and cranberry with light citrus notes merge with orange zest. Textured palate based on malolactic fermentation and a minimum of 33 months on lees. It’s a drier style with a lingering persistent finish offering a raspberry coulis and dried biscuity character.

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Pinot Noir

This is such a brilliant pinot with the structure, the prettiness and the palate feel you seek with this variety. Pretty it might be, but this has a tight structural core guiding it. The fragrances are all cherry and roses. The palate is deceptively powerful, almost belying its light colour. A tight thread of fine tannins weaves through supporting the...

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Pinot Noir

This is sourced from the excellent Mount Barrow vineyard in Mount Barker. It's the pinot that gets you into the journey, but it is a whole lot more than an entry level. The colour is quite light but vibrant and brilliant. The nose is intense with a whack of plum and cherry. On the palate the vibrant primary fruit is...

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Chardonnay

Strikes immediately with complex and intriguing notes of faint struck match against a background of grapefruit, vanilla bean and tart nectarine. The palate texture has been created with a mix of oaks of different ages and formats with partial malolactic fermentation. Has a subtle cracked seas-shell character permeating against the dry savoury minerality. Shows the virtues of the Mount Barrow...

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Riesling

The striking feature, apart from the fact this is a super wine, is that it has hardly moved. It is still showing a dominant primary citrus character of riesling despite being six years old. Just the faintest of developing toastiness sits in the background. Intense and engaging palate with a subtle spicy buttered toasty character emerges gradually. It is a...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

One of the oldest cabernet plantings in the Great Southern, having started in 1972. Nelson picks in two portions and ferments separately in amphora and barriques with about 30% new oak. He is aiming for a modern style and more refined and elegant style of cabernet. It’s bright and lively with energy bursting through it. Has a floral note with...

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Riesling

Has a distinctive lemony and slightly talcy aroma. It’s 70% Mount Barker and 30% Porongurups fruit. The Porongurup component gives it the edginess and palate tension, adding to its precision and focus. The palate has intensity and flavour with plenty of fruit depth and its slightly more generous mouth feel is a product of this very warm vintage. It’s dry...

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White Varietal

This is 100% Mount Barker fruit showing aromas of pear and apple with a little pastry crumble. It’s pleasing and crunchy with lift fruit intensity. Has a nice fruit texture which comes from its time on lees. Just stainless steel, but three months were spent on lees with an initial stirring regime. Love the lemony citrus tang on the finish.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Beautifully structured and powerful wine from this very early and short vintage. Perfumed blackcurrant and chalk dust over ripe dark plum. It’s an elegant wine of great structure and refinement. Strikes a great balance of fruit, oak and tannin, contributing to a precise and elegant palate feel. Aromatics are quite beautiful. This is cabernet of great style. Love the smooth...

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Shiraz

This was a year that produced fruit and wines of tremendous power and richness. The rich stewed fruit characters on the nose capture the vintage. It’s a combination of Wyjup and Bouverie vineyard fruit and shows a dominant blue fruit and red fruit character on the nose. Soft and supple with a seamless smooth and almost velvety palate with traces...

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Pinot Noir

This is a powerful wine with structure and finesse, fitting perfectly and snuggly into what we expect from pinot. It’s a combination of clones 777, 114 and 115 and there is around 20% whole bunch with 7 days cold soak. It’s largely indigenous years with a little late fermented seeding if necessary. This is a powerful wine with structure and...

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Chardonnay

This is all from the Wyjup vineyard and there is a mix of old and younger plantings, with about 2/3 coming from the 79 planting. It was all handpicked and whole bunch pressed to barrel with full solids. It was stirred monthly with about 40% of the oak new. Thijs is an intense and powerful wine with rich textured fruit....

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Riesling

This is a first-rate riesling from this special site in a special year. It is expressive, revealing on the palate early and pushing through into its sustained finish. The site is a key part of this wine. Its orientation pushes picking time up to three weeks later than other parts of the vineyard, leading to more hang time, allowing the...

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Riesling

This has developed very quickly into an outstanding Great Southern riesling. It comes from the Misery Hill vineyard in the Porongurup. Combines riesling intensity and tension into a bracing linear style. Aromas of spice and lemony lime zest with a little minerality. It was a very good season, and this is a marvelous example of the year. Outstanding.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

A deluxe powerful cabernet statement from Mount Barker. Nice merging of blackcurrant, bay leaf and back olive on the nose. The palate is exquisite. Yes, there is power, and purpose driven from the excellent fruit, but the delivery is all poise and style. Chalky tannins with dark chocolate and black fruits provide plenty on the palate. Perfectly balanced with the...

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Chardonnay

Just about the best yet under this label. All handpicked Mount Barker fruit, barrel fermented and then four months lees stirring. It’s all worked its magic to produce a wire of complexity power and finesse. The underlying power and persistence is remarkable, but the way it presents with subtle understatement is equally impressive. The higher proportion of new French oak...

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Riesling

A wine that captures so much of that Mount Barker riesling character. The aromas are spicy, which is a trait of this region, with a zest lemon and lime edge. The palate is tense and linear but with tremendous depth of fruit supported by a racy minerally acidity. Presents with a light delicacy yet the persistence is a feature.

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Riesling

Beautifully pristine riesling with a delightful fresh purity. It’s all free run juice which shows on the palate with its bright fresh fruit characters of spice and lemon with a squeeze of finishing lime. Shows excellent texture but retains that linear mouth feel through to a very long finish.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

This excellent medium to full bodied cabernet was sourced from Mount Barker. It is a cracking example of an elegant wine from a vintage that was conducive to this style. Blackcurrant and graphite on the nose with a little oyster shell minerality. The palate is still quite tight with the tannins and new oak in control but the fruit sits...