Pemberton

Pinot Noir

This is a beautifully expressive Pemberton pinot loaded with bright red fruits displaying a fresh strawberry and confectionery raspberry coulis type of combination. A light to medium-bodied wine, but there is palate intensity here that carries through to sustain an impressive finish. Nice short-term wine.

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Chardonnay

A delightfully fruit and flavoursome chardonnay designed for drinking in the short term. Lifted melon and citrus with a gentle hint of vanilla bean on the nose. The palate has a slight butterscotch and lemon curd richness with the crisp acid taking through to a crunchy vibrant finish.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

This is a more generously flavoured chardonnay, with a ripe melon, vanilla pod and citrussy lemon meringue-like character. Comes from Pemberton and reveals rather beautiful fruit character initially on the nose and then on the palate. A little butterscotch and lemon curd add further complexity.

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Pinot Grigio

If you’re into your pinot grigio then this little guy is just the ticket. Has a slightly pinkish colour which you can get with this variety. Spicy apple and pear with a little crumbly biscuit on the nose. The palate has is textured with the crisp acid sustaining a clean finish.

Pemberton

Pinot Grigio

This pretty much overlays the blueprint for this variety. Sourced from the cool Pemberton region, it retains a fresh, crunchy acidity. Loaded with a typical varietal combination of apple and pear crumble, and just a little stone fruit richness. But it retains its fine delicacy.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

This is a first-rate chardonnay from Pemberton. The striking feature is its approachable mouthfeel with tremendous fruit intensity. On the nose, you're drifting into those more stone fruit and white peach notes with a touch of underlying nectarine and a little lemon pith. The palate bounces along with a trace of brioche and lemon meringue complexity. The oak is lightly...

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

This was a warm year in Pemberton, and yet it's a region that managed to produce some impressive pinot noir—and this one is a beauty. On the nose, there's that lovely combination of spicy red berry notes with a really subtle, slightly damp earth, truffly nuance sitting within. It's all captured neatly and with excellent composition on a palate which...

Pemberton

Chardonnay

A fine and delicate style of chardonnay putting a subtle combination of nectarine and peach characters on display immediately. It’s held together with fine grained oak and a fine minerally acidity that helps define the palate. Finishes with a dry savoury touch. A wine for the next few years.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

A beautiful vintage has produced fruit of such pristine purity. Light stone fruits of nectarine and white peach with a little pear and cut lime adding their light touches. A light bodied palate but one with elegance and complexity as it extends through to a precise long finish. Neatly crafted wine.

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Riesling

A pristine and pure dry style riesling displaying delightful floral limey aromas. The palate has a chalky racy sherbet-like character with a subtle degree of tension. Finishes with a precise minerality. Excellent wine now but has cellaring potential.

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Riesling

A highly fragrant off-dry style of riesling. Loaded with citrus notes of lime with a little spicy lift. Beautiful palate has a gentle feel about it with slightly orange zest characters. Has a clean and pure palate extending to a very long precise finish

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Riesling

Just love this off-dry riesling. Displays exceptional purity and energy with that light residual sugar contribution. Aromas of orange blossom with gentle mandarin and melon characters. The palate is lively with a minerally crisp acid offsetting the slightly sweet fruit. But then on the finish the crisp acidity closes in to keep it precise and long without a hint of...

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

This is a mighty good pinot noir from Pemberton. On the nose you get that slightly sour cherry with deeper dark cherry characters complemented by a spicy savoury combination. The palate stands up with a firm core threading through the vibrant juicy fruit flavours. This is a pinot that will handle medium term cellaring very well.

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

Typically light bodied pinot from this excellent season. Aromas display a slightly savoury mushroom-like character with a soft cherry and subtle gamey character. A tightly controlled palate is held with fine oak and chalky tannins. Deceptive power drives through to the finish.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

A little more winemaking has gone into capturing the best of this marvellous vintage. A combination of lees stirring in a mix of oaks, several months maturation on lees and partial malolactic fermentation has contributed to its texture and layered complexity. Aromas of stone fruit augmented with a little struck match. The palate is finely integrated with the savoury limey...

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

Made in good years and this was a very good year. Lots happening on the nose as a mix of lightly stewed fruit with a lift of gamey meats and cherry takes hold. The palate displays great complexity with a gamey, truffle subtlety merging with the primary cherry and plummy blackberry characters.

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Sauvignon Blanc

A punchy vibrant savvy loaded with all the goodies you expect from this variety. The aromas of gooseberry and slightly herbaceous citrussy notes are classically varietal. There’s a trace of minerality to bring things to life. A clean crisp acidity completes a current drinking wine.

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Chenin Blanc

A wine that carries a high degree of sweetness, yet the balanced acidity keeps it keen and fine without ever cloying. Notes of citrussy lime dominance with a little orange peel complexity. Beautifully focused finish. Love this style.

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Chardonnay

A super fine and precise chardonnay from this cooler vintage that delivers with lancing accuracy to a very long finish. Initially the aromas reveal light touches of lemon tart, quince and nectarine, with a respectful restraint. Then the palate reveals more as it gathers momentum to the extended finish. Has a fine minerality threading through. An excellent wine.

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Chardonnay

This Pemberton vineyard is really starting to kick some goals, and this is a wonderful example of chardonnay now coming from the property. On the nose, there's crunchy grapefruit and cut pear, with a little squeeze of lemon. The palate has a slight creamy feel to it, but it's still quite fine and controlled, with a deep and lingering finish....

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Chardonnay

A wine that continues to show the growing complexity and expression of this smaller producer in Pemberton. This is the most intense and complex yet. Notes of lemon curd and brioche with a roasted cashew infusion. It’s creamy but with a fie and precise linear minerality that helps focus the long finish. Incredibly long palate profile.

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Merlot

A really encouraging merlot that shows the progress these guys have made with this variety in recent years. This is no soft and mushy fruit bomb merlot. This is merlot loaded with dark fruits and supported with a structure tannin and fine oak balance. Beautifully poised and balanced with a slightly gravelly influence adding to the textural feel.

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Pinot Noir

Clearly the best pinot noir yet from Below & Above. The aromas are immediately compelling and complex with a sour cherry, dark plum and spicy combination working with some slightly truffle-like characters. The palate is plush and textured with a smooth integrated mouth feel. Layers of wild fruits tightened with a fine chalky tannin factor. Lots to like here.

Pemberton

Merlot

This is a variety that is certainly heading in the right direction. It makes a real and quite bold statement of poise, structure and layered fruit intensity. The aromas are an engaging combination of blackcurrant, dark chocolate and black olive with a fine minerality. The palate really kicks in to deliver on structure, power and fruit intensity. And it’s all...

Pemberton

Merlot

A structured and firm example of Pemberton merlot. The nose is a mix of black fruits, dark plum, and slightly raisiny fruitcake. But everything is delivered with restraint and poise. This is a merlot of some standing and substance. The structure is quite firm, and yet the sweet, supple fruits fill it out quite beautifully. Tannins are well managed, and...

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

Pinot has been a keen focus for Below & Above from the outset, with a lot of time and energy spent on bringing the vineyard to the level they want. It’s starting to pay big dividends. This is a classically constructed pinot noir with the warm velvety flesh wrapped around the firm structural core. Truffle and cherry notes on the...

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

Starting to establish itself as one of the premier pinot noir producers in the state, and this wine perfectly illustrates that claim. Red fruits with sour cherry, slightly earthy mushroom-like influence, and then some brighter cranberry and raspberry-like characters. The palate is typically light-bodied, but it has power and persistence. Intricately layered and woven together, with the chalky tannins and...

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Chardonnay

This is a really well-crafted chardonnay from Pemberton displaying that delicate restraint that is part of the regional DNA. Light florals open and then reveal more lemon curd and citrus with a trace of honeysuckle. The palate has a thoroughly beautiful texture with flavours of light stone fruit and spicy minerally citrus tang. An excellent value for this quality.

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Chardonnay

There were some very good chardonnays from Pemberton from the '25 vintage, and this is yet another of them. Captures the regional DNA on the nose with a peach blossom, floral, and slightly chalk dust character. The palate is still quite tightly wound, but there is good fleshy intensity, albeit held close to create a finely linear, minerally wine. It's...

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Pinot Grigio

The colour is the palest copper tone, which comes from this variety. It’s from Pemberton and is brimming with lovely apple, pear and citrus notes on the nose, leading into a palate that is keen, crisp and quite refreshing. While it’s crunchy and lively, there’s also a nice textural feel that brings added complexity to the wine. It’s a nice...

Pemberton

Chardonnay

The difference of region and vineyard, and for that matter clones, is immediately apparent on the nose. It's made using selected parcels of Dijon clones 95, 96 and 76 from the established Channybearup Vineyard in Pemberton. Once again, it's made along the same lines as each of the others in this range, but it shows a different character, and that's...

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White Blend

A classic grape variety mostly found in Piedmont in Italy. Has a racy acidity but richer textural palate notes. It's generous and in this case some older oak has been used to help in the formation of a well-shaped palate. I've tasted this over two years now and the extra year is starting to make quite an impact.

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White Blend

A bit of a Heinze blend of varieties from Pemberton. It's light and aromatic with a nutty creamy backdrop giving the wine poise. Six months in oak has muted the naturally high ended aromatics to create delightfully presented wine that is such a pleasure for current drinking.

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Pinot Noir

This comes of the excellent Channybearup vineyard in Pemberton. Love the structure and poise in this pinot. Engaging aromas of spices and light cloves with a strawberry red fruit thing emerging. The palate is light bodied but poised with fine chalky tannins doing their thing. Incredibly long palate.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

The second wine along with the pinot that is part of this duo where the winemaking is hands-off and designed to capture whatever comes from the vineyard and season. So, this is terrific. Has a savoury, slightly funky aroma that provides a captivating beginning. The palate adds a little chalky acidity to provide direction to a sustained finish. Layered and...

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

A wine made with a largely keep-yer-mitts-off approach in the winery. It’s from the excellent Channybearup vineyard in Pemberton and made with minimal intervention. I think Cherubino just wanted to see where things would go. Well, they’ve gone pretty well. Slightly gamey mushroomy aromas with a subtle cherry note. The palate is light yet intense with excellent fruit concentration delivered...

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

You've gotta love this baby. It's from an established vineyard in Pemberton. Exotic aromas of violets and strawberries. The palate has tremendous depth and persistence with the use of oak and tannin management superb. The 1000-litre foudres have ensured the oak and fruit integration is harmonious and complete. I'd like to be drinking this over the next five years.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

Runner-up White Wine of the Year 2024 A stunner from Cherubino capturing the essence of Pemberton. It comes from the excellent Channybearup vineyard. On the nose you get a flinty, grapefruit and honeysuckle nuance with deeper grapefruit and nectarine influences. The palate delivers with a degree of delicacy yet there is power here…real power that takes it through to a...

Pemberton

Chardonnay

Okay, I’ve tasted a few of these and I reckon this is the best. Great vintage, yes, but then the subtle winemaking has brought it to a new dimension. While bunch pressing and naturally fermented in new and used puncheons, which just takes the edge off the oak. The power of the Gingin clone is evident immediately. Lemon, quince and...

Pemberton

Chardonnay

A wonderful chardonnay that comes from the Channybearup Vineyard in Pemberton. Handpicked and then whole bunch pressed before natural fermentation in a new and old puncheon combination. Aromas of brioche and butterscotch with subtle cashew and lemon curd characters. The palate is powerfully stated with depth and intensity, driving through to a long finish.