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Margaret River

Red Varietal

A highly fragrant and quite pretty expression of this famous Beaujolais variety that makes a range of styles. This is light to medium bodied with supple red fruit characters, but it has structure and poise. Brilliant crimson light red colour, then an aroma that is all strawberry and cherry with a sprinkle of lifted spices. The palate has a nice...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was a season that was as near as dammit to perfect as you can imagine, resulting in some marvellous wines throughout the state and this one is a wonderful example. It's a generous and full-bodied cabernet, but there is a typical vineyard and seasonal elegance that is captured here. On the nose, you get a light influence of black...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

It's an unusual combination, but oh, how it works. This wine from the cooler '21 vintage is one of the best. I like its restraint and poise which is achieved without compromising the deeply concentrated juicy fruity intensity. Lovely red fruit mix emerges with a juicy raspberry and rhubarb pie character. Perfectly balanced and perfectly integrated.

Margaret River

Red Blend

Opens with a brilliant high-definition colour. Then the aromas of blackcurrant, spicy plum and juby red fruits engage. The energy evident on the nose strikes through into the palate with its concentrated red fruit delivered with poise. Has a slightly chewy mouth feel but the bright red flavours really emerge as it moves effortlessly to a long finish. Will support...

Margaret River

Shiraz

It surprises me we don't do more of this blend in WA. Still, here is an excellent example. It's highly scented with red fruits and spices evident. The palate is medium to full-bodied with fine tannins creating a bed for the delightfully framed fruit. An earthy red fruit mix merges seamlessly with some nice spicy minerality. A wine of energy...

Margaret River

Red Blend

Bright red fruits lift from the glass revealing elevated strawberry and plum with a light rustic dried herb character The palate is medium weight but crammed with powerfully presented fruit. The tannins are firm, showing a slightly chewy feel, contributing to the grainy palate texture. It’s as bright as a button with tremendous energy driving through to the finish.

Margaret River

Red Blend

Beautiful vintage, beautiful wine. This is all you want with this Rhône-style blend. Spicy, it’s juicy. It’s delightfully medium-bodied, but ultimately it’s tremendously flavoured and composed. Red berry fruits on the nose with a slight leafy, spicy lift. And then a palate that is quite supple and soft with fine, chalky acidity. Balance is impeccable.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

No question, for me, this is the best Hazels Vineyard cabernet sauvignon produced to date. The 2020 vintage was short and sharp, delivering fruit of great intensity and power. This wine captures all of that but, with the southern regional influence, presents it with elegance and refined charm. It has all the typical blackcurrant, slightly oyster shell southern Margs character,...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

McHenry Hohnen Hazel’s Vineyard cabernet sauvignon 2022 — $105 The 2022 vintage produced some quite outstanding wines out of Margaret River, and this one captures that vintage quite beautifully. It’s a wine of tremendous power, and yet it’s got a high degree of refinement and restraint. Loads of black currant, black olive notes on the nose, a little oyster shell...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The varietal characters of black fruits and subtle bay leaf, with a little minerally oyster shell nuance, provide the ideal opening into this delicious contemporary cabernet. The palate is juicy and more in the medium-bodied zone, but there is good intensity and concentration as it extends effortlessly through to a long finish. A wine of great energy and vibrancy —...

Margaret River

Shiraz

This is such a bright and brilliant shiraz from this vintage. It’s loaded with dark cherry and plum, with a touch of blackberry just adding that final lift on the nose. The palate is soft and supple, with bright fruits and real energy. It’s supported by fine, gentle tannins and just a touch of oak to add interest. An ideal...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Runner-up Wine of the Year 2024 A thoroughly exquisite cabernet blend from the great '18 Margaret River vintage. Also has some malbec, merlot and petit to complete the picture. This is the finest Rolling Stone yet released. It's sophisticated and so regally refined with fine tannins and fine-grained oak cradling such beautiful fruit. Perfumed with black fruits displaying ever so...

Margaret River

Red Blend

This is a blend of cabernet sauvignon, malbec, merlot and petit verdot. Opens with beautifully scented, aromas of blackcurrant and blackberry with a slightly cedary influence. The palate is perfectly weighted and crafted. Deeply concentrated fruit surges forward, supported by quite firm tannins and plenty of oak. Has a slightly chalky character with traces of bay leaf and seashell minerality....

Margaret River

Red Blend

This is the pinnacle of McHenry Hohnen’s thoroughbred stable. It’s a blend of around 57% cabernet, 36% malbec, and the remainder petit verdot. This combination has worked extremely well over the years. The 2020 vintage offered great fruit concentration and power, and this wine exemplifies that, though with the regional character of southern Margaret River, it achieves balance and refinement....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Here's a wine that shows the power, the elegance, and the character of the Horton clone cabernet. The season was outstanding, and it's allowed the aromas and flavours to build into a most polished wine. Nice notes of violet and blackcurrant and other lifted florals, with a little understated black olive tapenade. The palate is so beautifully bright and energetic,...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A stylish and most elegant combination of these two varieties, which are so well-suited to Margaret River. The powerful blackcurrant, bay-leafy, oyster-shell minerality of the cabernet tends to dominate, but it's underpinned by that slightly more fleshy red fruit of the malbec. It all comes together into a neatly integrated combination that is bright and vibrant throughout. Excellent oak integration...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Strong varietal aromas of blackcurrant and dark chocolate on the nose. Other notes of graphite and dark plum add further complexity. The palate has a soft mouthfeel, threaded with a firm core of tannin and plenty of oak. It's an immediately appealing wine with generous flavours. Beautifully smooth and effortlessly long.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A slightly fleshy Margaret River cabernet with excellent structure and poise. Dark fruits show blackcurrant and ripe plum with a trace of edgy black olive. The palate is smooth and seamlessly integrated. Chalky tannins and supporting oak complete a tidy wine.

Margaret River

Shiraz

Plenty of fully ripe shiraz in here revealing a dark plum slightly toasty character on the nose. The palate is soft and generously appointed with loads of dark plum, chocolate and licorice all working together. The sweet fruit of the middle palate is complemented by the dusty and slightly savoury finish.

Margaret River

Shiraz

A firm and solid Margaret River shiraz. Earthy plummy notes on the nose. The palate is full and concentrated with dark fruit flavours and a lift of spice. Thick dark chocolate coating on the palate adds a textural feel. Good for a few years in the cellar.

Margaret River

Shiraz

Such a good year for shiraz in Margaret River, and this modestly priced wine delivers well beyond its price point. Spicy, plummy, savoury notes with a little black pepper on the nose are what you expect from shiraz. Then a palate that is so rich, with good concentration of fruit, poised with a nice tannin-oak combination and support. Extends effortlessly...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

Smooth, easy-drinking cabernet merlot blend capturing these varieties in a most appealing way as a medium-bodied red. Black fruits with red fruit infusion, lifted leafy notes and a little dollop of chocolate. Balanced with fine chalky tannins and a dab of oak. Made as an approachable current-drinking wine.

Margaret River

Malbec

As you might expect from this warmer season, the colour is deep, almost impenetrably red-black, but that’s malbec. The nose delivers a real burst of plush plums, a little rhubarb and some mulberry. On the palate, you get a real wave of opulent fruit flavours, all with that very supple, fine tannin influence and just a little bit of oak....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A traditional winemaking approach has been taken here, including open top fermentation and extended maturation. The best and most complete of any wine I have tasted from Miles. Deep and concentrated blackcurrant with added rich complexity from the black olive, dark chocolate and slight graphite nuances. Had about 17 months in French and Hungarian oaks. Has a dry chalky finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A seamlessly crafted Margaret River cabernet where everything just sits together in perfect harmony. Floral notes mingle with substantial blackcurrant aromas. The palate is firmly structured with chalky tannins and plenty of oak from the mix of French and Hungarian. Yet it retains its elegance and refinement. Potential for extended ageing here.

Margaret River

Shiraz

Some interesting techniques have contributed to the energy and vibrance of this wine. For instance, after open fermentation in concrete, viognier was added and a small amount of whole bunch carbonic maceration used before maturation in both French and American oak. Smooth and elegant with a supple velvety palate after the aromatics of the viognier infused nose.

Margaret River

Shiraz

A cleverly made shiraz that reveals what this variety can deliver in Margarett River. It’s co-fermented with a small amount of spicy viognier and then gets a little carbonic maceration, both of which contribute to its perfumed aromas and bright palate. It then gets 17 months in a mix of French and American oak. Velvety smooth palate, yet there is...

Perth Hills

Shiraz

The distinctive spicy influence of viognier is clearly evident on the shiraz. It's from the Millbrook property from vines that are now pretty old, so you get plenty of ripe and intense fruit flavours with the spicy aromatics of the viognier adding lift to the violet plummy notes of the shiraz. Chalky tannins and lightly infused oak add their final...

Perth Hills

Shiraz Blend

This excellent example of this blend comes from old vines hand harvested on the Millbrook estate. The aromatic impact of the viognier makes its presence felt immediately with a spicy perfume floating over the dark plummy characters of the shiraz. Well-structured and brimming with lively berry flavours and supported by fine minerally tannins and fine-grained oak.

Perth Hills

Shiraz Blend

From the first take on the nose to the initial sip on the palate, this indicated it might well be the best example of this wine yet. Further examination simply confirmed it. The year was very good, and it's captured perfectly in this lovely soft, supple wine. Viognier is just 3%, but it does add that spicy floral lift. It's...

Western Australia

Shiraz Blend

Millbrook has championed this classic combination, and in this case, just 3% of the white, spicy viognier makes all the difference as it brings that gingery, apricotty, stone-fruit combination into the equation. The aromas are nicely balanced, and the viognier certainly doesn't overshadow the plush fruits. There is a firm thread of tannin, but there is ample rich and quite...

Geographe

Shiraz Blend

Intense perfumes of red berry and light spice with a hint of African violet open things on the nose. It’s what you expect from this classic combination from Geographe. Smooth and seamlessly woven integrated palate with the supple fruit supported by fine chalky tannins and just the lightest touch of oak.

Geographe

Tempranillo

From the outset, tempranillo has proved to be well suited to pockets of Georgraphe. This from the intense ’22 vintage is packed with all the red punchy fruits you expect with this variety. Delicious blackberry and plum with a subtle liqueur cherry character. It’s spicy and laced with subtle dried herbs to complement the plush fruit. Tannins add definition. Bright...

Geographe

Red Blend

Come on guys, you have to love this wonderful blend of these three Rhone varieties sourced from Geographe. It's soft and supple but still with a chalky core of tannin and oak providing its poise and direction. It's really about the fruit with only a small amount of oak influence. Super wine for current drinking while all that vibrant youthful...

Western Australia

Red Blend

A medium-bodied example of this GSM blend. Captures the perfumed red fruit aromatics on the nose and then the palate, with its medium body, delivers with a plummy, red-fruit combination supported with really fine tannins. A very faint, subtle hint of oak. It's long, it's balanced, and it's totally seamless.

Perth Hills

Tempranillo

If you're looking for a delicious and scrumptious red wine, then this tempranillo hits the mark fair and square. Lifted floral notes of cherry and plummy raspberry. The palate is soft and warm with an almost cuddly feel. Sweet spicy plum fill the palate delivering to a pleasing long finish.

Geographe

Tempranillo

It's hard to imagine a better current-drinking and delicious tempranillo than this Geographe-sourced example of the famous Spanish variety. Loaded with liqueur cherry and dark plum, aromatic with a lift of perfumed exotic fruits. The palate captures the juicy plushness of the variety with a little spicy lift. Very much about highly energised fruit and delicious drinking.

Geographe

Tempranillo

A firmish, though still, plush, tempranillo sourced from Geographe. The aromas are typical of blackberry, raspberry, and cherry-like notes. The palate, as it opens, reveals a juicy, plush fruitiness, plenty of red berry and plum with a lift of spice. The tannins are quite soft and the oak understated. Has a juicy, crunchy vibrancy on the finish with a subtle...

Frankland River

Shiraz

Captures so much of the beautiful fruit characters of Frankland River in what turned out to be a pretty good year. Perfumed notes of cherry and a trace of raspberry with lifted peppery licorice nuances. It’s medium bodied with fine chalky tannins and a very faint ferrous character adding further complexity. An elegant stylish wine.

Frankland River

Shiraz

It makes sense that Millbrook has gone south to the Powder Bark Vineyard at Frankland for its shiraz from this excellent season. This is a cracking good wine with power, finesse, and smooth refinement. A mix of black and red fruits on the nose, a little pepper, and a distinctive ironstone thread. The palate is medium weight with the oak–fruit...