Red

Swan Valley

White Blend

Okay, this is a little different. It’s Montepulciano from the Swan Valley. Just love the bright red fruits with the liberal sprinkle of dried herbs and spices. It’s not to be confused with the sangiovese wines of Montepulciano in Tuscany. In many ways, it sits somewhere between shiraz and grenache in body, intensity and perfumes. Delicious and ideal for drinking...

Western Australia

Shiraz

A bright and vibrant immediately appealing blend of shiraz, malbec and grenache from three different regions. Aromas of spicy plums and juby red fruit with a touch of confectionary. The palate is medium weight with a fine thread of tannins and a subtle ironstone rusty nail complexity – without the nails. Seamless and beautifully integrated.

Western Australia

Tempranillo

There is a United Nations of varieties here with Italy, Spain, Sicily, Argentina and France all having a role. Exotic mix that is bursting with plush ripe red fruits with a lift of spices and dried herbs. Well-structured palate with fine chalky tannins and a little oak in harmony. The deep red to black fruits are supremely balanced, with the...

Western Australia

Red Blend

A real Heinz variety mix with mencia, grenache tempranillo malbec, arinto, shiraz, gamay, nero d'Avola and Montepulciano all swirling through it. It’s soft and generous with medium body. Delicious red fruits with a hint of cherry ripe and other confectionery notes making for an appealing palate. Wonderful mouthfeel and texture making it ideal for food. Love drinking it now.

Frankland River

Shiraz

Captures the effortless medium bodied fruit and seductive perfumes that have made this such a popular blend. Bright red fruits with just a smidgeon of oak in support. Has such a wonderful mouthfeel with fine chalky tannins providing direction and focus.

Swan Valley

Red Blend

The first thing you notice is the colour—brilliant crimson and ruby red hues. The nose is all swirling red berries with lifted perfumed florals. On the palate, the three varieties combine in a mix of red berry, cherry and spice, with just a little sprinkling of dried herbs. It's medium-bodied with a fine thread of chalky tannin and a gentle...

Geographe

Grenache

A beautiful grenache from the Geographe region. Brings together the perfumed aromatics of this variety with the intensely flavoursome medium bodied palate. A spicy dried herbs infusion complements the sweet fruit. Has such a beautifully textured supple palate, thanks to the quality fruit and the seamless integration of fruit and oak. A beauty.

Swan Valley

Shiraz

If you ever wanted an example of how good shiraz from the Swan Valley can be, here is a perfect wine. It illustrates the wonderful soft, supple fruit of Swan Valley shiraz, beautifully captured in what was a stunning year. This is as good as any shiraz I’ve seen from the Valley over the last few years. It's soft, it's...

Frankland River

Tempranillo

Winemaker Damian Hutton has gone to a very special vineyard in Frankland River for this cracking good tempranillo. Bright red fruits, a little pepper and a touch of spice all working together. It’s medium weight and just a little touch of ironstone adds further to already engaging combination. Brilliant and bright. As good an example of this variety as I...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

Generous, yet soft and refined. That’s what this super Swan Valley shiraz speaks. Spicy savoury notes merge with ripe plum and a little stewed rhubarb. Has a cream vanillin oak influence with the fine tannins and subtle oak perfectly harmonised. A bright high energy wine, ideal in the next few years.

Swan Valley

Shiraz

Shiraz was one of the many varieties to perform so well in the marvellous ’23 vintage. As you might imagine, it’s soft, supple and lush with generous rich fruit flavours. The nose speaks of generous shiraz with plums, spices and a lavish dollop of dark chocolate. Bright and voluptuous and such an enjoyable drink especially in these early years.

Swan Valley

Tempranillo

A tempranillo which displays a remarkably similar feel and flavour with the famous temps of the Rioja. A bright start with raspberry and dusty red berry aromas. The palate is a joyous example of the variety with a combination of soft suppleness with a dusty dried herb infusion. A super wine for the local Italian restaurant.

Frankland River

Shiraz

This is a Frankland River shiraz from the Acacia vineyard. It shows ironstone and dark plummy fruit, with blackberry and dark plum richness. It’s deep, concentrated and plush, with firm yet fine tannins. The oak is largely Taransaud five-year seasoned oak. It has a textured, plush mouthfeel with a chalkiness that provides definition and balance. It’s brilliantly bright with powerful...

Western Australia

Red Blend

There are lots of different varieties here: tempranillo, montepulciano, shiraz, nero d’avola, grenache, mencía and arinto. I don't expect you to find the subtle nuances of each variety, but what you will find is a wine that is supremely balanced and integrated, with a fine, silky, velvety palate and great depth of flavour that is wonderfully sustained. It's bright and...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

This takes the excellent ’22 into a slightly more ethereal zone. Perfumes of tobacco leaf, black fruits and slightly minerally ironstone nuances. The palate has real character with fine chalky tannins and such precise oak handling combining to bring it all together. There’s a slightly earthy meaty depth here. Such extraordinary value for this class.

Western Australia

Cabernet Sauvignon

Crazy, crazy, that a cabernet with this much style and personality should be selling for less than $15. But, it is. The blackcurrant and plummy combination opens on the nose and swells into the palate. It's so smooth and velvety yet there is ample structural tannin and crisp acid to control and direct the finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

This is another excellent value-for-money quality drink. It's sourced from Margaret River, and captures the best of these two varieties, with the strength and blackcurrant nuances of the cabernet and the plush fleshiness of the merlot sitting snugly together to produce a generous, medium-bodied and highly flavoursome red wine ideal for drinking in the medium term.

Western Australia

Cabernet Blend

A beautiful example of this classic West Australian blend, where the firmness of the cabernet is perfectly supported by the warm fleshiness of the spicy merlot. It was a superb season, and that quality has been captured well in this thoroughly engaging current-drinking blended red.

Swan Valley

Grenache

Oh my. This medium-bodied combination captures so much about the drinking qualities of these varieties in the Swan Valley. Seductive perfumes on the nose engage immediately. The palate is soft and supple with abundant red fruit over a deeper plumminess. Such an appealing red wine for immediate drinking.

Swan Valley

Red Blend

If you're looking for soft, supple and generous red wine drinking on a budget, it's pretty hard to go past this excellent combination of these two varieties from the Swan Valley. It has a nice aroma of plummy spiciness with a lifted rose petal nuance. The palate is vibrant, punchy and medium-bodied, and loaded with flavour. Excellent drinking over the...

Western Australia

Shiraz

This is simply marvellous current-drinking shiraz from an exceptional year. It's a wine that could quite easily sit in a higher price bracket. Smooth, supple and generous, it's delivered with medium weight and an impeccable balance of tannin and fine oak. But it is that smooth, generous and insistent flavour profile that is such a feature. Terrific wine.

Swan Valley

Red Blend

So bright and lively is this great example of what the Swan Valley can achieve. This is such a beautifully presented wine displaying a lifted mix of plum chocolate fruits on the nose with just a little twist of black pepper. The palate is delightful with a bright lively medium body displaying an exotic mix of cherries and plum with...

Perth Hills

Shiraz

Beautifully constructed and presented shiraz. Captures the soft and supple characters of this variety and then with a little oak and the natural tannins it powers through to the finish. A most stylish and polished shiraz with a highly scented aroma and a soft and generous palate supported by a chalky acidity.

Swan Valley

Shiraz

A plush shiraz showing just how good this region can be in good seasons like this one. Smooth and deliciously flavoursome with loads of ripe plum and blackberry fruit flavours and just a hint of licorice. A little chocolate richness with a slightly dusty edge. It’s soft and smooth with understated oak and restrained tannins. Ideal for drinking in the...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An effortless and most stylish cabernet expression of the 2020 vintage. The nose speaks Margaret River cabernet with its graphite, blackcurrant and minerally aromatics clearly evident. The palate is more medium bodied but still packs a cabernet punch. Tight chalky tannins with some perfectly tuned fine-grained oak harmonise with the silky smooth fruit to produce a refined finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A beautiful cabernet displaying all the wonderful perfumes and palate structure and fruit intensity you want with this variety. Captures the blackcurrant dominance of cabernet with a little black olive and light graphite. The statuesque palate is beautifully and seamlessly woven into a refined and quite elegant statement of this variety. A very long focused palate completes an excellent wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Classically Margaret River in every sense, from a very good vintage that produced stylish and elegant wines. Aromas show typical blackcurrant with a touch of black olive and lifted bay leaf. The palate is tight and reserved but carries the structure and fruit intensity to evolve with further age.

Margaret River

Tempranillo

The tempranillos from Oates Ends are consistently some of the best in the State. This one from the warm '22 vintage is yet another. The riper vintage has resulted in bright plump juicy fruit which is what you want with this variety. Cherry and raspberry notes with a dusty earthy influence. Great current drinking and if you want to chill...

Margaret River

Tempranillo

One of the best and most consistent tempranillos made on this State. The vibrant burst of raspberry leads other red fruit nuances from the outset. A light sprinkle of dried herbs brings another deft touch. The palate is medium bodied with soft supple fruit but supported by a fine chalky tannin thread. Scrumptious wine for pasta or the like.

Great Southern

Red Blend

A smooth and easy drinking medium bodied blend from the Great Southern. Lots of ripe red fruits on the nose with a lift of lightly cedary oak. There’s a subtle lift of leaf on the nose with a trace of milk chocolate. The palate has a dry savoury thread through the sweet red fruits. Balances nicely.

Great Southern

Shiraz

It was a tough vintage with Covid rearing its ugly head but the wines turned out mighty fine. This is all plump, plush and plummy fruit aromas and flavours A little Great Southern blueberry characters emerge with a decent hit of spices and black pepper. Ideal early drinking style.

Great Southern

Tempranillo

A wine that screams ‘drink me’. It captures the variety rather well. Dried herbs float across the nuances of raspberry and cherry with subtle savoury influences. The palate is medium weight with a mix of sweet ripe fruit and dry savoury characters. It is aimed squarely at current drinking with Mediterranean dishes.

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

The Pannells always thought that the 2024 vintage, which of course was very hot, was actually pretty damn good in Pemberton, and here is a compelling, overwhelming example that supports that claim. This is a beautifully presented, supple, generous, medium-bodied pinot, displaying all the virtues of the Pemberton region. There's a nice cherry, subtle, earthy, spicy note on the nose,...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A stylish and generous cabernet from the '18 vintage. The extra time in bottle has allowed things to settle down nicely. Dark blackcurrant with a pronounced minerality of oyster shell and bay leaf merged with some regional black olive. The palate is tightly coiled but with good flesh and fruit intensity. Support comes from the fine powdery tannins and that...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was a year that produced beautifully elegant wines of slightly less body, but no less flavour. Loads of leafy blackcurrant aromas with a liberal dose of dark chocolate and edgier black olive. A faint hint of brick dust adds a further level of complexity. The palate is seamlessly woven, with fine sinewy tannins, oak and fruit all laced together....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

I had to do a double take to check the vintage when I saw this wine. So it's now six years old and it's really benefited from that extra time in bottle. This was in the COVID year, which you might remember was quite warm and very early, but produced wines of intensity and power. The extra time in bottle...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was one of the great Margaret River vintages, and it's great to see a wine that's now got 7 years of age being released. It meets every expectation I had. It's rich, dark, and powerful, and yet it is supremely elegant. In fact, I suggest the extra time in bottle has really fine-tuned it, and it is now drinking,...

Margaret River

Syrah

A vintage primarily remembered for Covid also produced exceptional red wines in Margaret River. They are wines of tremendous fruit intensity and good balance. This refined and sophisticated wine of great elegance captures the essentials of the vintage. Blackcurrant laced with a little bay leaf and minerally oyster shell plus a nuance of black olive tapenade. The tannins have a...

Margaret River

Shiraz

There have been some excellent examples of this wine over the years, and yet this one from a cooler vintage is certainly one of the best, producing a wine of elegance and poise with a sublimely silky smooth palate. Interestingly, after hand picking, 40% whole bunches were fermented and matured for 16 months in larger format French oak. The result...

Margaret River

Shiraz

Nice to see a wine with five years of age being released from this fabulous 2018 vintage. It's from a special plot which produces exceptional fruit, as is the case with this outstanding wine. Plush and concentrated with dark fruit sitting among a host of complementing flavours of chocolate, plum and mulberry with ab earthy savoury nuance. It gets 16...