Red

Frankland River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This sits at the pinnacle of the Singlefile suite of red wines. This is certainly one of the best, and it is classically defined cabernet. It comes off the Riversdale Vineyard in Frankland River in a season that produced exceptional wines. Blackcurrant, a little ferrous oxide, some leafy notes with an edge of olive tapenade and a dollop of chocolate....

Swan Valley

Grenache

Grenache in a good season in the Swan Valley is pretty hard to beat. A lot of detail has gone into making this wine, with vine selection, bunch selection, and then handpicking before further hand sorting. It's a dry-grown single vineyard of old bush vines, with the fruit wild yeast fermented, then bottled unfined and unfiltered using the gravity flow...

Swan Valley

Tempranillo

This exciting wine comes from a single vineyard in the Swan Valley, where there are five clones of this variety. It gets some interesting winemaking after handpicking and bunch sorting. It was tossed into open-top fermenters, then matured in seasoned oak. All of this retains the strongly fruit-driven characters of this variety. It was a warm year, and yet, it...

Swan Valley

Red Blend

This uses a new clone of grenache, which is good for colour and drought resistance. Also has Graciano, mencia, touriga national and tempranillo. It’s a field blend as part of a program to make a better grenache to what has been in the valley. It is less tannic and more perfumed, and the intention is to make a straight grenache...

Swan Valley

Grenache

Oh, I do love this wine, which provides such compelling evidence of why Swan Valley grenache should rank with anything being produced in Australia with this popular variety. It’s picked by hand off selected bunches from selected dry-grown old bush vines before gravity bottled unfined and unfiltered. So, it’s as pure as you get. Wonderful bright raspberry and rose petal...

Swan Valley

Grenache

This distinctive and always impressive grenache comes from a single vineyard of old bush vines planted back in 1954. It’s sited along the Golden Mile, which produces grenache of such exceptional quality. Great attention to detail was taken with bunch selection, handpicking and hand sorting of all the fruit from this old vineyard. Red fruits with raspberry, rose petal and...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Sittella grab the fruit for this blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec and cabernet franc from Wilyabrup in Margaret River. Hugely expressive lift of black fruit on the nose with traces of black olive and liqueur plum. A cut of graphite and minerally seashell adds to the palate complexity. It's a plush and generous wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The good vintage in 2022 is reflected beautifully with this outstanding cabernet from Margaret River. Opens with rich dark chocolate, blackcurrant, and deep plummy aromas. On the palate, the tannins are integrated and fine, and there's French oak here playing a key role in its structural complexity. Flavours build with dark chocolate and black fruits, and a subtle, fine, minerally...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An exceptional wine from a great season in Margaret River. It was a slightly cooler year, which allowed the slow build-up of flavours that are captured perfectly in this wine. Aromas of blackcurrant and dark plum, with a little meaty complexity. The palate is pure and super-concentrated, with rich dark fruits, chocolatey notes and a cracked-shell minerality that adds that...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

This the last of these wines with the vineyard fruit now going elsewhere. This is a stylish and elegantly structured wine off 70-year-old vines. It has about 70% new American oak in here with the rest French. Has a vanilla essence and ripe fruit character, but it’s not overly extractive with a fine chalky tannins and fine oak combination working...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

This outstanding Swan Valley shiraz comes from a very old dry-grown vineyard. Everything you expect from the Swan Valley in a good year. It’s soft, supple and expressive, and there’s enjoyment wherever you turn. Aromas of bright red fruits, dark chocolate and lifted sarsaparilla. The palate is absolutely exquisite: so finely integrated, velvety smooth, with great polish and poise. You...

Swan Valley

Grenache

Love this wine, just love it. Comes from that special part of the Swan Valley where some of the oldest vines in the State reside. This is treated gently with bunch selection, hand picking and sorting with wild yeast fermentation before being bottle unfined and unfiltered. So, you get a direct line of site into these old vines. Pretty with...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

Sittella reaches into its Buckshot Ridge vineyard in Margaret River for this excellent blend that works so well. It’s a generous medium bodied wine that is seamlessly laced together with fine tannins and well managed oak. Blackcurrant and dark chocolate characters with light tobacco leaf characters adding a nice touch. Classy little wine.

Margaret River

Red Blend

Really interesting wine, this. There are three clones of cabernet sauvignon and a new clone of cabernet franc plus different clones of malbec with a little merlot. This is a very young wine, but it is looking very good. It’s structured and poised with the 25% new oak an important contribution. Lots of minerally blackcurrant fruit with a trace of...

Pemberton

Merlot

A plush medium bodied merlot. Red berry and fruit cake aromas with a little prune juice addition. The palate is soft, supported with fine chalky tannins and understated vanillin oak. Rounded and fruit driven. Ideal for current drinking. The extra year has introduced a layer of cedary and slightly spicy complexity.

Pemberton

Merlot

I have to say, this is one of the better merlots yet released from Smithbrook. It opens with a lovely mix of red berries and a subtle fruitcake complexity, with just a little more blue-fruit character, which is fairly typical of this region. It's medium-bodied, as you'd expect, with a plush, fruit-driven palate, balanced by fine, slightly chalky tannins, and...

Pemberton

Nebbiolo

A slightly more linear and firmer wine than the more opulent 2018. Spicy dusty dry earth characters on the nose cut through aromas of dark cherry and subtle blue fruits. The palate is tightly wound with a typical firm thread of tannin creating focus and direction. A linear and slightly angular wine with the dry savoury finish perfect for all...

Pemberton

Nebbiolo

Medium-bodied wine that expresses much of the essential character of this Piedmont variety. Aromas of raspberry and mulberry with a slight minerally character. Bright floral notes add further aromatic life. The palate is still firmly held with the varietal firm tannins holding a line through to the long finish. Will benefit from some cellaring time.

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

A vibrant expression of Pemberton pinot noir displaying loads of bright red fruits. Cherry and strawberry notes dominate on the nose, providing an immediately appealing opening. The palate delivers with poise and power with the support of excellent fruit intensity and fine firmish tannins. Has an earthy mushroom complexity adding to the primary fruit flavours.

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

Not surprising that a vineyard originally set up to make pinot should make some pretty good pinot. Lots of red fruits, cherry and strawberry on the nose, but then there's a little underlay of truffly, mushroom-like character. The palate is completely seamless, medium-bodied, and with a touch of spice and berry working together. Tannins are fine, the oak lightly applied....

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

A vibrant and bouncy fruit-driven pinot from this excellent season. Dominated by red fruits on the nose, with a little cherry and strawberry, but then a subtle mushroomy, funky, earthy character intervenes, creating complexity. The palate is soft and smooth and medium to light-bodied. There's a spicy, vibrant red berry character that really lifts and sustains through to the finish....

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

Light bodied and thoroughly delicious pinot noir. Opens with an earthy, sweet strawberry and dark cherry combo on the nose. Impressive palate with glazed cherry and subtle earthy minerally characters merging. The tannins are fine and slightly chalky with the oak well integrated. The firm spine gives purpose to drive through to the finish.

Great Southern

Grenache

The boys have gone to the Great Southern to source this grenache. It’s medium bodied in line with contemporary thinking for this variety. Soft supple fruit with a merging of bright red fruits and a slight turned earthy character. Bright and vibrant palate with lots of red fruit following through to a pleasingly long finish.

Frankland River

Grenache

This grenache has been sourced from Frankland River, which produced some very tidy grenache from this vintage. It's medium-weight with a lovely light mouthfeel, but there's plenty of flavour in there. Notes of red currant and rose petal on the nose, a faint hint of lavender, and then a palate that is supple, bright and with abundant flavour. Really designed...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a powerhouse Cabernet, sourced from Margaret River. It opens immediately with an intense and driving aroma of blackcurrant, black olive, and a little bay leaf. The palate is still quite tightly held, with the deep black fruits releasing with drive through to a long finish. It has a chalky, slightly minerally oyster shell thread, and the fine knit...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The best wine from these guys yet. This is pure class. The nose is captivating and immediately alluring with its perfumed blackcurrant and dark plum notes with a little liqueur cherry curling in. The palate combines the power and structure of cabernet with a focussed elegance. Slightly mineral and chalky tannins add a final balancing act on the finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A Margaret River cabernet displaying the combination of power and elegance that marks this excellent vintage. Rich blackcurrant varietal characters emerge from the nose with other notes of black olive and bay leaf with just a little graphite minerality. The palate has deep intensity with the concentrated fruit wrapped in a firm tannin and fine grained oak web. Chalky palate...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

One of the best of these I have tasted. It’s a beauty. The intensity of the opening salvo of blackcurrant, dark cherry and light graphite on the nose points to what might lay ahead. Yet when you get to the palate it is so elegantly structured and almost supple as it extends to an effortlessly long finish, A thread of...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This has been part of the Snake + Herring portfolio since 2011 and has evolved from its original Bordeaux blend into a predominantly Cabernet wine with very small contributions from Malbec and Merlot. The aroma is immediately vibrant and alive with bright red fruit notes and a backdrop of blackcurrant and black olive. The palate has generosity but is more...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Here's a wine that shows how good the warm '24 vintage could be in the right hands. It's been masterfully crafted, displaying quite beautiful, vibrant black and red fruits on the nose, with even a hint of blue-fruit complexity. The palate is deeply concentrated and intense, harnessed with chalky tannins and the right touch of oak to produce a seamless,...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine that has garnered quite a following. Like the postman: it always delivers. Blackcurrant with a significant plummy fruit character. This is a firm style, consistent with this vintage in Margaret River. A firm thread of chalky tannin and a decent hit of oak work through the primary blackcurrant and black olive characters of the palate.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a wine that offers so much at a reasonable price. It comes off seven blocks within the region from a number of sub-regions, and this northern part of Margaret River towards Yallingup really delivers on that blackcurrant, black olive combination with a little savoury oyster shell minerality. This is a stylish wine of good structure and bright fruit,...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Thoroughly beautiful cabernet from Wilyabrup in Margaret River. It's a firmer style with sinewy tannins evident supported by a decent oak contribution. Loads of blackcurrant with a graphite bay leaf character and a smear of olive tapenade. It will definitely benefit from extended cellaring.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A cabernet out of Wilyabrup in the heart of the Margaret River dress circle. Intense aromas reveal a wave of blackcurrant and dark plum with a black olive and bay leaf nuance adding another complexity. The palate is so seamlessly crafted with the tannin and oak combination working beautifully with the concentrated fruit. An effortless and elegant style with power.

Great Southern

Syrah

A delightfully fragrant medium bodied syrah sourced from the Great Southern which produced some mighty good fruit in this season. Notes of spice, cherry and plum on the nose with a faint ferrous touch. The palate is really impressive with its medium weight perfectly balanced with fine precise tannins and a light layer of oak. Super value for this.

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

A delicious fresh young pinot noir made for immediate drinking. As I sipped, I felt I was in a Spanish tapas bar. Sweet fruit with cherry and raspberry dominance. Soft and supple palate has a light chalky tannin influence. All wild fermented and bottled unfiltered, so you are getting a good window into the vintage.

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

Throughout what was a very warm year, the fruit sourced from vineyards in the Great Southern—in this case, Mount Barker—has turned out pretty well for Pinot Noir. The colour is slightly translucent with a purply-red and crimson hue. The aroma displays a savoury, chalky sour cherry character with bright raspberry fruit. It's tightly knit with fine tannins and a subtle...

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

A bright and youthful pinot noir showing good varietal characters. A little sour cherry and raspberry with some very subtle earthiness underpinning. It's a light-bodied palate, but there's good flavour intensity supported by a tight core of fine-grained tannins and very subtle, gentle oak. It's an excellent entry-level pinot delivering some lovely varietal characters.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A most stylish and elegant cabernet from Margaret River is a year that panned out rather well after a searing start with heat. The aromas are more in the black cherry and blackberry zone while the palate has chalky tannins and fine-grained oak in control. Its medium weight but with good intensity and effortless drive to the long finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A firm and structured cabernet from Margaret River. The aromas have an engaging plummy cherry nuance, with more typical varietal blackcurrant and dark chocolate notes. The palate is deep, dark and structured, with firm tannins ensuring it has the capacity for further cellaring. The oak is neatly applied, and as the wine opens up, its elegance becomes more evident. Neatly...