Red

Margaret River

Shiraz

An exquisite expression of shiraz from this little vineyard south of the town. It's medium bodied with dominant black cherry and spicy plum characters on the nose and palate. The palate has a silky-smooth textural feel with a fine thread of chalky tannins and a lick of fine-grained oak nestling neatly within.

Margaret River

Shiraz

I’ve watched closely this wine over many years, and it has to be the best yet. Lifted scented notes of plum and spicy mulberry with a subtle liqueur cherry nuance. It strikes that balance between elegance and style, and concentration and power. It has a grainy slightly gravelly textural influence with chalky supportive tannins. Outstanding.

Margaret River

Shiraz

Colour is quite brilliant and lustrous. The nose delivers real intensity with a captivating mix of liqueur cherry and dark chocolate. And then the palate reveals, with its merging of dark plum, blackberry, and some nice mulberry-like characters. The tannins are firmish and fine, with a slight chalkiness offsetting the fruit characters and contributing to its balance. A wine of...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A bit of Bordeaux and a bit of Hermitage all comes together in this mighty powerful expression of the region. It’s a substantial wine loaded with deep dark secrets, which with a little prodding reveal intense liqueur cherry, blackcurrant and layers of chocolate and mulberry. Aromas of bay leaf and graphite emerge with a cedary addition. The palate is drive...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Lovey medium bodied and highly fragrant cabernet from this generous vintage. Tea roams immediately assail with blackcurrant over bright liqueur cherry and some nice plummy blackberry. Stylish and elegantly structured palate delivering with medium body to a long finish. Totally seamless plate. Excellent.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Colour is a reddy crimson and quite brilliant. A burst of blackcurrant and cherry on the nose greets the senses. There’s a subtle liqueur cherry leafiness there too, adding further complexity. The palate is generous, soft and supple. The 15 months in oak sitting harmoniously as part of its complete mix. Bright, generous flavours with delicious red and black fruits.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An elegant and polish cabernet from this southern part of Margaret River. The perfumed notes of blackcurrant, blue fruits and light cedar merging with a rich dark chocolate are engaging. The palate is firm with assertive fine tannins and supporting oak. Has a grainy, slightly chalky ironstone finish that appeals.

Margaret River

Shiraz

The varietal character and intensity of cabernet is evident immediately. Aromas strike initially with blackcurrant, dark chocolate, and a softer plumminess about it. The palate delivers richness, texture, and power on an elegant and stylish framework, has a silky smooth feel in the mouth, and strikes an impeccable balance of oak and fruit. It’s really highly focused through to a...

Margaret River

Malbec

If you like malbec, or even if you don’t, you’re certainly going to love this wine. It’s everything you expect with this variety. It’s loaded with dark fruits, showing the plummy mulberry-like characters, a little spice and rhubarb. And then it works into the palate, which is typically generous with a softness about it that makes it so appealing. An...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cracking good wine from this superb red wine vintage. One of the smoothest and most elegantly refined reds yet from Brown Hill. In fact, it's part of the evolution of the Brown Hill style. Plum, chocolate and a little blueberry and blackcurrant push out from the palate. The oak is perfectly integrated while the tannins are precisely infused.

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

An elegant and stylish blend of cabernet and merlot from this cooler Margaret River vintage. Lifted perfumes of red berry and bay leaf with edgier notes of black olive. This is still a tightly held wine with fine firm tannins and fine-grained oak supporting the fruit with its minerally subtle oyster shell characters. It’s a wine under wraps that needs...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A most stylish and expressive wine that elevates this blend into another zone. Lovely perfumed notes combine red and blue fruits with a touch of black currant and dark chocolate. The palate is beautifully framed and structured, harnessing some superbly intense and concentrated fruit with well-integrated oak, and those firmish, though very fine tannins that are now coming from this...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A succulent and rather delicious red blend displaying really attractive fruit emerging from the combination of cabernet and merlot. Perfumes of red berry, savoury plum and a little charcuterie emerge. The palate is neatly integrated with chalky tannin and fine-grained oak partnering the fruit. Really lively and vibrant. Just beautiful palate features.

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

Here’s a wine that fits snugly into the groove for what you expect from this combination of varieties. It’s generous and soft with nice restraint, delivering a medium-bodied wine. Lots of red and black fruits with a cedary oak influence, and supported by fine chalky tannins. Retains a brightness and energy throughout, with the structure to handle cellaring.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is a terrific value cabernet sourced from Wilyabrup. It's medium-bodied, but bursting with vibrant, ripe red fruits that are evident immediately. Subtle influences of dark chocolate and liqueur cherry add nuanced complexity, while the palate brings in slightly toasty oak and dark cocoa characters. Good tannins, well-managed oak, and a most complete wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Firm, structured and typically cabernet. This is from a warm year and typically shows deep concentration, with dark colour, powerful aromas and an intense palate. Has a leafy blackcurrant, lightly plummy combination on the nose. Then a palate that is firmly structured, with more of that blackcurrant-cherry combination working, supported by a firm thread of tannin and some lightly toasty...

Margaret River

Shiraz

This is a more robust, full-bodied shiraz from Margaret River, with plenty of deep, concentrated, quite powerful shiraz characters evident immediately on the nose and then flowing through to a firmly structured palate. Spicy plum and dark chocolate merge seamlessly on the nose, while the palate reveals some firmly controlled fruit flavours harnessed through to an extended finish. Has a...

Margaret River

Shiraz

This is a most appealing shiraz from the Wilyabrup area within Margaret River. The aromas reveal distinctly red fruit notes with dark cherry and a lightly sarsaparilla character. The palate is supple, soft, and generous, albeit medium-bodied, yet it offers a long, seamlessly structured finish that captures the variety quite well.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Displays the elegance of the '21 Margaret River vintage. Aromas of dark chocolate and steely blackcurrant with traces of black olive laced within. The palate is generous and seamless with a fine balance of chalky tannins and oak. A polished wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The rich mix of dark plum and blackcurrant is immediately evident on the nose. The palate delivers on that early promise with deep dark flavours, a little graphite edginess and a little oyster shell minerality. It’s a vibrant and slightly spicy wine with energy driving through to the long finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was a very good vintage in Margaret River, sometimes overlooked because of the one that followed. Still, this is a terrific example of a powerful cabernet that delivers with poise and panache. Deep and opulent fruit intensity is evident on the nose and palate. It's structured, with a fine tannin–oak combination that supports the fruit seamlessly. An excellent, high-quality...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A bold and opulent statement of cabernet from Margaret River in this warmer season. A burst of black fruits with dark plum, some dark chocolate and a subtle, cutting oyster-shell minerality combine on the nose. The palate is plush but firmly structured, as you would expect with cabernet, with those firmish tannins and well-managed oak playing pivotal roles. Lots of...

Margaret River

Malbec

The colour of this wine is quite extraordinary. It’s so deep, dark, and dense, and yet it retains an elegance and vibrant lift that speaks of this variety. Extended skin contact and maturation in French oak deliver a rich dark fruit core lifted by rhubarb crumble and savoury floral notes. An excellent wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Franc

Always one of my favourites from Cape Grace. This slightly cooler vintage has suited this highly perfumed variety, highlighting the delightful scents of red fruits and violets. A hands-on approach coaxes the best from the fruit. Open fermentation, hand plunging and basket pressing gently tease the succulent red fruits into a seamless and velvety smooth palate. Has potential to cellar...

Margaret River

Cabernet Franc

The beautiful, lifted aromatics that are cabernet franc emerge immediately on the nose. Lovely bright red fruits with those slightly African violet notes and a touch of liqueur, chocolate and cherry. The palate is seamlessly medium weight but with good depth, displaying wonderful liqueured fruit characters. It has good tannins and some nice oak integration. It's a well-managed wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Franc

The most beautiful and pretty cabernet franc from this season, which, with its cooler, longer ripening period, certainly suited the variety. Aromas show some nice perfumed red fruits, raspberry and cherry. And then the palate is so seamlessly soft and supple, with finely integrated chalky tannins and neatly understated oak that allows the fruit to fully express itself. Finishes with...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An impressive wine that captures much of what this early generous vintage was all about. Released after a little extra time in the cellar, which has allowed everything to knit together beautifully to reveal its best characters., It’s classically cabernet with that combination of chocolaty blackcurrant, bay leaf and black olive cut with a fine thread of oyster shell minerality....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was a cooler year in Margaret River, and like so many of the cabernet sauvignons from this vintage, it's taken a while for this to come together. But it's now drinking in its ideal zone, but of course with cellaring potential. Blackcurrant, graphite and dark chocolate nuances dominate the nose. The palate is seamlessly integrated, with fine-grained tannins, and...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A classic Aussie combo bursting with vibrant high-tone fruit from the perfumed nose through to the driven palate. Plush black fruits with a slightly bay leaf and graphite minerality cut through the mid palate. Has an effortless and almost languid palate feel that extends easily without fuss to a long finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A wine that always stacks up really well using this established Australian combination. Plenty of punchy red fruits with some darker plummy notes. It’s medium bodied with a smooth and soft palate supported with gentle tannins and understated oak. A wine for short term drinking.

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

What an excellent example of this combination. It's a 50/50 split, and it was made in a traditional way with open fermentation, hand plunging, basket pressing and then maturation in some French oak. It's medium weight, beautifully perfumed and stylishly composed, with a fine thread of chalky tannin and just subtle oak intervention. It's a great value-for-money wine too. Ideal...

Margaret River

Malbec

This small batch production is always one of my favourites. It's made in traditional fashion with open fermentation and hand plunging which suits the soft red fruits. The palate is medium bodied but with beautiful blackberry and subtle blue fruits with a trace of mulberry. Such a vibrant and vital wine ideal in the short term but with some ageing...

Margaret River

Malbec

This small vineyard has produced some excellent malbec over the years and this one from this wonderful year is as good as any I've tasted. It's a relatively small production wine that was open fermented, hand plunged and basket pressed, so it's a real get-in-there-get-dirty type of winemaking. It received 25% new oak and typically shows those riper blackberry notes,...

Margaret River

Malbec

I've always liked these malbecs from Cape Grace. And this is a small-production wine of low-yielding vines, made in a traditional way, but then aged in 50% new French oak. The oak in no way intrudes and allows the fruit, with its blue and black fruit characters and a little mulberry, to fully express itself. There's a bright red-fruit lift,...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

It's nice to be able to hold a wine like this back and release it when it's just starting to show its best form, and this one is. The season in 2019 crept up on people, and before they realised it, it emerged as one of the better years. This very small production wine follows the normal pattern of open...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Quite simply one of the finest cabernet sauvignons yet released from Cape Grace in its long history. It was a very early season in Margaret River, but the wine shows remarkable elegance and stylishness normally associated with cooler years. There's a black-fruit, leathery combination on the nose with a leafy lift. It's generously proportioned but delivers with elegance and medium...

Margaret River

Shiraz

A lighter and most elegant shiraz from a vintage that was conducive to this style of shiraz. The usual hands-on approach was used to gently handle the fruit before maturation in a mix of barriques and puncheons to keep the oak influence to a minimum. Aromas of dark plummy fruits, with a liberal sprinkle of spices and little black pepper....

Margaret River

Shiraz

Cape Grace has been producing some excellent shiraz over the years, and this one from a very good year is another cracker. It follows the typical line of open fermentation, hand plunging, basket pressing and then maturation in a mix of puncheons and hogsheads, of which 35% was new. This is a wine that really allows the fruit to strut...

Margaret River

Syrah

Perfumed, light to medium bodied bottle of pure joy. The use of the carbonic maceration technique has produced an elevated fruit profile with scented red notes and a little spice. The palate is supple and flavoursome bursting with vibrant red fruit character. A wine to drink in its early years

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Every time I think I've seen the last release from 2018, out pops another. It was a great vintage, and this super impressive cabernet is showing just why. Traditional winemaking has been adopted to capture the best from this remarkably intense and super concentrated fruit. The combination of blackcurrant and slightly bay leaf fruit with subtle oyster shell and graphite...