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Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Fruit selection and barrel selection are designed to get the best into the bottle. This is a firmer and more angular style than some previous vintages and a reflection of this vintage. Distinctive aromas of black fruits with a little red fruit lift and a trace of oyster shell minerality. The palate shows a savoury character which complements the deeper...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Churchview The Bartondale cabernet sauvignon 2023 ($70)A complex and powerful expression of Margaret River cabernet from mature vines. Shows finesse and elegance with real vibrancy on the palate. Aromas of red and black fruits, bay leaf, minerals and violets flow into a seamlessly woven palate tied together with fine chalky tannins and perfectly judged oak. A superb wine of depth...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine rich in concentrated and powerful fruit flavours. Evident immediately on the nose, with a lovely mix of black and red fruits, bay leaf and black olive. A fine graphite-like character adds further intrigue. The palate is still quite firm, as you might expect, as this is a young cabernet, but there is warm, rich flesh wrapped around the...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

An intense and powerful expression of Margaret River chardonnay in this excellent season. Ripe butterscotch and fig with a creme brulee complexity provides a superb aromatic opening. The palate retains its creamy texture but then the influence of lemon curd and crisp acid provide a tightening to carry it through to a long finish.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A generous and most flavoursome chardonnay that has been worked in the winery to bring out its best. Aromas of butterscotch and lemon curd with ripe stone fruit and roasted nuts all huddling together. The palate is deep and intense with the 10 months battonage having an impact on depth and concentration. Has a nice minerally seashell finish to complete.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Earlier picking has captured the essential fruit characters of chardonnay in this warm year. Wild fermented and then matured in a mix of new and second-fill French oak for 10 months with regular lees stirring. Built with concentration, richness, and texture, while retaining a fine savoury, slightly citrusy grapefruit edge. A subtle touch of butterscotch brings the palate to life....

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a wine that always delivers with plenty of punch and power. In this case, the season produced beautifully ripe fruit, and it's been worked with wild fermentation and a mix of new and slightly older oak, with 10 months' maturation and regular lees stirring. This produces a wine rich in complex characters of butterscotch, stone fruit and slightly...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Fruit from this great year has been beautifully handled. Theirs is so much power in that engine room, yet the delivery is all smooth and effortless. It's made from the best two barrels of the vintage and then gets a little malbec to add mid-palate suppleness. Loaded with blackcurrant, black olive and minerally cracked shell characters on the nose. The...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A polished and powerful cabernet from a vintage that produced wines of tremendous intensity and concentration. The key was harnessing all the power into a refined and elegantly structured presentation. This has deep blackcurrant and black olive with a little graphite edginess. The addition of a small amount of the aromatic cabernet franc impacts on the nose especially. It’s a...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A medium-bodied cabernet from this slightly cooler vintage. It’s a most elegant and almost statuesque wine with its body of blackcurrant and bay leaf, with a little oyster shell minerally graphite evident. Supremely balanced and poised palate is held tight and controlled, but there is ample flesh and fruit concentration.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Wow, you're getting a decent bang for your buck with this cabernet from this excellent vintage in Margaret River. Opens with a punchy hit of blackcurrant and blackberries with a slightly ironstone graphite and oyster shell minerality. The palate is quite vibrant with juicy blackberry and slightly plummy notes emerging, balanced by some fine oak. There's power here, but it's...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A wine that offers so much immediate pleasure. Opens with a strong and distinctive mix of blackcurrant and ripe satsuma plum with a richer dark chocolate backdrop. It’s a rich and supple wine with depth and fruit concentration. Nice tannin and oak structural input. Score: 92/100 Cellar: 7 years

Margaret River

Red Blend

A beautiful medium-bodied example of this Margaret River blend from a good season. Loaded with a mix of black fruits with a hint of blueberry and red fruit. It's a vibrant wine with a palate delivering a plummy mix of light fruit cake and blackberry with a subtle juby raspberry note. Impeccably balanced and poised, and tremendous value.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A precise and distinctly linear chardonnay from a vintage that turned out pretty well after a hot start. Fine lift of citrus and grapefruit on the nose with a lightly played oak influence very much understated. The palate is fine and quite delicately balanced but there is excellent penetrating fruit focussed to a long finish. Minerally with a slightly citrus...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a most attractive Chardonnay from a vintage that produced a little more depth and concentration than the previous 2021. Lifted notes of brioche and stone fruit with a light cashew complexity. The palate is neatly woven with fine oak complementing some quality fruit. There’s a nice edge of cut lime and pear with just the lightest of struck...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Very good wine from this excellent small, concentrated vintage sourced from fruit off some of the oldest vines on the estate. There is tremendous concentration here with the leafy black fruit, chalky oyster shell edge and subtle graphite character in control. The palate is firmly structured, yet it is effortlessly elegant and stylish. A poised and impressive wine from this...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This super cabernet is sourced from some of the oldest vines in the region. The power and intensity of those vines in a season that produced fruit of great concentration and intensity is evident immediately. Notes of bay leaf and graphite with deep blackcurrant and black olive nuances on the nose. Strikes a wonderful balance with the fruit displaying deep...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A highly scented and fragrant chardonnay that comes from select blocks on the estate. Aromas of pear and grapefruit with just a faint edge of lemon zest. The palate is finely designed with a precise linear minerality and chalky limestone balance. Just a little struck match adds the final flourish to a very good wine.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Mostly from the Bridgeland vineyard with the remainder from Ironstone. It’s made a little different from the Streicker in that after handpicking and whole bunch pressing it is barrel fermented before spending nine months in oak without stirring or malolactic fermentation. A chardonnay that really jumps out of the glass. Intense notes of nectarine and fragrant pear and a little...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A stylish and expressive cabernet from this excellent year. On the nose, a leafy blackcurrant, dark cherry, and dark chocolate combination strut their stuff. The palate, which is more medium bodied, displays lovely red fruits and is supported by fine grainy tannins and well managed oak. It's bright as a button, balanced, and long.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This comes off the original 1976 plantings at Clairault planted by Ian and Ani Lewis. This is so classically Margaret River, with its combination of blackcurrant, bay leaf, oyster shell, and dark chocolate on the nose. And then a palate which is so fine and seamlessly structured, with loads of dark fruits, controlled with fine, slightly chalky tannins and supported...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is quite a different expression of chardonnay from the Streicker wine. This is quite fine with a refreshing purity and pristine quality, with the fruit showing more melony grapefruit notes. The palate has a fine mix of brioche, lemon curd, and just the faintest influence of struck match. It's seamlessly integrated with a long finish.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Another mighty good chardonnay, which comes from specific blocks on the Clairault vineyard. An intense aroma of grapefruit and pear, with a little oatmeal complexity. Palate is quite finely crafted but with deep, powerful expression of the variety, revealing a mix of grapefruit and nectarine. A subtle smoky, gun flint, struck match character provides the final touch.

Margaret River

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

Oh boy, you get a decent hit of pungent herbaceous tropical fruits initially on the nose. Loaded with those nectarine and other stone fruit influences and a little lemony edge. There’s a nice mix of lemon and honey with the faintest of French oak touches to complete the textural feel. Terrific wine for the next few years.

Margaret River

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

An extra year or two in bottle will take this wine into another zone. It punches out a tremendous wave of tropical gooseberry passionfruit and even a little limey grapefruit on the nose. The palate is still vibrant and crunchy with a slightly melony pebble-like character. Just that hint of French oak has brought another dimension and turned this into...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Probably the best wine Clandestine Vineyards have released. It's a blend of cabernet and malbec from Margaret River and Frankland River. The striking feature is how well the red fruits of the malbec have merged with the dark fruits of the cabernet in such a seamless and almost velvety fashion. There's a chalky tannin and well-managed oak influence that hits...

Margaret River

Malbec

Clandestine has made a statement with this variety since forming a few years ago. This is another very good one. Deep bright colour speaks malbec, then the juicy bright red fruits of the variety start their thing. It's had a decent hits of one and two year old oak over 20 months, but it's gobbled it up so the fruit...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The colour is so bright and brilliant. Thoroughly beautiful fragrances of plum and violet with a cherry, black olive and leafy nuance that is tremendously intriguing. The palate is quite firm with a thread of chalky tannins and balanced oak working with the fruit, which at the moment is quite shy. Has the structure and deep intensity to handle cellaring.

Swan Valley

Chenin Blanc

Chenin blanc was another variety to excel in the stellar 2023 vintage in the Swan Valley. If there is a purer expression of Swan valley chenin than this, I’m yet to see it. Lightly tropical melon and citrus characters pervade on the nose. While the palate delivers a refreshing and lively expression of the variety. Has texture that makes it...

Swan Valley

Red Blend

Bewdiful, just bewdiful. A blend from a vineyard Rob Mann helped plant with his father former Test cricketer Tony Mann. As you might imagine with these two varieties there is no shortage of fruit. Loaded with ripe plush and generous red fruits from the initial engaging aromas through to the soft and supple palate. Has a brightness and energy that...

Geographe

Semillon

Okay, this is why we should have more varietal semillons. This is a beauty. The fruit is intense, reflecting the vintage, and the use of lees stirring to build complexity and texture is a highlight. Has a spicy dried herbs and nutty character developing with a little fresh-cut grassiness typical of the variety. Excellent little wine.

Geographe

Shiraz

A delicious example of rose from Geographe. It's from shiraz and displays those delightful red currant and strawberry aromas to start. The palate is light bodied with a fine life-giving acidity. Flavours of spice and cranberry juice add further to an immensely appealing rose.

Geographe

Cabernet Sauvignon

An elegantly structured and quite precise cabernet capturing the beautiful characters of cabernet in a cooler vintage. Spicy blackcurrant with a little sage bush on the nose. The medium-bodied palate shows a graphite and cracked seas shell minerality with a plush sweet fruit lift. The tannins are chalky and fine while the oak well managed.

Geographe

Chenin Blanc

Chenin blanc can be treated a number of ways – without oak, with oak and with lees influence to build texture. This is the style adopted here and it's resulted in an excellent example of this variety. Has a crunchy, slightly steely minerality but with excellent fruit ripeness and purity. The lees stirring has introduced that textural element showing the...

Geographe

Shiraz

This really is a delightful light to medium bodied shiraz. Highly perfume aromas with spicy black pepper nuances over sweet plum and subtle charcuterie notes. The palate is filled with dark fruits livened with a mix of spices and black pepper. Oak is muted but important and the palate extends to a long finish.

Geographe

Zinfandel

Zinfandel tends to polarize people, but if you sit on the fence then this wine might get you across the line. Beautifully scented aromas of black liqueur cherry with a chocolate mocha thing happening. The palate is brimming with ripe berry flavours cut with a fine minerality. Well-balanced and poised.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

It’s a lighter style of chardonnay that delivers with a precise balance. It was whole bunch pressed to a combination of new and seasoned oak where it spent nine months. The oak adds a subtle textural complexity without overplaying its hand. Traces of citrus and grapefruit with a s, light nutty cashew character and a final cut of sliced pear....

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

A fume style that doesn’t overblow the use of oak. It’s still rather tight but with ageing it will emerge with layers of rich complexity. This was a stunning vintage so within the walls of this wine there is plenty of firepower. There’s a nice minerality here too to carry the palate through to a long finish. A classy example...

Margaret River

Rose

The colour shows brilliant bright pink hues. A light and dry rose style with a slightly savoury finish very much in tune with the modern expressions of this style. Aromas of watermelon and cranberry with a little confectionary lift. The palate is light, gentle caressing as it carries appealing flavours of strawberry and slightly pink grapefruit flavours to the finish.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Don’t expect one of those Kiwi fruit bombs. This is a savvy with a subdued yet still intensity of flavour that makes it an interesting alternative to those very forward styles. Nectarine, light tropical nose and a hint of guava and a slight lemon zest to the finish combine to produce an excellent wine for immediate drinking. Love the textural...