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Great Southern

Rose

A blend of cabernet and merlot that shows the virtues of these varieties from the cooler climes of Denmark. Lifted strawberry and light raspberry with a spicy and slightly orange zest character on the finish. Lifted and long. A nice style with good texture

Great Southern

Sauvignon Blanc

A pure and fragrant wine with the usual gooseberry and lightly crunchy passionfruit and tropical flavours balanced with a light snow pea citrus tang. Really zingy fresh palate makes this perfect for summer sipping by the pool.

Great Southern

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

Such a pure and pristine example of this style. Has a slightly dusty snow pea and light tropical fruit influence on the nose. Crunchy melon and a splash of citrus adds lift as it moves to a long penetrating finish. There’s great depth of flavour here. Offers a lot more than the standard fruit bomb.

Great Southern

Chardonnay

Here is an excellent example of the unwooded style. So first, if you're not into oak, even the lighter oak that’s applied these days, then this little fella is just for you. The good thing is it’s been made to retain its zingy acidity, which is so important for the style. Creamy but with a citrus tang. Great current drinking.

Great Southern

Riesling

A lot of interesting things happened to create this outstanding riesling. First there was barrel fermentation and the extended lees contact. It's bone dry and has a flinty and textural feel with some bath salts character. There's a cute mix of lemon rind and spices that releases on the nose and palate. An excellent wine.

Great Southern

Riesling

Now firmly established as one of a handful of Australia's greatest rieslings. This is another beautiful wine. It's slightly friendlier than the awesome '22, but lacks nothing in intensity and drive. Fine lift of wet granite, crunchy quartz and fine lemon and spicy pear on the nose. The palate is so complex and intricately woven with passionfruit, guava, green apple...

Great Southern

Shiraz

Ripe and generous with opulent fruit. It certainly is a step up from the very good Single Vineyard shiraz. Loaded with ripe juicy plummy fruit underpinned by a chalky tannin precision. The sweet fruit is given a little boost with the sprinkle of spices and dried herbs, while the French oak management has been right on the money. Smooth and...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a very fine and elegant style of chardonnay. It's certainly tighter than the M2 but it also has power. It's a departure for Dukes but not for Cane who has worked with this style before. It's made from a number of different clones with a chalky minerality taking the palate through to a very long finish. I particularly...

Great Southern

Rose

This is a beautiful rose displaying so much of that crazy raspberry and red currant character. Light floral notes float across the nose while the light-bodied palate is fresh and vibrant. There's a little watermelon and cranberry with a cute lemon tart edge. A dry savoury finish suits matching with Asian food.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A firmish medium bodied cabernet from this excellent red vintage, showing the deep of fruit intensity and rich flavours you expect. Leafy blackcurrant and light cedar with a trace of graphite and bay leaf on the nose. The palate is tightly wound but with good fruit intensity focussed to the finish.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A light bodied but nicely structured and presented chardonnay. The aromas are a neat mix of lemon and butterscotch with a grapefruit, pear and light cereal touch. The palate is rich with layered flavours building towards a lingering finish. Well handled light touch of oak completes the picture.

Margaret River

Shiraz

A stylish expression of the cooler vintage in Margaret River. A smooth and velvety shiraz with lots of of savoury dark plum and blueberry aromas mingling on the nose. The palate is medium weight with well-integrated vanillin oak and fine tannins supporting through to the finish. A faint hint of licorice lifts.

Margaret River

White Blend

The classic Margaret River blend, with that subtle combination of light tropical fruits and a dusting of fresh cut grass. The fruit is restrained in line with this vintage, but it presents with a refreshing purity sustained by a zingy acidity. Light bodied and ready to drink now.

Margaret River

Rose

Pale pink colour is so immediately engaging. The combination of grenache and shiraz provides plenty of perfumed red fruit aromas at the outset. Then the soft, light-bodied palate delivers further with a strawberry raspberry combo. Like the dry, slightly savoury chalky finish to keep it fresh and clean.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Captures the elegance and style of this vintage in Margaret River. Blackcurrant and dark plum with a chalky bay leaf overlay on the nose. The palate is held with control by fine chalky tannin and tidy oak with the graphite influence emerging as it breathes. Good depth and persistence. Mighty good value here.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A fresher style of chardonnay that highlights the pristine fruit from this vineyard. There's a nice mix of light cashew and grapefruit with a little melony influences. The palate is fine and linear, but with good depth and persistence. Ideal in the short term.

Margaret River

White Blend

A really punchy fruit-driven sem sav blanc that captures much of what this style was all about when it first appeared in the region. Loads of vibrant, very much alive tropical fruit with a decent citrus splash. It's got a lively sustaining acidity and it makes for great current drinking.

Margaret River

Shiraz

The combination of dark plum, cloves and dark chocolate on the nose gets you ready for the palate. It's deep and generous with supple fruit flavours supported by a fine oak and chalky tannin guide. Has a dry earthy and slightly savoury finish.

Swan Valley

Cabernet Blend

This was from the Covid year and is really starting to move into its work. Vibrant aromas of blackberry and dark plum with a lifted red berry influence. A little dark chocolate adds to the palate composition. The palate is generous and beautifully composed, with vibrant, lively fruit supported by fine tannins and gentle oak. The oak was a mix...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

A generous shiraz showing some distinctive earthy and slightly dried herb characters on the nose. A little tarry edginess complements neatly. The palate is warm and generous, with a neat contribution from 18 months in oak and the supporting chalky, fine tannins. You need to let this one breathe, as it opens up nicely with a little air. The plush...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

There’s a fair bit of grunt behind this chardonnay. Aromas of butterscotch and lemon with a quince paste edge. A creamy nuance adds further substance. The palate displays more stone fruit with some nice brioche lift and a crunchy lemony zip on the finish. Such a bright and appealing chardonnay for the next few years.

Margaret River

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

Some pretty good fruit goes into this entry-level wine that each year continues to deliver really nice current drinking. It seems like it's been around for ages, and it has, with its bright, fruity, refreshing style, loaded with a tropical citrus mix and a crunchy, clean, vibrant finish. Screams out for current drinking.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Hard to beat this classic Margaret River combination in a very good year. It's more towards medium bodied and so stylish and poised as it drives effortlessly to a long finish. Aromas of graphite and bay leaf reveal immediately with very subtle olive tapenade in the background. The fleshy merlot fills the palate neatly while the cabernet adds those firm...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A most elegant and stylish expression of this blend. Highly scented aromas of violet, red berry and leafy blackcurrant. The palate is powerfully structured but with the finesse of fine tannins and fine-grained oak working in harmony. There’s a thread of minerality adding to that core taking it through to a sustained finish.

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

Brings together the power and structure of cabernet from these old vines, with the lifted perfumes of merlot on the nose and a slightly plush, plump middle-palate richness. It has a fine, seamless structure with a chalky, minerally thread of tannins, and a nice combination of oak. Perfectly balanced and poised. Most attractive drinking.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Another outstanding chardonnay from the '20 vintage. Shows more obvious upfront fruit than the Reserve, yet this remains high class, sophisticated stuff. The crunchy vibrant fruit reveals a little struck match edginess with a typical ripe stone fruit character. The palate tightened by the oak and a slightly lemony lick and a final touch of sea spray.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Already showing a degree of complexity with that merging of stone fruit, pear, and lime, with some slightly nutty roasted cashew-like characters on the nose. On the palate, there's a rich concentration of fruit with layered complexity coming from the wild ferment and time in French oak. It's textured and crisp, but there is a dry, savoury minerality which gives...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Colour is deep, but quite brilliant. The nose is pure essence of cabernet with a mix of blackcurrant, bay leaf, subtle minerally oyster shell, and some deeper plummy black olive nuances. There's an effortless feel to the palate and yet it's powerful and deeply intense. Captures the dark fruits of cabernet, but there's a little lift of red fruit to...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is so fine and pure, with a real zing to it, evident from the nose through to the palate. Minerally sea spray, slightly saline characters on the nose, with a little grapefruit and citrus nuance. Palate is supremely integrated with a fine lingering savoury line that carries to a long finish. Oak and fruit balance is superb, and it...

Margaret River

Shiraz

Elegance and style with a flourish. It’s all in this excellent shiraz. The power and concentration is almost hidden in the structural refinement of fine tannin and fine-grained oak which harnesses and controls. Perfumed mulberry and dark plum on the nose. The palate is loaded with red fruit and supported by chalky tannins.

Margaret River

Shiraz

A mighty good partner to the cabernet from the same vintage. This is thick and densely concentrated with lashings of dark plum, fruit cake and rich dark chocolate. Yet there is restraint and refinement that comes with this cooler Margaret River vintage. Add to that some mulberry and savoury oak influences and you have an outstanding example of shiraz from...

Margaret River

Shiraz

This is such a good wine from these old vines on the Redbrook Vineyard, planted back in 1975. On the nose, there's some lifted florals, cocoa, dark chocolate, and spicy plum. It's a compelling weave of aromatics. The palate is quite sublime: plush and richly textured with a grainy, slightly gravelly tannin feel, but at the same time, it's seamlessly...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Okay, here's the thing. I loved this wine when first tasted last year and gave t very high points. But the extra yar has revealed even more and has prompted me to add another notch t the score. Most noticeably a glorious, perfumed fragrance has emerged. It's from the wonderful 2018 vintage, which continues to amaze with its red wines...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A wine that bridges that divide between power and elegance, delivering a wonderfully precise and finely focused wine. On the nose a trace of wild ferment struck match releases. The palate then takes charge with a fine chalky edge against a backdrop of grapefruit and cashew with a lift of pear. Has a crunchy saline character to finish. As good...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This excellent chardonnay from an excellent year comes from the Ellen’s Estate Vineyard down at Wallcliffe. It immediately strikes as a fine and delicate, and quite linear wine, which you might expect from this vineyard. And yet, the deeper you go, the more you realise there is an underlying power and intensity here that drives through to the finish. It...

Margaret River

Malbec

What a thoroughly beautiful example of a pure varietal malbec from Margaret River. This is from a small block on Carter Road and displays all the characters of this variety, with a subtlety and finesse not normally seen. Bright red fruits revealing slightly jubey rhubarb character with some nice darker touches on the nose. The palate is supremely balanced with...

Margaret River

Malbec

The colour is the first thing you note. It's deep, it's dark, and it's opaque. Then the nose, loaded with ripe red juby fruit, before a wave of plummy, black-fruited flavours and blackberry aromas. The palate is tremendously fruity and rich, with a dark-chocolate, black-fruit mix and then that final lick of oak which comes from the year in French...

Margaret River

Cabernet Franc

There's plenty of punch in this cabernet franc that comes from smack bang in the heart of Wilyabrup. Perfume notes of the variety are well to the fore with lifted red fruit, floral notes. The palate is beautifully structured. This is no simple cab franc. This is a cab franc with poise, polish, and structure. A fine thread of tannin...

Margaret River

Shiraz Blend

The colour is an almost impenetrable reddy black. The fruit comes off the long-established Redbrook Vineyard. So even in very warm vintages like '24, it comes in balanced and ready to strut its stuff. Ripe, plummy blackcurrant and blackberry notes with a little dark chocolate and cedary oak. Palate is rich, textured and almost lavish in expression. Rolling effortlessly towards...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A fully ripe and juicy cabernet displaying all the blackcurrant varietal character of this variety. There's a little bay leaf and chocolaty back olive combination. The palate has good flesh which is supported by a firm core of chalky tannin and oak. A minerally graphite nuance completes the wine.