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Margaret River

White Varietal

One of the most distinctive of all white grape varieties. It can go a little over the top, but Pym typically handles it extremely well, capturing the lychee, musky and gingery notes of the variety. More importantly, he creates a textural feel that restrains the phenolics and delivers good, rich fruit flavours. He uses ceramic eggs for the fermentation and...

Margaret River

Red Blend

A neat little blend of shiraz grenache and the white and highly aromatic viognier. The intent has been to use winemaking techniques to gently extract colour, flavour and tannins to create a soft and smooth palate. Lovely mix of plum and licorice with a slight sweet confectionery character. It’s medium bodied and so supple and seamlessly smooth. That little bit...

Margaret River

Red Blend

Such an approachable and engaging, easy-drinking, medium-bodied red wine made with the Rhône varieties shiraz, grenache and viognier. Displays some nice red fruits with quite typical blue-fruit influences and that slightly spicy, gingery lift of the viognier. It's medium-bodied, with a juicy, crunchy red-fruit feel on the palate, with some nice dried herbs in support. Scrumptious wine for the short...

Margaret River

White Blend

This is an expression of field blending with pinot gris, viognier, gewurztraminer, riesling and sauvignon blanc coming together to produce a wine of depth and complexity with the high-end aromatics that you might expect with these varieties. So many subtle fruit characters emerge, but they are all overlaid with a distinct spiciness and a sustained acidity to an extended finish....

Margaret River

White Blend

This is a white blend of pinot gris, viognier, gewürztraminer and sauvignon blanc, so you're getting an awful lot of aromatics crammed into a fairly tight space. Do they compete? Well, not really. They actually work together rather well, producing a wine that is, as you would expect, wildly aromatic, with all manner of citrus, roses, ginger, pear and musk...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A stunning wine that captures the class of the great 2018 vintage in Margaret River. It's a powerful statement of Margs cabernet, yet as with all Pym's wines, it is regally elegant and stylish. Dark chocolate, oyster shell and mocha with a deep dive into blackcurrant. There is an effortless almost languid feel that belies its core strength and definition.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A little more new oak and barrel selection has produced an exceptional wine from this cooler season in Margaret River. Aromas of red currant, dried herbs and subtle bay leaf with a seashell-like minerality. The palate is medium to full-bodied with a firm structural core of chalky tannins and fine-grained oak, Supremely balanced and poise. Will certainly come into its...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The Covid vintage of 2020 was a very good one for cabernet. It was a brief harvest, and before you knew it, the fruit was picked. Deep notes of black fruits, dark chocolate, and a slightly leafy, olive-like character open on the nose. The palate is concentrated and rich, with dark fruits balanced by a fine, minerally oyster-shell edge and...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Some very good cabernets emerged from the 2022 season in Margaret River, and this is certainly one of them. It's a most stylish and refined wine of great poise and elegance. The nose reveals a mix of blackcurrant, oyster shell, graphite and a subtle olive tapenade combination. The palate is still quite tightly wound, with fine, integrated chalky tannins and...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

One of the best chardonnays yet from Flowstone. This is more subtle and understated but no less intense and finely structured. Gets lightly more new oak than the standard with malolactic fermentation and an extra six months in oak. Beautiful aromas of citrus and melon zest with a little edgier lime. On the palate richer notes of brioche and mealy...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Made in a similar way to the standard savvy, but gets an extra six months in the mix of demi-muid and ceramic egg vessels. Lifted gooseberry with a pebbly vanilla bean and stone fruit combo in the nose. The palate reveals more minerally and savoury notes which complement the rich texture. Sustained acidity and a fine flinty edge completes a...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Since its first release some years ago, I’ve been a fan of this wine. I love the way it’s structured, the balance between the intensity of the Karridale fruit and the oak, which builds both texture and complexity to create a wine of real class and expression. This vintage delivers a mix of citrus, dried herbs, and slightly nutty tropical...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Few winemakers capture such complexity and intrigue with sauvignon blanc as Stuart Pym, and he's done it again with this excellent wine. As always, he uses oak in the process, and it creates such a compelling and engaging combination on the nose. Lemony, nutty characters merge with the punchy tropical fruit of the variety, along with that little gooseberry lick....

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

The thing about Pym's wines is texture. And this super expressive savvy displays that character perfectly. It's a bright and punchy little number but not the modern fruit bomb. It's layered and loaded with a mix of tropical fruit delivered with a creamy rich palate feel. The finish shows a crunchy chalky minerality. This is the type of savvy I...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Plenty of interesting winemaking techniques have been used to coax the best from this variety. After gentle whole bunch pressing the fermentation takes place in demi-muid oak barrels and ceramic eggs, where it is left for 12 months with occasional lees stirring to build texture. Intense aromas of lime and passionfruit on the nose with just a trace of vanilla...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Always interesting. And always distinctive. A little bit of winemaking goes in here to create a wine of rare complexity for this variety. All wild yeast fermentation in large format old oak and ceramic eggs successfully builds complexity but retains the vibrancy of the fruit. A complex mix of creamy fruit and dried herbs and lighted floral notes. The palate...

Margaret River

Red Varietal

Comes off vines from two separate plantings. Spent 24 months in a mix of 25% new oak and older oak. It was also held in bottle an extra time to allow all the components to relax and settle. Exotic floral notes of roses and cherry fruits. The palate is soft and supple with plum and black cherry complemented with a...

Margaret River

Red Varietal

Touriga, of course, is a fundamental part of Portuguese ports and table wines, and it certainly found a home in Australia, where it produces typically aromatic, punchy, vibrant, lively and fruity wines of medium weight. In this case, dark cherry and chocolate liqueur notes are evident on the nose. The palate delivers with sweet cherry and plummy flavours, a little...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

An excellent value for money chardonnay offering plenty of deep flavour. Opens with a citrus and stone fruit mix on the nose. Then the palate lifts with stone fruit and a bright lemony acidity. Trace of grapefruit adds to an appealing wine for drinking in the next couple of years.

Margaret River

Rose

A simple and pleasing modern style of rose. Aromas o crunchy watermelon and cranberry with a cute strawberry lift. The light bodied palate carries a nice mix of light red berry with sprinkle of dried herbs to finish.

Margaret River

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

Really belts out some decent aromatics of tropical fruit and subtle grassy characters. Palate has plenty of sweet fruit with an intensity driven by a crisp and crunchy acid. A lift of citrus and passionfruit completes the picture. Ideal in the short term.

Great Southern

Riesling

This great wine has its genesis in the first vines planted at Forest Hill in the mid-sixties. It is characterised by its leaner tense palate profile with a fine wet slaty edge that is pure riesling. But, in good years you get a little more weight in the palate without compromising the integrity of the stye This one nails it....

Great Southern

Riesling

This superb dry-grown vineyard was planted in 1975 and consistently delivers outstanding fruit. This wine manages to bridge the divide between the high tensile leaner style and the more textured and flavoursome. So you get a bit from each camp to create a thoroughly beautiful wine. Lots of spicy lemon peel and citrus in here with a penetrating palate of...

Great Southern

Shiraz

A most stylish style in keeping with the cooler ’21 vintage. Sourced from vines dating back to that first vineyard planted in 1965. Floral aromas merge with dark spicy plum and a complex prune juice addition. The palate is quite plush though with a grainy chalky tannin influence to control and define. Subtle touch of mocha and ground coffee.

Great Southern

Cabernet Blend

Love this combination, and it works so well out of the Great Southern. It’s about three-quarters cabernet from the oldest vines on the estate, with the addition of malbec. So, you’re getting the intense blackcurrant and dark plum notes of the cabernet, with some brighter red fruits and fleshiness from the malbec. It works well. A remarkably soft and supple...

Great Southern

Shiraz

From the colour, you think you’re going into a blockbuster, and sure, it’s bold, opulent and rich. Yet there is refinement and restraint that captures the contemporary winemaking style at Forest Hill. Spicy dark plum and dark chocolate, with a little chalky character and minerality. The palate is controlled and seamlessly integrated, with plushness and generosity. A wine of tremendous...

Great Southern

Riesling

Quite simply one of the state’s finest rieslings. It’s from the oldest vineyard block on the estate. The nose has a distinct crystalline, mineral, lemony aroma, with a fairly typical Great Southern spiciness. Then the palate is awash with slatey, wet, pebbly characters, edgy lemon and lime, and a little cut pear. It’s a precisely linear wine with tremendous depth...

Great Southern

Riesling

Here’s a wine that captures the vineyard site. Planted dry-grown in 1975, it delivers incredibly intense and powerful aromas of lemon and lime, with spicy, chalky, basalt characters. The palate is quite textured, with really fine, precise acidity holding it through to an extended finish. A distinctive wine, with crunchy, quartz-like characters providing such a compelling addition to the palate.

Great Southern

Cabernet Sauvignon

A super wine from these old cabernet vines planted more than 50 years ago. It was a warm season, but it certainly appears these old vines have worked their magic, creating fruit that’s balanced and intensely flavoured, and in no way overripe or jammy. In fact, it’s a wine of remarkable elegance and refinement, with those blackcurrant and dark fruit...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

Power, precision, intensity. It’s all here in this single-site wine from dry-grown vines planted 40 years ago. There’s a steeliness about it, but also a textural feel. A compelling mix of lemon, oatmeal and a little butterscotch on the nose, with a flavour profile that is deeply concentrated but effortlessly long. Fine, crunchy, chalky minerality holds a tight line, carrying...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

Generously flavoured and richly textured chardonnay from vines planted back in 1985 and supplemented with some Bernard clones of ’95, ’76 and ’96. Notes of lemon meringue and brioche with a little quince paste on the nose. The palate is deliberately textured, but still with a controlling fine mineral acidity. Lemon meringue and quince paste, with a trace of butterscotch...

Great Southern

Riesling

Talk about a great value high-class riesling, then this guy is right on the money. It comes from two vineyards, the 1975 planted Block 2 and the younger Highbury Fields. It’s distinctly talcy with a lemon zippy aroma that pokes into the palate. That talcy acid persists creating a wine of penetrating flavour with a nice palate pleasing texture.

Great Southern

Riesling

Although the vineyards at Forest Hill go back to 1965, this one is sourced from several sites. It really is a quite beautiful wine, capturing the vintage, which was very good for white wines, rather well. Spicy lemon zest and mineral notes on the nose are intense. Then the palate, as always, is powerfully defined and linear, with tremendous mineral,...

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

This a small vineyard planted in Kalgan River on very narrow rows. Handpicked, whole bunch and it has a real pinot character which the guys saw on the vineyard. Has a bright raspberry aroma and a brilliant bright crimson colour. The palate is light-bodied yet it has structure and poise as it heads down a path to a long finish....

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

This comes from a small vineyard that was close-planted with Dijon clones 115 and 777. It’s a recent addition to the Forest Hill portfolio, and a most exciting one at that. The aromas are quite savoury and earthy, with mushroomy notes and a little truffle-oil complexity. The palate is so seamless, soft and supple, with good fleshiness, yet there’s a...

Great Southern

Red Blend

This distinctive blend of cinsaut, grenache, counoise and vermentino was introduced relatively recently and caught my attention immediately. It was all hand-picked and pressed to concrete, where it was fermented. The result is a wine of fine aromatics, beautiful texture and lovely fruit characters evident immediately. Crunchy light red fruits, some watermelon and cranberry combinations, with a little savouriness. It’s...

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

This is a really interesting wine. It's from a single dry-grown vineyard near Albany, close-planted to Dijon clones 115 and 777. Here's a pinot with structure, poise and immense power, held with gentle kid gloves and cajoled through to a very long finish. Cherry and raspberry notes with a slightly earthy note. Slightly grainy and textured, with that necessary acidity...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

It's a slightly firmer and more angular cabernet than previously which can be attributed to the vintage. Yet it retains all that is good in classy Margaret River cabernet. Delivers a generous and powerful statement of blackcurrant and leafy black olive with a dollop of dark chocolate. The tannins are quite chalky and bring a degree of control to create...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Smooth, seamless, elegant, refined. You get the picture. A cabernet of such poise and polish, yet one with great power from this generous powerful vintage in Margaret River. Opens with a salvo of blackcurrant, dark chocolate and black olive fanned with a bay leaf and oyster shell minerality. The palate delivers with some presence, yet it does so with restraint...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is an excellent wine that is predominantly cabernet with tiny amounts of the aromatic cab franc, and the colour and tannins from the petit verdot. It's a deep, dark red colour. The nose is quite beautiful, with dominant blackcurrant, bay leaf, and olive tapenade, with a nice lift of oyster shell minerality. The palate is quite sublime, with deep,...