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Margaret River

White Blend

Fraser Gallop has been a champion of this style of wine for some time. So in this case it's been fermented with wild yeasts and then matured in a combination of new and second-fill French oak. So, the oak plays an important part, but it's well-managed so it doesn't intrude beyond creating a complex textural aromatic influence. Nutty, lightly tropical...

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Rose

A lovely rosé that's been made in a way that is designed to preserve the natural fruit characters, with just a minimal amount of skin contact contributing to the colour and a slight textural feel on the palate. It's salmon pink and has a lovely vibrant, juicy crunchy mouthfeel. While at the same time having a subtle textural feel that...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Maroon with a dark cherry rim, this is superbly balanced, sleek and supple. High-quality oak is finely integrated with notes of cassis, plums, aniseed, blackberries, cigar boxes, dark chocolate, charcuterie, tobacco leaves, beefstock and graphite. Intensity is maintained throughout and this is a cabernet of extraordinary length going through to the silkiest of tannins. The wine gives the impression of...

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Chardonnay

It is utterly beyond me why people are spending many hundreds of dollars on Premier Cru White Burgundy when we have wines like this at home. A wine of complexity and texture, aromas weave through nectarines, struck matches, florals, citrus, honeydew melon, beeswax and peach pits. Oak integration is near immaculate and has almost disappeared into the wine, just leaving...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is predominantly cabernet but smaller percentages of petit verdot, cabernet franc and malbec contribute. Powerful and controlled cabernet displaying a lot of the black fruit character of this part of Margaret River. On the nose you get a terrific mix of bay leaf, black olive and varietal blackcurrant. There's a pronounced oyster shell minerality bursting through supported by a...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

The wines under this label have been quite a revelation in recent years. This one from the excellent '22 vintage is another cracker. It's a precise and elegantly crafted wine with a steely minerally core. Aromas of pear and quince paste with a little citrus tang. The palate has a slightly crystalline minerality with a lingering finish. Has a distinctive...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

A thoroughly beautiful medium bodied cabernet starting to move into its best drinking zone. The extra time in bottle has allowed those subtle leathery, library book characters to merge with the primary red and black fruit characters. It is still firm as you would expect from this vintage, but the flesh and richness of the fruit balances it perfectly. Dark...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A slightly lighter bodied wine reflecting this vintage. Captures a mix of red fruits with typical black currant. The tight core of oak and fine chalky tannins holds things to a very long finish. Just starting to develop a leathery secondary character.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was such a good vintage throughout WA and this outstanding cabernet illustrates this perfectly. Captivating aromas of black currant, dark liqueur cherry and light cedar with a trace of bay leaf. The palate has a firm tight core of minerally oyster shell tannins and well weighted oak. This is a classy wine that is just starting to move into...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Comes off the back of the powerful and opulent 2018 vintage and shows the influence of this cooler season. Has more of that bay leaf and black olive mix cutting through the varietal blackcurrant flavours. It is a controlled and focused wine that will continue to evolve.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A pleasing medium-bodied cabernet from this small vintage which stretched resources at the beginning of Covid. Has more red fruit than normal with a lift of cedary oak. The tannins are fine and chalky while the oak has been astutely delivered. Balanced and poised. A wine that would seem to suit short-term cellaring.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

A delightfully elegant cabernet that captures much of the gracefulness of this vintage. Plummy blackcurrant and cedar on the nose with a faint lift of bay leaf. It is elegant and poised with its medium-bodied palate extending effortlessly to a long finish. Tight core of chalky tannin and oak harness it through to the extended finish. Nice wine.

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Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

The ageing potential for this blend can often be underestimated. This is a case in point. At nearly 8 years old when tasted it was still holding brilliantly. The primary fruit characters have given way to more complex toasty lemon buttery development. But it retains a fresh vibrancy with lovely fruit characters augmented with a little barrel fermentation, still dominant....

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Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

This is starting to show those nicely toasted secondary characters. Yet, the purity of the fruit has not been compromised. You sort of expect that from a good vintage. Plenty of flavour intensity with a splash of barrel fermented oak the final touch to a very nice wine. Rich and crunchy juicy palate is thoroughly delicious.

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Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

This has a slightly smoky herbaceousness providing a nice balance with the creamy stone fruit characters. Those primary characters of freshly mown grass are still evident with some richer peachy stone fruit filling out the palate. Light touch of oak, and there you have it.

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Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

This combination has just a few years of age and so the primary fruit characters are still evident. It is drinking wonderfully well. The upfront fruit characters have been transformed into less overt aromas and flavours, yet the intensity of the palate is excellent. More stone fruit emerging with that faint hint of oak from a little barrel fermentation, completes...

Great Southern

White Varietal

This highly distinctive aromatic variety is mainly grown in Germany, but it once was very popular in New Zealand before they discovered sav blancs. Tropical aromas with a red apple skin and guava, melon character on the nose. The palate has a spicy edge with good fruit intensity. It works well with spicy Asian food.

Great Southern

Riesling

Galafrey uses only free run juice here, which heightens its purity and almost pristine characters. There's a regional and varietal spiciness that works within the citrus and lemon peel nuances on the nose. The palate is fine with a degree of tension balanced with deep riesling intensity. Has a long racy finish.

Great Southern

Shiraz

One of the more refined and elegantly structured shiraz from Galafrey suggesting the strong influence of the season. Displays more cracked black pepper over the dusty dry earth nuances flecking the punchier red fruits. The medium weight palate has a silky-smooth integration with fine grained oak and fine slinky tannins.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is really such a lovely expression of cabernet sourced from Margaret River. It's a blend of largely cabernet with other Bordeaux varieties. On the nose, you're struck with an immediate hit of blackcurrant and plum, just a little liqueur cherry nuanced into it. The palate is bright and vibrant with more of that blackcurrant with a little red berry...

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Chardonnay

You're getting a smart chardonnay at this price point reflecting more sophisticated winemaking than you might expect. For instance, it was whole-bunch pressed directly to French oak, where it was fermented, allowing the textural and complex influences of the oak to work into the chardonnay. Aromas of nectarine and white peach typical of this variety, but then a palate that...

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Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

The textural and aromatic influence of some older oak fermentation is certainly evident both in the weight and the complexity that takes this fairly standard blend up a notch. There's a nice light nutty tropical fruit aromatic and then a clean crisp vibrant palate with that combination of gooseberry and guava which picks up the savvy and little citrus tang...

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Shiraz

The fruit was sourced from Margaret River, and it's resulted in a wine of suppleness, plush fruits and tremendous generosity delivered with medium weight. A combination of hand plunging and basket pressing with maturation in French and older American oak for 15 months has contributed to a wine that really excels. Spicy plummy dark chocolate mulberry with a little licorice...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

The cooler vintage has resulted in a wine of subtle elegance and precision. Scented notes of blackcurrant and red berry are on display. There’s a little light leaf and black olive character. The palate is seamlessly woven with chalky tannins and a little oak. Flavours of dark chocolate ad plum emerge as it opens up.

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Red Blend

Interesting thing is that many of these '21 vintage wines are only just starting to hit their straps. Took a little while to emerge from a closed cocoon of fruit and structural influence, but this wine's come together really neatly. The intensity of the black currant, leafy cabernet is evident immediately, but then the other influences add a lift of...

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Red Blend

Cabernet is the dominant variety here, but the rest make important contributions to both the perfumed aromas and the depth and structure of the palate. It was a year producing excellent fruit quality, which is captured by the intense aromas of blackcurrant and dark chocolate with a fragrant lift of bay leaf. The palate is super concentrated with firm minerally...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

When these cabernets can be released with a little bit of extra time in bottle, they really do start to show their stuff. This one was from the very early COVID vintage of 2020. It's a powerful wine, but it's also a most elegant and refined cabernet. Aromas of black currant, oyster shell, a little bay leaf, and dark plum....

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Chardonnay

Another excellent chardonnay from Grace Farm displaying a fine balance between delicacy and power. It comes together beautifully. Aromas of savoury roasted almond and creamy stone fruit with a little quince and lemon curd. Love the palate structure and the fine minerally savouriness on the finish. A classy wine.

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Malbec

Shows what can be achieved in a cooler season with this variety. It's all been wild fermented with regular hand plunging before pressing to oak for 14 months. It's a lighter bodied style but the red juby and slightly raspberry favours emerge with a thread of chalky tannin and oak in support.

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Malbec

There are some excellent malbecs being produced in this state. This wine was treated quite gently in the winery with open-top ferments, hand plunging, and very gentle pressing into barriques, where it spent about 14 months. It's brilliant and bright in colour, lovely red crimson hues. And then a spanking palate bursting with vibrant red fruits and supported with slightly...

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Chardonnay

The chardonnays from this small family-owned winery located in the Cowaramup Brook Valley continue to impress. This one from the warm 2024 vintage has emerged rather beautifully. A little winemaking goes in here with whole bunch pressing, wild fermentation before fermentation and maturation in all French oak barriques for about 10 months. There are notes of lemon zest, cashew, and...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

This was such a great vintage, so little wonder the guys have found plenty of raw material to create this masterful wine that captures everything that was good about the season. It’s powerful but delivers on the medium bodied side of full. So, it’s elegant and most stylish with poise. Dark blackcurrant and bay leaf with a thread of minerally...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

These cabernets from Grace Farm all show wonderful refinement and polish, with the fruit deeply intense but generally presented with a medium to full body and creating an elegant expression of cabernet. This one's now had 6 years in bottle, and it's come together as you would expect quite beautifully. The nose shows those primary blackcurrant characters, some nice florals,...

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Chardonnay

This was a year when whites excelled. It's all from the Gingin clone with the power and intensity evident, albeit managed to produce a wine of sublime elegance and refinement. I reckon this is as good a Grace Farm chardie as I have seen. Light cereal notes with a limestone minerality on the nose. The palate has a lovely texture...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This single vineyard chardonnay is the best and most sophisticated of any yet released by Grace Farm. It’s all Gingin clone which was whole bunch pressed to new and used barriques with solids allowed to influence texture and aromas. Aromas of lemon curd and quince with lightly roasted cashew and a hint of turmeric. The palate is linear, with a...

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Shiraz

A wine that nails the modern style of rose. Has plenty of lively fragrant fruit evident immediately on the nose with its fresh strawberry and watermelon characters. The palate is bright and lively with a zingy red fruit character. Persistent through to a long finish.

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Rose

Grace Farm Rosé 2024 ($35)This is a really neat little rosé with a colour that is pale salmon pink with a nose a sort of wild mix of watermelon and cranberry, with even a little citrus adding some additional interest. The palate is light-bodied, but it retains a nice texture with a fine crisp acidity providing a vibrant, lively finish....

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Rose

Beautiful pale salmon pink colour. This grenache-shiraz blend of rosé has been a consistent winner for Grace Farm, and in this case, the vintage is reflected in the bottle. Delicious succulent fruit, nice floral lift, a little red berry, and it all comes together with a crisp, fine acidity. Particularly like the textural palate feel. Very nice wine.

Margaret River

White Blend

From the outset this small family run producer has made excellent blended whites The vineyard produces fruit of such purity and fruit vibrancy. This is another cracker with the minerally juicy passionfruit flavours augmented with a subtle use of oak through barrel fermentation. A perfect summer drink for now but a couple more years wouldn't hurt it at all.

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Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

The influence of a barrel fermented portion is evident immediately on the nose. It introduces a high degree of complexity with a nutty creamy character complementing the vibrant intensity of the sauvignon blanc and semillon. A striking minerality cuts deep through the palate taking it to a very long finish. Has all the pieces to compete a medium erm cellaring...