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Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine that pays homage to Dr John Gladstones, whose work was largely responsible for the development of Margaret River. This is right up there with any that have been made, coming from a vintage that was well suited to the variety. Leafy blackcurrant fruit with a graphite oyster shell nuance working with a sliver of black olive. It's a...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine which honours Dr John Gladstones, one of the greatest and most important people in the WA wine industry. A most elegant expression of this wine, which seems to indicate an approach to introduce more elegance and control. Minerally and slightly leafy blackcurrant on the nose with other notes of dark chocolate and light plum. The palate sings a...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine which honours Dr John Gladstones, one of the greatest and most important people in the WA wine industry. A most elegant expression of this wine, which seems to indicate an approach to introduce more elegance and control. Minerally and slightly leafy blackcurrant on the nose with other notes of dark chocolate and light plum. The palate sings a...

Great Southern

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is the pinnacle of the Houghton range. It comes from the famous Justin vineyard in Frankland River, where some of the state's finest wines have their genesis. This is one of the most elegant and stylish of any “Jack” yet released, yet there is no shortage of engine room grunt. Chalky iron filing minerality emerge from the dark fruits...

Swan Valley

Verdelho

A delicious slightly sweet take on verdelho. Loads of tropical fruit with a splash of citrus and a squeeze of passionfruit pulp. The crisp acid ensures it never cloys, keeping the palate clean and fresh. Excellent spicy food drink.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This was made when we had that little matter of Covid. It was a very short and quick warmish vintage in Margaret River, and the fruit was excellent. This is bright and vibrant from the start. Aromas of plummy, minerally blackcurrant with a lifted bay leaf and black olive nuance. The palate is more medium bodied with a fine thread...

Pemberton

Chardonnay

A delicious slightly sweet take on verdelho. Loads of tropical fruit with a splash of citrus and a squeeze of passionfruit pulp. The crisp acid ensures it never cloys, keeping the palate clean and fresh. Excellent spicy food drink.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

Beautifully crafted chardonnay demonstrating the virtues of Pemberton as a chardonnay region. The aromas are a mix of vanilla and butterscotch with a little lemon curd complexity. Flavours are intense and concentrated but with an effortless feel about them. Slightly nutty cashew with a spicy lift emerging. Classy wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

This is an excellent wine. It is a blend of largely cabernet with smaller contributions from malbec and petit verdot. It is seamless with the generosity of the fruit cascading over the fine thread of oak and tannin. Plush black fruits with some nice darker plum and black olive influences. Has a bright and very lively palate that bursts through...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A poised and beautifully assembled blend of 85% cabernet sauvignon, 10% malbec, and 5% petit verdot. Stylish and elegant, yet driven by the intensity of cabernet that defines Margaret River. Bold black fruits are harmoniously integrated with fine oak and supported by firm but chalky tannins. Impeccably crafted and classically structured, this is a wine built for the long haul.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Powerful but, at the same time, refined and elegant. The colour is bright and bursting with energy. Bright red fruits punch out some wonderful, complex nuances of red berry and leafy floral notes. The palate is tidy and controlled, with a lovely graphite, oyster-shell minerality balancing the richly layered fruit flavours. The energy is extraordinary.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A marvellous chardonnay that does justice to the great ‘23 vintage and then some. The nose opens with a subtle struck match influence to the lemon curd and crème brulee contributions with a savoury quince character. The palate has a level of sophistication and almost Burgundy-like character with its dry chalky and slightly savoury finish. Most impressive. It’s super intense...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A wine of deep intensity, opening with lifted aromatics that tumble into a finely structured and textured palate. Hazelnut and light stonefruit on the nose are immediately attractive, followed by citrus and grapefruit characters, supported by a touch of smoky, savoury nuance. There’s lovely texture here, with a chalky thread that completes the wine beautifully.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A thoroughly beautiful expression of Margaret River chardonnay. It’s powerful and super intense. On the nose, the influence of barrel fermentation is evident, with the impact of solids adding to its complexity. The palate is so perfectly woven and integrated. A slightly butterscotch, quince and flinty character merge. That dry, savoury and slightly limestone-struck-match character really completes a very good...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A blend of 90% cabernet and 10% malbec. An elegantly crafted wine from this cooler vintage. Blackcurrant aromas with dark chocolate and tobacco leaf swirling through a maze of cracked seashell minerality, a trace of graphite and a little olive tapenade. A little of the malbec red fruits brings another dimension. A mighty impressive wine demonstrating the adaptability of Margaret...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a most beautiful and engaging chardonnay. It was a hot vintage, but the early picked chardonnay has come out really well. Aromas of jasmine cracked seashell and light lemon essence. The palate is so precisely defined and linear with deep penetration and length. A light crunchy cordite edge on the finish. A finer and more elegantly refined style...

Margaret River

Shiraz

Super value wine from this very good season. The colour is deep and almost opaque but with a brilliant luminosity. Spicy black pepper lives the deep plummy palate. It's rich and lavish with a dense concentration of dark plummy blackberry fruit flavours. Balanced and perfectly integrated.

Margaret River

Grenache

A modern expression of grenache, medium weight but with good structure and fruit intensity. Made with 30% whole bunch and partial carbonic maceration, it shows a delightful fruit lift. Aged for nine months in amphora, a nod to ancient Rome, it delivers bright red apple, rose petal, and raspberry, all in elegant restraint. The palate is seamless and integrated, with...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A very tidy cabernet blend. The warmer season has delivered fruit of deep intensity and fruit flavours, which have been captured by the approach of using a basket press with about 14 months in French oak. Plummy blackcurrant fruit combination on the nose with a palate that has structure and poise A leafy lift on the finish completes the wine.

Margaret River

Petit Verdot

A generous and richly textured red wine from a variety that is generally used as a blending option. In this case the dense dark fruits deliver with surprising seamless elegance. Deep red, black colour leads into the scented red fruit perfumes. The palate has a slightly tarry character with rich lingering flavours.

Margaret River

Malbec

Unlike the Songbird malbec, this one gets oak treatment with an approach that gives this fleshy variety more structure and poise. This is an excellent example of a wine that has presence and definition with the bright red fruits augmented with subtle graphite and light cedary characters. Love the way the sinewy tannins work into the palate in support of...

Margaret River

Malbec

Yet another of the superb malbecs being made in WA these days. In this case it was fermented and aged in a concrete egg and subsequently bottled without fining of filtering. The approach has produced a wine of purity and integrity that is a true unhindered representation of the vineyard. Bright and bursting with plush flavours. It's a cracker.

Margaret River

Rose

The highly scented aroma of strawberry and raspberry is just so immediately engaging. The fragrant characters are picked up in the lightly framed, but so deliciously flavoursome controlled palate. The bright fruit influence is evident, but the finish is crunchy and bone dry. I could drink a bit of this over summer.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The aroma is immediately enticing. The scented red fruits work with varietal blackcurrant, while intriguing notes of oyster shell minerality and leafy graphite and light black olive lift effortlessly. A seamlessly integrated balance with fine but firm tannins digging deep through the palate.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Fair amount of hands-on winemaking here with handpicking, hand plunging and extended skin contact before basket pressing to oak of which 35% was new. The 18 months in oak has contributed to a structure that will suit cellaring. Has a distinct graphite character on the nose with a dried herb and blackcurrant combination. The palate is still tightly held but...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A thoroughly beautiful cabernet from this great year. There’s real power here, but also elegance and refinement, very much a reflection of both the season and the winemaking, which has harnessed high-quality fruit. Classic blackcurrant aromas are lifted with a touch of bay leaf and oyster-shell minerality. The palate displays excellent tannin structure, probably from extended skin contact before basket...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The remarkable thing is that Travis Wray has produced a very pretty, stylish wine in such a warm year. It must say something about the vineyard management. Lovely dark fruit on the nose, with a lift of black olive and bay leaf, with an edgy graphite touch. The palate is bright, with lively red fruits lifted by fine, chalky tannins...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Continues the recent form for this wine, which is fast becoming one of the best in Margaret River. Intense, concentrated and precisely balanced. The nose has a bright minerally purity with a crunchy honeycomb and butterscotch nuance to the bright lemony grapefruit and subtle quince paste characters. A most impressive chardonnay.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a beautifully crafted chardonnay made using whole bunch pressing to a combination of new French oak and concrete eggs. It was all wild fermented with some wild ferment in the malolactic component. It's created a fine linear expression with a flinty minerally thread taking the palate to a long finish. Nougat, popcorn and lemon curd with a slice...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

From a vintage that turned out well for chardonnay. The fruit was handpicked and whole-bunch pressed, with only free-run juice used in the ferment, which was split between new oak and concrete. Smoky, savoury aromatics with a hint of nuttiness lead to a palate of honeycomb, white peach, and citrus tang. The oak is neatly integrated, supporting a harmonious, finely...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

These chardonnays from House of Cards have been elevated in recent years to another level. This is a wonderful example of the style and the vintage. It was whole-bunch pressed and fermented in a mix of 52% new French oak and some concrete. A further 11 months in oak enhanced its layered richness and complexity. Notes of butterscotch and quince...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Punchy, bright savvy displaying all that crunchy vibrancy you want in this variety but with a controlled restraint. Slightly muted tropical fruit with guava and faint passionfruit influences. There is a creamy mouth feel which appeals.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Wow, this really zips across the palate. It has crunchy fresh acidity with vibrant, zingy passionfruit and a citrus tang, finishing with a fine, lingering line. This is a savvy, but not a big blousy one. It’s got flavour, intensity, and a linear structure. To me, this is how sauvignon blanc should be made in Margaret River. A cracking good...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

This wine was introduced to the portfolio a few years ago and is quite a departure from the usual Howard Park style. Primarily, it is the use of a significant portion of American oak to produce a distinctive style. Little wonder that this vintage is probably the best, as it strikes a great balance between the exquisite fruit and the...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This outstanding wine is now sourced from Howard Park's Leston vineyard in Margaret River. It's such an elegant and refined cabernet displaying all the varietal integrity of blackcurrant, bay leaf and a minerally graphite black olive mix. A slightly chalky texture edges in to give the palate a structural feel while the tannins are aligned, contributing to its detail and...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This pinnacle of the Howard Park red wine stable is now a 100% cabernet sauvignon off the Leston Vineyard in Margaret River. The result is a firmer and more classically Bordeaux styled wine with a distinctive Margaret River nuance. There is a lifted of bright red fruit on the nose with notes of violet and blackcurrant, merging with other lifts...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Right off the bat that this is the finest Abercrombie cabernet yet released. A few things have contributed to it. The great vintage for a start, the maturing vines on the Leston property at Margaret River, the continued refinement with oak use, including reduction in new oak and a real focus on achieving structure through the fermentation. It is a...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The '23 Abercrombie was a hard act to follow and yet this one runs it mighty close. Comes off the less than vineyard in Margaret River now a mature site producing high-quality fruit. The aromas of blackcurrant a little bay leaf and black olive with lightly liqueur chocolate overtones captivate immediately. But it's a palate where this really excels. It's...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Well, there have been some good ‘uns under this label but I reckon this might well be the best. It combines with subtle finesse the power of the fruit with an elegance and refinement to create an exquisite expression of the region. So much is happening in the palate with a merging of butterscotch, roasted nuts, brioche and lemon curd...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

An outstanding chardonnay which comes from the Allingham vineyard at the cool Karridale subregion. It is so exquisitely integrated and woven together with such subtlety and precision. It gets down to each barrel where decisions are made on malolactic fermentation and the degree of lees stirring. The result is a marvellous wine displaying freshness and vibrancy with typical notes of...