Regions

Great Southern

Grenache

Just love the expression in this exceptional grenache from Frankland River. This really is an exquisite example of this variety from a very good year. Soft and supple with delightfully lifted palate weight. Has a purity, brightness and lightness of touch as the fruit floats effortlessly across the palate. Aromatic and fragrant. I defy you to put this one down,...

Great Southern

Shiraz

Yet another stunner from the Riversdale Vineyard in Frankland River. This is a vibrant and brilliant shiraz capturing the essence of this fruit in a very good year. Perfumed aromas with lively cherry and red currant overlaying a deeper plummy character. The palate is exquisitely structured with a silky fine frame supporting medium bodied fruit that cascades to a very...

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

Exotic complex aroma of dark cherry and a little liqueur plum note. There's a trace of damp earthy character weaving into the nose. The palate is tightly wound with a firm core of fine bony tannins and well-weighted oak supporting the fruit. The palate is dry and spicy with a subtle dried herb character. Structured and poised, this is serious...

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

These pinots from Singlefile continue to be some of the prettiest and most beautiful examples of the variety. In this case, it comes from a single plot in Mount Barker. Wonderfully exotic, engaging aromas that are floral, with slight raspberry-strawberry combinations and even a little blackberry. The palate is satiny and seamless, displaying intricate integration of fine tannin and oak,...

Great Southern

Riesling

A beautifully pristine and delicate riesling from the Blue Lake vineyard in Mount Barker. Slightly floral and citrussy notes on the nose with a dash of talcy spiciness. The palate is so appealing with its fine acid gently lifting it through to a long finish.

Great Southern

Sauvignon Blanc

A wonderful example of the fume style. Doesn’t fall into the trap of overdoing the oak use, resulting in a wine that is perfectly balanced and seamlessly structured. The oak sits comfortably within the fruit. Nice touch of lemon meringue with a dollop of cream on the palate. A keen acidity sustains a long finish. First-rate example of this distinctive...

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

This has been sourced from the Misery Hill Vineyard in the Porongurups. Medium bodied with excellent structure and poise. The aromas of sour cherry and spicy, slightly gamey characters are engaging. The palate is refined and focused with a fine chalky acid and fine bony tannins in control. Plenty of red fruit emerges with breathing. I reckon another few years...

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

Comes from the Misery Hill vineyard in the Porongurup. Has a dominant savoury character that pervades through the nose and the palate. It’s medium bodied with excellent depth and persistence. Strikes an excellent oak and fruit balance with the fine chalky tannins doing their thing. Hard to beat for a pinot selling for less than $40.

Great Southern

Chardonnay

I love what Singlefile is doing with their Small Batch wines. You are getting something distinctly different. It’s a generous style displaying intense aromas of butterscotch and toast with lemon tart and ripe stone fruit characters. Has plenty of lees work and malolactic fermentation to build further texture and mouth feel. And the palate length is extraordinary. Hard to put...

Great Southern

Arneis

I love these small batch wines that Singlefile produces from time to time, and this is a cracking example of a variety most famous from the Piedmont region of Italy. The wine shows a lovely lifted aroma that is slightly citrusy and slightly nutty, which is fairly typical of the variety. The palate then strikes with a more textural influence,...

Great Southern

Pinot Noir

This is only made in tiny volumes. In fact, just two barrels of this one. It's different take on pinot noir for Singlefile adopting a minimal intervention approach using Dijon clones off the home block in Denmark. Bursting with red fruit on the nose with deeper darker secrets behind. The palate has a smooth textured feel with supple fruit flavours...

Great Southern

Red Varietal

This is a variety that is just starting to make its presence felt in certain areas of Australia. And in Frankland, it's certainly found a home. It's one of the small batches that Singlefile does from time to time. This is a beautifully fragrant, exotic, medium-bodied red with a variety that hails from Spain. Shows some delightful spicy lifted red...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

I just love the concept of the small-batch wines that Singlefile releases. In this case, the chardonnay comes in a little later than normal, and so the rich flavours have a chance to really build. It was wild-fermented in new Burgundian oak, and it's created a wine that's rich in butterscotch and stone fruit, while retaining a defining savoury edge...

Great Southern

Tempranillo

A wine sourced from various vineyards showing the sweet supple structure and character that is tempranillo. It’s medium bodied with succulent fruit flavours revealing spicy dark fruit characters. Seamlessly structured with fine chalky tannins and lightly applied fine grained oak. It comes together with a chewy richness on the palate.

Great Southern

Chardonnay

A wine that continues to stamp its mark among the finest chardonnays from WA. This is from that very good vintage down at Denmark. It's so immediately complex with a thoroughly riveting bouquet of butterscotch, struck match and creamy stone fruit, with a cut of lifted minerality. The palate is plush and intensely flavoured with a core of fruit that...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

Over recent years, this high-class chardonnay has been elevated into the top tier of West Australian chardonnays. It comes from a single vineyard in Denmark where the family home is located. I'd have to say this is certainly one of the best. There's a subtle combination of struck-match complexity, vibrant lime, grapefruit-like notes, and a little rich butterscotch. The palate...

Great Southern

Cabernet Sauvignon

A most refined and stylish cabernet from this very good vintage. There is a purity of expression here that partly conceals the deep and intense palate concentration. Leafy aromas with a trace of minerally oyster shell and ironstone. The palate is more in the medium bodied area with fine chalky tannins and fine-grained oak lacing it together into a distinctly...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

Oh, yes. Here is further evidence that this has become one of the State’s finest chardonnays. It seems this cooler vintage has suited it perfectly. It’s sourced from the cool climes of Denmark. The intensity and sustained power is evident immediate with the penetrating aromas of butterscotch, stone fruit and lemon curd striking out. The palate delivers with intensity and...

Swan Valley

White Varietal

It's good to see this Spanish variety making an appearance in Western Australia. It's such a popular variety in north-western Spain. The aroma opens with a lovely citrus, minerally floral note, and even traces of musk stick. The palate is light, but there's an intensity here, and it is beautifully balanced and precise. This is an exciting development for Sittella,...

Swan Valley

White Varietal

Sittella introduced this a couple of years ago. It’s a variety synonymous with the Rías Baixas region of northern Spain. This is quite an exciting release and, in my view, the best to date. Nice, subtle aromas of spices and dried herbs, with a little lemon zest. The palate has surprising complexity for a lighter-style wine, with that spicy, lemony,...

Swan Valley

Chenin Blanc

It was a very good season for chenin blanc in the Swan Valley, and this one is living, vibrant proof. It's not the big fruit bomb that you often get, but instead, there is a highly flavoursome, controlled, linear expression of the variety with subtle, understated stone fruits and florals, with a fine citrus edge, and even a little lemon...

Swan Valley

Chenin Blanc

This has been made in the méthode traditionnelle style from grapes grown on the estate. There’s plenty of sparkling chardonnay around these days, and it’s little wonder because it produces excellent sparkling wine. But this one has introduced a little more texture and richness into the natural acidity and fruitiness of chardonnay and produced something really special for this variety....

Swan Valley

Chenin Blanc

A consistently impressive and expressive example of this variety sourced from the Swan Valley. On the nose, you get the usual tropical, albeit lightly tropical, fruits. But then, in this case, there’s a slightly spicy, dried-herb character adding further complexity. The palate is textured and flavoursome, with the light fruits supported by a fine, crisp, natural acidity that is a...

Swan Valley

Grenache

Grenache in a good season in the Swan Valley is pretty hard to beat. A lot of detail has gone into making this wine, with vine selection, bunch selection, and then handpicking before further hand sorting. It's a dry-grown single vineyard of old bush vines, with the fruit wild yeast fermented, then bottled unfined and unfiltered using the gravity flow...

Swan Valley

Tempranillo

This exciting wine comes from a single vineyard in the Swan Valley, where there are five clones of this variety. It gets some interesting winemaking after handpicking and bunch sorting. It was tossed into open-top fermenters, then matured in seasoned oak. All of this retains the strongly fruit-driven characters of this variety. It was a warm year, and yet, it...

Swan Valley

White Varietal

This is from a vineyard the Berns bought and then grafted on to vines of the home vineyard. It has good acidity and intensity. Has a lovely marzipan and creamy stone fruit flavoured texture which has good acidity, a key part in this warm climate. This has a beautiful texture and palate richness. Bright and alive with great length. No...

Swan Valley

Chenin Blanc

The ‘23 vintage was one of the very best for chenin blanc in the Swan Valley and this wonderful wine is a classic example of what can be done with this variety. Loaded with delightful fragrant fruit, a mix of apple and pear with a gentle citrus lift. The palate is textured and deeply flavoursome. A twist of lemon on...

Swan Valley

Chenin Blanc

A chenin blanc that captures much of the Swan Valley and why this region is so good for this variety. It’s a slightly more restrained version than previously showing less obvious fruit though the lemon rind and lightly tropical notes on the nose are immediately appealing. The palate is more flinty and fine with a pure persistence. Has such a...

Swan Valley

Red Blend

This uses a new clone of grenache, which is good for colour and drought resistance. Also has Graciano, mencia, touriga national and tempranillo. It’s a field blend as part of a program to make a better grenache to what has been in the valley. It is less tannic and more perfumed, and the intention is to make a straight grenache...

Swan Valley

Grenache

Oh, I do love this wine, which provides such compelling evidence of why Swan Valley grenache should rank with anything being produced in Australia with this popular variety. It’s picked by hand off selected bunches from selected dry-grown old bush vines before gravity bottled unfined and unfiltered. So, it’s as pure as you get. Wonderful bright raspberry and rose petal...

Swan Valley

Grenache

This distinctive and always impressive grenache comes from a single vineyard of old bush vines planted back in 1954. It’s sited along the Golden Mile, which produces grenache of such exceptional quality. Great attention to detail was taken with bunch selection, handpicking and hand sorting of all the fruit from this old vineyard. Red fruits with raspberry, rose petal and...

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

A most interesting sparkling wine in the edgier Avant-Garde approach from Sittella. This comes from Pemberton and was aged in older oak for 10 months. It’s a small volume make and it’s looking pretty good. The aim is to achieve a form of Bollinger Grande Annee style texture which comes from the oxidative ageing on lees and after 10 months...

Swan Valley

Red Varietal

Little wonder this north-western Spanish variety should find a home in the warm environs of the Swan Valley. It's a light and fragrant white wine with a spicy, slightly saline palate. There is nice texture here with that crisp bright acidity adds a lift to the finish. Light apple and pear flavours provide the final piece.

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

Sittella Azalee Eloise Berns Grand Vintage Rose 2019 ($60) This is 100% pinot noir with a pale onion skin copper colour. The colour comes with the addition of a still wine pinot noir. This is a quite beautiful wine showing characters of cherry and game with a little brioche and yeasty vegemite character. There is power here with a deep...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Sittella grab the fruit for this blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec and cabernet franc from Wilyabrup in Margaret River. Hugely expressive lift of black fruit on the nose with traces of black olive and liqueur plum. A cut of graphite and minerally seashell adds to the palate complexity. It's a plush and generous wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The good vintage in 2022 is reflected beautifully with this outstanding cabernet from Margaret River. Opens with rich dark chocolate, blackcurrant, and deep plummy aromas. On the palate, the tannins are integrated and fine, and there's French oak here playing a key role in its structural complexity. Flavours build with dark chocolate and black fruits, and a subtle, fine, minerally...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An exceptional wine from a great season in Margaret River. It was a slightly cooler year, which allowed the slow build-up of flavours that are captured perfectly in this wine. Aromas of blackcurrant and dark plum, with a little meaty complexity. The palate is pure and super-concentrated, with rich dark fruits, chocolatey notes and a cracked-shell minerality that adds that...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

This the last of these wines with the vineyard fruit now going elsewhere. This is a stylish and elegantly structured wine off 70-year-old vines. It has about 70% new American oak in here with the rest French. Has a vanilla essence and ripe fruit character, but it’s not overly extractive with a fine chalky tannins and fine oak combination working...

Swan Valley

Shiraz

This outstanding Swan Valley shiraz comes from a very old dry-grown vineyard. Everything you expect from the Swan Valley in a good year. It’s soft, supple and expressive, and there’s enjoyment wherever you turn. Aromas of bright red fruits, dark chocolate and lifted sarsaparilla. The palate is absolutely exquisite: so finely integrated, velvety smooth, with great polish and poise. You...

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

Another wonderful example of the Sittella house style. It’s a 60% pinot noir and 40% chardonnay with a reserve wine that goes back to 2012. The colour is bright yellow and golden. The aroma is lovely combination of lemon brioche with a subtle underpinning of game and meatiness. Beautifully fragrant and vibrant. Traces of cashew and marzipan. Gets a little...