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Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

An opulent and powerfully concentrated cabernet from Margaret River in this very good red wine year. Lashings of blue and black fruit on the nose with blackcurrant and dark liqueur cherry nuances dominant. The palate is loaded with a dark chocolate and a spicy blackcurrant richness. Fine tannins with a subtle oyster shell minerality provides support. Plenty of life in...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A richly complex wine sourced from Margaret River. The nose reveals an engaging and complex mix of stone fruit and meal with subtle brioche character. Rich deeply concentrated flavours have been enhanced by wild yeast fermentation and regular lees stirring which has built textural complexity. A steely core delivers a precise long finish.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A generous and powerfully framed chardonnay with loads of character. The aromas reveal powerful butterscotch and peachy citrus characters, with a trace of white florals. The palate is rich and lavishly textured by the crisp minerally acidity and fine grained oak controlling through to a precise linear finish. A slightly chalky limestone characters adds further to the finish.

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Shiraz

This is a first-rate wine, and clearly one of the best yet under this label. Concentrated aromas of varietal black cherry and blackberry with rich dark plum. A little mocha and cocoa merges. The palate is generous and lavishly presented with spicy dark fruits supported by ripe tannins and a liberal amount of oak. Shows what can be done in...

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Shiraz

A rich and quite powerful expression of Margaret River shiraz, loaded with ripe berries, dark plum and subtle spices. The tannins are quite chewy but work well with the opulent fruit. There's a subtle liquorice-like character lurking within the palate, and just a dollop of dark chocolate, combining into something that is eminently enjoyable drinking.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

A bold statement of cabernet from a year that delivered some excellent wines, albeit produced in the heart of COVID. Striking aromas of blackcurrant and a touch of stewed plum lead into a balanced palate with fine tannins, gentle oak, and concentrated yet poised fruit. A delicious wine best enjoyed in the medium term.

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Malbec

A most attractive malbec that demonstrates how well this variety suits the Ferguson Valley. The colour is deep, and the aromas burst with blackberry and plum lifted by a liberal dusting of spice. The palate carries more blackberry and plum notes, with richer cocoa and a touch of dried herb. A lovely red-fruited mid-palate underpins its balance and poise, with...

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Chardonnay

This has been a consistently strong sparkling wine from St. Aidan over the years. Made from 100% chardonnay in the Ferguson Valley, it was handpicked, normally processed, and then bottle fermented. The aromas are classic and citrusy, with red apple and a touch of biscuity brioche. The palate is vibrant, offering good mid-palate richness but also the fine linear precision...

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Fiano

A lovely expression of fiano, showing textural completeness and an engaging palate. The nose has a slightly nutty, citrusy character, leading to a flavoursome, lingering palate. It’s the kind of wine you can happily sip while sitting back and contemplating the world.

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Muscat

So good to see this great style maintained at St. Aidan. Matured in French oak for up to 20 years, it displays all the luscious raisiny, toffee-like characters you expect. There’s an appealing lift of orange peel and spice, while the palate is pure pleasure, rich, unctuous, and thoroughly delicious.

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Sparkling

A natural fermented sparkling wine using wild yeasts with no additions. The fermentation just happened and the result is a lightly fizzy wine ideal for drinking over the next 12 months. It was made with sauvignon blanc, chenin blanc and shiraz o give it the pink colour. Don't worry about the cloudiness. It's all part of it. Nice wine.

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White Blend

A blend of sauvignon blanc, semillon, and chenin blanc with a small amount of shiraz adding the colour. As the name suggests it’s all naturally done with hand picking of organically grown fruit, wild yeasts, no preservatives or additions and then bottle before the initial fermentation finishes. It creates a lively slightly fizzy deliciously flavoured current drinking wine. Don’t worry...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

This deceptively good vintage produced wines of elegance and style and this is a good example of what came from it. The leafy minerally notes of cabernet are well to the fore. Bright red fruit emerges from an engaging bouquet that sets it up nicely. There's a slightly meaty blackcurrant influence which speaks cabernet. Perfectly balanced with everything coming together...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

The first encounter on the nose suggested this might be special. Further investigation revealed it is. Cracking vintage produced intense and vibrant fruit to underpin a wine that has been expertly handled to capture all that was good in this vintage. It’s got power, yet delivers with medium body. Blackcurrant, dried herbs and bay leaf aromas with a trace of...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine that captures the elegance and poise that mark the cooler 2021 vintage. Displays a good concentration of blackcurrant with leafy bay leaf, black olive and a touch of oyster shell graphite on the nose. The palate is medium weight and impeccably integrated with fine tannins and oak working harmoniously. It has an elegant finish that's focused and quite...

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Cabernet Blend

This is a juicy and quite succulent medium-bodied wine that brings these two varieties together in harmony. Lots of juicy ripe fruit — plummy, blackcurrant — a slightly minerally bay leaf edge, and a neat integration of oak and fruit. It all comes together well, a wine that's probably best in the short to medium term.

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Red Blend

A medium bodied leafy wine that reflects the cooler vintage in Margaret River. Nose as a slight tomato bush sage character, while the palate is angular and neatly worked with gentle oak. The tannins provide a chalkiness that adds to the final picture.

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Cabernet Blend

Highly perfumed aromas of plum and blackcurrant highlight the contributions of these excellent bedfellows. The palate is soft and supple, with generous opulent fruit characters emerging. It’s medium bodied but loaded with all manner of juicy plump fruit, making it such an enjoyable medium-term wine. The slightly chalky tannin influence completes the picture.

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Cabernet Blend

A most complete and quite beautiful combination of these two varieties. It’s a medium-bodied wine expressing lovely bright red fruits with a little black fruit influence that was part of this excellent vintage. Seamlessly woven together with very fine, silky tannins, gentle oak persuasion and plush, soft and supple fruit characters. It really does stand up as delightful current and...

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Chardonnay

Has the delicate stamp of the vineyard DNA. It was fermented in a mix of new and older French oak, providing some nice textural and aromatic characters. There's a minerally thread with traces of sea spray heightening the minerality and linear structure. An elegant and refined chardonnay.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A chardonnay of poise and control that opens with aromas of lightly roasted cashew, lemon curd and nougat with a savoury influence adding complexity. The oak and fruit balance is excellent with a lovely textural feel to the deep and intense palate. Extended finish. Score: 93/100 Cellar: 7 years

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A wine that combines power and elegance with a high degree of control. It was fermented in a mix of new and older French oak, which has allowed it to pick up and develop some rich texture, while the fine acidity from the earlier picking in this season has held it tight and close, giving it a precise linear structure....

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Chenin Blanc

This is a barrel fermented style of chenin blanc. The oak has been gently introduced and certainly does not dominate, but it does bring a level of textural complexity to lift. Retains its fresh green apple and light tropical fruit characters with a slight creaminess. Excellent wine.

Margaret River

Chenin Blanc

One of the best of these sparkling chenins yet from Stormflower. There is a delicacy here, but the fruit has intensity and length. Light creamy tropical fruits with a citrussy edge on the nose. The palate is light and finely balanced with a persistence through to a long finish. Don’t serve it too cold.

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Sauvignon Blanc

An interesting wine that offers a lot more than your simple sauvignon blanc fruit bomb. In fact the overt fruitiness is muted and instead you get more layers and intrigue from the combination of mandarin, spices and meal. It all comes from a small amount of oak which transforms it into something quite special.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

A finer lightly weighted savvy displaying a distinctly linear palate profile. Opens with citrus and minerally influenced lightly tropical fruit aromas. Then the palate brings in a more lemon talcy characters to extend the finish. Best in the short term.

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Sauvignon Blanc

This is a more restrained version of sauvignon blanc, so you're not getting that overt big tropical whack. What you're getting is a wine that displays some gentle fruit characters supported with fine acidity that sustains a precise and pure, slightly minerally palate through to the finish. I do like this style; it's eminently drinkable and ideal in the short...

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White Blend

Only a smidgeon of oak has been used in this largely tank fermented blend, but it's enough to put the finishes touches on a most attractive wine. Honeysuckle and nettle characters on the nose with a light drizzle of citrus. The palate is lively with a textural feel coming from that oak use. But it is still bright and flavoursome....

Margaret River

White Blend

Excellent example of the season as it is moving easily into its ideal drinking zone. It’s in the restrained style of the vineyard with a nice mix of light minerally citrus characters working neatly with the lightly tropical fruits. Nice for the next year or so.

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White Blend

This blend of semillon and sauvignon blanc has come up well from this very hot vintage, displaying bright lively fruit aromas and flavours. Aromas of dried herbs and light tropical notes to open. Then a pure and slightly crystalline palate takes you through to a long finish. A wine for immediate drinking.

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Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

In many ways quite stylistically similar to the sauvignon blanc in that it delivers its load with restraint, poise and control. It's not dominated by opulent fruit characters, and yet deep within there is an intensity of citrusy, light melony fruit that carries remarkably easily to a very long finish. It's just such an easy drink and really well presented.

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Shiraz

The nose opens with a distinctive vineyard character of cool mint sitting over the leafy dark plummy fruits. The palate is soft and smoothly integrated with fine liner tannins and a lick of oak. Retains a soft pliable palate feel with good flavour intensity.

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Shiraz

A very pretty expression of this variety from Margaret River. The nose speaks volumes for this variety in this vintage. Bright plummy notes with a mix of spices and dried herbs with a trace of sage. Soft and supple with a plush texture, supported by fine chalky tannins and a fine-grained subtle oak influence. Really attractive wine.

Margaret River

Shiraz

Absolutely nails the variety, the style and captures the best of the season. Peppery dark plummy fruits, hints of dried herbs, charcuterie, chocolate and a lift of red fruit provide a compelling opening. The palate is structured with a chalky, gravelly feel that provides balance to the sweet ripe fruit. It's medium weight with good concentration and intensity, and it...

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Sparkling

A delicious and appealing crémant sparkling wine made from 100% chenin blanc, a variety that is increasingly being made into sparklings. It's fragrant and fruity with a bright light palate. Crisp acid, a touch of baked bread and a squeeze of lemon, all work to create an ideal aperitif style wine.

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Semillon

Not many straight semillon made these days, so it always pleases me when I find one. This captures the essential lemon characters of the variety on the nose before delivering a generously proportioned palate with a fine lift of acid. The texture is balanced with that crisp acidity carrying the finish.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This is a lovely example of sauvignon blanc. To a degree, it's understated and subtle, but it has some lovely fruit intensity. The nose shows a gentle, creamy, tropical character, with a fine, spicy citrus edge. The palate is creamy and smooth, with a light lift of citrus tang. It has such a pristine and pure feel about it, and...

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Chenin Blanc

Here's another example of the versatility of chenin blanc. In this case, making a delightful sparkling wine. It was partly barrel-fermented and then bottle-fermented in a largely méthode traditionnelle way. It's created a wine of freshness and vibrancy, with beautiful fragrant fruit aromas and a palate that is dry, clean, crisp and almost refreshing. It has a lovely, fine, lingering...

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Chenin Blanc

I have to say, this is one of the best whites I've seen from Stormflower. It was partially barrel fermented, and this has provided a nice textural and aromatic addition to the nose and palate. It has a creaminess about it, but there's still a racy, energetic mix of tropical fruits and edgy lemon zest, with just a little red...

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Semillon

Here's a wine that takes semillon into a heady new zone. After hand-picking, the fruit was whole-bunch pressed and then fermented using natural yeasts. It's resulted in a wine that is texturally pleasing and loaded with intense varietal characters. It has a slightly creamy, buttery character, but it's ever so slight, and it's complemented by the zingy lemon zest lift....