A really delightful blend of chardonnay and semillon. Sure, it's a little unusual as a combination, but it works really well in the Swan Valley. Semillon gives it that fine cutting edge with a little lemon zip, while the chardonnay adds strength and palate weight. Nice citrusy aroma with some melony fruit, followed by a palate showing beautiful, juicy, ripe...
Ray Jordan92points
Swan Valley
Upper Reach Verdelho 2023
Verdelho
Bursting with tropical fruit is this superb example of a Swan valley verdelho. The nose is quite beautiful with a slightly lemony stone fruit character. The palate is intense and sustained with a bright crisp acidity adding a final tick to the finish.
Ray Jordan93points
Swan Valley
Upper Reach verdelho 2026
Verdelho
Swan Valley verdelho is a really reliable go-to drink, certainly during the summer months. This one's loaded with typical tropical fruits, evident on the nose and then through to the palate. There's a slightly citrusy, spicy character that permeates, while the palate shows lovely rich fruit, controlled by fine, focused acidity through to a long finish. Delightful current drinking, but...
Ray Jordan95points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
Cabernet Sauvignon
A stylish and elegant expression of this very good Margaret River vintage. The smaller volume and tight berry factor have contributed to the intensity and power on the palate especially. Highly perfumed nose with leafy red berry and blackcurrant and with a trace of bay leaf and black olive. The palate is silky smooth and more in the medium bodied...
Ray Jordan95points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
Cabernet Sauvignon
This is a cabernet of some class. It’s a stylish medium bodied wine displaying lively varietal blackcurrant notes with chalky limestone, bay leaf and graphite character. I can almost see old Vasse Felix Founder Tom Cullity smiling down on this with its poise and structure and deliberately persuasive understatement. Has the feel and integrity of the style he wanted from...
Ray Jordan96points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix cabernet sauvignon 2022
Cabernet Sauvignon
A classically elegant and exquisitely presented cabernet from a vintage that combined fruit intensity and stylishness. The aroma has a distinctive lift of blackcurrant and slightly savoury olive tapenade with a deep dark chocolate character. Hint of bay leaf and oyster shell minerality. It’s finely balanced with fine-grained oak and firm fine tannins.
Ray Jordan97points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix cabernet sauvignon 2023
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet has been the focus for the last 51 years, and the results show. From a great vintage, this wine has elegance, poise, and medium weight — just as Tom Cullity sought from the start in 1967. Loaded with black fruits, seamlessly integrated oak and tannin, and impeccable balance. A cracking wine that marks the next phase of Vasse Felix...
Ray Jordan95points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix cabernet sauvignon 2024
Cabernet Sauvignon
Here's a cabernet malbec blend that wedges neatly between the Filius and the Tom Cullity, and once again illustrates how good this blend really is in Margaret River and off this estate. Beautiful aromas of leafy blackcurrant, dark plum, spice, a little black olive tapenade and some nice mineral, oyster-shell characters. The palate is so seamlessly integrated and tightly wound,...
Ray Jordan95points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Cane Cut 2025
Semillon
Vasse Felix has made this wine for some years now, and it's a lovely example of the dessert style. It's created by cutting the fruiting cane and allowing the bunches to hang and dry out before picking, concentrating the flavours and sugars. It was fermented in French oak. From the outset, it captures so much about this variety. Lemon essence...
Ray Jordan94points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Chardonnay 2021
Chardonnay
There's much to like about this classy chardonnay, but it is that bracing minerally and slightly saline acidity that defines what is a sort of house style. It is finely balanced with a very long palate profile packed with a mix of cashew, brioche and savoury characters. Beautiful wine.
Ray Jordan95points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Chardonnay 2022
Chardonnay
A wine that captures the juicy acidity and power of the ’22 vintage. This has developed into the Vasse Felix House style which now has a small addition of Bernard clone adding softness to the middle palate. All barrel fermented with wild yeasts and most of it naturally proceeding through malolactic fermentation. Aromas of light butterscotch and mealy roasted cashew....
Ray Jordan96points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix chardonnay 2023
Chardonnay
One of the best chardonnays yet under this label. But you expect that with mature vineyards, a great vintage and continually refined winemaking. Opens with a slightly savoury cashew aromatic, which is intense and immediately engaging. The palate is deep and multi-layered. Explosive and powerful, it extends with real purpose to a long though still linear and defined finish. One...
Ray Jordan95points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix chardonnay 2024
Chardonnay
A slightly more generous style of chardonnay, showing richness and concentration while retaining fine linear precision. Minerally lemon curd with a savoury edge, intense and sustained. One of the best under this label.
Ray Jordan95points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix chardonnay 2025
Chardonnay
These chardonnays from Vasse Felix over the last few years are really starting to hit their straps. They seem to be allowed to release more of the flavour intensity, and the result is a wine of immense appeal. At the same time, it retains that essential linear, crunchy acidity that is a feature of the style. This one has a...
Ray Jordan94points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Classic Dry Red cabernet merlot malbec 2025
Red Blend
The classic classic from Margaret River. It's been around for years and consistently produces such a beautiful current-drinking wine. This release from the excellent 2025 vintage ticks all the boxes for the style. Bright red fruits on the nose with hints of dried herbs, red berries and light leaf. The palate is medium-bodied but has a plush generosity about it....
Ray Jordan92points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Classic Dry Red Shiraz 2023
Shiraz
The beauty of this wonderful vintage is clearly on display with this entry level shiraz. Soft, warm and so, so cuddly. Punchy plummy fruit with a little spice and white pepper lurking somewhere deep. Perfect when you want to sit back and chill.
Ray Jordan92points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Classic Dry Rose 2023
Rose
This has emerged as consistently one of the best roses in the State. Captures the modern dry yet textured style well. Lifted perfumes of strawberry and pomegranate. The palate is dry as chips with a neatly constructed textural feel. Crisp acid and a penetrating lingering flavour profile. Take me to the south of France.
Ray Jordan93points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Classic Dry rosé 2025
Shiraz
Consistently one of the best rosés from WA, and this is an outstanding example from a good vintage. Made from Margaret River shiraz and pale onion-skin in colour. Light-bodied but with texture and savouriness complementing light red fruits of cranberry and a hint of watermelon. Crisp, fine acid to finish. Perfect summer drinking.
Ray Jordan93points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Classic Dry Rosé 2026
Shiraz
Here's a wine that nails it year in and year out. Made from shiraz, which of course suits the style. It's a simple, light, fragrant and racy style with a textural component that sets it apart. Aromas of strawberry and watermelon, with a little cranberry juice. The palate is so deliciously engaging, with crunchy light red fruits and a subtle...
Ray Jordan92points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Classic Dry White 2025
Semillon Sauvignon Blanc
They don't come more classic than this. It's a semillon sauvignon blanc blend exhibiting the lovely, generous flavours of the 2025 vintage. Loads of tropical, punchy stone fruit and zesty lemon essence combine into a thoroughly appealing current-drinking blend. The palate feel is exquisite and the flavour lingers. Great example of the style.
Ray Jordan90points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Classic Dry White Semillon Sauvignon Blanc 2023
Semillon Sauvignon Blanc
A fresh and punchy fruit-driven style bursting with all manner of tropical fruits with a light cut-grass herbaceousness that adds to the wine and never intrudes. Lovely fresh acidity balances the fruit sweetness perfectly. Nice style for spicy Asian food.
Ray Jordan91points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Classic Dry White semillon sauvignon blanc 2024
Semillon Sauvignon Blanc
A style that stretches back to the earliest wines made here. Bright, lively, and abundantly fruited, with a crisp, zesty thread through to the finish. Clean, pure, and delightful for current drinking.
Ray Jordan92points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Classic Rose 2024
Rose
Roses from this hot vintage seemed to have come up pretty well. This is such a case. It’s light-bodied and delightfully scented with rose petal and strawberry notes. The palate is light but with excellent texture. It finishes dry and crisp with a slightly savoury character.
Ray Jordan96points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix DHJ1 Single Plot Heytesbury Chardonnay 2022
Chardonnay
Just the second release of this wine which is sourced from a tiny single plot in the Wallcliffe subregion. Has highly floral scents merging with a subtle chalk dustiness. The palate is distinctive and individual. The slightly saline oyster-shell character cuts a taut line through the palate extending through to a very long finish. There fine acidity is a feature...
Ray Jordan92points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius Cabernet Merlot 2022
Red Blend
Pulls the virtues and the characters of these two varieties in Margaret River together into one harmoniously structured and balanced blend. Plush with fruit showing tremendous intensity. There’s a trace of oyster shell minerality and bay leaf lurking in there. Bright and brilliant.
Ray Jordan93points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius cabernet merlot 2023
Cabernet Blend
One of the best cabernet merlots under this label yet released. Plush fruit flows seamlessly through a smoothly structured palate. Ripe, sweet fruit delivered with medium intensity and a trace of oyster shell minerality. Bright and bursting with energy, with structure and poise rarely found at this price point.
Ray Jordan92points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius cabernet merlot 2024
Cabernet Blend
Soft, supple, generous, medium-bodied cabernet merlot blend displaying some lovely perfumed notes on the nose. And then a supple, precisely integrated palate with chalky tannins and gentle use of oak, supporting some quite delicious fruit. Its bright red berry flavours carry through to a lingering finish. Quite excellent current drinking.
Ray Jordan93points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
Cabernet Sauvignon
This is such a good cabernet, especially when you consider the price of $30. It seems the Filius grows in sophistication and varietal expression each year. This was a cool year of course, but the fully ripe fruit delivers and then some. Has a little bit of malbec which is an important consideration for the wine, adding just that little...
Ray Jordan93points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Chardonnay
I have to say this is one of the best and most complete of this wine I have tasted. Combines the power and structure of cabernet and delivers it with poise and polish. Lifted leafy minerally aromas with traces of blackcurrant and tobacco. The palate is medium bodied with fine chalky tannins and neatly weighted oak in support. Makes quite...
Ray Jordan94points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius cabernet sauvignon 2023
Cabernet Sauvignon
Consistently one of the best cabernets from WA. It’s designed to express its best qualities as a young wine, with its brightness and energy immediately apparent. It’s a blend of cabernet with a small amount of malbec, an important variety at Vasse Felix. Smooth and seamlessly structured with a sublimely elegant expressive palate. It’s medium-bodied with a fine boned structure....
Ray Jordan94points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius cabernet sauvignon 2023
Cabernet Sauvignon
Consistently one of the best value cabernets from WA. Designed to show its best young, with brightness and energy immediately apparent. A blend of cabernet with a small amount of malbec, an important variety at Vasse Felix. Smooth and seamlessly structured with a sublimely elegant palate. Medium-bodied with fine-boned structure, subtle oak, and fine tannins. The best yet.
Ray Jordan94points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius cabernet sauvignon 2024
Cabernet Sauvignon
Consistently among the best-value cabernets released each year in Western Australia. This is largely cabernet with some malbec, which of course is the classic combination of the Tom Cullity blend. It's a wine that's evolved in recent years and now presents with less overt oak and more subtle integration. Blackcurrant and bright red fruits on the nose. And a thoroughly...
Ray Jordan93points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius Chardonnay 2022
Chardonnay
The vintage has resulted in slightly more power and flavour richness compared to the cooler 2021. Opens with a butterscotch and ripe fig and white peach character on the nose. The palate is textured with a crème brulee and lemon curd richness balanced by a fine savoury thread through to the finish. It's so well balanced with its palate length...
Ray Jordan91points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius Chardonnay 2023
Chardonnay
The key here has been to present the quality fruit with little winemaking intervention. I mean, why would you want to muck around with it when the vibrant natural fruit intensity presents with such balance and flavour intensity. Has a crunchy racy acidity sustaining through to the long finish. Finishes with a dry savouriness.
Ray Jordan92points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius chardonnay 2024
Chardonnay
Captures the house style for the Filius range. From a warm year, early picking retained vibrancy and energy. Crunchy honeydew melon character with overriding savouriness and fine acidity for a precise, linear feel. A faint nuttiness on the finish adds subtle complexity. Ideal for short-term drinking.
Ray Jordan93points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius chardonnay 2025
Chardonnay
You really are getting some high-class chardonnay at this price. It's a terrific wine, one of the best yet under the label. Slightly nutty, savoury notes on the nose, with a little nectarine stone fruit. The palate has a deep intensity as a result of the vintage, but there's also a delicate restraint that allows the wine to focus into...
Ray Jordan91points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2023
Semillon Sauvignon Blanc
Precise yet intensely flavoursome blended white that captures the style and the vintage perfectly. It’s less of a fruit bomb has more a wine of the savoury minerality that keeps it fresh, lively and interesting. This is the style that can bring people back to this blend. You could drink a bit of this and never get bored.
Ray Jordan92points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius sauvignon blanc semillon 2024
Semillon Sauvignon Blanc
A refreshing, pure expression of this blend, showing more mineral and savoury character than the usual fruit-driven styles. Made with a hands-off approach to let the fruit shine. Subtle gooseberry and lemon pith with a fine, lingering minerality. Excellent texture and balance.
Ray Jordan93points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius Shiraz 2022
Shiraz
This is a most stylish modestly priced shiraz, showing how it can be managed in Margaret River. It’s medium bodied with deep earthy primary plummy characters emerging on the nose and filtering through into the balanced palate. Fine chalky tannins and gently managed oak complete a very good wine.
Ray Jordan93points
Margaret River
Vasse Felix Filius shiraz 2023
Shiraz
Captures everything you could ask for from an approachable easy easy-drinking shiraz. It’s from a year when fleshy fruit and a succulent, delicious palate were features. Earthy dark plum with a fine minerally thread. The oak and fruit balance nails it precisely, and the medium-bodied palate delivers long and pure. Love it.