Rosé

Margaret River

Shiraz

It's rosé and it's delightful. Colour is a pale pink, and the aromas are just what you'd expect from shiraz made into this style. It's a strawberry and raspberry combination with lifted florals and then a palate that is clean and crisp with lovely fresh fruit flavours delivered with a dry and ever so slightly savoury finish while retaining a...

Frankland River

Grenache

Perfectly in tune with contemporary Rosé styles. This is grenache sourced from Frankland River, and why wouldn't you go down there for this variety? Colour is a pale pink. The nose is all strawberry and rose petal, with a little raspberry confection. The palate has a crunchy vibrancy with a watermelon–cranberry combination. Has a slightly spicy finish, with a lifted,...

Margaret River

Rose

This is a wine that says just about everything you want to see, in a modern Australian rosé. Pale of palest pinks, an aroma of crushed wild strawberry, raspberry, and all other light red fruits. The palate has a neat textural feel, with a slightly savoury red fruit flavour. Yet, it is so fine and the palate just lingers. What...

Margaret River

Pinot Noir

This is the palest of pale rosé styles, with just a faint hint of onion-skin blush. The wine was whole-bunch pressed and wild fermented in seasoned oak, then matured on chardonnay lees for about four months. The result is a rosé that offers more depth than a typical style, textured with complexity and some weight, yet delivered with fine elegance...

Margaret River

Shiraz

A truly beautiful dry-style rosé made from 100% shiraz. Typical strawberry-dominated red fruits on the nose, with some subtle floral spicy fennel notes. The palate is light and bright with a creamy strawberry and slightly confectionery musk stick character. Has a zingy, clean acidity.

Margaret River

Shiraz

Made from 100% shiraz, the colour is an extraordinary bright pink that almost glows in the glass. Aromas of strawberry, crunchy watermelon and lifted florals. The dry palate shows raspberry-like fruit, fine texture, crisp acidity and appealing freshness. A very drinkable rosé.

Margaret River

Grenache

The palest of pale onion-skin copper tones. This rosé has been tweaked slightly to create something special. After hand harvesting and whole-bunch pressing, which gives it structure, it went into old French oak puncheons for fermentation and a further three months’ maturation. This adds both texture and aromatic complexity. Aromas of orange skin and cumquat with a light red apple...

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Cabernet Sauvignon

The colour is a brilliant pink, slightly deeper than a lot of modern rosés but still exhibiting a burst of luminosity. But this is a rosé with a subtle difference. It’s from cabernet sauvignon and it’s been wild fermented in oak with some time on lees. So, what you’re getting is a rosé with texture and complexity, with a dry...

Western Australia

Rose

Highly perfumed rosé style made from tempranillo and grenache. On the nose, aromas of strawberry, Turkish Delight, and a slightly juby raspberry character. The palate, typically light-bodied, with a fresh, vibrant fruit intensity delivered with crisp acidity and displaying lovely light red berry characters. Perfect drinking in the short term.

Margaret River

Sangiovese

The colour is quite brilliant, with a bright, luminous pink. The nose delivers what you might expect from sangiovese, with a slightly herby strawberry note and a little pomegranate. The palate is typically fine and bright, with lifted acidity sustaining a long finish. It's clean, fresh and ready to go.

Margaret River

Rose

A distinctive style created by Nic Peterkin with this pinot noir and chardonnay blend. It's distinctiveness comes from the wild fermentation in French barriques and clay amphora and then the maturation in vessel for about 11 months with further lees stirring, creating a wine of texture and immense flavour but also structure. It delivers bright, creamy strawberry and cranberry with...

Margaret River

Tempranillo

This Margaret River sourced tempranillo proves yet again why this variety is one of the best for this rosé style. It was an excellent season, producing fruit of great balance and quality. This one was whole bunch pressed and wild fermented in old oak with some regular lees stirring for a couple of months. This has built in texture to...

Margaret River

Rose

There’s a fair bit of Italian influence here because it’s two-thirds nebbiolo and one-third barbera, co-fermented. It shows how these varieties can work together with a certain style. Fermented in all older oak, with lees stirred to bring richness, complexity, and textural character to this light-bodied wine. It’s quite fragrant, with an energy that extends through to the finish.

Perth Hills

Rose

It’s made with the red varieties grenache, mourvèdre, and sangiovese. And if you see that little spicy lift, that’s coming from some Perth Hills gewürztraminer. It’s a pale pink blush. It’s dry and savoury. It’s textured. And it’s a thoroughly delicious example of a contemporary rosé style. This ticks every box possible. I love it.

Western Australia

Rose

This is consistently one of my favourite West Australian rosés. The first thing you notice is the brilliant pink colour — pale, yet with a luminous quality. It’s a combination of shiraz, pinot, and grenache from around the state, naturally fermented in older oak barriques. On the nose, there are all the strawberry and raspberry nuances, while on the light-bodied...

Western Australia

Rose

The colour is pale pink and light copper. This is a naturally fermented, minimal-intervention rosé, which is a combination of grenache, pinot noir, and a little pinot gris that just brings a slight textural feel to the palate. It was whole bunch pressed and then had extended lees contact with wild fermentation. So, this is a rosé that, in addition...

Frankland River

Grenache

Classically modern in every way, this is a quite beautiful rosé from Frankland River. The colour has a pale pinkish onion-skin hue. On the nose, punchy red berries emerge with some fine orange peel and a citrusy edge adding balance. The palate has a textured richness that makes it so appealing, while retaining that life, energy and fineness which is...

Swan Valley

Rose

As rosés go, this one absolutely nails it. It's an interesting mix of grenache, tempranillo and cournoise. It's pale pink, lightly onion-skinned, and quite brilliant in colour. The nose shows a lovely light red berry and red apple mix, and the palate, while light-bodied, has a lovely texture and mouthfeel, sustained to a long finish by crisp, fine acidity. A...

Margaret River

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....

Margaret River

Shiraz

Snake + Herring Tainted Love Rosé 2023 ($33) This is a bright, fresh, and stylish little rosé that has been made very much in the European mould. So, it's finer, more restrained, and with less overt fruit, but it still has texture and flavour on its fine, persistent palate. It's all Syrah from a single vineyard in Margaret River. After...

South West

Rose

Gosh, this is a very drinkable rose from the South West. The colour is brilliant enticing pink. Fragrant-scented perfumes on the nose with a little cranberry and pomegranate character. The palate is loaded with all manner of red berry fruits and progresses through to a very long finish.

Margaret River

Rose

The colour shows brilliant bright pink hues. A light and dry rose style with a slightly savoury finish very much in tune with the modern expressions of this style. Aromas of watermelon and cranberry with a little confectionary lift. The palate is light, gentle caressing as it carries appealing flavours of strawberry and slightly pink grapefruit flavours to the finish.

Margaret River

Grenache

It seems that roses generally fared pretty well in the hot months of this very hot vintage. Lift of rose petals and spicy cranberry. The palate is slightly textured but with vibrant energised fruit. Nice wine in the next couple of years.

Margaret River

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.

Frankland River

Rose

The fruit for this rose comes from Frankland River and gets the full winemaking. Handpicked and crushed to press and then pressed after a short time and then fermented in ceramic egg to ferment to dryness and bottle. It’s bone dry yet it has a textured palate. Very pale colour. Has a dry savoury lightly red fruit finish. This is...

Margaret River

Sangiovese

Despite the very hot vintage, rose was a style that emerged relatively unscathed. This sangiovese based rose from the northern end of Margaret River is the perfect example. Captures the bright strawberry and crunchy cranberry watermelon aromas of this variety. The palate is bright and light bodied but with a nice texture that is balanced and flavoursome.

Great Southern

Tempranillo

It’s nice to see a rose that’s been held back a couple of years. It just settles things down a little. This is made from tempranillo, a variety that fits well into this style. Nice cherry and chalky characters on the nose are immediately appealing. The palate is textured with good flavour intensity on its light body. Clean lifted finish.

Great Southern

Rose

These two varieties sit so comfortably together in normal table wines so it makes sese they should do so well as a rose. Pale copper and pink hues deliver a bright and radiant opening. Then the nose displays a beautiful scented red fruit character with lavender and floral notes. Textured and flavoursome palate drives long and precise.

Margaret River

Rose

A bright and highly perfumed rose made from tempranillo and sangiovese. Lots of jubey confectionary red fruits on the nose with strawberry and raspberry nuances. The palate extends through the light red fruits to a slightly savoury dry finish. A well-made and highly drinkable rose.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

This has developed over the years into one of the best roses from WA. It’s made from cabernet sauvignon, which in this year especially, seems to have worked really well. It’s pale pink and then an aroma of savoury red berry emerges. The palate has a slightly textural feel which comes from some time on yeast lees. Excellent.

Western Australia

Rose

An appealing rose from shiraz and grenache, with fruit from Frankland River supplementing the Margaret River component. It’s light with a burst of red berry, strawberry and cranberry characters. The palate has plenty to like about it with the slightly savoury finish to the delicious fruit adding a nice lift.

Margaret River

Rose

Super light bodied rose perfect for summer drinking. The colour is typically pale pinkie orange peel. The aromas show a slightly savoury red currant character. Then the palate delivers with a slightly textural feel but still with a racy zingy energy. Good to go right now.

Margaret River

Rose

A neat little blend of cabernet and merlot capturing the light berry characters of strawberry and red currant with a slightly spicy note. It’s a fragrant opening that works through into a light dry palate. Has a slightly savoury and chalky mouth feel which offsets the fruit characters rather well.

Frankland River

Mourvèdre

This marvellous rose makes a compelling statement of what modern rose is all about. Has a pale copper and onion skin colour. Then the aromas are a delightful red berry fragrance with light dried herbs and a tweak regional ferrous character. The light bodied palate has a spicy and faint strawberry nuance with just a little Turkish delight. Smooth and...

Margaret River

Tempranillo

Pretty smart little rose made from tempranillo, a variety that always seems to work well as a rose base. Bright red fruits with raspberry and strawberry nuances emerging with some intensity. It’s light bodied but with texture and mouth feel.

Swan Valley

Rose

A beautifully drinkable Swan Valley rose bursting with a real summer fresh berry mixture of red fruits with a crunchy vibrancy. The colour is pale pink, and the aromas are so beautiful, revealing exotic fragrances. The palate finished with a slightly dry savouriness.

Western Australia

Rose

Brilliant bright pink colour sets things up for this modern expression of rose. The aromas of beautiful strawberry and floral rose petal are appealing. The light bodied palate has nice texture and a keen fine acidity to bring it to life. A nice current drinking rose.

Margaret River

Rose

Attractive light and airy rose style displaying most appealing fruit characters. The aromas are of strawberry and light red berry with a little cranberry and watermelon character. It fresh and zippy and ideal for short term drinking.

Western Australia

Rose

Pale salmon pink colour is engaging. On the nose light florals emerge with traces of strawberry and raspberry. The palate is light yet with good flavour. It’s a crisp young style packing plenty of red berry with a refreshing acidity.

Margaret River

Rose

Bright crimson, pink colour captures the style perfectly. Displays light strawberry and raspberry on the nose. Traces of Turkish Delight bring more interest. It’s light bodied with a persistent palate sustained by a crisp acid.