Sparkling

Swan Valley

Chenin Blanc

Gee, this is a good example of the sparkling chenins being made in Western Australia these days. It's made using the traditional méthode champenoise, with early picking that accentuates the natural acidity, and then time on lees to build a creamy complexity. Has a lovely fruity aromatic. And then a palate that is quite soft and fluffy, but with tremendous...

Manjimup

Sparkling

This is the first sparkling wine I’ve seen from Peos and it stacks up mighty well. It’s a combination of chardonnay and pinot, and this cooler region in the state certainly suits the production of sparkling wine. Lemony, melony, brioche notes on the nose. And then a palate that is elegant and delicate at the same time, but with good...

Pemberton

Chardonnay

This is a beautiful sparkling wine that clearly demonstrates the strength of Pemberton for sparkling wines that rank with the best in the country. The nose has a red apple and pear character with some richer stone fruits. The palate is creamy with a distinctive fresh bready brioche complexity. This is a classy sparkling wine.

Great Southern

Chardonnay

A creamy and flavoursome sparkling wine with a bright linear palate lifted with a keen acid and lemon zip. There's a nice, slightly yeasty brioche and toasty combination on the palate which is fine and long. A well-made impressive sparkling wine.

Great Southern

Sparkling

Gee, this wine's come a long way in the last few years. This is the most complex and complete sparkling wine from Singlefile yet. Wonderful aromas of beeswax, brioche, a little cracked yeast and a light splash of lemon. The palate, which has such a fine bead, is deeply intense, yet wonderfully elegant and refined. Complete through the middle palate,...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

A most impressive sparkling wine using fruit sourced from the Great Southern and Pemberton. It has a light and slightly fluffy bright mouth feel, but with a deep flavour. Nutty brioche and lemon zest on the nose with a palate that is dry and crisp. It is ideal as an aperitif wine.

Great Southern

Sparkling

This is a most impressive sparkling wine from Singlefile. It's been blended over seven vintages from 2015 through to 2021, and the final mix is about 84% chardonnay with the remainder pinot noir. It spent four years on lees, and that influence is clearly evident on the nose, which shows a rich honey and cashew combination, yet still with a...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Pemberton

Chardonnay

Okay, so here is something special. Its 100% chardonnay and after bottling spent 12 years on lees before disgorgement. The result is an outstanding example of Australian sparkling wine that would have the French trembling in their riddling racks. Intense aromas of butterscotch and toasty marmalade with a bright fresh lemon citrus lift. The palate is layered and deeply complex...

Pemberton

Sparkling

There's a lovely, brilliant pink colour to open, and then the nose reveals subtle red fruit, cherry, and raspberry notes that merge seamlessly with more bready autolysis characters. The palate is deeply flavoursome and intense, with both structure and finesse. The extra time in the bottle has allowed this to pick up further layers of complexity and richness while retaining...

Pemberton

Chardonnay

Such a sophisticated blanc de blancs style drawn from chardonnay sourced in Pemberton. As always, the wine is aged for a minimum of five years before release. The complexity and autolysis characters are certainly emerging. Aromas of fresh baked bread, brioche and a little citrus create an engaging opening. The palate is complete and very long. A high-class sparkling wine.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

Fabulous example of what can be done with sparkling wine in WA. This is outstanding and a mighty follow-up to the 2016. It's a combination of pinot noir and chardonnay from Pemberton and spent five years in bottle before release. Intense citrus, bready aromas and gentle vanillin character with a subtle meaty red fruit influence. Palate drives deep and long...

Pemberton

Sparkling

This is a pinot noir chardonnay blend from Pemberton. The aroma has an interesting combination of red fruits with a slightly delicate floral citrus note. The palate is where this begins to do its work. There's depth and complexity here, all held with control and linear finesse. The power is evident immediately as it threads through to a sustained long...

Pemberton

Chardonnay

This is chardonnay from Pemberton off gravelly soils that prove ideal for delivering a more restrained sparkling wine friendly fruit which in this case is a mix of Dijon clones. This vintage is so precise and steely with tremendous power and palate intensity. It gets 4 years on lees and 10% new oak. The cheeky aim is to make it...

Pemberton

Chardonnay

This wine is always kept for a minimum of five years before release. This is a thoroughly exquisite, delicate, refined sparkling chardonnay sourced from Pemberton. There’s a lovely light lemony-brioche combination on the nose. The palate is so delicate but with excellent flavour intensity. Fine chalky acidity and a little lemony zip all contribute to a racy, long, precise finish....

Pemberton

White Blend

A blend of pinot noir and chardonnay sourced from Pemberton is the basis for this exceptional example of a Western Australian sparkling wine. Sittella has been a leader in this style for many years, and this exquisitely crafted wine is a perfect example of why. Lemon meringue, game, some red fruits and a little warm brioche on the nose provide...

Pemberton

Pinot Noir

Here is a wine that can proudly take WA sparkling wine to the world. It’s a pinot noir dominant blend with chardonnay that is aged for a minimum of five years before release. The fruit comes from vineyards in Pemberton, a region that is so well suited to sparkling wine. The aromas have a light flinty stone fruit and cereal...

Pemberton

Chardonnay

This is such a delightful, delicate, and engaging sparkling wine, made from chardonnay. The aromas are quite floral, with a slightly smoky citrus note. The palate, though displaying that degree of delicacy, has sustained power through to a long finish, with a crisp citrus-like tang and some lovely autolysis-like characters. Excellent wine.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

This is one of the best releases of this sparkling wine. It's made from 100% chardonnay from down at Pemberton and prior to disgorging spent 24 months on lees in bottle. Has a light creamy mousse with a lifted fresh baked bread and lemony melon character. A light citrus tang lifts the palate through to a clean long finish.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

This has been a wine marked with consistently high quality. It's made in a largely traditional way, in the méthode traditionnelle. And it's kept on lees for about 24 months before disgorgement. In that time, it's started to pick up some nice, oatmeal-like, brioche-like complexity, while still retaining the essentially crisp, lemony fruit. It's got a fine, lingering palate. This...

Margaret River

Sparkling

This hits the mark for the light and fresh lightly spritz wine for immediate drinking. Nice fruit intensity on the nose with a spicy orange peel and stone fruit character. The palate is light and fresh with a zingy finishing acidity and a nice lift of spritz.

Geographe

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...

Margaret River

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.

Margaret River

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...

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.

Margaret River

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.

Margaret River

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...

Geographe

Riesling

This shows the versatility of riesling which can be made into a very good sparkling wine. This one is such good drinking. Aromas display citrus with a little lemon rind edginess. The palate is clean and crisp with a sustained precise finish. Lovely lick of acid on the finish adds a lift.

Margaret River

Chenin Blanc

A slight departure from previous vintages. This has a small amount of new oak to augment the older oak traditionally used. It’s the best yet, with lovely white nectarine and other subtle stone fruits. It has a beautiful palate with a fine natural acidity. This has a small amount of ’22 vintage which was the start of the solera system...

Margaret River

Chenin Blanc

A sparkling wine that shows what a good variety chenin is for turning into sparkling wine. This has slightly more fruit generosity than previous vintages but still retains that bracing crispness and fruit energy. Careful not to chill it too much otherwise you might lose those beautiful aromatics and palate flavours.

Margaret River

Chenin Blanc

In recent times, this has been a winner for Voyager, but this is a slight style departure. It is certainly made into a drier style, and there is an increasing combination and contribution from the older base wine. It also gets a longer time on lees, and that seems to take off that slightly tart acid character. There are loads...

Blackwood Valley

Chardonnay

An impressive sparkling wine from the Blackwood Valley. Attractive aromas of light brioche and lemon rind with a little subtle yeasty character. The palate is fine and persistent extending to a long finish. This is a brut style wine that would be an ideal aperitif with its lively fresh acidity.

Blackwood Valley

Chardonnay

A light and fragrant chardonnay sparkling wine from the Blackwood Valley. Has a creamy lemony mix on the nose with traces of bready brioche emerging. The palate is fine and lingering with a fine persistence. Nice wine.

Margaret River

Sparkling

This is a chardonnay and pinot noir blend. Pinot comes from Karridale and the chardonnay from Wills Domain estate. It has a nice creamy nutty combination. There is a piercing intensity on the palate with a fine piercing acidity. Very long palate profile with deep intensity. Shows the benefit of the time on tirage. Has a minerally tight palate profile....