Flowstone

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

In line with this cooler late season, this cabernet is a stylish and elegantly structured wine that strongly reflects the vintage. More medium bodied with lifted floral and dried herb notes on the nose. Lovely mix of red fruits with bay leaf and light black olive notes merging with just a faint ironstone edge. Balanced and poised.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Pym sources this from a single Karridale vineyard. This was a very good vintage in Margaret River with the small volumes have tremendous power and fruit concentration. You can see that immediately here. There's a creamy nectarine combo working on the nose with deeper mealy complexity. It's been put through malolactic fermentation which seems to complete the entire package perfectly....

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a classy chardonnay from what was a cooler season in Margaret River that produced white wines of finesse and purity. Fermented in a mix of 25% new and 75% once-used French oak before malolactic fermentation which took place over 12 months. Engaging aromas of hazelnut and stone fruits with a little lemon curd and fresh brioche. The palate...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A wine of tremendous complexity, evident immediately on the nose. Aromas of nectarine, cut lime, and lemon rind mingle with subtle smoky gunflint characters. The palate shows the influence of fermentation in a mix of new and old French oak, creating complexity and depth with impeccable balance. That ever-so-slightly struck match character complements the fruit intensity, finishing with a slightly...

Margaret River

White Varietal

This can be a polarising wine but in this case it is a beauty. Made using demi-muid and ceramic eggs for fermentation and then left for 10 months in these vessels to build texture. One of the most distinctive aromas of any white variety. Dominant lychee, lime and pear with a liberal sprinkle of spices. The palate is textured but...

Margaret River

White Varietal

One of the most distinctive of all white grape varieties. It can go a little over the top, but Pym typically handles it extremely well, capturing the lychee, musky and gingery notes of the variety. More importantly, he creates a textural feel that restrains the phenolics and delivers good, rich fruit flavours. He uses ceramic eggs for the fermentation and...

Margaret River

Red Blend

A neat little blend of shiraz grenache and the white and highly aromatic viognier. The intent has been to use winemaking techniques to gently extract colour, flavour and tannins to create a soft and smooth palate. Lovely mix of plum and licorice with a slight sweet confectionery character. It’s medium bodied and so supple and seamlessly smooth. That little bit...

Margaret River

Red Blend

Such an approachable and engaging, easy-drinking, medium-bodied red wine made with the Rhône varieties shiraz, grenache and viognier. Displays some nice red fruits with quite typical blue-fruit influences and that slightly spicy, gingery lift of the viognier. It's medium-bodied, with a juicy, crunchy red-fruit feel on the palate, with some nice dried herbs in support. Scrumptious wine for the short...

Margaret River

White Blend

This is an expression of field blending with pinot gris, viognier, gewurztraminer, riesling and sauvignon blanc coming together to produce a wine of depth and complexity with the high-end aromatics that you might expect with these varieties. So many subtle fruit characters emerge, but they are all overlaid with a distinct spiciness and a sustained acidity to an extended finish....

Margaret River

White Blend

This is a white blend of pinot gris, viognier, gewürztraminer and sauvignon blanc, so you're getting an awful lot of aromatics crammed into a fairly tight space. Do they compete? Well, not really. They actually work together rather well, producing a wine that is, as you would expect, wildly aromatic, with all manner of citrus, roses, ginger, pear and musk...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A stunning wine that captures the class of the great 2018 vintage in Margaret River. It's a powerful statement of Margs cabernet, yet as with all Pym's wines, it is regally elegant and stylish. Dark chocolate, oyster shell and mocha with a deep dive into blackcurrant. There is an effortless almost languid feel that belies its core strength and definition.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A little more new oak and barrel selection has produced an exceptional wine from this cooler season in Margaret River. Aromas of red currant, dried herbs and subtle bay leaf with a seashell-like minerality. The palate is medium to full-bodied with a firm structural core of chalky tannins and fine-grained oak, Supremely balanced and poise. Will certainly come into its...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The Covid vintage of 2020 was a very good one for cabernet. It was a brief harvest, and before you knew it, the fruit was picked. Deep notes of black fruits, dark chocolate, and a slightly leafy, olive-like character open on the nose. The palate is concentrated and rich, with dark fruits balanced by a fine, minerally oyster-shell edge and...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Some very good cabernets emerged from the 2022 season in Margaret River, and this is certainly one of them. It's a most stylish and refined wine of great poise and elegance. The nose reveals a mix of blackcurrant, oyster shell, graphite and a subtle olive tapenade combination. The palate is still quite tightly wound, with fine, integrated chalky tannins and...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

One of the best chardonnays yet from Flowstone. This is more subtle and understated but no less intense and finely structured. Gets lightly more new oak than the standard with malolactic fermentation and an extra six months in oak. Beautiful aromas of citrus and melon zest with a little edgier lime. On the palate richer notes of brioche and mealy...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Made in a similar way to the standard savvy, but gets an extra six months in the mix of demi-muid and ceramic egg vessels. Lifted gooseberry with a pebbly vanilla bean and stone fruit combo in the nose. The palate reveals more minerally and savoury notes which complement the rich texture. Sustained acidity and a fine flinty edge completes a...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Since its first release some years ago, I’ve been a fan of this wine. I love the way it’s structured, the balance between the intensity of the Karridale fruit and the oak, which builds both texture and complexity to create a wine of real class and expression. This vintage delivers a mix of citrus, dried herbs, and slightly nutty tropical...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Few winemakers capture such complexity and intrigue with sauvignon blanc as Stuart Pym, and he's done it again with this excellent wine. As always, he uses oak in the process, and it creates such a compelling and engaging combination on the nose. Lemony, nutty characters merge with the punchy tropical fruit of the variety, along with that little gooseberry lick....

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

The thing about Pym's wines is texture. And this super expressive savvy displays that character perfectly. It's a bright and punchy little number but not the modern fruit bomb. It's layered and loaded with a mix of tropical fruit delivered with a creamy rich palate feel. The finish shows a crunchy chalky minerality. This is the type of savvy I...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Plenty of interesting winemaking techniques have been used to coax the best from this variety. After gentle whole bunch pressing the fermentation takes place in demi-muid oak barrels and ceramic eggs, where it is left for 12 months with occasional lees stirring to build texture. Intense aromas of lime and passionfruit on the nose with just a trace of vanilla...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Always interesting. And always distinctive. A little bit of winemaking goes in here to create a wine of rare complexity for this variety. All wild yeast fermentation in large format old oak and ceramic eggs successfully builds complexity but retains the vibrancy of the fruit. A complex mix of creamy fruit and dried herbs and lighted floral notes. The palate...

Margaret River

Red Varietal

Comes off vines from two separate plantings. Spent 24 months in a mix of 25% new oak and older oak. It was also held in bottle an extra time to allow all the components to relax and settle. Exotic floral notes of roses and cherry fruits. The palate is soft and supple with plum and black cherry complemented with a...

Margaret River

Red Varietal

Touriga, of course, is a fundamental part of Portuguese ports and table wines, and it certainly found a home in Australia, where it produces typically aromatic, punchy, vibrant, lively and fruity wines of medium weight. In this case, dark cherry and chocolate liqueur notes are evident on the nose. The palate delivers with sweet cherry and plummy flavours, a little...