Windance

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

A really beautiful example of this blend. The quality of the fruit from this vintage is evident from the get-go. Blackcurrant and mulberry with a little richer fruit cake opulence and just a faint hint of minerality. The palate is smooth and medium bodied with a plush mouth feel. This screams for drinking in the next few years while those...

Margaret River

Cabernet Blend

Despite the warmth in this season, this wine has emerged as an excellent example of this blend, and there's nothing namby-pamby about it. This offers richness and texture and flavour with varietally typical blackcurrant and plummy notes with a nice lifted red fruit raspberriness that adds to the complexity. It's smooth with an almost satin-like finish, and the oak is...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

Another exceptional cabernet from this small producer. Opens with those typical blackcurrant and minerally bay leaf aromas. The palate is in that medium to full-bodied zone and is so precise and elegantly structured. Has a tight core of chalky tannins and fine-grained oak controlling the exquisite fruit through to a very long finish. Vibrant and alive.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

The cabernets from Windance are always consistent and here is another beauty. Once again its medium bodied but the smooth elegance and refinement belies the power and intensity within. Powerful blackcurrant and dark plum with a little mulberry and dark chocolate. The palate is so well balanced with fine chalky tannins and subtle gentle oak infusion supporting the sweet fruit....

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

This is the most impressive cabernet that shows wonderful varietal integrity from the start. The aromas are quite floral and perfumed, but with an underlay of black olive and slight leafy bay leaf, and dark chocolate. The palate certainly has a firmness about it, but that's cabernet with chalky tannins and nice oak treatment supporting the intense fruit mix of...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A restrained and yet flavoursome chardonnay. Displaying some engaging aromas of oatmeal and stone fruit on the nose, with a little brioche like character. The palate shows a complex weave of brioche and lemon meringue, with an edgy grapefruit zing on the finish. Strikes a nice balance of fruit and oak, with a palate that is distinctly linear.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

A wine that captures the essence of this very good Margaret River vintage. Fragrant aromas of dark plum and blackcurrant with a little black olive complexity. The palate sings a glorious tune of balance and poise delivering the fruit through to a sustained and very long finish. Love the slightly oyster shell minerality with a saline edge. Terrific wine.

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

I couldn't wait to get my hands on this wine. I knew it would be good, and guess what it is. Okay, the season was excellent, but this has that typical northern Margaret River firmness and deep intensity. So, this is structured and powerful and concentrated, yet there is the elegance and poise that comes with this wonderful vintage. Loads...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

The intensity of this chardonnay is evident immediately on the nose. Merging aromas of white peach dominant stone fruit with an underlay of grapefruit and white flower. The palate is so lively and vibrant with a fine chalky thread supporting the deeply presented fruit characters. Integrated and finely balanced palate with a dry savoury classic finish. Lovely wine.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

An excellent wine that was picked quite early to avoid the later searing heat, but everything came together, and the fruit was in good balance, and it shows. Aromas of brioche, toasty stone fruit, with a fairly typical peachy nectarine character on the palate. Other combinations of pie crust, light cashew and a slightly grapefruit pithiness add to the complexity....

Margaret River

Rose

The colour is a quite brilliant pale pink copper tone. A fresh and fragrant light bodied wine. Capturing all the zing of modern rosé. On the nose, some delightfully fragrant strawberries. Watermelon characters dominate, while the palate delivers clean, crisp flavours lifted by a bright acidity and carried through to the long finish. Has a crisp zippiness about it.

Margaret River

Shiraz

An opulent and lavish shiraz from a year which produced very powerful and intense red wines. Typical of this vineyard, the tannin and oak integration and the supple fruit creates such a velvety smooth and delightful friendly palate. Yet there is depth and intensity here with that typical blackberry and blue fruit mix with a little lightly toasty oak. Another...

Margaret River

Shiraz

Get a good year like this, and Margaret River shiraz can excel. This one has a firmness about it, but wrapped around is plush, generous fruit displaying that compelling mix of blackberry and dark plum with some brighter red fruit notes. There's a toasty oak influence that brings that structure and control to play. It's an elegantly crafted wine delivered...

Margaret River

White Blend

Crunchy, vibrant, juicy, flavoursome. These are just some of the terms you might use to describe this delightfully friendly blend of sauvignon blanc and semillon. On the nose, the passionfruit, gooseberry, citrus thing is so engaging, and then the palate has a real zingy crispness about it, slightly crunchy, with a clean, crisp, refreshing finish. Ideal to drink now or...

Margaret River

Shiraz

Beautiful fragrant perfumes strike immediately indicating a wine of vibrances and life. Aromas of plum and cherry provide a compelling combination. The palate is seductively medium bodied but with concentrated intensity. Lively plummy fruit cake flavours with a fine thread of chalky tannin and perfectly applied oak. It's a terrific value for money shiraz from a very good maker of...

Margaret River

Shiraz

Here is a marvellous example of why Windance shiraz continue to be among the very best in Margaret River – actually from anywhere in WA. The seamless integration of fine supple medium bodied fruit, silky tannins and fine-grained oak creates a satiny mouthfeel that is just exquisite. Perfumed violets and cherry on the nose with deeper blackberry and satsuma plum...

Margaret River

Shiraz

A generous and opulent shiraz from this very warm season that shows what can be achieved with clever vineyard management and then empathetic treatment in the winery. The nose is a lovely combination of spices and blackberries, with a plummy dark chocolate overlay. The palate has a certain firmness about it through the core, yet there's a plush wrap of...

Margaret River

Cabernet Sauvignon

There is so much to like about this cabernet. It started life with fermentation in amphora before maturation in French barriques for about five months. This technique has clearly had an influence because this is a quite exquisitely presented cabernet, seamlessly integrated, finely structured, and supremely refined. Aromas of blackcurrant, very subtle bay leaf, and black olive. And then a...