White

Swan Valley

Verdelho

A delicious slightly sweet take on verdelho. Loads of tropical fruit with a splash of citrus and a squeeze of passionfruit pulp. The crisp acid ensures it never cloys, keeping the palate clean and fresh. Excellent spicy food drink.

Western Australia

White Blend

A multi-regional and multi-varietal blend that started as White Burgundy back in 1937 and became the most famous wine ever produced in WA. This one from the very good 2023 season is one of the best. It’s crisp and fresh with a dusty snow pea and light herbaceousness working with lightly tropical character. Thoroughly beautiful and great value.

Western Australia

White Blend

What a thoroughly beautiful and delicious, refreshing wine this is. Might be the best yet. Great fruit intensity and concentration, delivered with such poise and refinement. The palate is bright and lively, with impressive clarity and purity. No oak, just pure fruit. If you don’t have a few bottles of this in the fridge over summer, you are nuts.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

A delicious slightly sweet take on verdelho. Loads of tropical fruit with a splash of citrus and a squeeze of passionfruit pulp. The crisp acid ensures it never cloys, keeping the palate clean and fresh. Excellent spicy food drink.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

Beautifully crafted chardonnay demonstrating the virtues of Pemberton as a chardonnay region. The aromas are a mix of vanilla and butterscotch with a little lemon curd complexity. Flavours are intense and concentrated but with an effortless feel about them. Slightly nutty cashew with a spicy lift emerging. Classy wine.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A marvellous chardonnay that does justice to the great ‘23 vintage and then some. The nose opens with a subtle struck match influence to the lemon curd and crème brulee contributions with a savoury quince character. The palate has a level of sophistication and almost Burgundy-like character with its dry chalky and slightly savoury finish. Most impressive. It’s super intense...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A wine of deep intensity, opening with lifted aromatics that tumble into a finely structured and textured palate. Hazelnut and light stonefruit on the nose are immediately attractive, followed by citrus and grapefruit characters, supported by a touch of smoky, savoury nuance. There’s lovely texture here, with a chalky thread that completes the wine beautifully.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A thoroughly beautiful expression of Margaret River chardonnay. It’s powerful and super intense. On the nose, the influence of barrel fermentation is evident, with the impact of solids adding to its complexity. The palate is so perfectly woven and integrated. A slightly butterscotch, quince and flinty character merge. That dry, savoury and slightly limestone-struck-match character really completes a very good...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a most beautiful and engaging chardonnay. It was a hot vintage, but the early picked chardonnay has come out really well. Aromas of jasmine cracked seashell and light lemon essence. The palate is so precisely defined and linear with deep penetration and length. A light crunchy cordite edge on the finish. A finer and more elegantly refined style...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Continues the recent form for this wine, which is fast becoming one of the best in Margaret River. Intense, concentrated and precisely balanced. The nose has a bright minerally purity with a crunchy honeycomb and butterscotch nuance to the bright lemony grapefruit and subtle quince paste characters. A most impressive chardonnay.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a beautifully crafted chardonnay made using whole bunch pressing to a combination of new French oak and concrete eggs. It was all wild fermented with some wild ferment in the malolactic component. It's created a fine linear expression with a flinty minerally thread taking the palate to a long finish. Nougat, popcorn and lemon curd with a slice...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

From a vintage that turned out well for chardonnay. The fruit was handpicked and whole-bunch pressed, with only free-run juice used in the ferment, which was split between new oak and concrete. Smoky, savoury aromatics with a hint of nuttiness lead to a palate of honeycomb, white peach, and citrus tang. The oak is neatly integrated, supporting a harmonious, finely...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

These chardonnays from House of Cards have been elevated in recent years to another level. This is a wonderful example of the style and the vintage. It was whole-bunch pressed and fermented in a mix of 52% new French oak and some concrete. A further 11 months in oak enhanced its layered richness and complexity. Notes of butterscotch and quince...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Punchy, bright savvy displaying all that crunchy vibrancy you want in this variety but with a controlled restraint. Slightly muted tropical fruit with guava and faint passionfruit influences. There is a creamy mouth feel which appeals.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Wow, this really zips across the palate. It has crunchy fresh acidity with vibrant, zingy passionfruit and a citrus tang, finishing with a fine, lingering line. This is a savvy, but not a big blousy one. It’s got flavour, intensity, and a linear structure. To me, this is how sauvignon blanc should be made in Margaret River. A cracking good...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Well, there have been some good ‘uns under this label but I reckon this might well be the best. It combines with subtle finesse the power of the fruit with an elegance and refinement to create an exquisite expression of the region. So much is happening in the palate with a merging of butterscotch, roasted nuts, brioche and lemon curd...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

An outstanding chardonnay which comes from the Allingham vineyard at the cool Karridale subregion. It is so exquisitely integrated and woven together with such subtlety and precision. It gets down to each barrel where decisions are made on malolactic fermentation and the degree of lees stirring. The result is a marvellous wine displaying freshness and vibrancy with typical notes of...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This was a hot and very early vintage, but the vineyard location in the cooler Karridale area has helped control the speed of ripening, and the result is a mighty impressive chardonnay. It’s a concentrated and immensely powerful wine with great depth on the palate after an opening engagement, showing aromas of light cashew and brioche. There is something quite...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is the pinnacle of Howard Park's white wines. It comes off the Allingham block at Karridale and is all Gingin clone. It's a wine of pristine purity, which comes no doubt from the handpicking, whole-bunch pressing and fruit selection before fermentation in wild yeasts in a mix of small and big format French oak. The lees were stirred and...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a cracking good chardonnay. A little winemaking involvement with battonage, wild yeast fermentation, time on lees and a mx of different format oaks has worked well with the intensity of the fruit. The nose is quite beautiful with aromas of nectarine and white peach with an edgier grapefruit nuanced in the background. The palate shows delightful texture but...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This comes from the Allingham vineyard at Karridale, just south of Margaret River. It is a supremely elegant and expressive chardonnay from a cool southern site. There is a distinctive chalky, flinty character that defines modern Margaret River chardonnay, combining power with finesse. Wild yeast fermentation occurred in mostly larger-format Burgundian oak, with lees handling and bâtonnage during maturation. The...

Karridale

Chardonnay

This pristine and pure chardonnay comes off a number of blocks on the Mount Barrow vineyard in Mount Barker. This is a another cracking chardie. Distinctive notes of oyster shell minerality with an apply grapefruit and fine lime character. The palate is finely balanced and defined with a melon lemon character extending to a very long finish. Beautiful textural feel...

Great Southern

Riesling

The spicy lemon pith of this region emerge immediately with a striking aroma of tremendous intensity. Lemon blossom and zest merge with delightful floral notes. The palate strikes with a minerally bath salts flavour before gathering itself to reach an extended finish. Has the structure and fruit intensity to handled extended cellaring.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

These chardonnays are moving into a more elegant and refined expression of this variety and region. It was barrel fermented with wild yeast, creating a wine of minerally complexity. On the nose, there’s the fairly typical combination of lemon, light-cut lime, and citrus, with a muted backdrop of lemon curd and cashew. The palate is almost delicate, yet it releases...

One of the best yet under this label. Plenty happening on the nose with a citrus, red apple and pear combination cut with a little lime. The palate is deeply intense but finely balanced with a keen acid sustaining a very long and precise profile. Oak is subtle with the power of the fruit the striking feature. Beautiful chalky minerality...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A wine that shows the vintage well, with its combination of delicacy and flavour. It is fermented in a mix of 50% French oak (of which 10% is new) and 50% stainless steel. The stainless steel component brings freshness, purity and vibrancy. Ten months on lees, with some lees stirring, adds layered textural complexity. Creamy with light stone fruit flavours,...

Margaret River

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

Oh, there is just so much punchy tropical fruit bursting from this thoroughly beautiful example of this blend. Signature notes of passionfruit and gooseberry on the nose with a slightly dusty herbaceousness in the background. The palate is crisp and fresh with punchy bright fruit flowing through to a long finish. Crisp acid to finish.

Margaret River

White Blend

This blend really speaks to Margaret River. The combination continues to work extremely well, delivering flavoursome, highly aromatic wines with impressive palate vibrancy. There is a pleasing textural feel, with a small amount of oak fermentation adding complexity and weight. A most attractive current drinking style.

Mount Barker

Riesling

One of the great joys in wine is drinking mature rieslings, and this one is excellent, really only just beginning its journey. It still has some primary fruit, but it’s starting to develop those slightly toasty lime characters that become so appealing with mature rieslings. It retains good primary fruit characters on the palate, and the fine, persistent acidity will...

Mount Barker

Riesling

The striking feature, apart from the fact this is a super wine, is that it has hardly moved. It is still showing a dominant primary citrus character of riesling despite being six years old. Just the faintest of developing toastiness sits in the background. Intense and engaging palate with a subtle spicy buttered toasty character emerges gradually. It is a...

Mount Barker

Riesling

How good is it to see rieslings held back so that they can really begin to show what they can become after they emerge from the period of youthful exuberance. This one has just started to move into its secondary zone. Bang. Slightly marmalade preserved lemon and lime combination. Palate is quite beautiful. It's started to develop the richness you...

Blackwood Valley

Sauvignon Blanc

There’s a bit happening here. It’s no ordinary savvy. I like the restraint and poise in this wine. Sourced from Nannup, it has a minerally citrus tang to it. Has good weight and texture with top note aromatics. Fermented 50% in oak and the rest in tank. It largely goes into puncheons with a portion of Hungarian oak adding spice....

Great Southern

Riesling

Strikes with great aromatic intensity displaying string lemon citrus characters. This is a lively and fragrant riesling from the Great Southern displaying fresh citrus and appley, cut pear characters on the palate. It’s clean and fresh with a sustained finish.

Margaret River

White Blend

Captures the vibrancy and fruit intensity that is part of this combination's natural DNA. Tropical fruits with a little gooseberry and lemon pie characters on the nose. The palate is flavoursome with nice weight and texture. Fine acid sits neatly in the background. Lots to like about this little fella.

Western Australia

Chardonnay

A fragrant light bodied wine with just a faint edge of oak adding complexity. Has a nice lemony, melon character on the palate with a clean crisp finish. Ideal current drinking wine.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Designed as a friendly and approachable young chardonnay, bursting with abundant fruit characters from the outset. Classical stone fruit with nectarine and white peach on the nose. Then a palate that’s creamy, rich and flavoursome, with a nice oak and acid balance to the fruit sweetness. There’s a subtle lemon curd and honeycomb character that adds further complexity on the...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Chardonnay emerged from this very warm vintage quite well, having been picked early in the season. In this case, it is a light to medium-bodied example that was wild fermented in oak, with a little bâtonnage to bring creamy complexity. At the same time, it retains bright acidity and liveliness through the palate, with some nice roasted cashew and savoury...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

From the first take on the nose you can almost smell the sea spray from the cliffs overlooking the Indian Ocean nearby. This is a wonderfully pristine and pure expression of Margaret River chardonnay. A combination of the best barrels, it shows lovely fruit notes of fresh brioche, lemon curd, light quince and a savoury flourish on the finish. It...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A fine and delicate chardonnay reflecting this beautiful cooler season in Margaret River. It's an elegant and most pristine expression of the variety. On the nose, you get a nice mix of nougat, lemon meringue and a little bright stone fruit. And then the palate delivers more citrusy grapefruit characters filled with some nice peachy stone fruit. A nice crisp...

Swan Valley

Chenin Blanc

Wow, I’ve tasted some wonderful examples of this style in the past, but this one is right up there with any of them. Shows what you can achieve with Swan Valley chenin, just by ageing in the bottle. It’s pure chenin. No oak. Starting to show subtle toasty fruit characters with a zingy acid a feature in driving it to...