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Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is an outstanding chardonnay and quite frankly one of the very best I've ever seen from Cape Mentelle. It comes off Block 10 on the Chapman Brook Vineyard, which is now more than 30 years old. After hand-picking, it was pressed with wild fermentation in oak and then aged for a further 10 months. The result is a wine...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This is a wine that’s been dialled back a little from earlier versions but still remains true to the style of using oak with sauvignon blanc. Oak fermentation and the use of a concrete egg all help in the composition to create a harmoniously balanced wine of layered complexity and richness. The technique highlights the minerality while retaining the mix...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This is a wine that’s been dialed back a little from earlier versions but still remains true to the style of using oak with sauvignon blanc. Oak fermentation and the use of a concrete egg all help in the composition to create a harmoniously balanced wine of layered complexity and richness. The technique highlights the minerality while retaining the mix...

Margaret River

White Blend

For many years, this has been one of the most distinctive Cape Mentelle wines. It’s a blend of 91% sauvignon blanc with the remainder semillon, made in a white Bordeaux style using barrel fermentation and maturation in oak, with a portion matured in concrete egg and clay amphora. The aroma is deeply complex from the start, with a nutty, lemony,...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A balanced and intense chardonnay sourced from Margaret River. Quality fruit from this year has been barrel fermented, adding aromatic intrigue, palate complexity and mouth feel. There’s a smoky lemony note on the nose with deeper stone fruit characters. A lift of citrus and a slightly savoury finish tightens things to extend through to a very long palate. The extra...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A balanced and intense chardonnay sourced from Margaret River. Quality fruit from this year has been barrel fermented, adding aromatic intrigue, palate complexity and mouth feel. There’s a smoky lemony note on the nose with deeper stone fruit characters. A lift of citrus and a slightly savoury finish tightens things to extend through to a very long palate. The extra...

Margaret River

Rose

A delightfully fragrant rose revealing notes of Turkish Delight, raspberry and strawberry on an immediately appealing nose. The light-bodied palate is lightly touched with red fruit flavours with a dry savoury finish to complete. Love this style of rose, which is perfect for summer.

Western Australia

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

A punchy little blend capturing the essence of this fresh early drinking style. Vibrant tropical fruit splashed with a citrus tang and dusted with dried herbs and cut hay. It all comes together in a wine for drinking no.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A refined and beautifully elegant chardonnay sourced from Margaret River. It's wild yeast fermented with regular lees stirring building texture into the medium-weight palate. Spicy lemony characters emerge from the nose and surge into the palate. A little orange zest adds further to a tidy young wine best in the shorter term.

Mount Barker

Riesling

This excellent riesling comes from the Whispering Hill Vineyard near Mount Barker. Floral aromas merge with lemon rind and subtle green apple. The palate is slightly textured but retains a fine linear feel with excellent fruit intensity showing just a little regional spice.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Finely balanced and pure savvy from Margaret River. Has a crunchy vibrancy with a minerally lift. Plenty of medium weight but highly intense tropical fruits balanced by a lemony, cut grass offset. Has a juicy and crunchy finish with that lip-smacking acidity.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This is a Margaret River savvy, and it’s a good one. Pure vibrant savvy fruit with gooseberry and tropical fruits in abundance. Has a crunchy juicy mouth feel with an edge of tart grapefruit and a little lemon zip. Ready to drink as a youngster.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Hits the spot for this variety from Margaret River. Plenty of palate weight and intense aromatics from a season ideally suited to sauvignon blanc. Aromas of squeezed lemon and lemon pith with a trace of grapefruit lead to a palate of good intensity, showing an appealing citrus combination.

Mount Barker

Riesling

In any one year you can guarantee this outstanding vineyard will produce a great riesling. So, here’s yet another. It’s a tight tense style but there is still flavour intensity deep within. A mix of florals and steely wet pebble with a distinctive regional spicy minerality. The palate is arrow straight, long and tense with a bracing acidity sustaining the...

Great Southern

Riesling

This is another take on chenin, confirming its versatility for different expressions and styles. In this case it's been pressed to oak puncheons where it spent eight months. The ‘22 vintage delivered powerful and richly flavoured fruit, so the oak has been easily taken up. Lots of stone fruit with a faint lemon rind lift. It's a wine that is...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

The fruit for this excellent chardonnay comes from various vineyards in the Great Southern in what was a superb year. It’s a fine and delicately structured wine with terrific flavour intensity throughout. Notes of typical floral white peach, minerals and a trace of popcorn character all captured in the opening. The palate is finely balanced with texture and intensity. A...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

The fruit has been sourced from various vineyards in the Great Southern, which covers quite a wide area. On the nose, stone-fruited aromatics merge with some subtle citrus, mineral notes. The palate is quite flavoursome and rich, with a creamy stone fruit, nutty character emerging. Oak fruit balances are neatly tuned, and that subtle minerality clicks in at the end...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

Sourced from Denmark, this has quickly established itself as a signature wine of the region. It’s a mix of clones, Gingin alongside the Burgundian ’95 and ’96, and the result is an exquisitely poised chardonnay from an exceptional vintage. The nose shows intense minerally citrus with butterscotch, light toast and a hint of honeycomb. The palate builds on that with...

Great Southern

Riesling

A more restrained riesling than previous years but it has managed to capture the citrussy florals of this variety sourced from Mount Barker, the Porongurup and Denmark. It’s a precise and linear wine with a slightly spicy regional character. Nice wine in the shorter term.

Great Southern

Riesling

A bracing, tense, and crunchy riesling sourced from three sub-regions within the Great Southern. Distinctive citrus and minerality on the nose with a slightly slatey, spicy character. The palate carries plenty of intensity with a citrusy, lemony, meringue-like flavour combo. And that slightly wet slatey minerality adding definition. Intense, long, and a wine with some cellaring potential.

Great Southern

Chardonnay

This range has been one of my favourites since being introduced a few years ago. It aims to push comes boundaries especially in the winemaking cellar. So much happening here. On the nose honeycomb, struck match and gun flint with a fine edge of lemon and grapefruit. Then the palate releases with a powerful statement of textured layered fruit displaying...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

Seems to mark a style shift for what has been a very good wine from the start. This is a more precise and delicately structured chardonnay but still with an intensity and drive. It’s a combination of Gingin and Burgundian clones. Dominant white peach and slightly mealy character on the nose. Subtle toasty influences on a fine and lingering minerally...

Great Southern

Riesling

The fruit comes from Mount Barker and shows that characteristic spiciness on the nice. Then there's more of the varietal citrus and slaty minerality. A fragrant wine revealing a delightful palate purity with intense fruit delivered to a sustained finish. There's a pristine character about it.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

This is a really well-crafted chardonnay from Pemberton displaying that delicate restraint that is part of the regional DNA. Light florals open and then reveal more lemon curd and citrus with a trace of honeysuckle. The palate has a thoroughly beautiful texture with flavours of light stone fruit and spicy minerally citrus tang. An excellent value for this quality.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

There were some very good chardonnays from Pemberton from the '25 vintage, and this is yet another of them. Captures the regional DNA on the nose with a peach blossom, floral, and slightly chalk dust character. The palate is still quite tightly wound, but there is good fleshy intensity, albeit held close to create a finely linear, minerally wine. It's...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

A wine that is driven by vibrant fresh fruit. It's a tangy chardonnay with the lively citrus characters working beautifully with the richer riper stone fruit. Nectarine and light melon combine well with understated oak to finish. A wine for the shorter term.

Porongurup

Riesling

In this wine, Diletti has honoured the efforts of his parents, Angelo and Wendy, who started Castle Rock way back in the day. It’s a wine that builds on the natural purity of Porongurup riesling, but with the addition of whole-bunch pressings adding some further structure and phenolic tension. It is a marvellous example of what can be achieved without...

Porongurup

Chardonnay

Diletti has built quite a bit if winemaking into this very good chardonnay from what was a cooler season. After barrel fermentation, extended lees contact with solids has built a rich textural element into the palate. Aromas of grapefruit and mealy cashew characters on the nose. The palate is rich, but the tight linear savoury element defines the focus and...

Porongurup

Riesling

Okay, Diletti flexes his considerable winemaking skills with this Porongurup riesling. It was barrel fermented and then received extended lees contact, all designed to build texture into a naturally fine and linear variety. You can only do this if you have the fruit and that was certainly the case in 2023. The spicy characters of the region have given way...

Porongurup

Pinot Noir

Here’s the deal. If you think pinot is not your thing, you’ve really got to get into these wonderful wines from Castle Rock. This sort of entry-level expression is just superb. Fairly typical floral notes of strawberry and slightly savoury, spicy notes on the nose. The medium- to light-bodied palate conceals deep intensity and structural power as a core of...

Porongurup

Riesling

Another cracking riesling from this wonderful Porongurup vineyard, under the expert gaze of winemaker Rob Diletti. This one captures the season perfectly. You get all the fresh vibrant intensity that is riesling, but it gets delivered with an almost understated textural feel. The nose has a slight lemon scent with deeper notes of lemon pith, and an obvious talcy and...

Great Southern

Riesling

Oh my. One sniff confirmed by the taste shows why this is regarded as one of the great vintages for riesling and why Rob Diletti is regarded as one of our great winemakers. Steely, spicy and lemony with a tense slaty edge. The palate is deeply intense, bursting with beautiful aromatic varietal riesling. That crunchy wet pebbly mouth feel is...

Porongurup

Riesling

Consistently one of the best WA rieslings over many years, and even in a hideously hot season like 2024 the cooler climes of the Porongurup work their magic to produce a quality wine. More in the spicy minerally zone than pure citrus, as evident on the nose and the precise palate. Retains a fresh vibrancy with a lingering pleasing finish.

Porongurup

Riesling

This is such a beautifully complete and expressive riesling from the Porongurup. Diletti is a master of his craft, and in this finely balanced, deeply intense riesling, those skills are well to the fore. The palate has a spicy, minerally, citrus combination which leads into a wine that is fine and linear, with a high degree of tension but wonderful...

Porongurup

Riesling

This is a lovely, fine and delicate riesling, showing good flavour intensity, with a tense minerality balance, with some lovely fruit characters. It’s a blend of Castle Rock vineyards and provides a delightful, immediate drinking style of wine. It's fine, it's lingering, and there's so much happening here, as it extends with precision and drive through to a sustained finish....

Porongurup

Riesling

This is a sort of entry-level riesling, if you like. An immediately approachable wine with soft acidity but wonderful fruit characters exhibiting on the floral, minerally nose, and then the finely balanced, pure, crisp palate. Has an absolutely beautiful mouthfeel with a slightly talcy bath-salts character emerging. If you’re wanting to get into your rieslings, this one is right on...

Great Southern

Riesling

A blend of riesling and gewurztraminer from Frankland River. Needless to say, that with these varieties it is a highly aromatic wine…well the name says it too, doesn't it. An interesting merging of citrus, lemon rind and orange blossom on the nose. Then the palate reveals a slightly mandarin and lemon peel character. Wine of tremendous flavour.

Great Southern

White Blend

The thing with traminer, is that if you overplay your hand it dominates to the detriment of other varieties. In this case the balance of the two varieties is spot on with just a little of the varietal lychee and spicy characters of the traminer lurking in the background. As it opens up some nice tropical notes emerge with a...

Great Southern

Riesling

This is a slightly different take on this variety which stems from the winemaking. The fruit was sourced from Albany and was then fermented on full solids in a stainless-steel egg. It’s contributed to a beautifully vibrant and lively style with a racy acidity delving deep through the lemony palate. Fine chalky acid completes a different expression of the variety.

Swan Valley

White Varietal

The fruit comes from the Swan Valley, which in 2023 had an outstanding vintage, just perfect for these aromatic varieties. It’s a vermentino with a surprising textural feel displaying a lemon pith and subtle sea spray character. I like the slightly different take on this variety, and it offers just that little bit more interest and complexity on the palate.