Zinfandel

Margaret River

Zinfandel

Cape Mentelle has been making zinfandel almost from the outset, and it remains a style and variety eagerly sought by aficionados. It has been refined over the years, and this example, even in a warm year, shows lovely balance, restraint, and perfumed fruit intensity on the nose before delivering a remarkably soft, complex, and smooth palate structure. Lovely sweet fruit...

Margaret River

Zinfandel

One of the most idiosyncratic and individual wines from Cape Mentelle, and indeed Western Australia. Zinfandel is rare here, but this season suited it perfectly, allowing ripeness and generosity without excess. Hand-picked, basket-pressed, and aged in oak for about 15 months, the result is a wine with liqueur, cherry, red fruit, and dark chocolate on the nose, and a vibrant,...

Swan Valley

Zinfandel

In Australia, this variety is known as zinfandel. But the decision was made to go back to its Italian roots some years ago. This is a generous and full-flavoured zin, but not to the extremes that it can be when it's allowed to get too ripe. On the nose, there's that vibrant lift of raspberry and sarsaparilla, with even a...

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Zinfandel

This is a lighter style of zin, in fact the colour is sort of a pale crimson pink, but it has lovely aromatics with a slightly cherry ripe, chewy raspberry character. Palate has lovely, sweet fruit, and it’s neatly balanced. It’s a wine that would go well over summer and serve slightly chilled. It’s quite delicious.

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Zinfandel

When you manage to keep the alcohol down with zinfandel it can really produce something special. This still has punch but also displays a brightness and vibrancy that comes at lower alcohols. Loads of red fruit with a raspberry and milk chocolate aroma. The palate is smooth and delicious with those red raspberry fruit flavours. A most enjoyable zin.

Margaret River

Zinfandel

A generous fully ripe zinfandel capturing all those typical characters that make it popular wine with its legion of fanatics. The initial fermentation is in stainless steel before maturation in older oak. The aim is to preserve those primary jubey characters of raspberry confection, dark cherry and liqueur chocolate. Zin can be an altogether too much variety, but this one...

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Zinfandel

This slightly cooler season has resulted in a more restrained and stylish zin. The nose opens with distinctive aromas of liqueur cherry and raspberry dominating over the slightly confectionary jubey characters. The palate is remarkably soft and supple with a vanillin oak influence emerging and some slightly grainy tannins sitting within. Smooth.

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Zinfandel

The liqueur chocolate and dark cherry and raspberry characters are evident initially on the nose. But there is a vibrant perfumed lift. The adoption of carbonic maceration techniques has produced that perfumed high tone red fruit aromatic on the nose, while bringing an energy and spritely touch to the palate. It's designed as an immediate drinking zin, and it works...

Perth Hills

Zinfandel

This is a variety that is generally made big, bold and alcoholic. Yet this marvellous wine is anything but. It is more medium weight with an elegance you just don't normally see. Once again a combination of oak and ceramic eggs have been used. It works so well, preserving and displaying the wild fruit aromatics on the nose and creating...

Margaret River

Zinfandel

If you're chasing one of those big brutish zins, then this is not for you. But if you want a zin displaying the typical varietal characters of liqueur cherry, raspberry and rich chocolate, but delivered with a more medium bodied expression then this one might be for you. It has the zinfandel alcohol, but the fruit sweetness and intensity holds...

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Zinfandel

Zinfandel tends to polarize people, but if you sit on the fence then this wine might get you across the line. Beautifully scented aromas of black liqueur cherry with a chocolate mocha thing happening. The palate is brimming with ripe berry flavours cut with a fine minerality. Well-balanced and poised.