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Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This has been one of the best and most distinctive wines Woody Nook make and I am a big fan. It's sauvignon blanc fermented in oak with wild yeasts, with monthly lees stirring over seven months. The technique builds on the excellent fruit intensity creating a wine of richness and texture while retaining that natural fruit lift of the savvy....

Porongurup

Sauvignon Blanc

An excellent Porongurups savvy. It’s textured and flavoursome with a melon edge to the tropical fruit. Has 50% old puncheon fermentation and the rest stainless steel, which shows in the textured mouthfeel and palate structure. The approach has muted the primary punchy fruit characters creating a wine of complexity and interest. Love this wine with its aromatics and acid profile.

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...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Captures the best of this variety in a stella year for aromatic whites. Greets with a burst of passionfruit and guava with a lemon citrus nuance. The palate is racy with punchy fruit extending to a long finish. Really neat little wine.

Blackwood Valley

Chardonnay

An impressive sparkling wine from the Blackwood Valley. Attractive aromas of light brioche and lemon rind with a little subtle yeasty character. The palate is fine and persistent extending to a long finish. This is a brut style wine that would be an ideal aperitif with its lively fresh acidity.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

A delightful example of this Margaret River style. Fresh and fruity with a racy acidity sustaining life through the tropical fruit-laden palate. A squeeze of lemon on the finish and there you have it – a wine ready to go.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Captures what has become something of a house style. It’s a wine of power and drive, and layered complexity. In this case, the aromatic mix of nectarine and peach, with some light grapefruit and citrus, immediately engages. The palate displays richness with a savoury element, providing balance and accentuating the tight lines through to the finish. There’s a gentle butterscotch...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This is an exquisite savvy that gets a little oak treatment to add another layer of texture and rich mouth feel. Yet, it retains all that bright fresh gooseberry, nettle-like fruit that skips across the palate to a long crunchy finish.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

A distinctive style that winemaker Bruce Dukes has championed for some years. It shows the influence of some lovely oak that complements and builds the sauvignon blanc into something quite special. This is a wine that is so well balanced and crafted that it drinks beautifully now, but with that quality fruit and that well-weighted oak, it will handle extended...

Western Australia

Chardonnay

Cherubino Folklore chardonnay 2025 ($17) Light, to medium-bodied chardonnay, but one that has good fruit weight and flavour intensity. It captures the edgy citrus and white peach notes of the variety on the nose, and then delivers with a slightly creamy texture, brimming with stone fruit and a sprinkle of spices to lift. Nice, fine acidity sustains the focus. Score:...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Bright, juicy, youthful chardonnay. Displaying true varietal essence on the nose at the outset. Mix of citrus and lightly roasted cashew, and a hint of lemon rind and grapefruit. Palate has a distinct minerally purity about it, with light, bright white peach and nectarine held close with a keen acidity and cut lime edginess. Quite beautiful current drinking chardonnay with...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

An interesting wine that offers a lot more than your simple sauvignon blanc fruit bomb. In fact the overt fruitiness is muted and instead you get more layers and intrigue from the combination of mandarin, spices and meal. It all comes from a small amount of oak which transforms it into something quite special.

Margaret River

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

This turned out to be a very good year for these aromatic varieties and here is the quintessential expression of this famous blend. Lifted lemon and melon with a splash of passionfruit and a slice of pear on the nose. The palate is crunchy and lively with a zingy acidity sustaining the long finish. Right on the money for this...

Margaret River

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

A fine, crisp, crunchy style. It brings these two bedfellows close together. Has the typical lemon, lemon zest, and slightly apple and pear character with a little grassy, guava influence. It all hugs together and then releases through to a nice, clean, crisp finish. Perfect summer drinking.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

This wine is always kept for a minimum of five years before release. This is a thoroughly exquisite, delicate, refined sparkling chardonnay sourced from Pemberton. There’s a lovely light lemony-brioche combination on the nose. The palate is so delicate but with excellent flavour intensity. Fine chalky acidity and a little lemony zip all contribute to a racy, long, precise finish....

Blackwood Valley

Sauvignon Blanc

This Blackwood Valley vineyard produces really exciting, vibrant, punchy, aromatic whites, and this is a classic example. Bursting with lemon zest and floral, tropical notes on the nose, with a touch of cut pear. The palate is zippy, with beautiful, racy, lifted acidity driving through to a long finish. A perfect summer drink.

Margaret River

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

This combination has just a few years of age and so the primary fruit characters are still evident. It is drinking wonderfully well. The upfront fruit characters have been transformed into less overt aromas and flavours, yet the intensity of the palate is excellent. More stone fruit emerging with that faint hint of oak from a little barrel fermentation, completes...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is one of the finest chardonnays yet released from Wills Domain. The excellent 2025 vintage has clearly been fully realised. Aromas of light cashew, stone fruit and lemon curd introduce a palate that is exquisitely integrated, powerful and impressively linear. A fine thread of mineral tension drives the wine through its long, focused finish. Beautifully composed now, but it...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

Now I do like this wine. After two picking runs to retain acidity and add fruit depth, the wine was whole bunch pressed and fermented in amphora and larger format oak with 10 months and partial secondary fermentation. The nose captures the fresh saline citrus characters of this variety with just a faint hint of green apple and sliced pear....

Margaret River

Chardonnay

It was a hot season, but the early picking of this variety and its southern Margaret River location has resulted in a wine that is so well balanced and intense. The fruit was whole bunch pressed and then all barrel fermented, with the fermentation allowed to occur naturally. All French oak, with about twenty percent new, and it spent about...

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....

Swan Valley

White Blend

This is a very tidy white from verdelho and sauvignon blanc showing excellent fruit intensity from what was a challenging very hot vintage. It shows what can be achieved. It has a refreshing tang and vibrant fruitiness lifted with a minerally acidity. Okay, not the raw punching power of previous years but still offering plenty.

Margaret River

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

A quintessential Margaret River blend with its beautiful florals and melons on the nose and a palate that delivers with a lemony fruit character and a dusting of dried herbs. It's crisp, flavoursome and refreshing. And right on the money for this style.

Pemberton

Chardonnay

This has been a wine marked with consistently high quality. It's made in a largely traditional way, in the méthode traditionnelle. And it's kept on lees for about 24 months before disgorgement. In that time, it's started to pick up some nice, oatmeal-like, brioche-like complexity, while still retaining the essentially crisp, lemony fruit. It's got a fine, lingering palate. This...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

In this warm season, this wine has been handled impeccably well. The colour has a slightly golden hue, but the nose is a beautiful mix of quince paste and stone fruit, with a little honeycomb complexity. The palate has tremendous intensity and fruit concentration, supported by slightly chalky, crisp acidity and harnessed with some nice oak integration. It has had...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This Margaret River chardonnay uses Dijon clones and, after wild fermentation and lees stirring, it spent 10 months in oak. This season worked mighty well for chardonnay. The warmth has provided deep, powerful intensity, but the Dijon clone has just refined and tightened it with a delightful chalky, minerally acidity.

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.

Blackwood Valley

Chardonnay

A light and fragrant chardonnay sparkling wine from the Blackwood Valley. Has a creamy lemony mix on the nose with traces of bready brioche emerging. The palate is fine and lingering with a fine persistence. Nice wine.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

A most elegant and, at the same time, powerful chardonnay from a vintage which produced – well – elegance and power. Aromas of savoury lemon nuances with subtle butterscotch and marzipan character. The palate is texturally pleasing, with a deep and concentrated core that drives with urgency through to a very long finish. Lovely mix of stone fruit with savoury...

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This distinctive wine shows what can be done with sauvignon blanc in Margaret River. It’s been one of the best wines from Streicker for some years. The colour has a faint greenish hue. Aromas of grapefruit and lime with a little lemon butter emerge immediately. The palate shows a careful use of 33% new French oak and time in barrel...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This provides a distinct point of difference from the Wildberry Springs and Southern Seas chardonnays. It’s a wine of incredible power and concentration, yet there is finesse and subtlety. In this case, only barriques were used and the wine underwent 100% malolactic fermentation. The aim was to hardly touch the wine as it went through the process, and it captures...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

This is a wine that Cherubino has a bit of fun with using lots of different things to create a distinctive and compelling wine. Love the creamy brioche and funky minerally palate. It's rich and flavoursome with tremendous depth and concentration that finishes with an elegant flourish.

Manjimup

Sauvignon Blanc

A punchy little number, this. Not the opulent fruit of previous vintages but one with good melon, light tropical and dusty grassy characters well to the fore. A light splash of citrus lifts on the finish.

Margaret River

Chardonnay

Just like the Calgardup Brook Vineyard chardonnay, this wine also expresses a distinctive vineyard character, and it has long been one of my favourite chardonnays. It shows greater intensity of fruit, and while some characters are a little more forward, the structure and fine balance remain classically chardonnay. This vintage shows a slightly more minerally, finer, grapefruity citrus character than...

Western Australia

White Blend

There aren’t too many better value-for-money white wines in WA. This is a blend of Margaret River semillon and sauvignon blanc, and it comes together in an integrated and thoroughly seamless mix. Bright tropical fruits on the nose, cut of lemon, a little spice, and a sustained lift on the finish. Just perfect for summer drinking.

Western Australia

Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

Punchy and crisp, fresh as a daisy blend offering plenty of immediate enjoyment. A grassy stone fruit combo is held tight and crisp with a fine, delicate acid. Yet the fleshy fruit wraps it up nicely. Excellent wine in the short term.

Margaret River

Sauvignon Blanc

This has consistently been one of the best releases from Woody Nook. It was barrel fermented with wild yeast in a mix of new and second-use puncheons with regular lees stirring. It takes the sauvignon blanc into a heady new zone, delivering texture, complexity and intense flavour held with control and precision through to a long finish. There's a slightly...

Great Southern

Chardonnay

I expected this to be a mighty good chardonnay from this season, and true to form it has not disappointed. Engaging aromas of lemon zest and grapefruit with a subtle roasted cashew addition. A small amount of malolactic fermentation has introduced a textural element to the palate. On the nose the faintest hint of struck match adds further complexity. It's...

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...

Margaret River

Chardonnay

This is a high-class, polished chardonnay, impeccably presented from what turned out to be an excellent vintage. On the nose, a swirling mix of nectarine and lemon rind, with subtle nougat complexity. There’s even a faint hint of struck match. The palate is quite rich and textured, but retains a fine acid lift and line, with lovely minerality. An appealing...