Our Medal Winning Wines

  'Best in Show' at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2019

97 Points - Decanter "With its fresh, sappy, crushed-spring-leaf aromas and limpid, long, vinous yet tender flavour profile, this is great Sauvignon from an outstanding site rather than one of the overt or flamboyant Marlborough Sauvignons that drinkers have become used to (and often bored by). It's charming too, with its whispered sweet-pea floral notes. Pretty and distracting enough to serve on its own on a warm afternoon, but with all the structure and sap to accompany food well, too. Marlborough is moving on. Drink 2019-2022."

**Available for delivery Early November 2019**

   Platinum Medal at Decanter World Wine Awards 2019

98 Points - Decanter "Big vanilla and toasty brioche nose. High toast, new oak on the palate with a great depth of ripe tropical fruit flavour, plus a rich vein of pineapple acidity that carries the youthful fruit. Everything is in place for this to evolve gracefully."

96 Points - James Halliday "Brilliant straw-green; white peach, cashew and melon are brought together under a net of grapefruity acidity that refreshes the mouth and calls for another mouthful of a wine with attitude and class."

**Available for delivery Early November 2019**

Top Rated Pinot Noir at the 2020 Halliday Wine Companion Awards

   Platinum Medal at Decanter World Wine Awards 2019

97 Points - Decanter "Generous, varietal, savoury and persistent with a bright red fruit and sweet spice perfume and palate. Very bright and harmonious. It's a brilliant wine with sterling development potential."

97 Points - James Halliday "A strictly limited amount of Equilibrio is made each year with the aim of capturing the best pinot noir of the vintage. Here MV6, with splashes of D4V12 and 777 all from the Hexham Vineyard are wild-fermented and matured in French oak (20% new) for 1 year. It is a beautiful wine, lusciously polished and vibrant in its flavour and mouthfeel, bringing red fruits wearing a wreath of foresty spices and superfine tannins."

**Available for delivery Early November 2019**

95 Points &  Gold Medal at International Cool Climate Wine Show

  Gold Medal at Decanter World Wine Awards 2019

95 Points - Decanter "Captivating crunchy red fruit, spice and rose petal nose. The palate is altogether serious, with an impressive mouthfeel built around the bedrock of finely chiselled tannins and hints of forest. Delicious finish."

Winemaker "We are tending three clones of Pinot Noir. The traditional MV6 clone giving minerality and a tight fruit profile, while the D4V2 adds good structure and elegance. The 777 then brings a dollop of well rounded, juicy raspberry and cherry flavours with a bright dose of fine acid. One of the latest vintages in recent memory has created a long, lean wine which is full of savoury fruit complexity."

Varietals: Pinot Noir / Clones: MV6, 777, D4V2 / Harvest: 2 March, 2017 / Baume at Harvest: 12.7 / pH at Harvest: 3.45 / TA at Harvest: 6.0

**Available for delivery Early November 2019**

 96 Points - Best White Wine, Top Gold Medal at 2019 Int'l Cool Climate Wine Show

Gold Medal at 2018 James Halliday Chardonnay

Gold Medal at 2018 Victorian Wine Show

Gold Medal at 2018 Yarra Valley Wine Show

Gold Medal at 2018 Perth Royal Wine Awards

Best White Wine Trophy & Platinum Medal at 2018 Japan Wine Challenge

Gold Medal at Winewise Small Vigneron Awards

 Gold Medal at 2018 Decanter World Wine Awards

96 Points - Decanter "Lovely, intense and mineral laden nose with flash of vanilla, sesame, ripe pear and toast. Beautiful wine with lovely crisp acidity, a tangy creamy palate and flavours of stone fruits and nuts. This has real finesse, length, minerality and depth."

96 Points - James Halliday "Fonts of a tiny size running every which way on the large, busy front and back labels allowed me to ascertain the clone is Mendoza. This whinge to one side, the wine does full justice to the excellent vintage, with white peach and grapefruit a familiar but ever enjoyable repartee between them."

 International Wine Challenge: Gold 2017

Hawkes Bay A&P Wine Awards 2016: Gold

#35 in James Sucklings Top 100 NZ Wines 2017

97 Points - Bob Campbell

Dense and powerful Syrah with impressively rich flavours of chocolate, plum/dark berry, liquorice, cracked black pepper and spicy oak. I rate it slightly ahead of the more structured and highly celebrated wine from the 2013 vintage and I believe it will cellar at least as well despite being more accessible now.

  Decanter World Wine Awards: Silver 2017

97+ Points - Antonio Galloni

The 2006 Comtes de Champagne is striking, especially in the way it brings together elements of ripeness and freshness in a hypothetical blend of the 2002 and 2004. Smooth and creamy on the palate, the 2006 is all about texture. There is a real feeling of density and weight in the 2006, qualities I expect to see grow with time in the bottle. All the elements fall into place effortlessly. The 2006 has been nothing short of magnificent both times I have tasted it. Comtes de Champagne remains the single best value (in relative terms) in tête de cuvée Champagne. I suggest buying a case and following it over the next 20-30 years, which is exactly what I intend to do. There is little doubt the 2006 Comtes de Champagne is a magical Champagne in the making.

  International Wine Challenge: Gold 2008

92+ Points - Stuart McCloskey

The multi award winning Shiraz (Gold at the IWC & 94 points Robert Parker) is a benchmark for Shiraz and for the Barossa region. The ’05 occurred slightly later than usual, resulting in excellent quality fruit with higher Baume, good natural acid and superb flavour. Ten years has taken the wine to a wonderful meaty edge not to dissimilar to a great Syrah from the Northern Rhone. Incredibly wine and value to boot.