Beechworth
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Schmolzer and Brown Beechworth Pinot Noir 2022Part of our new high-altitude Beechworth range. A brand-new Pinot Noir for us. An earlier drinking blend comprised of sites across Beechworth, predominantly from our new high-altitude Palmer vineyard in the heart of Stanley. Selections from Brunnen and Indigo vineyards provide a lovely combination of spice and plush red fruit.
A cool growing season, with ample time for flavour development. Whole berry ferment with gentle maceration, this wine is concentrated and complex yet shows the bright acidity and delicacy of high-altitude Pinot Noir. Savoury spice and tart red fruit softened by a subtle 15% new oak component.
2022Pinot noirAustralia353$42.00 As low as $37.80 -
A.Rodda Tete De Cuvee Beechworth Cabernets 201875/24/2% cabernet sauvignon /merlot/petit verdot. Hand-picked fruit, destemmed and crushed, held on skins for 18 days, pressed to French oak barriques (50% new) for 12 months then racked to old 600L oak casks for a further 8 months. Tête de Cuvée refers to a wine of the highest quality. Celebrating a top vintage with a new reserve wine, it is unusual (and quietly exciting) to see a quality cabernet blend out of Beechworth. Offers a tight-knit wine, a mere youngster still, firm in dry, grainy tannins, smart oak and serious, dark fruit flavours. It’s varietally on point, well balanced and assured of a big future. JENI PORT, James Halliday2018Cabernet BlendsAustralia353$87.00 As low as $78.30 -
Honky Chateau Ikigai Chardonnay 2021This by somm Chris Ryan of Cummulus Inc so you know he know what good booze is supposed to look like. All from a single vineyard in Healesville handpicked, crushed and pressed to all old 300l barrels. All wild ferment and just a couple of barrels that kicked on through to natural malo and kept for a bit of extra depth. Keen and minimal winemaking - we love it!
Lush, soft and juicy, tropical leaning chardonnay with a really good dose of sweet spice. Slurpy, yummo kinda vibe. Not changing the world but this thing is delicious. Delivers a really good hit of chardy. MIKE BENNIE, The Wine Front
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A Rodda Willow Lake Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2021After working with this Upper Yarra site for over a decade, Adrian Rodda has made the best rendition to date. Helped by the outstanding 2021 vintage conditions, this supreme chardonnay offers a cool fruited spectrum of white nectarine and grapefruit pith with earthy tones of white button mushrooms flecked with spicy and richer notes of crème pattisiere and freshly baked brioche. Its gliding nature gains momentum and flesh across the palate, humming with latent power and an incredible fruit intensity. Spicy undertones interplay with a lively and driving acidity, culminating in a savoury seaspray finish. Yarry Valley at its best for sure. (96) JAMES HALLIDAY CHARDONNAY CHALLENGE
Yeah, so, I am in furious agreement with the gong it got here. So was everyone else. This wine deserves it's plaudits and I assume there are many more to come.
Tension, drive, length that is genuinely pretty remarkable, super switched on winemaking and the best fruit source combined with a great vintage, you have a winning combo. Brilliant wine. Absolutely brilliant. It packs in all the class we expect from Adrian, the latent power and fruit density of Willow Lake, with it there is such wonderful texture and tactile impact, it leaves your mouth feeling almost assaulted, such is the intensity but also there is that buffering extract element that provides a bit of cushioning. This positively oozes quality and style. Brilliant. Better with some age. ROSCOE, PWS2021chardonnayAustralia353$60.00 As low as $54.00 -
A Rodda Baxendale Vineyard Whitlands Chardonnay 2021In keeping with its 600m elevation, fruit from the Baxendale vineyard always shows impressive acidity and energy. In a great vintage such as 2021, it brings a tight linear presence, balanced and beautifully integrated, providing an ideal launching pad for bright citrus, stone fruits and aromatic florals. A busy, racy youngster with a big future ahead. (95) JAMES HALLIDAY'S WINE COMPANION
A pretty nose with a touch of reservation - wax, red apple skins, grapefruit and white florals. There's a beguiling fragility here that lures you in. The palate is tense and tight, walking an energtic line that gathers flesh and flavour with air. Its racy nature thrills, signing off with a saline edge to the acidity on the finish. It's poignant and pure, taking you on a scintillating high altitude ride - strap yourself in. GABRIELLE POY
STAFF PICKS 2022 - BRIAN BLANDIN
Immediately enticing with the nose. Hints of struck match, a flinty smokiness, coupled with a subtle touch of apple and pear skin. This follows into excellent freshness and a slightly, chalky minerality on the palate, continuing with the apple and pear flavours, all enhanced by the textural finesse, a benefit of the extended aging on lees in barrel. An absolute winner for me this year, and my stand-out favourite of the Rodda Chardonnays this vintage. Will certainly be my go to for all the festivities this season! BRIAN2021chardonnayAustralia353$50.00 As low as $45.00 -
Schmolzer and Brown Pret a Rose 2022Shiraz and pinot noir from Beechworth is the deal. Ready to roll rose.
It’s delicious! A gentle feast, but one with lots to put on the plate. Cherry, cranberry, rose hip tea, a strawberry sweetness in a dry, ostensibly savoury style. Length and beautiful, succulent texture, great sense of freshness and lift. Crafted, styled, preened and pretty, this is a moreish and wonderful thing to drink. MIKE BENNIE, The Wine Front
2022Australia353$32.00 As low as $28.80 -
Schmolzer and Brown Pret a Rouge 2021This is a meaty, spicy, grown-up release. It’s a blend of shiraz and pinot noir from various parts of the Beechworth region, both up the hill and down. It offers sweet, toasty spice notes, a rub of smoked meat, black cherry flavours and peppercorn. It flirts with reduction without really needing to go there. The word savouriness doesn’t just hover; it lands. Think herbs, think a clear line of acidity, think fine fingers of tannin. In a nutshell it’s seamless, complex and elegant. CAMPBELL MATTINSON, The Wine Front
2021Pinot noir, sangiovese, shirazAustralia353$32.00 As low as $28.80 -
Fighting Gully Late Harvest Gros Manseng 2021More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!
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Fighting Gully Road Verdicchio 2022The white grape of Italy's Marche region is now in Australia and looking already well at home. Bright lemon-green tinged hues. Saline, sea breeze scent with lemon, quince, straw and a light dusting of lantana florals. Races at a clip across the tongue, zesty, fresh with light tropical fruits and almond skin bite. Super-refreshing if served chilled. JENI PORT, Halliday Wine Companion2022chardonnayAustralia353$34.00 As low as $30.60 -
A Rodda Baxendale Vineyard Chardonnay 2022Vineyard sits at 600m ASL, planted 1995. All three Rodda Chardonnays are made pretty much the same way, which is a good way to express region/site…
Friand and spice, floral, melon and grapefruit. Firm acidity, a little green apple, distinctly flinty and chalky, with something of a sappy-sour-edged, yet also slightly creamy almond finish of good length. Pretty tight, but very nice. GARY WALSH, winefront.com
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A Rodda Willow Lake Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2022From 1979 plantings. south facing, sitting at 270m ASL.
Grapefruit and nectarine, almond and light spice, fine perfume. Cool feeling wine, zesty style with lemon peel, nutty and savoury, plenty of acid bite, but gently creamy too, with a fine chalk dust finish of excellent length. A little bony and discreet, perhaps, but has flavour and appealing texture. Saline too. A couple more years should see it right. GARY WALSH, winefront.com
2021chardonnayAustralia353$63.00 As low as $56.70 -
Fighting Gully Road Chardonnay 2022Utterly delicious and, yet, so serious in intent and presence. Friendly, fragrant in lemon blossom, nectarine, white peach, ruby grapefruit, nougat and flint. Seamless in presentation, ripe in fruit quality and nicely weighted oak with brulée custard notes. It brings Beechworth energy and fresh acidity to the fore - juicy and delicious. Quietly complex, too. JENI PORT, winecompanion.com
A strongly regional wine boasting the typical knit of tension, judicious oak and glazed stone fruits, albeit, sewn together with a looser weave. A premium wine, no two ways about it. But a touchstone to that which lies beyond. And in terms of Beechworth chardonnay, that is a great deal. Drink or hold. Screw cap. NED GOODWIN MW, jamessuckling.com
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Granjoux Beechworth Shiraz 2021More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!
2021shirazAustralia353$125.00 As low as $112.50 -
Savaterre Frere Cadet Chardonnay 2022Sourced from a vineyard next to Giaconda…
A little struck match, grapefruit, stonefruit, and oatmeal richness, fine spicy oak, Japanese ginger. Juicy but tight, has some creamy gloss and richness, but acidity gives it grapefruity tang and freshness, finishes quite long and spicy. A really good glass of Chardonnay here. Satisfying. Pleasurable. Excellent. GARY WALSH2022chardonnayAustralia353$75.00 As low as $67.50 -
Fighting Gully Road Pinot Noir 2022More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!
2022Pinot noirAustralia353$41.00 As low as $36.90 -
Fighting Gully Road Sangiovese 2023
More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!
2023sangioveseAustralia353$37.00 As low as $33.30
