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"Express Winemakers are about producing wines that are uniquely expressive of their origins. We currently lease and manage four small vineyards in the Mount Barker and Porongurup sub-regions of Western Australia’s Great Southern. We feel that the cool climate and ancient decomposed granite soils of the Great Southern lends itself to low yielding vines producing high quality fruit, which is necessary to make expressive minimal intervention wines.
We farm our vineyards using organic practices eschewing the use of synthetic chemicals. We don’t irrigate our vineyards forcing the vines to send roots deep into the sub-soil. Our fruit is all hand harvested and crushed by foot, commonly employing whole bunches including the stalks. Both primary and malo-lactic fermentation occur spontaneously with native yeast and bacteria. Movement of the wine is kept to a minimum and no fining or filtration is used. We believe that these practices as well as being better for the environment, help create delicious wines that express a sense of place." - Express Winemakers
Latest Releases
2026 Drinking Wine Red
Varieties: Shiraz, Pinot Noir and Malbec
Vineyard/s: Lecco Vineyard, Estate 807 and Franklandia Vineyard
Region/Sub-region: Great Southern
Farming: Uncertified organic
Production note: Shiraz and Pinot Noir grapes are harvested early to retain natural acidity. Fruit was destemmed and left to ferment on skins between 6 hours and 4 days, dependent on the parcel, before pressing to stainless steel vessels to complete fermentation. The wine is then steeped on Malbec skins for six days. After settling and a short elevage a small addition of sulphur is made before bottling.
Tasting note: A playful and youthful wine displaying juicy red and black berry characters along with flavours of concord grape, hubba bubba and rooibos coupled with bright acidity and low tannin lending itself to a chill.
Alcohol: 12.8% alc/vol
2025 Great Southern Pinot Noir
Varieties: Pinot Noir
Vineyard/s: Island Mountain Vineyard and Estate 807 Vineyard
Region/Sub-region: Porongurup, Great Southern and Denmark, Great Southern
Soil: Granitic gravel loam/Deep Karri Clay Loam
Elevation: 300m/50m
Vine Age: 26 years plus
Farming: Uncertified organic
Production note: Different clones of Pinot Noir (including 114,115, D5V12 and Droopy) were hand harvested from the two vineyards. In the winery the fruit was destemmed and left to ferment with wild yeast on skins for between 11 days. The wine is then pressed to stainless steel vessels briefly before being racked to a combination of different size and age barrels as well as a concrete vessel to completed fermentation and undergo wild Malo-lactic fermentation. After 7 months elevage and settling a small addition of Sulphur is made before bottling.
Tasting note: An elegant light red wine with characters of rhubarb, spice, autumn leaf, red berry and white strawberry along with some herbal and peaty elements. The palate is delicate yet layered.
Alcohol: 13.2% alc/vol
2025 Franklandia Riesling
From the near mythical Franklandia Vineyard in the inland Great Southern subregion of Frankland. 45 year old dry grown Riesling vines planted on ironstone gravel producing small yields of intesely flavoured fruit.
Riesling was handpicked in two separate batches picked a week apart. Both wild fermented separartely in small stailess steel vessels for a long cool ferment. Both wines were left on lees for six months providing ample texture, before blending, filtration and bottling.
The 2025 season was a dry one with little disease pressure. Allowing for fruit to be left to hang til full ripeness.
The Wine Front review by Mike Bennie
Posted on 29 November 2025
'This is a single vineyard wine from the vines of L’enclos du Tertre. It holds around three grams of sugar.
Crikey. Sensational. Proper stuff. Delicious. Lime, ginger, green almond, sweet lemon, candied citrus peel, hazy green apple, a light pithy-chalky note. It has a juiciness, a softness to texture, a length of flavour with a saline trail following through. Energetic, vivacious. Pure feeling even with the lilt of sugar. It’s wonderfully energetic and the drinkability is off the charts. The balance here is sublime. Top flight.'
95 Points
2025 Trappers Gully Vineyard Chenin Blanc
Varieties: Chenin Blanc
Vineyard/s: Trappers Gully Vineyard
Region/Sub-region: Mount Barker, Great Southern
Soil: Granitic Sand over Iron Stone
Elevation: 200m Vine Age: 30 years
Farming: Uncertified organic
Production note: Chenin Blanc grapes were handpicked before being destemmed and pressed to a stainless steel tank. The following day the juice was racked off heavy solids to a combination of different sized oak, where wild fermentation took place. Partial wild malolactic fermentation is allowed to take place during an 11 month elevage prior to Sulphur addition and bottling.
Tasting note: Citrus, saline and waxy characters on a firm palate fleshed out with a creamy lemon curd texture.
Alcohol: 13.3% alc/vol
2026 L’Orange
Varieties: Riesling and Semillon
Vineyard/s: Franklandia Vineyard
Region/Sub-region: Frankland, Great Southern
Soil: Gravel over Ferricrete
Elevation: 200m
Vine Age: 45 years
Farming: Uncertified organic
Production note: Riesling and Semillon were destemmed and fermented on skins by natural yeast. After a period of eight days they were pressed to stainless steel and concrete vessels to complete fermentation and undergo partial wild Malo lactic fermentation during a short elevage and settling of three months, before a small addition of sulphur on bottling.
Tasting note: Perfumed clove and spice aromas. The palate is all grapefruit, marmalade and freshly squeezed orange juice with lively acidity and restrained tannin.
Alcohol: 13.2% alc/vol
2025 Great Southern Malbec
Hailing from a dry grown and organically farmed site in Frankland, this wine displays dark, youthful characters with an underlying complexity. The palate is densely packed with berry characters alongside more savoury game meat, coffee and dark chocolate characters. The tannin is velvety in nature and the natural acidity is mellow, but helps provide structure for this wine.
Sub-region: Frankland, Great Southern
Vine Age: 25 years
Elevation: 230m
Soil: Granitic sandy gravel over ferricrete.
Farming: Organic (not certified)
Vinification: Hand picked fruit was destemmed into picking bins for wild fermentation. Basket pressed after eight days maceration to old oak for 18 months elevage.
Alcohol: 13.9% v/v
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