(Image: Brad Wehr – Amato Vino / www.amatovino.com.au) About Amato Vino are small-batch artisan winemakers based in the Margaret River wine region, Western Australia. The winemaking philosophy is ‘lo-fi’, in that we embrace wild-ferments, minimal adjustments in the winery, gentle handling. Most wines are unfined and unfiltered. We are hands-on in terms of the grunt … Read More
(Image: Anna Pooley – Pooley Wines / www.pooleywines.com.au) Winner 2023 Halliday Wine Companion Winery of the Year “Tucked into a bend of the meandering Coal River, there is a deep spirit about the quaint Cooinda Vale vineyard, still the source of Pooley’s finest wines. To winemaker Anna Pooley, sense of place is everything, “for … Read More
(Image: Stephen Pannell – SC Pannell / www.pannell.com.au) About Stephen’s interest in Grenache stretches back to the mid-nineties. Upon arriving in McLaren Vale, a preference for making medium bodied wine led Stephen to Grenache and the love affair began. Given the region’s warm Mediterranean climate and proximity to the ocean Grenache is ideally suited to McLaren … Read More
(Image: Nick Farr – by Farr / Kristoffer Paulsen – The Real Review www.therealreview.com) Vintage 2023 – by Farr After three solid years of rain the team had hoped for some different growing conditions. Unfortunately not, a cool and wet Spring in 2022 meant that there was server disease pressure and constant canopy management required up … Read More
(Image: Nick Farr – Farr Rising / Kristoffer Paulsen for The Real Review) Halliday Wine Companion Top 100 #5 rated winery for 2023 – By Farr “Every year, in any list, Geelong’s By Farr winery is one of the first picked. This is a single-minded producer if ever there was one; this is a producer interested in quality … Read More
(Image: Planteray Rum / www.planterayrum.com) About Maison Ferrand has always had close relationships with the best distilleries in the Caribbean, selling them casks that had once contained its brandy. Ferrand casks are highly prized by certain rum producers that use them to mature their spirits. During these exchanges, Alexandre Gabriel had the opportunity to discover … Read More
(Image: Voyager Estate / www.voyagerestate.com.au) About EST. 1978 Organically Farmed 100% Estate Grown & Made Wines of Place Our Patch of Margaret River Nestled by the Indian Ocean in cool Stevens Valley, Margaret River, lies an ancient patch of gravel loam earth that we call Voyager Estate, where ocean breeze tempers the south western sun to yield fine … Read More
(Image: Ben Gould – Blind Corner / www.blindcorner.com.au) About Organics, Biodynamics, making wine with no additives… “Like many people, our journey to wine was through hospitality. Naomi surfed & snow-boarded around the world and I worked in bars & on farms. I remember how fit I was back then… One day my Dad bought a … Read More
(Image: Damon and Jono Koerner – Koerner Wine / www.koernerwine.com.au) About “Koerner Wine is a partnership between brothers Damon and Jonathan Koerner. Our wines are produced from fruit grown in the Watervale area of the Clare Valley, with the majority coming from our family vineyard, Gullyview- owned and managed by Mum & Dad, (Christine & Anthony Koerner), … Read More
(Image: Dan Standish / www.standishwineco.com) 2022 New Releases “Sense of place is spoken of a lot in wine circles. My first and most profound realisation of the all-encompassing notion of “terroir” was on my very first visit to France whilst backpacking through the South of France’s Rhone Valley. Ambling into a small communal tasting room the overpowering intense … Read More
