1 Shiraz 2005
We found a few more cases of this fantastic wine at the back of the winery and can include it in our tasting dozen again. But as the famous Ochre Restaurant in Cairns has reserved cases for their wine list this will probably be the last time it is listed. Extremely elegant cool climate shiraz. Described by leading wine writer Tony Harper as having “a seamless, plush texture..”. Brisbane News praised its “Rhone like qualities” The only Queensland wine in Courier Mail’s list of best value Australian wine for including in a wine cellar.
Awards
Queensland Wine Awards 2007 Silver
Royal Agricultural Society of Qld 2009 Class 10 Bronze
Queensland Wine Awards 2009 Silver
1 Cabernet Merlot 2006
The first of our Cabernet Sauvignon/ Merlot. Needs more bottle age. Tannic finish will soften with time.
Awards
Australian Small Winemakers 2009 Bronze
1 Shiraz 2006
Picked very late - on 17 April. It was very ripe with luscious fruit with very high baume but as a result the ferment left a little residual sugar. Halliday said it was over the top. He was right, but it still won a medal at one of its only outings. It has produced a cool climate wine with a voluptuous taste leaving a slightly sweet finish. A wine for the mistress not the wife. It is on quite few restaurant wine lists.
Awards
Queensland Wine Awards 2007 Bronze
1 Samuel Bailey 2007
The season started with frosts in November, then drought stressed and reduced the crop. However, it produced great flavours. It was fermented in new French and American oak barrels. Des Houghton’s Courier Mail wine pick for Christmas dinner 2009.
Winestate Magazine best of 2009 Annual 2010 Edition 4 ½ stars
Queensland Wine Awards 2009 Bronze,
Australian Small Winemakers Class 44 2008 Bronze,
New England Wine Show 2008 Silver,
Cowra Wine Show 2009 Class 76 Bronze,
Wine State magazine 4 ½ stars
Cowra Wine Show 2010 class 34 Silver
Australian Small Winemakers 2010 Class 45 Silver
1 Shiraz 2007
This wine will be replacing our 2005 on restaurant wine lists. It was bottled very cold after flushing bottles with CO2. Some cases have a little of that CO2 still dissolved in the wine from the bottling. It will keep it fresh for a very long time, but the wine needs to breath for 30 mins.
Awards
Wine State Magazine
New England Wine Show 2008 Bronze
Queensland Wine Awards 2008 Bronze
Winestate Magazine best of 2009 Annual 2010 Edition
1 Shiraz 2008
A great vintage for us with considerable complexity in the wines whilst still retaining fruit freshness
New England Wine show 2009 Gold Medal
New England Wine Show 2009 Trophy best young red wine
3 Reserve Chardonnay 2008
The Granite Belt is capable of producing some of Australia’s best chardonnays. In 2008 we produced our first as a single varietal. The grapes were excellent, hand-picked and sorted. The wine was fermented in new French oak barrels. It is quite flinty in a classic Chardonnay style – perhaps unfashionably over oaked. It deserves several years of bottle age to fully integrate the fruit and oak. It received a commendation at the world’s most prestigious and influential wine competition – the International Wine Challenge in London.
Awards
- Australian Small Winemakers 2010 Class 3: Bronze
- International Wine Challenge, London 2010 : Commended
3 Chardonnay Verdelho 2010
Huge fresh pineapple and passionfruit nose and lovely big fruit flavours –but actually fermented very dry -reflecting the lower baume than previous years.
