Stoney Rise is all about drinkability, the creation of complex, fully approachable food friendly wines, without any excessive oak or uber ripeness. Pinot Noir goes into the oldest barrels available to soften the tannins and refine textures without overpowering the sensual fruit characters. Stoney Rise is planted to a meagre three hectares of Pinot Noir in Tasmania's Tamar Valley, a bucolic idyll, yielding trophy winning wines and attracting the high critical acclaim since inaugural release. All by virtue of a passion for growing grapes and a penchant for Pinot Noir in the European tradition.

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Stoney Rise is a boutique vineyard and cellar door in Tamar Valley. Planted to three hectares of Pinot Noir and one of Chardonnay, Stoney Rise was established in 1986, with a view to formulating distinctive small batch wines which express the influence of a unique mesoclime and terroir. Deep ruby colour, the nose opens with lifted aromas of violet, cherry and spice. The palate is full and rich, structured and taut, expressing bright berry characters on a solid fruit structure leading to a long finish with plenty weight of flavour. Great with grilled salmon or marinated beef tartare.

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The topical Medoc cépage of Cabernet Sauvignon and Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot, artisanaly fashioned into a statuesque Bordeaux style. The exemplary efforts of Domaine A are Langtons listed, have received great adulation from the industry press and claimed prestigious wine show competition awards. Cabernet of the highest order, her tannins are fine but firm, striking the balance between power and grace, before an immeasurably long finish. Stoney Vineyard exhibits an elegance rarely found amongst her mainland siblings.

$3399each $407DOZEN EACH DOZEN Domaine A/Stoney Vineyard is a small, family owned property, half an hour's drive from the city of Hobart in the Coal River Valley. Vines were originally established in 1973 to black cracking clays over a Jurassiac base. Veraison is normally around February and picking in mid April. The north facing vineyard and extended sunshine hours ensure that the fruit is fully ripe at vintage. A rich cepage of Cabernet Sauvignon and Franc, Merlot and Petit Verdot are treated to traditional old wold winemaking, open vat vinification, regular racking, hand plunging and assemblage between the first and second ferments. Matured two years in a selection of seasoned French oak barriques. Alcohol 13.5%

Deep ruby colour. Dark cherry and vanilla bean on the bouquet, sage and licorice, briar wood and soy. An elegant, full bodied wine with great concentration of fruit, dark cherries and berry flavours, roasted coffee and dark chocolates. Made for early drinking and will continue to evolve, a richly concentrated effort with intense ripe flavours, ample black fruit characters, delicate complexity and supple spice.

Located on the western banks of Tamar River, forty kilometres north of Launceston, choice blocks of the Kayena Vineyard are planted to unique clones of Pinot Gris. The site yields fruit of spectacular varietal definition, great purity and refreshing acidity, all are hallmarks of a truly profound cool climate wine. The weight and flavour intensity of this elite vineyard Pinot Gris make it suitable to serve with quite richly flavoured dishes, including veal, turkey or pork.

$2399each $287DOZEN EACH DOZEN Employing the latest technology, but with more than a few concessions to the traditional techniques which have served winemakers for centuries, the goal is to harness the pristine fruit and fashion an individual style of wine that speaks boldly about a superior site. The exclusively estate grown, hand picked fruit is crushed and pressed without spending any time on skins. A small component is transferred to French oak for a course of rich barrel ferments. The majority is treated to controlled fermenters and vinified at low temperatures to a mix of wild and cultured yeasts. Upon completion, batches are held on sedimentery lees for two months to build fine textures and enhance palate weight.

Bright, pale straw hue. Quite an aromatic nose with ripe pear fruit, touches of green herbs and hints of nuttiness and an intriguing allspice complexity. Excellent palate weight and structure. There is full, soft fruit flavours of ripe pear plus a level of nuttiness derived from time on yeast lees. The finish is clean and dry with good flavour persistence and just enough grip to add interest. innately suited to good cuisine.

Kayena Vineyard makes a big, generous style of Pinot Noir, unique for it's power and weight to match game recipes as strong as heavily sauced garlic and rosemary lamb. A good balance of ripe fruit, tannin astringency and cleansing acids persist, thoroughly enjoyable right now. The aim has been to achieve an elegant and complex expression of terroir, a blend of several clones is called upon to weave a fine, textural style. Maturation in French oak barriques is showing through with subtle spiciness and just a little extra grip on the palate without dominating.

$2699each $323DOZEN EACH DOZEN Exclusively Pinot Noir from the prestigious Kayena Vineyard on West Tamar. A range of clones, including MV6, Pommard and 114, are assembled for complexity. A harvest of excellent condition with good ripeness and vivacious varietal fruit characters is delivered to the winery in pristine condition. Grapes are destemmed and left to cold soak for several days. Vinification takes place in open fermenters whilst being regularly pumped. Once dry, the ferment is passed through a basket press to barrel, a proportion is treated to post ferment maceration. Malolactic is followed by twelve months maturation in a combination of new and seasoned French oak barriques.

Bright fleshy plum colour. Spicy cigar box bouquet, dark fruits over a subtle undertone of smoky oak. The palate is nicely firm with poised acid/tannin combination and sufficient fruit sweetness to keep it balanced. Kayena Vineyard offers firm structure and a full body that loves to evolve, a generously flavoured style of Pinot Noir that's the classic food match alongside roast duckling or pork sausage cassoulet.

An exclusively estate grown Riesling wine, from the superlative Kayena Vineyard on the banks of West Tamar and estate vineyards further afield along the apple isle's east coast. Exhibiting great purity of fruit character, an identifiably Tasmanian regionality and refreshing acidity that's a hallmark of the finest cool climate wines. Kayena Vineyard is drinking beautifully alongside prawns, scallops and whiting, a wonderful Tasmainan Riesling which would pair very well alongside traditional French inspired seafood recipes.

$2099each $251DOZEN EACH DOZEN Tamar Ridge's objective is to retain the intense fruit characters developed in the cool climate vineyard. All efforts are aimed at nurturing the vines to achieve yields of Riesling at complete flavour ripeness, to be harvested and handled back at the winery in the soundest possible condition. Parcels are whole bunch pressed and immediately run off skins into fermenters with little or no skin contact. Juices are cold settled to remove any solids and inoculated with a selected aromatic yeast strain prior to vinification under strict temperature controls to maximise retention of lovely Riesling fruit characters. A cool and slow fermentation is followed by a number of weeks on primary yeast lees prior to racking.

Bright, pale straw with tinges of green. The nose is refreshingly bright with strong elements of lime juice and citrus blossom supported by hints of minerality and spice. Lean and tight with flavours of lime juice and fresh meyer lemon over a backbone of crunchy acidity which provides an insight into the staying power of the wine. Drinking beautifully alongside prawns, scallops and whiting, would pair very well with French inspired seafood recipes .

A crisp, fruit forward style from Sauvignon Blanc harvested off the estate Whitehills vineyard in Tamar Valley. Tamar Ridge have been recognized for the quality of their cool climate wines, the exclusive site enjoys pure water and clean air, well drained heavy soils and effective windbreaks. The weight of flavour, perfect balance and refined complexity makes this an engaging foodie's wine, very ready to enjoy today alongside your favourite faire.

$2099each $251DOZEN EACH DOZEN Sauvignon Blanc from individual blocks are assigned to pressing and barrel fermentation by merit. A variety of clones are planted, the unique blocks and rows of vine are managed individually to maximise fruit quality at each specific site. Aerial infrared photography is employed to identify variations which require irrigation and nutrition, practices which translate into good harvests in sound condition with full ripeness and excellent varietal definition. Following the crush, juices are run off skins immediately after pressing, then cold settled to remove solids. Components are treated to inoculation and fermentation under strict temperature controls to maximise retention of fruit flavours.

Bright, pale lemon with hues of green. Fresh, appealing grassy and floral aromas with attractive riper notes of passionfruit, banana and other tropical fruits. Ripe, mouth filling fruit flavours of lime, passionfruit and gooseberry with plenty of mid-palate weight. A lovely zippy acidity to provide length and freshness on the finish, a fuller style of Sauvignon Blanc with more demanding flavours that are totally enjoyable and very easy to drink.

By those wonderful folks who bring us Shaw & Smith, Tolpuddle was planted to vine in 1988, on a highly precious site along Back Tea Tree Road, just outside Hobart. The inaugural vintage claimed Tasmanian Vineyard of Year in 2006, Martin Shaw and Michael Hill Smith acquired the property in 2011, with a view to elevating the excruciatingly limited release Tolpuddle wines to the status of a national Grand Cru. A singular experience in new world Pinot Noir, Tolpuddle unravels endless layers of pastoral complexity, powerfully structured yet elegant, immaculate and poised.

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The Tolpuddle Martyrs were English farmhands whose only crime was to establish a workers union in the world's newest nation, perfect stock with strong backs to labour as penal colonists, they served out their sentence on the site of Tolpuddle Vineyard. The property is now planted to blocks of fully mature vines, they face northeast and slope gently up from Back Tea Tree Road. Soils are light silica over sandstone, only moderate in vigor, the ideal terroir for minimalist yields of the most remarkably balanced and wonderfully intense Pinot Noir.

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Bright beetroot hues. Black cherries, perfumed fruits, stalkiness, sour cherry and notes of smokey grilled nuts. Velvet smooth palate, strawberry and black cherry spice, sasafras and the astringency of smoked twiggy tannins, its flowing robes of juicy purple fruit flavours and crisp apple juicyness resolve on a lengthy coffee finish of sen-sen, cola and mastic.

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Winstead is a place of Pinot passion, two magnificent blocks of vine separated by a few metres in distance and just four years of age. They each yield an extraordinary Pinot Noir, the younger Lot 16 however will vintage a little later in the season, an additional fortnight of ripening permits the berries to bloom with flavour and to sing in complete resonance. Completely destemmed into open vats, wild fermented and frequently plunged, followed by malolactic and a year in fine French oak. Powerful, generous, sound structure and self assuredness, an intensity that lingers.

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Deep red colour. Explosive perfume and glorious sweet fruit, nose of dark berries, bramble and spicy oak from a year in Saury French barriques. The palate is long and smooth, sweet dark cherry and evolving strawberry characters abound., structure, complexity, elegance and finesse, summer pudding fruit over a sheath of fine, tight tannins.