This is what fully emancipated Chardonnay tastes like. The magnificentally slow ripening aspects of Macedon Hills sire a style of Chardonnay that defines Victorian viticulture. Wonderfully perfumed with delightfully complex aromas of white flowers, lightly grilled nuts, grapefruits and earth. A concentrated, complex yet magnificently balanced, expansive palate, articulating its cooler origins. Grapefruit pith, citrus and floral flavours are complemented by maritime characters of melon, soft pears and figs. Oak and lees add complexity, tasty natural acidity ensures the palate finishes cleanly.

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Of particular importance to Shadowfax are the very close relationships with a select group of growers who provide harvests of the most intensely flavoured fruit. A prolific trophy winner, Shadowfax are a refreshing new wave, vigorously fruit driven, livelier than her Victorian siblings, characterised by slatey, flavoursome acidity, a touch of lees complexity and judicious dryness. A modern style that's perfect for cosmopolitan fare, offering excellent palate weight and solid structure, to accompany fresh fried flatheads or grilled and marinated spatchcock.

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An assemblage of Chardonnay from the right side of Port Philip Bay. A backbone of fruit from the Scotchman's vineyards is supported by parcels grown to good vineyards around Bellarine and Geelong. A refreshing and flavoursome fruit driven, yet texturally rich Chardonnay of quality and consistency year to year, designed to be enjoyed in it's youth.

$2049each $245DOZEN EACH DOZEN Established 1982, Scotchmans Hill has become a producer of some of Victoria's most perennially loved, elegant and consistent wines. Swan Bay Chardonnay is an assemblage of cool climate wines from good vineyards around Geelong and the Strathbogie Ranges. Most of the juices, approximately two thirds, are treated to a lavish oak barrel vinification to enhance the finished wine with creamy characters and fine cashew complexity, the balance is sent to fermenters for the retention of zippy Bellarine acidity and vitally fresh fruit characters. The barrel ferment component is treated to six months maturation in a selection of fine French oak barriques.

Pale gold with green hues. Nectarine and white peach with citrus fruits dominating the bouquet. This is complimented by creamy overtones, spice and cedar oak. Up-front fruit flavours of nectarine, white peach, melon and lemon citrus with a mineral edge throughout the palate. A generous Chardonnay mouthfeel, creamy and nutty oak characters round out the wine, which has a long, lingering back palate.

The higher altitudes of Adelaide and balmy aspects of Bellarine are the pre-eminent Australian microclimes for growing Pinot Grigio. Components from good vineyards have been assembled around a core of estate grown Scotchmans Hill fruit to achieve the consummate Italianate varietal wine in refreshing, new world styling. An intense expression of pear, guava and citrus, fleshy with a mineral backbone. It displays zesty pear and citrus characters, offers great intensity and varietal complexity before lingering on a clean flavoursome finish.

$2049each $245DOZEN EACH DOZEN Scotchmans Hill grows suitable grape varieties in appropriate mesoclimates around the more salubrious viticultural districts of Victoria. The estate's wineworks at Geelong boasts an extensive temperature controlled 8000 cubic metre barrel storage room with 900 one to three year old French barriques, Alliers and Nevers, Troncais and Vosges. Great emphasis is placed on the delicate vinification and elevage processes required for complex and balanced wines. Pinot Grigio is sourced from specialised vineyards, trained to yield harvests of exceptional quality Pinot Grigio. The majority of parcels are treated to a closed tank ferment, the balance is vinified in French oak barriques.

Mid straw colour. Lifted nose of nashi pear and honeysuckle, leading to a bath salt perfume and background of ripe fruits. Full and ripe palate with nashi and stonefruits, a mid palate richness with bath salts and honey characters at the finish. The wine is supported by firm acid, a mineral backbone, and has a long, lingering aftertaste.

Located on the Bellarine Peninsula, Swan Bay was named by Commander Matthew Flinders in 1803. The wines of Swan Bay are fruit driven in style, offering unbeatable consistency and quality, generous in flavour and designed to be enjoyed young. Grapes are sourced from the best vineyards and vinified at the salubrious Scotchmans Hill wineworks. A rejuvenating style of Pinot Noir, offering excellent mid palate weight and silky tannins, balanced by firm cherry acidity.

$2049each $245DOZEN EACH DOZEN Vines are trained trellis style to vertical shoot positioning. Grapes are crushed and hand plunged in small open top pots. Following vinificatio, Swan Bay is treated to several months maturation in a combination of new and prior use French Troncais oak barriques.

Deep garnet colour. Rich perfumed nose of plum and strawberry fruit with violet notes, spice and a touch of earthiness in the background. Juicy yet savoury palate of fresh strawberry, plum and raspberry fruits; spice and earthy notes supported by a charry oak finish. The palate is medium bodied with excellent mid-palate weight, silky tannins, and balanced by firm acidity. A very good match to a wide spectrum of foods.

Swan Bay is the sumptuous second tier of Geelong's leading winemaker. Established 1982, the Scotchmans Hill label has become synonymous with consistency and universal appeal. From great Bellarine vineyards refreshed by the maritime climate moderated by Port Phillip Bay and strong, cool Antarctic winds, Pinot Noir is grown to sandy loam and volcanic clay over broken down basalt subsoils. Treated to a timely exposure on skins for the perfect extract of rakish Rosé hues, a rejuvenatingly dryish pink wine of bright fruits, savoury backbone and crisp clean finish.

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The dedicated growers on Scotchman's Hill are heirs to a tradition of producing the finest white wine grapes. They attend to the Bellarine peninsula's premier terroirs, nurturing vines to sprout much of Victoria's most articulate fruit. The team have assembled harvests of the most amenable Sauvignon Blanc, to be vinified into a refreshing post modern style, brimming with citrus, bright herbaceousness and a touch of quenching minerality. An integrated and easy to appreciate, classic dry white, that's just excellent with pasta or Al fresco cuisine.

$2049each $245DOZEN EACH DOZEN Swan Bay is a real place, located on the Bellarine Peninsula, originally surveyed by Commander Matthew Flinders in 1803. Scotchman's Hill specialize in the pursuit of the best cool climate fruit, grown to vines lashed by the sobering maritime winds of Port Phillip Bay, to be vinified at their renowned wineworks. Swan Bay is an fully approachable style that's generously flavoured, to be enjoyed in it's youth. Harvests of Sauvignon Blanc, grown to good vineyards around the finer viticultural precincts of Geelong, are cool fermented to preserve freshness and vital crisp varietal expressions, bottled to be vigorously fruit driven, completely unwooded and unoaked.

Straw green hues. Fragrant and complex, aromas of gooseberry, herbaceousness and tropical fruit. Crisp and dry, balanced by firm acidity, south sea guava flavours dominate the mid palate richness, supported by gooseberry, grassy notes and a touch of honey, mineral background gives the wine an overall balance and freshness. A lovely crisp and clean fruit driven wine, designed to be enjoyed chilled while vital and young.

A stylish wine crafted from the holy triumvirate of sparkling grape varietals, Taltarni were one of Australia's first wineries to get serious about quality effervescence, they are still setting the benchmark. Taltarni have continued the evolution, so very well endowed with exceptional quality fruit, nurtured exclusively for sparkling wines, grown to vineyards across Victoria's splendid Pyrenees and Macedon Ranges. An assemblage of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meunier of current vintage with a third of reserve wines.

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Straw gold with green tinges, fine mousse and persistent bead. A clean, refined bouquet of fresh, floral, melon characters, balanced by zesty lemon. Very bright and inviting with red berry aromas. The palate is vivacious with an impressive array of crisp apple, melon and citrus flavours complemented by a creamy mid palate. T Series is the ideal sparkling to enjoy at any time, chilled with seafood, freshly shucked oysters and antipasto.

Established 1968 by the legendary Melbourne restaurateur Tom Lazar, Virgin Hills is the gem of the Macedon Ranges, one of Australia's iconic vineyards. He planted Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz, Malbec, Merlot and Pinot Noir, with a view to creating an Australian first growth to rival the great Bordeaux he had grown to love while working as a sculptor in Paris. Only one wine is bottled under the Virgin Hills label each year. From inaugural release, the cepage of varietals has varied subtly each vintage, adding to the mystique and complexity of Virgin Hills.

$5499each $659DOZEN EACH DOZEN The Virgin Hills property suffers from frosts and occasional snow at both ends of the season, budburst and harvest time. The site has always delivered low yields of half to 1½ tonnes per acre, due to the tough climactic conditions and dry grown grapes. To this day, it bears the viticultural classification of marginal vineyard. After spending a vintage in the Coonawarra with Owen Redman, Tommy Lazar produced the first Virgin Hills vintage. A blend of all his varieties, it stood out among Australian wines as being uncharacteristically subtle. Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz, Merlot and Malbec grapes are picked off vines over forty years of age, to be vinified and aged in a selection of exclusively French oak barrels.

Dark red with a cherry hue. Blackcurrant, chocolate, black cherries and sweet French oak on the bouquet. Red and black berry fruit flavours on the palate, layered over aged mocha and tobacco characters. Subtle cool climate mint and eucalyptus. Spicy oak imparting soft, velvety tannins. A long lived wine, remarkably approachable on release.

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