Wine

The 2020 Tyrrell’s Old Winery Shiraz wine has deep red in colour with a bright purple rim. This Australian Shiraz wine has a smooth, soft and spicy with aromas of dark ripe fruit and subtle vanillin oak. The palate is full of rich shiraz flavours and is supported by firm tannins which provide good length and complexity.

Named after the Tyrrell’s historic winery in the Hunter Valley, which was built in 1863 for the first vintage in 1864. A classic range of wines produced using fruit from premium Australian wine regions, Old Winery delivers distinctive varietal character and outstanding quality synonymous with the Tyrrell’s name. Designed for immediate enjoyment, the Old Winery promise is to provide a quality wine to suit every palate preference at a refreshingly affordable price.

The Tyrrell’s Old Winery Shiraz wine is an ideal accompaniment to traditional red meat dishes, tomato based pastas and matured cheeses.

The 2021 Tyrrell’s Rufus Stone Heathcote Shiraz wine has a deep, youthful red purple colour. This Rufus Stone Heathcote Australian Shiraz has a rich, chocolate, spice, sweet plum and vanilla bouquet, which returns with good power and impact on the finish. The Shiraz wine is medium to full-bodied, nicely-textured and fleshy with supple tannins and easy drinkability, although it will surely age well. The oak, alcohol and tannin levels are perfectly weighted. The Rufus Stone Heathcote Shiraz wine is one of Tyrrell’s Wines top non-Hunter reds. Sourced from vineyards in Heathcote.

The story of the Rufus Stone dates back almost 1,000 years to medieval England. King William II, known as Rufus, is believed to have been killed by an errant arrow fired by Sir Walter Tyrrell – an ancestor of the Tyrrell family. Today, the site of this infamous incident is marked by the Rufus Stone. Since 1997, our top non-Hunter red wines have been named in honor of Tyrrell’s historical association with the Rufus Stone.

The vintage conditions for our Rufus Stone Heathcote Shiraz were just about perfect, with warm, dry days followed by cool nights, allowing the fruit to gain the ripe, full flavors of modern Australian Shiraz while maintaining the fresh mineral line and tension of the classic European styles.

Awards:
2016 Vintage: Platinum Medal – The TEXSOM International Wine Awards
2013 Vintage: Gold – The TEXSOM International Wine Awards
2010 Vintage: Silver – International Wine Challenge
2009 Vintage: Commended – International Wine Challenge
2009 Vintage: Commended – Decanter World Wine Awards

The Tyrrell’s VAT 47 Hunter Chardonnay wine is fresh powerful, but restrained white peach style with a subtle lees influence. This Australian Chardonnay wine is intense and well structured, with subtle oak. A continued evolution in style towards a more delicate and textural Chardonnay. The nose shows delicate citrus and white stonefruit with a hint of oak and sulphide lift. The palate has the generosity of Chardonnay in a toned down form. VAT 47 Hunter Chardonnay wine is balanced well with the fresh acidity and slight textural element from extended time on yeast lees.

Murray Tyrrell created the Winemaker’s Selection range back in 1965, when, with the assistance of Len Evans, he set out to determine the best wines from each vintage. He named these wines after the casks in which they were matured; for instance, the first Chardonnay we made went into cask number 47, so it became Vat 47 Chardonnay, or Pinot Chardonnay as it was then called.

This 2021 VAT 47 Hunter Chardonnay wine is best paired with Cedar Plank Salmon, Ahi Tuna, or Brunch of Salmon Benedict.

The Tyrrell’s VAT 8 Shiraz Cabernet wine is a modern style of Australian Red that also respects the tradition of using varietal blending to make a more rounded wine. This 2019 VAT 8 Shiraz Cabernet wine shows intense plum fruit sweetness from the Shiraz with dark berry and chocolate characters. The Cabernet component adds to the length & fullness of the wine. A composed and compact red blend with a soulful mid-weight to it, this excellent wine showcases a plethora of black fruit characters as well as dark & stony mineral aromas with added whiffs of dried wood & spices. The palate boasts a core of dark cherry fruit, smooth & purposeful tannins, and incredible depth & layering of flavors.

The Tyrrell’s VAT 8 Shiraz Cabernet finishes long & strong and you can choose to enjoy this now although careful cellaring of 10 to 15 years will be rewarded with futher flavor evolutions.

Tyrrell’s Winemaker’s Selection is one of the oldest and most awarded wine styles made in Australia. These wines hold true to both the Hunter style and the Tyrrell’s philosophy; timeless wines that are able to transcend all the new trends and fads over many decades.

The Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 has the aromas of red currants, tobacco and cedar, green stalks, coffee beans, quite mulchy and herbaceous. The palate showed blackcurrants, green beans, coffee beans, leafy eucalypt and cigar box. This Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon wine has full long flavours, pleasant fruit weight, though with a touch of greenness on the finish.

The Vasse Felix Cane Cut Semillon 2017 wine has a pale straw with a green tinge color. On the nose its fragrant notes of lemon and lime, honeysuckle, dried apricots, waxy crayon, crème brulee and sultana. This wine has a bright and zesty lime marmalade interweaves with a fine drying lemongrass texture. A driving natural acidity carries the concentrated sweetness effortlessly to a mouth-watering finish.

This wine is produced from Semillon using the Cane Cut method, where each fruiting cane is detached from the vine. The bunches are left hanging until the fruit has dried and concentrated in flavour and sugar.

The 2022 Vasse Felix Chardonnay wine is the quintessential Margaret River Chardonnay, made from a selection of Vasse Felix’s premier plots of powerful Chardonnay. Made in the modern Margaret River style of elegance, power and restraint, with the wild complexity which distinguishes Vasse Felix Chardonnay.

The White wine has a pale straw with a green and golden tinge. This 2022 Vasse Felix Chardonnay wine has a lovely waxy, green tea candle note lifts in the subtle white peach, pear and green plum perfume, accompanied by complex floral aromas of Jasmine and camomile and sexy hints of rock flint and vanilla bean. More savoury complexity will develop with time in the bottle. Rich core framed by a delicate dry structure. The satin palate features complex flavours of purified lemon, a hint of ginger, custard and delicate peach, and finishes with a lovely dry, chalky feel.

The 2021 Vasse Felix Filius Cabernet Sauvignon carries the structure, power and tannins of classic cabernet in an earlier drinking, more forward style from fruit sourced from each of the Vasse Felix vineyards. This wine has a bright deep maroon with a purple tint. This Cabernet Sauvignon offers aromas of blackcurrant, blueberry and coffee mocha on the nose. The palate showcases blackcurrant, raspberry and earthy complexities with fine dry dusty tannins. A comfortable, soft, juicy body and tannin profile finishes the wine fresh and long.

This 2021 Vasse Felix Cabernet Sauvignon carries the structure, power and tannins of classic Cabernet in an earlier drinking, succulent style from fruit sourced from each of the Vasse Felix vineyards.

The 2022 Vasse Felix Filius Chardonnay wine has a bright pale straw with a gold tinge. On the nose a fragrant fruit perfume of white peach, yuzu and pear flan, gives way to creamy yeast lees and fragrant oak complexities which deliver almond meal, ginger nut biscuits and nougat nuances. Background notes of flint and ocean breeze reveal themselves with time.

This Chardonnay is an incredible body characteristic of our Premier plots of fruit, complemented by a fresh line of acidity. This freshness is followed by an immediate broadening of the palate, harmonious and chalky, the wine is mouth coating but not heavy. This Vasse Felix Filius Chardonnay wine is complex and complete, the fragrance lingers on the finish.

The Vasse Felix Heytesbury Chardonnay 2014 wine has a pale to mid straw in colour. Pristine, vibrant fruit aromas dance in the glass. This Felix Heytesbury Chardonnay has fruit characters of nectarine, tangerine and grapefruit enveloped with roasted nuts and crème fraiche coming from malolactic fermentation and long maturation on lees in the barrel. The has a palate is crisp but also creamy with a great purity of minerals and fruit.

The 2023 Vasse Felix wine has an opaque saturated black dark red colour with very deep dark red black hue. This Vasse Felix Sauvignon Blanc Semillon wine has an aromatic profile of blackberry, dark plum, confectionary, blackpepper and spice. Flavours of ripe blackberry, plum, liquorice, blackpepper and spicy cedar characteristics on the back palate. Super fine tannin structure with very long aftertaste of liquorice, blackberry, blackpepper and spice.

The 2022 Vasse Felix Shiraz wine has a bright deep maroon color. A complex perfume of black cherry and boysenberry, underpinned with an endearing pastrami note. This shiraz wine has a beautiful notes of rose petal potpourri and Chinese black tea open to hints of English cheddar and teak wax. A luscious entrance with bright, tangy raspberry, black cherries and notes of liquorice and vanilla. The stems bring a lovely mineral sensation with a velvety tannin polish, leaving the finish fresh and dry.

95 Points – Jane Faulkner Wine Companion

“Cabernet sauvignon might be the regional red darling, but sometimes shiraz stands proudly. Still in a restrained style with excellent fruit at its heart, a dusting of woodsy spices, black pepper with an iodine/ferrous note. Sandpaper tannins and poppy acidity go hand-in-hand.”

93 Point Rated – James Suckling

“This has a spicy and gently flinty nose with red-plum and berry aromas, leading to an attractively succulent palate that delivers bright red-fruit flavors, within bright, juicy tannins. Drink or hold. Screw cap.”

The 2019 Vasse Felix Tom Cullity Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec wine opens beautifully with cherry pip, cassis, christmas cake, orange rind, pot pourri and hints of Australian forest floor. The palate is incredibly luscious, rich fruit builds into a long, fine, powdery tannin structure. Refreshing floral notes are expressed throughout the palate with lingering blackcurrant and blackberry. This wine is medium bodied, the complexity of ocean and nori influence pairs beautifully with notes of chocolate, polished leather and exotic spices. This Vasse Felix Tom Cullity Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec is an elegant, palpable and clean dry finish with earthy power and wild berry custard tart rounding out this complex palate.

The Vasse Felix, Margaret River’s founding wine estate, was established by Dr Thomas Brendan Cullity in 1967. Among his first plantings were Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec vines, from which he produced the estate’s first red wine. The Tom Cullity descends from these original vines and represents the pinnacle of Vasse Felix.

The 2019 Villa Girardi Bure Alto Valpolicella Ripasso Classico Superiore wine has intense ruby red. The nose is rich and complex with distinct notes of cherries. The Italian red wine has a fine structure and is pleasantly fruity with hints of spice. This Villa Girardi Valpolicella Sup. Bure Alto is a full-bodied wine and warming, great length on the palate. Wonderful ripe cherry fruit flavors.

The vineyards that provide grapes for the “Bure Alto”, are on average about 40 years old and are in the classical field of Valpolicella. After fermentation this Ripasso stored for 18 months in large Slovenian oak casks and then for a further 6 months in the bottle.

The Villa Girardi family estate lies in the heart of the historical Valpolicella wine region. The Bure Alto is know as the baby Amarone and is matured for 18 months in Slovenian oak barrels and then a further 6 months in bottle.

The Villa Girardi Bure Alto Valpolicella Ripasso Classico Superiore wine is best paired with Beef or Veal.

The 2016 Villa Girardi Great Rosso wine has a dark garnet color with crimson trim around the edge. This Great Rosso wine has a taste of complex but harmonious taste wine with good acidity and velvety tannins dominate muted tones of ripe cherry and black fruit combined with hints of leather, tobacco and spices. The Villa Girardi Great Rosso wine has an elegant bouquet of wine presented a wonderful combination of flavors of red and black fruit with hints of southern spices. The rich taste of the Villa Girardi Great Rosso wine will be a good addition to stews, roasts and game, and is perfect for fondue and truffles.

The Villa Girardi is a typical Venetian Villa designed by Luigi Trezza back in the 1700s. The Villa is located in a large park with old trees surrounded by 30 hectares of vineyards with rich clay-limestone soil and a mild climate creating conditions conducive to the cultivation of indigenous Corvina Veronese, Rondinella, and Molinara grape varieties.

The 2018 Vina Herminia Crianza wine of great quality, balance and noticeable freshness. Ageing in new barrels of French and American oak. A brilliant dark red in colour, with a fine and elegant aroma, round and persistent in the mouth. This Crianza wine has a blend of 85% Tempranillo, 15% Garnacha.

It is an ideal wine to accompany red meats, game or cured cheeses.