Opaque purple with lifted violets, raspberry and blueberries mingles with vanilla and chocolate completing the picture. Sweet fruits flows onto the palate balanced with cedary and biscuity French oak, which shows through as young, tight, yet fruit fully long finish. This has a superb future and should drink really well for 15-20 years.
A tiny boutique winery making a total of 500 cases across three wines.
Nominated for the George Mackay Trophy for the best Australian wine to be exported.

Deep ruby and already delicious, so easy to drink now but should continue to improve for several years. A lovely wine, filled with soft berry fruit, toasted wild cherry and long, with great acidity to balance the ripe fruit flavours. The soft tannins almost caress the juicy fruit on the finish. Barrel Sample Tasted 06/04/2008
If you want to impress people with a wine from a great house, this is a very good choice.

Gorgeous and elegant in a slightly lighter to medium bodied style, melon, peach, nectarine and touches of apricot blend through this well integrated and balanced wine. The wine is lighter, but satin textured and regales the palate with waves of minerality as the quality French oak comes in on the long finish, drink this superb value wine now and through 2010.

Medium gold with hints of copper. Broad shouldered, musky, leesy aromas of buttered apple and pear, with touches of caramel and toffee. Very rich and full, showing a depth and richness akin to an aged white Burgundy, with a chewy texture and powerful, ripe orchard (candied apple and smoked pear) together with pit fruit flavours.

Deep pink. Rich and complex on the nose, showing an array of red berries, cherry pit, fruitcake and pungent rose petal scents. Fresh, strikingly pure and spicy, with vibrant cherry and raspberry flavours deepened by notes of floral, honey and nutmeg. This has real size and a rich, chewy texture but it's also impressively balanced, with equal parts finesse and power. Finishes with an exotic spicy note and superb length.

The 2004 Cuvée Prestige exhibits a terrific bouquet of spring flowers, honeysuckle, orange marmalade, peaches, and some lighter tropical fruits. Medium-bodied and filled with fruit yet structured, with good underlying acidity to provide freshness and focus.

A real sweetheart of a wine, the 2006 Gres St Paul Gipsy Rose exhibits a light salmon/pink colour in addition to a big, sweet, almost candied, raspberry, strawberry, and kirsch-scented bouquet. Medium-bodied, sweet ripe fruit on the attack, this is dry, and tasty, with fine intensity and flavour as well as a long mineral finish, it will provide pleasure over the next 12-18 months through 2008.

The spectacular 2005 Cape Barren GSM, a blend of 50% Grenache with about 40% Syrah and the rest Mourvedre, is aged in 50% new oak barrels. Its huge black-cherry and black-raspberry-scented, exotic nose with hints of coffee, hickory, and cedar is marvellous. A wine of exceptional definition, layers of concentrated fruit, and a lusty, wonderfully rich, mouthfilling finish, it is one of the most extraordinary wine bargains in the market. There are only a few hundred cases available for the market, so move quickly if you want to secure any of this blockbuster value wine.
Independently rated by Price as one of the "World's Top 30" red wines made in 2005.

Pale straw in colour, the nose offers up an interesting array of scents from the high floral to the deep base almost waxy dried apricot tones, really quite different and complicated on the nose. On the palate the wine initially delivers some honeyed peach, with fresh acidity, but then the base tones start to develop, its deep and nutty, reminiscent of a very decent Hermitage Blanc, but at a fraction of the price. Six months aging in French oak has allowed the flavours to develop and knit together, this is the first vintage of this wine from this new producer and what a debut it is, fantastic, buy his by the van load, it will not hang around. Being the first ever vintage, its difficult to say how long it will last, but I’d bet on this continuing to improve for another year or so and drink well through 2010, but I might be wrong, if it does stand up like Hermitage, it could go on for 15 years…

Currently rated as the World's Top Marsanne Viognier Blend and in the top ten White Wines of the 2006 Vintage by price.

Light golden in colour which begins to hint at its style and character, the nose even more so, this is really intriguing “and I Love It”, a wine made in a slightly oxidized manner, they keep it in barrel and on its lees for 8 months, then two years bottle aging before release. Certainly you know something is going on here... Its like an aged Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc... and a great one at that... the aroma's and flavours are broad, oily, almost candle wax in taste, but with ripe fruit, peach, pear, touches of lychee and citrus oils, loaded with mineral. This is a dry, full bodied wine loaded with character, it seems to be on a rapid evolution, but the producers assure me it will drink very well for another five or more years and certainly through 2012. I think this is a brilliant effort from a very talented and it seems as yet reasonably unknown but very long standing producer, but for me it shows what impeccable winemaking and old vines can produce in different regions throughout Spain. One of my best finds over the period 2007 and into early 2008.