A Rodda Cuvee De Chez 2017 Victoria Beechworth
A Rodda Cuvee De Chez 2017 Victoria BeechworthA Rodda Cuvee De Chez 2017 Victoria Beechworth
A Rodda Cuvee De Chez 2017 Victoria BeechworthA Rodda Cuvee De Chez 2017 has an array of red and purple fruits (think dark cherries and plums) with heightened aromas of violets and wild herbs. The supple fruit weight is seamlessly interwoven with fine, velvety tannins giving the wine great balance and finesse.
Domenica Chardonnay 2021 Victoria Beechworth
Domenica Chardonnay 2021 Victoria BeechworthDomenica Chardonnay 2021 Victoria Beechworth
Domenica Chardonnay 2021 Victoria BeechworthDomenica Chardonnay 2021
Domenica sits 460m above sea level atop the granite ridge sweeping away to the south west of Beechworth. The wines are vividly reflective of their origin, a gripping mineral texture encasing the mature vine vitality of the varietals chosen to express it. Winemaking is traditional. Taste is more important than numbers. The yeasts comes from the site, not a packet. Pressings, solids and lees all play their part completing the picture. The wines are carefully maintained in oak barriques before being bottled unfiltered.
Peter Graham cut his teeth at nearby Giaconda, where he worked as assistant winemaker for thirteen years. During the early part of this time he completed a degree in wine science by correspondence through Charles Sturt University. Vintage experience at Ramey in Sonoma, California, a joint venture with Michel Chapoutier, and various travels through many European and Australian wine regions ensured the development of a truly international palate.
Chardonnay is hand picked row by row, spanning many days. Each small batch is lightly crushed, basket pressed and fermented naturally in French barrels. The mixture of clonal selection, different barrels and multiple picking days showcases our vineyard with complexity and nuance.
Domenica Shiraz 2017 Victoria Beechworth
Domenica Shiraz 2017 Victoria BeechworthDomenica Shiraz 2017 Victoria Beechworth
Domenica Shiraz 2017 Victoria BeechworthDomenica Shiraz 2017
Domenica sits 460m above sea level atop the granite ridge sweeping away to the south west of Beechworth. The wines are vividly reflective of their origin, a gripping mineral texture encasing the mature vine vitality of the varietals chosen to express it.
Winemaking is traditional. Taste is more important than numbers. The yeasts comes from the site, not a packet. Pressings, solids and lees all play their part completing the picture. The wines are carefully maintained in oak bariques before being bottled unfiltered.
Heavily Rhone influenced Shiraz. Drink one now and put a few in the cellar and you will be rewarded.
Eldorado Road Nero D’Avola 2019 Victoria Beechworth
Eldorado Road Nero D’Avola 2019 Victoria BeechworthEldorado Road Nero D’Avola 2019 Victoria Beechworth
Eldorado Road Nero D’Avola 2019 Victoria BeechworthEldorado Road Nero D’Avola 2019
Medium to deep red colour with a good purple tinge, the bouquet fresh and sweet cherry-like, almost pinoty; bright, fragrant and charming. A good early drinking medium-bodied red, which would go better with food than solo, on account of its firm tannins. It is very elegant. Fruit sweetness emerged increasingly as it aired.
Eldorado Road Onyx Durif 2016 Victoria Beechworth
Eldorado Road Onyx Durif 2016 Victoria BeechworthEldorado Road Onyx Durif 2016 Victoria Beechworth
Eldorado Road Onyx Durif 2016 Victoria BeechworthEldorado Road Onyx Durif 2016 – Super late ripening its painfully tight bunches make it a difficult variety to grow. The resultant wines are structured, jet black in colour with a remarkable depth of flavour. They are a safe bet to reward with careful cellaring or as young wines a great match with red meat. Planted at our home vineyard in Eldorado from cuttings of the original Rutherglen clone taken from the Stanton & Killeen vineyard in Rutherglen. Our site in Eldorado is a cooler site for Durif, this allows us to make a more restrained rendition of this usually powerhouse variety.
Eldorado Road Quasimodo 2019 Victoria Beechworth
Eldorado Road Quasimodo 2019 Victoria BeechworthEldorado Road Quasimodo 2019 Victoria Beechworth
Eldorado Road Quasimodo 2019 Victoria BeechworthEldorado Road Quasimodo 2019
40% Nero d’Avola / 32% Durif / 28% Shiraz
To understand Quasimodo you must venture beyond the surface and explore the inner soul. As individual varietal wines they can struggle for love but when blended together they can sing, shine and bring harmony.
Quasimodo is a unique Australian blend of Nero d’Avola, Durif & Shiraz sourced from the regions of Eldorado and Beechworth. It’s an amalgam of flavour and colour culminating in a complex rewarding wine.
The composition of this blend changes year on year depending on the season, the consistent desire is to create an affable drink that has layers of complexity built in through the unique varieties and vineyards it is composed of. The 2019 Quasimodo is very much in the medium bodied spectrum, plenty of bright fruit, lifted floral bouquet and fine chalky tannins.
In 2019 the Nero d’Avola came from our home vineyard at Eldorado planted on rare decomposed red granite soils, washed down from the Beechworth Plateau by the meandering Ready Creek that runs through the farm. Two different Nero ferments made their way into this year’s blend, picked at different about 10 days apart at different ripeness (12.3 & 13.1 baume), all fermented wild and one containing approximately 20% whole bunch. Basket pressed and seasoned for 16 months in aged French Oak Puncheons on gross lees.
The Shiraz component in 2019 comes from both the Mt Pilot Estate Vineyard (Eldorado) & Battely Vineyard (Beechworth). We really can’t overstate the quality of the fruit grown by Lachie and Penny Campbell at Mt Pilot Estate. Much like our own vineyards in Eldorado it falls just outside the Beechworth GI so is often overlooked, but the wine made from this fruit would make a stand alone Shiraz that would give the best from Beechworth a run for their money. The vineyard is in an isolated location up a dirt track perched in the Eldorado hills (The same granite formation as the Beechworth Plateau) amongst the boulders of an ancient granite outcrop. This vineyard is painfully low yielding and produces grapes of incredible concentration and flavor, we pick at around 13 baume to retain freshness. Fruit was split into 2 ferments, both gently destemmed to preserve whole berries with one containing approximately 20% whole bunches for a lifted perfume. Wine made from these grapes is consistently at the pointy end of our pre blending classification tasting and as previously stated would make an excellent stand alone wine. Something we have often pondered but due to tiny quantities of fruit available and its importance in this blend we have not yet pursued this pipe dream.
The second Shiraz component comes from two separate ferments of fruit from the Battely Vineyard that we manage in Beechworth. Both ferments were whole berry and displayed fresh fruit and fine graphite like tannins, the perfect fit for Quasimodo.
In 2019 Durif for Quasimodo was sourced from 2 vineyards, our home vineyard in Eldorado and excitingly the first crop from newly grafted vines at the Mt Pilot Estate just down the road. Both are cooler sites for this variety and produce elegant wines of restraint and finesse, a far cry from some of the monster powerhouses made from this variety. Part of the Eldorado component was fermented in a specialized puncheon fermentor, we have found wines fermented in these vessels have a really unique texture and mouthfeel, another layer of complexity in this unusual blend.
We are very conscious not to over extract the fruit as we want Quasimodo to be a wine that is a pleasure to drink in its youth with or without food, so as with all our reds it was hand plunged once daily and gently basket pressed straight to oak. Unfined, lightly filtered, Vegan Friendly. Bottled July, 2020.
Ergo Sum Shiraz 2014 Victoria Beechworth
Ergo Sum Shiraz 2014 Victoria BeechworthErgo Sum Shiraz 2014 Victoria Beechworth
Ergo Sum Shiraz 2014 Victoria BeechworthErgo Sum Shiraz 2014
Grape variety
100% Syrah
Soil
Grapes come from a granitic soil
Harvest
Grapes are manually harvested at maturity avoiding overmaturation.
Vinification
Grapes are entirely destemmed. Fermentation and maceration are performed in concrete tanks. The extraction is carried out by punching of the cap.
Maturing
The wine is aged in oak casks (with a proportion of 30% of new ones) for 18 months.
Tasting
Colour: deep garnet-red.
Nose: black fruit flavours (blackberry)
with some graphite and flinty notes.
Palate: the spice and black pepper aromas reflect the expression of this granitic terroir. A firm tannic structure provides to this wine an exceptional length.
Fighting Gully Road Rose 2019-Victoria Beechworth
Fighting Gully Road Rose 2019-Victoria BeechworthFighting Gully Road Rose 2019-Victoria Beechworth
Fighting Gully Road Rose 2019-Victoria BeechworthFighting Gully Road Rose 2019. Light salmon-pink colour, with freshness of hue. The bouquet is complex and meaty, smoked smallgoods, charcuterie-like, and at quite a remove from the fresh, grapy style of Aussie rosé. It’s soft and round, easygoing and gentle, with moderate length and a clean finish. Lovely balance and great drinkability. Excellent Aussie rosé
Indigo Shiraz 2017 Victoria Beechworth
Indigo Shiraz 2017 Victoria BeechworthIndigo Shiraz 2017 Victoria Beechworth
Indigo Shiraz 2017 Victoria BeechworthIndigo Shiraz 2017
This medium-bodied wine has spicy aromas with a soft palate of dark fruits, plums and cherries. Fine grained tannins and well balanced this wine will keep.
The Indigo Vineyard is located near the hamlet of Everton in the foothills of the Victorian Alps. The region enjoys beautiful views, fine dining, wonderful local produce, historic Beechworth streetscapes and is recognised for outstanding Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon. The hot days and cool nights, granitic sand and clay loam soils and a location in foothills of the Victorian Alps combine to create an amazing terroir for growing super premium grapes.