NEW RELEASE Mount Horrocks’ Watervale Riesling Vineyard is a very high (475 metre) vineyard planted on red loam over limestone, a profile that occurs throughout the sub-region and considered to be...
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Weekend Australian Magazine TOP 100 of 2024 97 Points Living in a wine region has its advantages. During harvest this year I bumped into winemaker Stephanie Toole in the greengrocers and...
NEW RELEASE – 1st July 2025 98 cases produced This couldn’t be more straightforward; harvest red grapes when they have crisp fresh flavours (but not under-ripe) and extract the juice...
Mike Bennie – Halliday Wine Companion 94 Points Choc-mint, cola, dark cherry, some leafy Italian herbal stuff, some malt, Vegemite notes and cinnamon toast; just a lick of the latter things,...
289 Cases Produced Hand-picked fruit is whole-bunch foot crushed to give more perfume, while the remainder is crushed and fermented for more palate weight. Both components then spend 18 months in...
180 Cases Produced The yeasts from the vineyard initiate the fermentation as is now the case with all our red ferments. Gently plunged just twice daily, fermentation is followed by 18...
242 CASES PRODUCED The Mount Horrocks Semillon Vineyard is on distinctly weaker, rocky soil. The vines struggle even in a ‘normal’ season. According to Stephanie, semillon vines need to be challenged...
NEW RELEASE Inspired by the wines of Sicily, Stephanie planted Mount Horrocks’ Nero d’Avola vineyard in 2007. The grapes are harvested by hand, then cold-soaked prior to a nine day ferment....
890 cases produced A highly risky and complex process, the making of this wine is very much about seat-of-pants decision making and this is where the experience of 30 vintages certainly...
SOLD OUT 170 cases produced This couldn’t be more straightforward; harvest red grapes when they have crisp fresh flavours (but not under-ripe) and extract the juice with just a touch of...