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Tasting Notes

2008 Chardonnay

This wine was made from fruit grown on the premium block of Chardonnay in our new vineyard on the Golden Highway near Denman. The grapes were picked at optimum ripeness. This unwooded Chardonnay displays rich varietal fruit characters and a soft finish.

2008 Verdelho

This wine shows good varietal aromas of tropical fruit with a crisp and refreshing palate. It is a perfect accompaniment to seafood and chicken dishes or may be enjoyed as a pre-dinner drink.

2008 Rosé

We are very proud of our Rose - the red wine drinkers' white. It is a very light dry red with a crisp dry finish and good fruit characters. It is an excellent pre-dinner wine or a refreshing long drink served with soda. It goes well with salads and similar light meals and is best served chilled.

Velvet Cabernet

A soft, easy drinking Cabernet Sauvignon. Goes well with Asian food or chilled as a refreshing drink. This is a drink-now wine not intended for extended cellaring.

Sparkling Shiraz

A sparking deep crimson wine with fresh fruit aromas complemented by subtle American oak characters. The palate is full flavoured with a fine balance of tannin and acid giving a crisp dry finish.

2000 Cabernet Sauvignon

A classic Callatoota Cabernet bottled in March 2002 after two years maturation in large American oak casks. This is a traditional style with integrated fruit flavours and subtle oak complexity

2003 Cabernet Sauvignon Pressings (Silver Medal)

This wine is typical of Callatoota Pressings – deep colour, well balanced fruit flavours and a big tannin finish. This classic Callatoota press wine will amply repay further careful cellaring

2001 Cabernet Franc 

This 100% Cabernet Franc wine has a deep brick-red colour and spicy berry fruit bouquet with subtle oak complexity. It displays medium weight, round, mouth filling fruit flavours with a nice soft tannin finish typical of this variety.

2003 Cabernet Franc (Gold & Trophy)

This wine was awarded a gold medal and the Trophy for the best wine in the “Open Red” class at the 2004 Hunter Valley Boutique Wine Show and was one of three wines competing for “Best Red of the Show”. It has a deep brick-red colour with subtle oak complexity. It displays round, mouth filling flavours with a soft tannin finish typical of this variety.

2005 Shiraz (Bronze Medal)

This is a traditional fruit driven style of Shiraz. The lifted spicy berry fruit is enhanced with very subtle oak. The palate has great length of fruit with a lingering soft finish.

Old Tawny Port

A rich, smooth Tawny Port showing the benefit of maturation in American Oak casks. It has a deeper colour than most ports of this style and a complex palate of well aged port with a good balance of flavour, sweetness and spirit. Goes well with fruit cake!

Home Bottling Wine

Our 2001 vintage Cabernet Sauvignon. We encourage people to bottle the wine at the winery using our facilities and advice. We can provide the bottles, corks and cartons for $216 for a 27 litre drum yielding 3 dozen ($6 a bottle). It takes two people about 30 minutes to fill 3 dozen bottles.


~ Bottle your own wine at the winery using our facilities and advise. It takes two people about 30 minutes to fill 3 dozen bottles ~

 


Our Home Bottling wine is a blend of 2000 and 2001 vintage of
Cabernet Sauvignon

 

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