<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> Cruickshank Callatoota Estate
Bottle your own wine at the winery using our facilities and advice. It takes two people about 30 minutes to fill 3 dozen bottles.

Tasting Notes

Our cellar door welcomes visitors for tastings and sales daily from 9am to 5pm. Visitors to the cellar door are looked after by owners Barbara, John, Geraldine and Laurie.

2009 Chardonay

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.

2009 Verdehlo

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.

2009 Rose

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.

2002 Cabernet Sauvignon

This classic Callatoota Cabernet has been matured in large American oak casks for two years which has resulted in a soft easy drinking wine. This is a traditional style with integrated fruit flavours and subtle oak complexity. Its elegance makes this the perfect partner for a wide range of food styles.

2007 Shiraz

This is a 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 long dry finish. This wine was made in our new winery at Denman solely from grapes grown in our Denman vineyard.

2002 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.

2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Pressings

This wine displays an attractive ripe fruit bouquet and well balanced fruit flavours. It has a soft but long, clean, firm, tannin finish typical of the good examples of this style that have spent a few years in large American oak casks. It is drinking well now and will continue to improve with further careful cellaring.

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.