<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> Cruickshank Callatoota Estate
Velvet Cabernet is a soft, smooth easy drinking wine with a nice clean slightly acid finish. It tastes like a bunch of grapes!

The Wines

All our wines are made only from fruit grown in our vineyard. The estate is completely self-sufficient, having its own equipment for every operation from harvesting to bottling and labelling.

The red wines are matured in large American oak casks for up to two years before being bottled in the winery and then held to mature for several years before release.

Chardonnay

Chardonnay

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

Verdehlo

Verdehlo

Upper Hunter Verdelho is developing a cult following throughout Australia. This wine is a good example of this style. It is a perfect accompaniment to seafood and chicken dishes or may be enjoyed as a pre-dinner drink.

Cabernet Rose

Cabernet Rosé

We are very proud of our Rosé - the red wine drinker's white. It is a very light dry red with a crisp finish and good Cabernet character. It goes well with salads and similar light meals and is best served chilled.

Velvet Cabernet

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

Sparkling Shiraz

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

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon

Several styles ranging from lighter 'free- run' to full-bodied wines. In good years a big 'press wine' is produced, which is unusual, as in most wineries this is blended with the 'free-run' wine to add extra body. The Pressings have been described as a 'wine fit for heroes'.

Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Franc

This 100% Cabernet Franc wine has a rich 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.

Old Tawny Port

Old Tawny Port

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

Bulk Dry Red

27 litre drums for bottling at home or in the winery: an easy, economical, instructive and affordable way to obtain good wine. Bottles, corks, cartons and labels can be supplied as well as the wine.