CHALMERS, Euston NSW, Heathcote VIC
Winemaker: Sandro Moselle
The Chalmers family began their pioneering work in Italian varietals in the late nineties with the importation of around seventy new varieties and clones into Australia. They now produce a distinctive range of wines from these varieties while leaving the smallest possible ecological footprint. Chalmers are industry leaders in sustainable practice and water efficiency in the vineyard and this care and attention is also applied in the winery where contract winemaker, Sandro Mosele uses natural winemaking techniques letting the inherent fruit characteristics play the principal role in the finished wine.
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JOURNEYS END, SA
Winemaker: Ben Riggs
***** 5 Star rating winery by james halliday 2005, 2006
***** 5 Glass rating winery by james halliday 2005, 2006
Top ten new winery 2005, 2006 by james halliday
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MERRICKS CREEK, VIC
Winemaker: Nick and Gary Farr
5 star winery by james halliday 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
*****5 Glass rating by james halliday 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
”Champion pinot’s” as said by james halliday in gourmet traveller july 2006. The vineyard was established with the best available clones in australia (mv6, 113, 114, 115, 777 & d2v6). Furthermore the highly regarded 666 & 667 clone and the famed californian vineyard ‘calera’ clone.
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UNDERGROUND, VIC
Winemaker: Adrian Hennessy and Peter Stebbing
Mornington Peninsular/ Mt Eliza
Former T Gallant Winemakers making single vinyard wines which overdeliver in value.
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SILENT ASSASSIN WINES, VIC
Winemaker: Steven Flamsteed
Wines that over deliver for price.
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INDIGO, VIC
Winemaker: Ian Riggs
The estate lies on the lower to mid-hillside in the hamlet of Montemassi in Tuscany’s coastal Maremma area.
The soil is a clay base with cordon spur double Guyot canopying systems.
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FOXY'S HANGOUT, VIC
Winemaker: TONY & MICHAEL LEE
After two decades of owning and running popular and award-winning Melbourne hospitality businesses, brothers Michael and Tony Lee turned their years of love and knowledge of fine wines into a livelihood on Victoria's beautiful Mornington Peninsula. The brothers planted their first vineyard in 1997, at Merricks North near the iconic Peninsula road junction named Foxeys Hangout, from which our label takes its name.
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TORZI MATTHEWS (EDEN VALLEY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA)
Winemaker: Domenic Torzi and Tracy Matthews
Jancis Robinson MW: "Domenic Torzi is typical of the new generation of Australian wine artisans, hand-making wine from a small patch of vines, taking an extraordinary risk by planting vines in a frost pocket on the gentle slopes of Mt McKenzie in the Eden Valley because he and his partner Tracy Matthews were convinced that the naturally low yields on the poor soils here and the particular flavours were worth risking the frosts that had driven those who originally planted vines here in the early 20th century away. Their ten hectares of vines went into the ground in 1996 and Domenic, from an Italian family that settled on the Adelaide Plains in the 1950s and have been making olive oil, and wine for home consumption, for some time, was anxious to get to grips with a really special piece of land. So much is made of the Barossa and to a lesser extent Clare Valleys that the beautiful Eden Valley, its unpaved roads lined with gums, is often overlooked. Yalumba and Henschke are the king and queen. Torzi Matthews is definitely an upstart serf."
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