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The wine is pale gold in colour with youthful, green hues. The bouquet is elegant and intense with smoky citrus lime and floral varietal characters.The palate shows youthful intense varietal floral Riesling fruit characters filling the length of the palate balanced with a long crisp clean acid finish. There is also a hint of smokiness and lime characteristics, a full middle palate and a touch of alcohol sweetness on the finish. While extremely enjoyable now, the history of this wine shows it will gain further complexity and depth of flavour over the next 4 - 10 years. The wine is crisp and sophisticated and may be served alone or with fine cuisine such as white meat fish yabbies or seafood.

Fume Blanc is a term use for wood aged/treated Sauvignon Blanc, made famous by the Sancerre wine region of France. Pale straw in colour with youthful green tints, the bouquet explodes with grassy and elegant distinctive Sauvignon Blanc and asparagus/passionfruit/lime characteristics with rich vanilla wood overtones. The intense herbaceous fruit dominates on the palate with soft tannin and vanilla wood characters. The flavour fills the mouth and has a long lingering finishing with clean crisp acidity typical of an elegant cold climate white wine. Crisp and sophisticated this full bodied wine would be an ideal aperitif or serve with its perfect food partner steamed asparagus or with fine cuisine such as freshly chucked oysters.

Deep dense crimson red in colour with a youthful purple and brick red hues, the wine has lifted, cassis and herbaceous berry like fruit aromas currently dominating the bouquet with cigar box vanilla wood overtones. The palate is well structured and full bodied, featuring rich, ripe and persistent classic Cabernet flavours supported by a backbone of integrated, finely grained soft tannins and French oak. The ripe fruit flavours are enhanced and sweetened by the oak and finishes with a balanced crisp acidity. Together these characteristics produce a wine of great complexity that fill the mouth over the length of the whole palate. The overall richness weight and structure of the wine will see it greatly improve with further careful cellaring over the next 10 years. It is an elegant, sophisticated wine that will age gracefully. The wine is an excellent accompaniment for red meat dishes especially BBQ and heavy pasta dishes and curries.

Oak Maturation: 9 months in new and one year old French oak barriques. Monthly batonnage on lees. Vintage: The 2016 vintage cold and wet in the early part of the season. The temperature then spiked in early October continuing to a mixture of warm days wet days and cool dry nights in the latter part of the season. Most rainfall was in the pre Spring growing period with drip irrigation required towards the end of the growing period around April. Winemakers Comments: Only free run juice used in this wine, inoculated with Burgundian yeast strains. Barrel & malolactic fermentation at 20 degrees celcius. Lees stirring over a nine month storage period.Tasting Note: The colour is a vibrant straw with tinges of pale green. The nose shows peach and melon characters with subtle spicy vanilla wood characters. Undertones of cashew, butterscotch and vegemite umami from extended lees contact and careful oak selection. The pallet is showing rich peach and pear fruit with spicy undertones. Extended lees contact in French Oak barriques adds dimension and length to the wine providing great texture, intense flavour through the length of the pallet. The wines finished dry with crisp acidity and a gratifying creamy finish. The extra bottle age has enhanced the pallet texture and mouth feel.Food: Raw and lightly cooked shellfish like crab and prawns, steamed or grilled fish, fish pâtés, fish, chicken or vegetable terrines and pasta or risotto with spring vegetables. Also goes well with creamy vegetable soups.

Vermentino is widely planted throughout the Mediterranean, often along the shore lines of both coasts and islands, where it produces bright clean lively wines with classic sea spray and wild herb characters. The variety has good acidity and can be made in several styles. The lighter aromatic style achieved with light pressing and cool fermentations generally without skin contact or oak maturation highlights the varieties fresh fruit and acidity. The grapes for our 2022 Vermentino are frome the Central Ranges grown at altitude on the slopes of Mount Canobolas at Orange. The wine was stored on lees in tank for 3 months prior to bottling. The resulting wine is pale straw in colour with slight green tinges. It has aromas of orange blossom, ripe nashi and a flinty background. The palate is rich with ripe citrus flavour and the wine finishes with a touch of salinity and a slight pithy grapefruit bitterness. The perfect wine with grilled sardines.

Single vineyard wines made from selecting the best possible parcel from the best blocks in the vineyard to produce a wine that is truly expressive of the variety, region and terroir. A no compromise approach to winemaking and blending produces wines that are the pinnacle of the Carillion range.

A wine that wowed our Tasting Panel when assessed, from boutique producer Mayfield Vineyard in Orange. Power and refinement, a superb wine.Opalescent green straw. Energetic nectarine and pineapple with alluring notes of struck match, flint and nougat. Rich, ripe and velvety, with an even mix of melon and fig, notes of white cheese and wood smoke, mouth-watering acidity, and balanced oak.

Aromas of rose petal and turkish delight. Silver Moscato is a blend of Muscat and Frontignac and has spent a short time on Shiraz skins to give it a touch of pink.