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Premium White Wines
The 2008 vintage is very promising...the grapes appear to be maturing
evenly. This indicates lower Baumé
at flavour ripeness and better balanced
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Sauvignon Blanc
The wine demonstrates that Sauvignon Blanc is ideally suited to the
cool climate of the Frankland River Region. The fruit for this delightfully
fresh and crisp wine is picked as soon as the flavours develop. The wine is
fermented in stainless steel and bottled early to capture the full spectrum
of fresh fruit characters.
Achievements include: 4 Silver Medals and 7 Bronze Medals.
Selected
by James Halliday to represent Australia in the Tri Nations competition. |
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Chardonnay
The wine made from Chardonnay at Old Kent River is tightly
structured, elegant and ideally suited for cellaring for 3-5 years to allow
the secondary fruit flavours to develop. Cropping levels are kept low and
the fruit are generally picked at around 12.5 ° Baumé before it begins to
get too ripe. The wine is barrel fermented in new and one year old French
oak and matured on its lees in that oak for nine months. The wine does not
undergo malolactic fermentation and therefore retains its fruit flavours.
Achievements include: 3 Trophies, 4 Silver Medals and 13 Bronze Medals. |
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Selected by Qantas — first class cabin wine / Best of the West — Winestate. |
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Diamondtina
This is Western Australia's top Sparkling Wine. The name means
'sparkling water'. A particularly elegant sparkling wine made from a
combination of 70% Pinot Noir and 30% Chardonnay, the fruit picked at approximately
11 ° Baumé so that high, natural acid levels are retained
and is whole bunch pressed to ensure that the finished wine has great
delicacy. The wine spends at least three years on its lees before being
disgorged and liquored.
Achievements include: 2 Trophies, 1 Gold Medal and 3 Bronze. |
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Premium Red Wines |
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Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is ideally suited to the soils and cool climate found in
the Frankland River Region. The fruit is picked at approximately 13 to 13.5
° Baumé and subjected to traditional Burgundian wine making practices,
involving open vat fermentation. The wine is matured for 12-18 month in French oak,
of which about a third is new. The Pinot Noir at OLD KENT RIVER always has the
brilliant cherry red colour that characterises the best wines made from this variety.
Achievements include: Seal of approval — International Wine
Challenges; 3 Trophies, 2 Gold Medals, 9 Silver Medals and 21 Bronze Medals. |
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Burls (Reserve Pinot Noir)
Burls was chosen by Mark and Debbie to recognise the great care and
attention that was invested in the production of this superb wine. The rare
burls, which are knots found on the indigenous Jarrah trees, are much sought
after by woodworkers who handcraft them into exquisite woodwork with
distinctive grain patterns. The handcrafted and very limited Burls Pinot
Noir is made from fruit grown on the best block of vines at OLD KENT RIVER.
The wine was matured for 12 months in high quality French oak. A recent
tasting of the 1997 Reserve Pinot Noir (1st vintage) indicated that the
Reserve Pinots will live for ages! These wines need breathing to reveal
their true character.
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International Pinot Noir tasting 2000 — Quote:
"Something special, a lot of excellences level of intensity
and richness which is pretty rare for Pinot Noir. A job well done!"
Jim Clendenen, Au Bon Climat, California. 1997 Reserve Pinot Noir.
Sets the bench mark for Western Australia, James Halliday Wine
Companion 2007 edition. |
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Shiraz
This wine can only enhance the reputation of the Great Southern
Region of Western Australia as an excellent area for producing a high
quality, rich flavoured and elegant shiraz. That reputation was shown to be
well justified when the judges for the Divine Food and Wine magazine
(May/June 2002) selected three wines from this region as the best of the 60
shiraz that they had tasted from throughout Australia. Shiraz that is now
being made in the Frankland River Region bear a striking resem-blance to
those of Coté Rotie in the northern Rhone Valley. The fruit is picked
approximately at 14 ° Baumé producing very intense flavours, and
matured for 18 months in high quality French oak, of which 35% is new.
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Achievements include: 1 Gold Medal, 3 Silver Medals and 7 Bronze Medals.
Selected by Qantas 1999 — first class cabin wine. |
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Backtrack Range Wines
The Backtrack range is named after the shortcut from Old Kent River's main
vineyards in the Frankland Region to our cellar door on South Coast Highway,
Denmark.
BACKTRACK traverses the newly proclaimed Walpole Wilderness — 135,000
hectares of a pristine forest wonderland...dry in summer, excitingly wet in
winter, and in spring a myriad of wildflowers in one of the world's most
diverse botanical regions
The Backtrack range of wines are fantastic every day drinking wines. These
are fruit driven styles you can drink whilst young, or cellar for the short
term.
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BT Chardonnay |
BT Shiraz |
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