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.

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.

Selected by Qantas — first class cabin wine / Best of the West — Winestate.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

Achievements include: 1 Gold Medal, 3 Silver Medals and 7 Bronze Medals.
Selected by Qantas 1999 — first class cabin wine.