2022 Cabernet Malbec is a textbook Dominique Portet style of red - bright, fresh and fragrant with elegance and texture that will reward mid-term cellaring.
Dominique Portet was instrumental in highlighting Australia's potential for sparkling at Clover Hill, Tasmania. That dedication continues with this highly acclaimed sparkling. It's light, fresh, and, as James Halliday notes, "A totally delicious and elegantly poised wine…"
Long regarded as Australia's first true Provence style - and arguably most successful - dry Rosé. Red berries are joined with bright citrus on the palate from the Merlot and Shiraz, with Cabernet delivering the intensity and drive on the finish.
2022 gave us wonderful conditions for the style of rosé we enjoy – that is to say a wine that is elegant, subtly complex and effortlessly drinkable. Mild conditions during ripening allowed the grapes gradually to develop lovely flavor while retaining vital natural acidity.
Long regarded as Australia’s first true Provence style - and arguably most successful - dry Rosé. This has been a mainstay of Dominque Portet since the beginnning, and is now stronger than ever thanks to Rosé’s global success. Pale pink with ripe fruit, creamy mouthfeel and crunchy acidity - it’s everything you’d want from a Rosé.
Barrel fermentation and lees stirring add complexity and texture, making this wine look more like a white Bordeaux than your typical new world Sauvignon Blanc. Citrus acidity, stone fruits, gunflint and honeycomb with great texture.
It’s a rich, rounder style than we usually produce, with power, opulence and texture balanced by crisp natural acidity, adding freshness and poise. Delicious now, a couple of years in the cellar would help accentuate the experience.
Textbook, classic Yarra Valley Bordeaux blend - bright, fresh, and fruit forward. Plenty of concentrated fresh berry fruits and bramble, refreshing acidity and fine tannins give the wine a silky texture and a long finish.
This vineyard was originally the source of our sparkling wines, but the quality of the grapes was so too good not to make it into a single vineyard still wine.
2019 will go down as one of the great vintages for accessible, bright and fragrant Cabernet. Everything came into balance - The fruit is dark, brooding and mouth coating; the tannins are svelte and long; the acidity is clean and refreshing. It all intertwines seamlessly, to give us a wine we consider to be bright, detailed, elegant and fine.
The pinnacle of the Dominique Portet wines, André is made only in exceptional vintages - 2015 is only the 6th release. It is named after Dominique Portet’s father and Ben’s grandfather, 8th generation winemaker and former Technical Director (vineyard and winery manager) at the esteemed Château Lafite-Rothschild in Pauillac, Bordeaux.
