“It may be tempting to underestimate this small producer from Western Australia but do so at your own peril.”
- Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Battles focuses on a small collection of tiny-quantity wines from a variety of regions (at this stage, the Perth Hills, Margaret River, Great Southern and Geographe) made with great attention to detail, and vineyard provenance top of mind.
Only founded in 2019 the winery is already known on the national & international wine critics scene….
James Halliday 5 Star Winery & Top 100 Wineries 2024
WA Good Food Guide Wine of the Year 2023
(Frankland River Shiraz 2022)
Top 100 Wines feature in the Weekend Australian 2024
(2023 Battles Granitis Shiraz)
Frankland River Shiraz 2023
96 Points Campbell Mattinson, The Winefront
96 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
Lateralis Shiraz, Frankland River 2022
97 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Burnside Chardonnay 2023
96 Points Campbell Mattinson, The Winefront
97 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
97 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
Granitis Shiraz, Perth Hills 2023
96 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
13 Battles Wines -
Hosted by Chief Winemaker Lance Parkin
Including 3x Vintage Verticals:
Burnside Chardonnay - 2024, 2023, & 2022
Granitis Shiraz (Perth Hills) - 2024, 2023, & 2020
Frankland River Shiraz - 2024, 2023, & 2022
Monday September 8th
Masterclass: 5:30-7pm, 13 Wines with nibbles - $55.00
Dinner: 7:30pm, 13 Wines with 4 Courses $135.00
Private Dinning Room Events - 14 Guests Maximum
About Battles Wines:
Battles Wine was started by friends Lance Parkin (winemaker) and Kris Ambrozkiewicz (sommelier, sales). Lance was a winemaker at Houghton in the Swan Valley before the sale to the Yukich family in '19, at which point the Swan Valley-based component of the Houghton team disbanded and formed their own ventures.
Battles focuses on a small collection of tiny-quantity wines from a variety of regions (at this stage, the Perth Hills, Margaret River, Great Southern and Geographe) made with great attention to detail, and vineyard provenance top of mind. Kris Ambrozkiewicz (aka Ambro) has a longstanding and intense love of wine, an impressively honed bank of wine knowledge and years of sales experience.
Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate
The Wine List
1st Bracket
Riesling 2025 (New Release)
Pinot Grigio 2025 (New Release)
This wine shows elegance yet power, with intense fruit characters of pear, green melon and apple, with a hint of white flowers. A nicely weighted and textural palate frames the wine and gives lingering spice notes.
Battles Tasting Notes
1st Course
2nd Course
Burnside Chardonnay 2024 (New Release)
The 2024 vintage saw a wet winter, followed by a hot summer that allowed for ideal flavour development in the grapes. The Burnside Chardonnay is a selection of exceptional barrels, with the wine showing vibrant, toasty funk on the nose, progressing into a detailed palate of grapefruit, cashew paste and flint. There are complexing notes of toast and fennel cream from time spent in barrel. This wine shows the classic line and mineral edge displayed by the Ellens Ridge vineyard.
Battles Tasting Notes
Burnside Chardonnay 2023
The top chardonnay for Battles is a barrel selection – only three chosen – and this is scintillating. Flinty and funky, with mouth-watering flavours of grapefruit, white peach and ginger spice alongside a saline tang, with the oak unobtrusive. This is defined and electrifying, and the palate is long extended by the acidity and flavours. An excellent wine in anyone’s book; alas, only 80 dozen made. Get in quick.
97 Points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
Burnside Chardonnay 2022
If Lance Parkin can’t produce excellent chardonnay, then there’s something amiss. He’s a bit of a white burgundy buff and tasting great wine helps in many ways on the local front. This is exceptional. Tight, linear and pure with a certain elegance throughout. Everything is lightly applied: the spicy oak, the citrus tones, the millefeuille of creamy lees with a slight tug of phenolics as the palate shifts to overdrive for a resounding finish.
97 Points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
2nd Course
3rd Course
Temranillo 2024 (New Release)
This is very much in its infancy, showing off a deep purple hue and an abundance of primary aromas and flavours. Wafts of cherries, kirsch and blackforest cake without the sugar hit, just the aromas. Fuller-bodied yet not weighty, super savoury with tannins and acidity somewhat highly strung. Partner this with food to see it at its best in youth, or, even better, another year or so in bottle will do wonders.
93 Points, Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
Malbec 2024 (New Release)
From the Barreca vineyard in Donnybrook Western Australia. The 2024 vintage was challenging and hot. Cool wet winter followed by a warm, dry spring and a hot summer. The wine is ripe, but was picked with freshness remaining in the grapes, giving perfumed aromatics. The palate is slick and juicy with blackberry notes and hints of spice and cedar from its time in French oak. Enjoy now and up to 7-10 years.
Battles Tasting Notes
3rd Course
4th Course
Granitis Shiraz, Perth Hills 2024 (New Release)
Two vineyards – one in Geographe, the other Perth Hills – coming together as equals. It’s an excellent offering, starting with the inky dark purple hue before the aromatics sway you: pepper, crushed rock and florals, especially dark red roses, and a wave of brown spices. Really good fruit at its heart. Plentiful yet raw silk tannins sashay across the fuller-bodied palate and fine acidity takes this out for a long ride. Impressive.
95 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
Granitis Shiraz, Perth Hills 2023
Co-fermented with 3% viognier, 15% whole-bunches and aged 10 months in older French oak puncheons. Gee I love this wine. The aromatic variety is on full display with its florals, Middle Eastern spices and the smell of a hot road during a Perth summer. Yet, there’s a coolness across the palate, a lightness of touch thanks to fine tannins and lithe acidity. This makes me excited to drink shiraz again.
96 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
Granitis Shiraz, Perth Hills 2020
The power of suggestion is strong – this is granitic, mineral, shaley and cooling. The fruit is pungently inky and intense, speaking of mulberries, raspberries, blood plums and vanilla pod. The tannins are like fine-grit sandpaper, they shape and impact the voluminous fruit and keep it all hemmed in. This is bloody and raw, like a mainline into the dirt. It's wild ... but it's also compact, controlled, restrained, flowing and sleek. A svelte wine of circumstance and presence.
96 Points Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
4th Course
5th Course
Frankland River Shiraz 2024 (New Release)
Frankland River Shiraz 2023
This is aged in 30% new French oak puncheons, yet superbly integrated while adding cedary, woodsy spices to the wine. Tasting this next to the Granitis, with fruit from the Perth Hills, is so noteworthy as it perfectly highlights the differences of place as much as the winemaking. It has the inkiness of Frankland River (from the Swinney vineyard) – all dark fruit, licorice, pepper and tar. Full-bodied, yet the tannins are beautifully plump, ripe and velvety, caressing the palate along the way to a long finish.
96 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
Frankland River Shiraz 2022
Fruit off Swinney’s Powderbark Vineyard; this has morphed into an inky red, smelling of warm iron, squid ink and the blackest plums doused in baking spices. It has the cooling aspect of the region, almost a menthol-meets-wet-stone character. Plentiful tannins, cleansing acidity, and all in all, this is an excellent savoury shiraz.
96 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion