Duke’s Vineyard:
New Releases
Duke's Official Cabernet & Shiraz Launch
Sunday, March 15th
Hosted by Ben Cane, Owner & Winemaker
Lunch: 12-3pm | 12 Wines and 4 Courses | $125
Masterclass: 4-6pm | 12 Wines and Kate Lamont Canapés | $55
Dinner: 6.30pm | 12 Wines and 4 Courses | $125
Duke’s Vineyard &
James Halliday Awards Context:
A Tradition of Excellence
Duke's Vineyard is a family-owned, boutique winery that has achieved many outstanding accolades over a 20+ year history including being awarded Best Australian Wine of the Year in 2019 for the 2017 Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling by James Halliday’s Wine Companion. We are noted as a Top Winery in Huon Hooke’s Real Review, were awarded Best Riesling of WA in 2022 for the 2022 Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling, and have been one of James Halliday Top 100 Wineries and a Red 5 Star winery since 2013, placing our vineyard among "truly the best of the best." (Duke’s Vineyard)
…Moreover, at least one wine included in each of the 2016-2021 six James Halliday’s Top 100 articles - and 11 in total … against the combined rest of the wine industry. In the James Halliday Top 100 2016… the Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2016
In the Top 100 2017 edition… the Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2017
In the Top 100 2018 edition… the Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2018
In the Top 100 2019 edition… the Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2019 & the Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz 2018
In the Top 100 2020 edition… the Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2020 98 points & The First Cab 2019 98 points
In the Top 100 2021 edition…The Morrisey 2018, Magpie Hill Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2018, Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2019 & the Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz 2018
…& in 2022 The Tiny Duke’s Vineyard had 2 Cabernet Sauvignons amongst the top 30 varietal Cabernet Sauvignons in the James Halliday Wine Companion 2022 - despite the Porongurup region not being known for Cabernet Sauvignon.
Quite extra-ordinary!
The Wine List & Menu TBC
2025 Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling
The nose is very reserved, with suppressed fruit leaving mineral/beach sand, almond and faintly sulfurous aromas. The wine is also reserved and delicate in the mouth, tightly closed and borderline austere. I would cellar this at least another year, several if you can keep your hands off it.
91 Points - Huon Hooke, The Real Review
2023 Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling
Ray Jordan’s ‘Top White’
Now firmly established as one of a handful of Australia's greatest rieslings. This is another beautiful wine. It's slightly friendlier than the awesome '22, but lacks nothing in intensity and drive. Fine lift of wet granite, crunchy quartz and fine lemon and spicy pear on the nose. The palate is so complex and intricately woven with passionfruit, guava, green apple skin and light talcy bath salts. Fine with a precise fine acidity extending to a relentless finish.
97 Points - Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com
First course
2024 Invitational Margaret River Chardonnay
2023 Invitational Margaret River Chardonnay
Young Gun of Wine - Margaret River’s Best Chardonnay
Light lemon-yellow with a fragrant nose of poached apples and grapefruit pith. Medium weight, a textural opening that is richer than the nose suggests. Apple and peach fruit, touch of agave then a nougat note adds a deeper tone. Good length, carried by fine and precise acidity to the finish
93 Points - Stuart Knox, The Real Review
Second course
2024 Magpie Hill Shiraz (Launch)
2023 Magpie Hill Shiraz
Appearance: medium to deep magenta, blood orange edges
Aroma: dark forest berries, blueberry, graphite, forest floor, blackberry bramble, white pepper, fresh violets, wet steel, cardamom, cedar bark, wet pine needle, green peppercorn, gun powder tea, cocoa powder
Palate: crunchy black and red currants, blood plum, umami, cured bresaola, soy, tannins are compact and emanate from mid palate outwards, juicy boysenberry, very fine grained dense tannins, salted pastrami, medium weight, complete structure, dark chocolate, fresh tobacco, gd length and finely poised, hint of tar and toasted spices
Duke’s Vineyard Tasting Notes
2024 Whole Bunch Syrah (Launch)
2023 Whole Bunch Syrah
Appearance: medium to deep magenta, with purple edges
Aroma: lifted floral bouquet of roses, violets; dark berries of blackberry and blueberry; ground black pepper, raspberries, white currants, shaved cedar, wet graphite, moist forest floor, toasted rye bread, plump ripe plum skin, black berry bramble
Palate: juicy dark red berry fruit, plum skin; savoury, umami, medium length; fine firm tannins that surround the fruit; an earthy, slightly tarry finish; cassis leaf, dark currant, delicate, but well proportioned; red peppercorn, juicy sappy finish
Duke’s Vineyard Tasting Notes
Third course
2024 Magpie Hill Cabernet Sauvignon (Launch)
2023 Magpie Hill Cabernet Sauvignon
Appearance: dark deep purple magenta with dark red edges
Aroma: powerful dark cassis and blackcurrant, red cherry, crushed red currant and raspberry, lifted fresh red rose petal, shaved milk chocolate, cinnamon, baking spices, wild raspberry bramble, vanilla pod
Palate: bright lifted red forest berry fruits, cassis, bramble, raspberry, blood orange zest; fine grained, persistent, plush; taut, poised and elegant; refined long, complex and tightly wound cherry skin; complete velvet tannins which hug and elevate the fruit and oak, with a hint of milk chocolate and red currant on the finish
Duke’s Vineyard Tasting Notes
2024 The First Cabernet Sauvignon (Launch)
2023 The First Cabernet Sauvignon
Appearance: dark deep purple ruby with purple edges
Aroma: dark red forest berry fruit of red currants, raspberries and dark cherries; freshly sawn cedar with vanilla pod; lifted red florals of spring flowers and red rose petals; sappy, juicy and refined; wild sage and a hint of spearmint, cocoa powder, wild bramble
Palate: juicy red berry fruit, raspberry cane, red currants, raspberries, red cherry skin; a medium to full palate of juicy generosity, red floral lift; silky tannins that are full, framing the plush red berry fruit, blood orange, graphite, wet steel; excellent length and persistence; poised plush, candied cherries; dense, complete fine tannins
Duke’s Vineyard Tasting Notes
Fourth course