Special six of the Best from Australia

Summer of 69 Verdelho

A bouquet of honeysuckle and lemon followed by a sherbet edge. Fresh pineapple and white peach fill out the flavours giving the wine a light, summer feel. The name was inspired by the date of birth of the owner Sarah marquis. The Hippy era, peace, love and good times. The wine inspires these feelings. The summer of love and San Francisco spring to me and the wine promotes this beautifully. Wine for flowers in the hair.

Early spring saw perfect conditions for fruit growth, hinting at a promising start for the 2019 vintage. Bud burst occurred in the first weeks of September and accelerated through October. Some vines became vulnerable during the November flowering season with cooler, stormy conditions, but as the weather warmed up, ripening of the fruit continued at a steady pace into summer. Despite a few spells of anticipated hot weather in January – with South Australia breaking a number of heat records around the Australia Day holiday – temperatures did eventually stabilise, resulting in ideal growing conditions for the fruit to achieve its optimum colour and flavour.

Mollydooker is a Member of Sustainable Winegrowing Australia, and as such ensures that all wines are produced on a sustainable basis.

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The vineyards are situated on the magical Seaview Ridge, which with its ancient soils and Mediterranean climate, is home to some of the most iconic Australian wines. There are three separate vineyards – Long Gully Road, Coppermine Road and the Home Blocks, giving us a total of 114 acres of Shiraz, Cabernet and Merlot. All of the grapes are grown sustainably.

This wine is another classic from the Mollydooker stable as well as being a fun wine for happy occasions.

Summer of 69 Verdelho

Hamelin Bay Cabernet Sauvignon

Margaret River is renowned for producing some of Australia`s most elegant and refined red wines. This Bordeaux influenced dry red has oodles of style and class. Deep red in colour with a pink red hue. The bouquet is complex and varietal display of dusty, earthy blackberry and mocha. The palate is full bodied, rich and long with excellent sweetness and structure, fine but firm tannins.

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Hamelin Bay Wines in the Margaret River wine region was established by the Drake-Brockman family in 1992.  The family-run vineyard near Karridale is now also home to a cellar door and restaurant.

The Hamelin Bay winery is located at Karridale in the southern point of the region within a few miles of the ocean. The 63 acre `Five Ashes Vineyard` is located on well drained gravel soils and faces north across the valley to gain the sun`s warmth in this cool region. The wines themselves are an expression of the natural beauty and uniqueness of the area, the fruit ripens with an intensity of flavour and richness of character. Owned by the Drake-Brockman family, who have a long association with the area, they have in recent years, achieved great recognition and awards for their range of outstanding wines.

Margaret River’s world-class wine region is located in the South West of Western Australia.  Surrounded by ocean, the area is blessed with a maritime climate; wet winters and mild, dry summers.  Fine wines, abundant local gourmet food, pristine beaches and majestic forests combine to make the region a favourite tourist destination.

Our unique Five Ashes vineyard is one of Margaret River’s most picturesque vineyards.  The moderate maritime climate and a north facing ridge of prime gravely loam soils are ideal for premium quality grape growing.  The exceptional wine produced reflects these superb natural attributes of our 26 hectare vineyard.  The Whites are positioned on a cool Easterly slope with soils varying from prized Forest Grove gravels to Karri loams, whilst the Reds are situated on a warmer North-facing slope beneath the cellar door on deep, dark gravel loams.  The Whites exude freshness and elegance, and the Reds have restrained power and depth, both with distinctive and intense characters specific to each particular variety, block and site.  From our very first vintage, our wines have won awards thanks to the outstanding terroir influenced by perfect gravel soils, select aspects, and cool moderate maritime microclimate.

Hamelin Bay Cabernet Sauvignon

Tokar Estate Chardonnay

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Tokar Estate Chardonnay

Mitolo Angela Shiraz, a premium wine from one of Australia’s most exciting wineries.

The Shiraz fruit for this wine is sourced from Sandra’s block, located about 5km south of Mitolo’s Chinese Block. The soil and geology of this block differ slightly with less black Biscay clay and more alluvial Christies Beach formation. This soil type contains rocky fragments that have been sheared off the nearby hills and deposited in this soil millions of years ago. This soil type is free draining, resulting in less vigour over spring and more content vines in the ripening period. This leads to a brighter wine style with signature Mitolo Shiraz softness.

Mitolo Angela Shiraz is deep, bright crimson. Blackberry bramble, plum, and cassis perfumes blend with subtle mint and dried herbs. This Angela Shiraz is a true reflection of vintage, with the low yields producing concentrated wine of a more savoury nature and great structure. Blackberry, olive tapenade, tar and cassis flavours are balanced with bright acidity and subtle vanillin from oak ageing.

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Elderton Eden Valley Riesling

The 2023 ripening season was far from normal in the Barossa, instead it was a vintage which rewarded diligence in the vineyard and time spent tasting grapes and trusting your instinct. On deciding it was time to pick our Chardonnay, we headed to Craneford to ground truth the plan and also check on the ripening of our two Riesling parcels thinking it might be a week or so away from harvest. However we walked through each parcel separately to arrive in the middle with this look of excitement at the flavour we were seeing, it was so exciting to taste right at that moment of flavour just arriving – we picked the following day. The fruit was in such pristine condition that we decided to take the free run which was fermented separately, one parcel giving a very floral terpene lift and the other a citrus note and seamless acid line. We also cut the pressings for ferment in some old oak. A portion of this has been added back to give a touch of roundness and sophistication to the palate, whilst being careful not to add any
phenolic profile to an otherwise pristine example of Eden Valley Riesling

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The vineyard was first planted on the banks of the North Para River in Nuriootpa in 1894 by early German settlers, the Scholz family. In 1916, it was purchased by Samuel Elderton Tolley who named the Estate ‘Elderton’. He built himself a sprawling homestead on the Estate and sold the fruit to his family’s winery. It was run successfully for many years, but became derelict in the early years of the vine pull (circa 1975).

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Elderton Eden Valley Riesling

Seppeltsfield Grenache

Colour – Lively, medium crimson with pink hues
Aroma – Lifted, rosewater Turkish delight with a strawberry note
Palate – Sweet fruited on the palate with a dried herb savoury edge, talcy acidity and plum skin tannins

Food Pairing – Gamey meats such as lamb, duck and venison
Peak Drinking – Enjoy now – 2025

Sourced from the iconic Great Terraced Vineyard the Barossa Grenache is joven in style accentuating its juicy and bright characters. Lively, medium crimson with pink hues with lifted, rosewater Turkish delight with a strawberry note. Sweet fruited on the palate with a dried herb savoury edge, talcy acidity and plum skin tannins.

Hand crafted in the Barossa, our range is distinguished by two classifications – ‘Village’ and ‘Grounds’.
Our ‘Village’ range celebrates the revitalisation of the Seppeltsfield estate as a vibrant community of artisans – a modern day village – and is the foundation of our portfolio. The wine expressions within include classic Barossa varieties, to more emerging and exotic offerings. Our winemakers place particular specialisation in the reimagining of traditional ‘fortified’ red varieties – many central to the Barossa’s early emergence as grape growing region – now crafted into bright, modern wines of purity and elegance.
Our ‘Grounds’ releases are a study of the Barossa’s regional hero – Shiraz. Grown on single vineyard sites across the patchwork of the Barossa, our releases look to express the differences in terroirs of where our fruit is farmed.
As a unique signature of Seppeltsfield, the recent recommissioning of the 1888 Gravity Cellar sees our red varietals once again passed through its heritage-listed walls.The cellar, in complement to open fermentation, enables gentle colour and tannin extraction and preservation of aromatics – now a coveted modern day winemaking practice.

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Recognised as Australia’s most famous wine region, the Barossa is home to over 70 cellar doors and over 750 winegrowing families.
However, the Barossa is more than just a wine region; it is also a vital culture of fine wine endeavour, pioneering European influence, gastronomic excellence and strong community spirit.
Above all, it is a pride in a local sense of purpose and belonging.
Fabulous food, sumptuous wine, breathtaking geography, rich history, and generational tradition, the Barossa truly has it all and it is here for you to discover.

Seppeltsfield Grenache