Less than half an hour out of Perth, the Swan Valley is Western Australia’s oldest wine region and home to wineries that go back to the 1830s! The region has gone through many iterations over such a long period of time and has enjoyed a sort of renaissance over the past couple decades. Though it […]
Margaret River is one of Australia’s most naturally beautiful wine regions, and it also boasts some of Australia’s most stunning cellar doors – probably a higher density of such than any place other than Barossa. It is truly a region in which one can easily and fully immerse oneself into the eternal romance that is […]
We love Rutherglen. The people of the region are so wonderful, the cellar doors are unpretentious and well staffed, and the wines are some of Victoria’s best. It is one of Australia’s most under-recognised wine regions, and that’s good for you the wine enthusiast because getting around is easy, and most of the wineries are […]
Margaret River is one of Australia’s top three or four wine regions. To many, it would be the region that springs next to mind after Barossa. Of course, the words “Margaret River” immediately evoke “Cabernet Sauvignon” and “Chardonnay”, but in recent times, the region is producing some beautiful takes on Shiraz, Malbec, and other varietals […]
In our estimation, on wine quality alone, Heathcote is VIC’s best wine region. Sure, you’ll find some mind-blowing Pinots in Mornington, and Rutherglen can produce some gems, etc, but nowhere else in VIC can you find such a reliable breadth of outstanding wines. It used to be primarily Shiraz (and we’d contend that Heathcote produces […]
These are the red wines we turned up in 2018 that can be well and truly categorised extraordinary. We would remind our readers that we are a small not-for-profit group relentlessly travelling on our own funds to explore and discover great wine. There would be dozens of amazing wines we never tasted or even heard […]
Bekker’s Wine Staff Knowledge / Customer Treatment short description very friendly staff Comfort/ Cleanliness Short Description Well Maintained Wine Quality Overall Great quality, a few tasted need more time to mature. Producing wines of stunning clarity. A purist’s dream wines. The range is tiny – a Grenache, a […]