We are in love with Warrabilla Wines.  We have been major fans for some time. We love the genuine, unpretentious people who work at Warrabilla’s homey and welcoming all-AUS good times cellar door 🙂 But most important, of course, are the singular wines this place produces. Warabilla’s are wines of diamond clarity, huge but impeccable fruit expression, and unbelievable smoothness. The reds would stand up to any kind of meat dinner you threw at them, but are so elegant they can be enjoyed gloriously alone.
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Not many years ago, high alcohol content wines were shunned by the industry’s “elite”.  But as time has worn on and people demand more and more character in their wines, the alcohol content has crept up because the ripeness at which fruit is picked is strongly related to the alcohol content of the end-product wine. Riper fruit equals higher alcohol content, but for a well-managed vineyard, it also equals more of the varietal’s natural fruit flavour.
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Enter Warrabilla Wines. I am not sure that we have ever seen a Warrabilla wine with an alcohol content below 15%. Those super ripe grapes that go into Warrabilla’s deft winemaking have resulted in big wines that are some of the most masterful expressions of their underlying fruit that we have ever tasted! The alcohol structure in Warrabilla’s wines offers the perfect platform from which the flavour and character of the grapes can most powerfully assert themselves. Yes these are great big wines, but they are big in a supremely elegant way. They are velvet sledgehammers – as smooth as a wine can come, but ultimately satisfying. We have not found such a commanding demonstration of finesse and power in any other AUS producer. It is so rare that one can attach the adjectives “deep”, “plump”, “powerful”, “assertive”, “harmonious”, “smooth”, and “effortless” all to a single wine, much less a family of wines! They simply blow most other wines right out of the water.

We highly recommend the 2016 Reserve Grenache, 2013 Parola’s Cabernet Sauvignon, and 2015 Parola’s Durif.  You will not find more stunning clarity of fruit expression than these three wines boast. If you have any misgivings whatsoever about what a Grenache should taste like, grab that 2016 Reserve. Every last drop of the grape’s flavour profile is there on prominent display.

Warrabilla Wines is the heart of #WhyWeLoveWine