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Shiraz / / Victoria
A completely engaging construct of Victorian Shiraz, fashioned to a bright new world styling, endowed with ample complexity, derived from a combination of old vine fruit, controlled yields and selection of site. Scotchmans Hill can access and retain many of the smallest and most propitious parcels of fruit, grown to good vineyards on Bellarine Peninsula, providing a virtual artist's palette of balmy regional characters, from which to assemble a wine that's complex and animate, yet graceful and restrained.
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SauvBlanc / Geelong / Victoria
The dedicated growers on Scotchman's Hill are heirs to a tradition of producing the finest white wine grapes. They attend to the Bellarine peninsula's premier terroirs, nurturing vines to sprout much of Victoria's most articulate fruit. The team have assembled harvests of the most amenable Sauvignon Blanc, to be vinified into a refreshing post modern style, brimming with citrus, bright herbaceousness and a touch of quenching minerality. An integrated and easy to appreciate, classic dry white, that's just excellent with pasta or Al fresco cuisine.
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PinotNoir / Geelong / Victoria
Swan Bay is the sumptuous second tier of Geelong's leading winemaker. Established 1982, the Scotchmans Hill label has become synonymous with consistency and universal appeal. From great Bellarine vineyards refreshed by the maritime climate moderated by Port Phillip Bay and strong, cool Antarctic winds, Pinot Noir is grown to sandy loam and volcanic clay over broken down basalt subsoils. Treated to a timely exposure on skins for the perfect extract of rakish Rosé hues, a rejuvenatingly dryish pink wine of bright fruits, savoury backbone and crisp clean finish.
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PinotNoir / Bellarine / Victoria
Located on the Bellarine Peninsula, Swan Bay was named by Commander Matthew Flinders in 1803. The wines of Swan Bay are fruit driven in style, offering unbeatable consistency and quality, generous in flavour and designed to be enjoyed young. Grapes are sourced from the best vineyards and vinified at the salubrious Scotchmans Hill wineworks. A rejuvenating style of Pinot Noir, offering excellent mid palate weight and silky tannins, balanced by firm cherry acidity.
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PinotGris Grigio / Geelong / Victoria
The higher altitudes of Adelaide and balmy aspects of Bellarine are the pre-eminent Australian microclimes for growing Pinot Grigio. Components from good vineyards have been assembled around a core of estate grown Scotchmans Hill fruit to achieve the consummate Italianate varietal wine in refreshing, new world styling. An intense expression of pear, guava and citrus, fleshy with a mineral backbone. It displays zesty pear and citrus characters, offers great intensity and varietal complexity before lingering on a clean flavoursome finish.
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Chardonnay / Bellarine / Victoria
An assemblage of Chardonnay from the right side of Port Philip Bay. A backbone of fruit from the Scotchman's vineyards is supported by parcels grown to good vineyards around Bellarine and Geelong. A refreshing and flavoursome fruit driven, yet texturally rich Chardonnay of quality and consistency year to year, designed to be enjoyed in it's youth.
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Chardonnay / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
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Muscat / Swanhill / Victoria
The Hill is named after a high point from which enthusiastic Scottish settlers would view horse races. Scotchmans Hill have fashioned this exceptional range of wines to be fresh and fruit driven, ideally suited to contemporary tastes, perfect for early consumption.
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SauvBlanc / Marlborough Adelaide / Victoria
From their base of operations in Geelong, Scotchmans Hill have trekked the Adelaide Hills and sailed across the Tasman in pursuit of the finest Sauvignon Blanc. As exciting for its flamboyance of tropical fruit as for pungent, green herbaceousness, serve chilled and enjoy alongside prawns, Thai chicken or yum cha.
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Chardonnay / / Victoria
Mount Bellarine, on which Scotchmans Hill is located, is an extinct volcano where thick, black, moisture retentive and fertile volcanic soils of black clay with basalt subsoil lend individual and intense flavours to the wines. Chardonnay grapes grown here exhibit penetrating characters of stonefruit and melon with firm acid structures and crisp textures. Scotchmans Hill also retain vineyards in the King Valley where the cooler climes produce a softer, rich style of Chardonnay with vivid expressions of yellow peach, melons and aromatic tropical fruits.
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CabernetSauv Shiraz / / Victoria
Ever since the establishment of Scotchman's Hill to the balmy maritime aspects of Bellarine Peninsula, the award winning team have been on the lookout for harvests collated from climes further afield which are worthy of the estate label. In this case, the pick of Cabernet and Shiraz grown to choice vineyards, has been assembled into a solidly structured accord, exhibiting prominent spiced plum and berry flavours supported by firm stalky tannins, all fashioned into the enduring Scotchman's Hill style.
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Chardonnay / Geelong King Valley / Victoria
Scotchman's Hill can source grapes from the higher altitudes of King Valley, where the crisp and saturate microclimes develop Chardonnay that's renowned for sparkling wine. A backbone of fruit grown to vineyards nearby the Geelong winery is vinified alongside parcels of cool ripened King Valley Chardonnay, achieving a remarkably mouthfilling blanc de blancs style exhibiting elegance and poise. Offering excellent varietal definition and superb balance, the sparkler of choice to serve at every ocassion, as a smart aperitif or to accompany your favourite cuisine.
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Shiraz / Bellarine / Victoria
One of Victoria's stellar performers puts their stamp on Australian Shiraz. The windswept maritime aspects of Bellarine Peninsula punish vines into extracting the maximum amount of cool climate spice while developing the ripest, luscious berry flavours. The Scotchman displays an engaging intensity of Shiraz fruit characters, pliant tannins and crisp acidity in support of liquorice and plum notes, along with vibrant Bellarine expressions of freshly milled spice, minerality and brine.
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SauvBlanc / Geelong / Victoria
One of Australia's most esteemed and enduring white wines, completely unoaked, a fresh and vital Sauvignon Blanc to be consumed in it's youth. Low yields and careful management in the vineyard translate into a wine of elegance, complexity and irresistible varietal charm. A lively wine of intensity and well defined cool climate Sauvignon Blanc characters, brimming with fragrant tropical highlights, vegetal, gooseberry and slate.
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Riesling / Geelong / Victoria
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PinotNoir / Bellarine / Victoria
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PinotNoir / Bellarine / Victoria
One of Australia's most perennially feted and esteemed Pinot Noir, generously flavoured, brilliantly balanced, stylish and approachable. The Geelong/ Bellarine area has a long history of viticulture, which dates back to colonization by Swiss immigrants in the 1840s. Curiously, Pinot Noir is a wine that performs well in the cooler climes of the lower Swiss Alps. It remained however for Scotchmans Hill to establish Geelong as one of Australia's leading winegrowing regions, due in no small part to the quality and consistency of their splendid Pinot Noir.
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Riesling / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
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Chardonnay / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
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Chardonnay / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
A powerful yet refined Chardonnay, characterized by its excellence and intensity. Scotchmans Hill is vinified from the choicest parcels grown to low cropped, slow ripening vineyards on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, a tight and impeccably structured, elegant wine, expressing fully the maturity and quality of the vineyard, as influenced by maritime climes moderated by Port Phillip Bay. Scotchmans Hill is regularly blown by strong, cool Antarctic winds, which punish the vines and encourage the yield of intense grapes exhibiting a concentration of flavour.
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PinotNoir / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
Sourced off the earliest plantings of vine, now in their fourth decade of maturity, Norfolk represents the most superior bottling of Pinot Noir within the Scotchmans Hill portfolio. Fruit is all hand picked, whole bunch and wild yeast fermented before transfer to a high proportion of new French oak barriques for extended term of age. Alluringly complex with lifted scents of strawberry, beetrots and plum, its cherry sweetness and pastoral savouryness resolve on a satin sheened, spiced oak finish, ripe fine grain tannins assuring structure, balance and controlled power.
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CabernetSauv / McLaren Vale / SouthAustralia
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PinotGris Grigio / Adelaide Hills / SouthAustralia
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Chardonnay / Adelaide Hills / SouthAustralia
The Burgundian style of Chardonnay, vinified from choice parcels of Adelaide Hills fruit, artfully oak barrel fermented for palate weight and complexity, mouthfilling, structured and refined. A prominent nose of grapefruits and peach, its mealyness and saline savouryness are supported by apple custard creamyness, lees autolysis and tight mineral backbone. Estella Floris Willis was a pioneer and clan matriarch who loved good wine, her brood took up viticulture in the greater Geelong region and established the Australian icon brand known as Scotchmans Hill.
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Shiraz / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
Saline winds, maritime climes and sea shell soils, all conspire to achieve the ultimate Rhône styled Syrah. Bellarine Peninsula was identified by Swiss pioneers as a place of auspicious viticulture in the mid nineteenth century, Scotchmans Hill have established superb vineyards over the very terroirs of the colonial winegrowers. Lithe with pepper, elegant fruit and graceful tannins, this is the flagship Shiraz of the Scotchman, sourced from an elite block of Bellarine vine and fashioned for long lived excellence, ideally alongside a fond of delicately braised veal, truffles and morel.
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SauvBlanc / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
Scotchmans Hill enjoy a long established repute for the most satisfying Victorian Sauvignon Blanc, their expertise with the varietal has delivered an unbroken run of salubrious editions which have become a staple of the Australian wine list. Sauvignon Blanc was a natural choice for the Bellarine Peninsula, the team have since developed an intimate knowledge of the soils and microclimates most suitable for producing the very best. Cornelius is the estate flagship, the defining style in maritime influenced, cool climate Victorian Sauvignon Blanc.
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PinotNoir / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
Single vineyard Pinot Noir, the Grand Cru du Bellarine. Hand picked bunches of fruit are de stemmed to small open fermenters for several days of cold soak and wild indigenous yeast vinification, hand plunged daily and pressed to oak barrel at complete dryness, followed by a course of malolactic and fifteen months maturation. The top cut of fruit from the Scotchman's Hill tally of superior vine, redolent of dark berries, forest floor and spiced cedar oak, Pinot of power, concentrated, structured and defined, a weighty palate of persistence, polish and aplomb.
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PinotGris Grigio / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
Scotchmans Hill reserve the pick of their parcels for Cornelius, a flagship range representing the most elite blocks within the expansive catalog of estate vineyards. There's a single site of Pinot Gris that outperforms with each vintage. Picked off rows of closely husbanded vines, artisanally handled throughout the vinification, barrel fermented and treated to battonage on sedimentery lees for opulence. Bursting with nutty creamyness, bakers spice, applejack and the opulence of timely oak, a mouthfilling style of Pinot Gris, worthy of the finest gourmandise.
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Chardonnay / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
Stimulated by the refreshing maritime winds of Port Phillip Bay, the propitious vines at Cornelius Vineyard yield a precious harvest of the most splendid Chardonnay with every vintage. Crushed into a costly selection of the finest French oak for a luxurious course of barrel ferments, Victoria's answer to Chablis, a big boned Chardonnay style of macadamia, match stick and mineral. Solidly structured and intense, a seamless integration of white peach, calvados and custard cream, fruit, acid and oak in magnificent balance, a long and lingering palate of multi dimensional richness.
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Chardonnay / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
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SauvBlanc Semillon / Great Southern / WesternAustralia
Great Southern runs inland from the coast along Western Australia's nether region. The sibling maritime mesoclimes and warmer inland sites can vary, from something very like those of Margaret River to conditions which may be familiar to winemakers from Geelong. Scotchmans Hill have identified sites with the ideal conditions to deliver Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc grapes displaying brisk fruit characters and requisite varietal qualities. A chic young wine with excellent weight of palate in the essential fruit driven style of a classic dry white.
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CabernetSauv Merlot / Great Southern / WesternAustralia
When the Scotchmans Hill team embarked on a pursuit to acquire the finest parcels of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon in Western Australia, they discovered the magnificent national park of Cape Le Grand. White sandy beaches, crystal clear waters, the most magnificent wildflowers and sunbathing kangaroos were the added bonus in determining the choicest fruit.
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PinotNoir / Geelong Bellarine / Victoria
Established 1982, Scotchmans Hill host a tally of the most superior blocks of vine on the Bellarine. A splendid single vineyard Pinot Noir, only ever made in extremely limited quantities, grapes are all hand picked and painstakingly destemmed into small three tonnes fermenters for several days of cold soak, as the wild indigenous yeasts begin to weave their magic. Batches are hand plunged over the course of a fortnight, followed by a gentle press into a high proportion of new Troncais French oak barriques for sixteen months maturation.
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Scotchmans Hill is a family owned vineyard and winery based on the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria, Australia
Established in 1982, Scotchmans Hill has become a producer of some of Australia's most complex, elegant and consistent wines. Scotchmans Hill is located on Mount Bellarine which was named by the Scottish immigrants who settled the Mount Bellarine area in the 1840s. Mount Bellarine was formed over 30 million years ago by tectonic movement which formed Port Phillip Bay and the surrounding volcanic region of Geelong and Mount Bellarine.
The Geelong region's role in the development of the Australian wine industry began in 1842 when the first planting of vines was undertaken in the surrounding Barrabool Hills. Grown and managed mainly by Swiss immigrants, these vineyards were used to produce wine to be sold through the frequently held auctions in the city. The area flourished under the experienced management and by 1869 there were over 400 hectares planted. Many notable Swiss vine growers visiting added superior knowledge and quality to the wines.
Today there remains 250 vine growing hectares in the Geelong region. The Browne family have a history in the region when George and Rita Browne would visit their holiday destination in Portarlington taking their children with them. Their son, David Browne, became very familiar with the region and when given the chance to own property on Mount Bellarine in 1975 he and wife Vivienne bought Scotchmans Hill, a derelict dairy farm.
Scotchmans Hill enjoys a maritime climate, moderated by the relatively cool, dry climate and constant breeze from the 270 degree surrounding waters of Port Phillip Bay
The Southern Ocean and strong, cool Atlantic winds combine to produce the cool maritime climate of the Bellarine Peninsula. The vineyards at Scotchmans Hill are planted on north facing slopes at a latitude of 42 degrees south and an altitude of approximately 120 metres. The combination of these factors greatly reduces the risk of disease, the use of agrochemicals and synthetic additives. As an extension to their activities, the Scotchmans Hill contract consultancy company allows suitable grape varieties to be grown in appropriate mesoclimates around the Bellarine Peninsula and Geelong. Current contracts amount to 170 acres from ten growers.
Disease and pest control have been minimized by the installation of a meteorological information center. This maintains online climatic data with which our viticulturist can make timely decisions in determining necessary disease and pest control measures. The system further minimizes the necessity for agrochemical and synthetic input.
The first vintage in 1986 required one 1500 litre stainless steel tank and five barrels
In 1998 Scotchmans Hill built a new winery complex from ground breaking technology in construction. The construction was a 'first' for Australia and has been used in numerous subsequent winery applications. The existing winery now has an 8000 cubic metre barrel storage room and packaging facility and extensive temperature controlled, stainless steel storage along with 900 one to three year old French barriques (Alliers, Nevers, Troncais and Vosges).
Scotchmans Hill employ four qualified winery staff to manage the delicate vinification and elevage processes required for complex and balanced wines. Both winery and vineyard staff are employed on an educational advancement program where each employee studies a viticulture or vinification course to move through the company.
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