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CabernetSauv / Riverina / NewSouthWales
Awarded 3 GOLD MEDALS and made exclusively from Cabernet Sauvignon, picked extremely ripe to maintain the full sweetness of the style, and sourced primarily from McWilliam’s own vineyards in the Riverina wine region in New South Wales. Partially fermented on skins for eleven days to extract maximum colour and flavour, a high quality grape spirit distilled at the McWilliam’s Hanwood winery, near Griffith was added to the ferment in stages to assist with the integration of flavour. Receiving no oak treatment, this is a maverick fortified, brimming with riddles and complexities.
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Shiraz CabernetSauv / Riverina / NewSouthWales
The development of the Riverina as a major wine producing area was primarily due to the foresight of the McWilliam family. The estate's founder was greatly impressed by the soil profiles and access to irrigation. From bountiful vineyards within the McWilliam's portfolio of viticultural assets, the team has assembled a forward drinking Shiraz Cabernet blend with clean, ripe fruit and malleable tannins. "The classic Aussie red with an impressive display of fresh fruit characters to accompany rissoles, chops and snags!" -Wineweekly.com.au
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SauvBlanc Semillon / /
McWilliams retain some of the best vineyards and are well positioned to deliver the most approachable wines, always displaying good style and purity of varietal expression. Mostly Semillon with a third of Sauvignon Blanc, Inheritance is crafted to drink beautifully upon release, simply scrumptious with schnitzel and perfect with prawns. "On the Semillon side of things, flinty and green aromas with a kick from the Sauvblanc as it crosses the palate. Asparagus and nettle mix with cumquat and lemongrass, dry and refreshing!" -Pinotpower.com
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Inheritance sources fruit from within the muster of McWilliams vineyards, as well as from good growers who know the high standards that are required to work with one of Australia's eldest winemaking estates. An invigorating drink-now wine fashioned to display fresh, fruit driven characters and to accompany your favourite faire. "Nicely perfumed with angelica, glacé and currant, ripe pear flavours, lemons all around and a twist of tropicality. Good company with egg salad sangers, the choice of chilled white to sip with fried chicken!" -Pinotfiles.com
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McWilliams has established strong relationships with good growers who train their vines to deliver the best quality wine grapes. Inheritance collates components which are brought together and vinified into a ripe, fruit driven red wine with a flavoursome palate that drinks just beautifully when served chilled. "Soft bouquets with a touch of spice, coffee and currant. A satiny smooth palate with light, drying tannins to soak up some of the plump, plummy fruit, satisfying, easy to appreciate and unfettered!" -Winemonthly.com.au
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Chardonnay / Riverina / NewSouthWales
The McWilliams estate vineyards along the Riverina can be traced back to settlement, but the skill at vinification is cutting edge. Tradional principles of winemaking go hand in hand with state of the art facilities and a commitment to over deliver, whatever the style. "Sensible chardonnay wine with lively peach, citrus and swank, a generous effort from those wonderful folks who brought us Hanwood and Mt Pleasant. A bit of jazzy leesyness takes centre stage as the structure and flavour profile builds and persists!" -RieslingRider.com
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CabernetSauv Merlot / Riverina / NewSouthWales
McWilliam's inject a degree of excellence into all their production regardless of pricepoint. The winemaking team focuses on applying generations of accumulated expertise towards their expanse of vineyards in a manner that few other operations across the country can mobilize. "A delicious red with just the right amount of oak and tannin support to frame the fruit without getting in the way of what is essentially an appeasing, soft, plummy wine. Cocoa and spice with fig and eucalypt rounds things out and adds complexity!" -Pinotfiles.com
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/ Riverina / NewSouthWales
Taking pride of place in the pantheon of great Australian fortifieds, Hanwood is an exceptionally smooth and mellow, rich Tawny Port. An assembly of luscious wines which have been ageing in small oak cask for up to sixty years. Great care is taken at the blending stage to achieve an average age of ten years as opposed to five, which is the practice for most other Ports. The extra time spent in oak, combined with the traditional techniques perfected by McWilliam's since 1877, are what makes Hanwood such a very special Fine Old Port
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Palomino Semillon / Riverina / NewSouthWales
A rich and delicious effort, a mature, fully aromatic sherry. This fine aged Oloroso is a blend of sweet and traditional flor sherry components, with an average age of four to five years. The sweeter sherry portion is made by fermenting the free-run juices with a small percentage of the pressings. The fortification takes place gradually during the ferments, by the addition of no more than two per cent of a high quality neutral spirit at any one time, permitting the winemakers to arrest fermentation at precisely the desired level of sweetness
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Shiraz Mataro Grenache / Riverina / NewSouthWales
McWilliam's can trump the market when it comes to offering quality Ports that are complex, mature, and authentic within this range. This fine aged Tawny is made from Shiraz and Mataro, with a small proportion of Grenache fruit, blended to an average age of five years. The fruit, picked late in harvest to maintain the sweetness of the style, is sourced entirely from the Riverina wine region in New South Wales. A large proportion of the fruit is sourced from McWilliam’s own estate vineyards, with the remainder from very long-term contracted growers
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Frontignac / Riverina / NewSouthWales
This aged multi-vineyard Muscat is made from Red Frontignac and blended to an average age of five years. The fruit, picked extremely ripe to maintain the sweetness of the style, is sourced entirely from McWilliam’s vineyards in the Riverina wine region in New South Wales. The warm and dry conditions in the Riverina are ideal for fortifieds, enabling all the varieties to ripen superbly and produce great richness of flavour. Fermentation is arrested at the desired sweetness by the gradual addition of a high quality neutral spirit, also made at the Hanwood winery
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Palomino / Riverina / NewSouthWales
Mature and medium dry, this fine aged Amontillado is a blend of dry, sweet and traditional flor sherry components, with an average age of three years. It has been assembled from components of four neutral grape varieties including Palomino. Fruit is sourced entirely from long-term contracted growers in the Riverina. The Flor component is made using traditional Spanish methods, and is stored in old oak barrels (between five and forty years old) following innoculation with a film-forming yeast for a period of eighteen months
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Shiraz / /
Low alcohol wines for fans of good Shiraz? The underlying strength and success of McWilliam's for many generations has been the philosophy that wine is made in the country, cultivated and crafted by people who live and love the vines they husband. The skill of the McWilliams winemaking team is born out by their ingenuity at effecting unique styles which begin within the vineyard and are exactingly handled to the highest standards. Enter Balance, an engaging, complex plum and spice Shiraz wine with clean fruit and convivial tannins
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SauvBlanc Semillon / /
A mostly Semillon, low alcohol wine, with a smaller component of Sauvignon Blanc, formulated by one of Australia's sovereign winemakers. "Streetwise sem/sauv with a lower level of alcohol (8.5%) to accomodate stricter rules of an old ballgame. Steely dry fruit, but good flint and herbal qualities with just the right amount of lemongrass, lychee and tropical!" -Pinotpower.com, "You'll be checking the wrapper to convince yourself it really is low in alcohol, no trade-offs in terms of palate weight, primary fruit and fragrant aromas!" -Wine Mag.com.au
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96 Points James Halliday Wine Companion 2011
CabernetSauv Shiraz Merlot / Coonawarra Hilltops Barossa Yarra /
So named in commemoration of the year that Samual McWilliams planted his first vines at Corowa. 1877 is lovingly hand crafted each vintage from the best fruit available to McWilliams. The majority of Cabernet and Merlot are sourced from old vines grown to the celebrated Laira property in the Coonawarra, the Shiraz from original vines on the Barwang Vineyard. "Real claret with a hint of Rhone, in seamless blockbuster styling, only McWilliams have the skill and resources to weave such a pure wine from a complex tapestry of fruit!" -Case4Claret.com
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PinotGris Grigio / Canterbury / NewZealand
Essenze is a pure expression of New Zealand viticulture. From their bountiful vineyards near the heart of the South Island, the long, dry summers and abundant sunshine stimulate the vines to yield the most luscious white Pinot grapes. Sheltered from coastal winds by a low range of hills, the fruit ripens to perfection until harvest, determined on the basis of splendid natural sugars and complimenting acids, whereupon the Pinot Gris is picked by hand. A rich, luminous wine with exquisite varietal expression, spice, stonefruit and nut characters
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SauvBlanc / Marlborough / NewZealand
Marlborough experiences growing conditions for Sauvignon Blanc that are second to none. The distinctive pungency and zesty fruit flavours have established a unique style that is famous the world over. Abundant sunshine, cool nights and a long growing season translates into vibrant wines with distinctive flavours and character. Essenze is an intensely rejuvenating experience by virtue of its alluring scents of gooseberry and green vegetable up front, followed by a steely, mineral palate which finishes satisfyingly dry and laden with lingering fruits
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PinotNoir / Central Otago / NewZealand
True to the meaning of the word essence, a wine that expresses the heart and soul of New Zealand's premiere Pinot Noir growing region of Central Otago. The Pinot grapes grown to the ultra cool ripening mesoclimes here are characterised by small berries with concentrated fruit flavours which yield intense wines with redolent bouquets and mighty tannins. "A mouthfilling pinot noir which can match standing rib and fat potatoes. Trade spice, cabbage and black cherries with accents of campfire and stalk, field mushrooms and musk!" -Pinotfiles.com
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Chardonnay / Hilltops Tumbarumba / NewSouthWales
Meaning place of water, Barwang owes the character of it's wines to the pristine sources of irrigation. An affinity for the land and a holistic approach to sustainable land management is present throughout all aspects of viticulture, delivering bold, flavoursome wines. "Chardonnay from McWilliams Barwang vineyards are distinguished by their energetic fruit and crunchy acids. Cuvée 842 goes the next mile, injecting the palate with lusty characters of creamyness and sherbet, grapefruit and nut by virtue of luxurious barrel treatments!" -Ozwinenews.com
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McWilliam’s Wines is one of Australia’s largest and most highly regarded family-owned wine companies
Since 1877 when Samuel McWilliam planted his first vines at Corowa in New South Wales, successive generations of the McWilliam family have been pioneering the art of fine winemaking in Australia. Always innovative, McWilliam's has ensured its position at the forefront of Australian winemaking by introducing new production techniques and some of the world's most advanced technology in the company's wineries and vineyards.
McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant Estate – nestled in the slopes of the Brokenback Range in NSW’s lower Hunter Valley – was established in 1921 by legendary winemaker, the late Maurice O’Shea. Today, the Hunter Valley is widely regarded as the home of semillon, and McWilliam’s as the producer of Australia’s best wines from the variety. O’Shea’s ground breaking work has been kept alive by revered winemakers Brian Walsh (1956-1978) and Phillip Ryan (1978-current). The fact that there have been just three Chief Winemakers at Mount Pleasant since 1921 has ensured consistency of wine style and quality.
McWilliam’s Barwang Vineyard is located in the emerging, cool-climate Hilltops region, located on the southwest slopes of the Great Dividing Range, near Young in New South Wales. This high-altitude (560m) vineyard enjoys a dry summer and autumn, with cool nights and mild days resulting in a long ripening period. Heavy snowfall and frost in winter are quite common; and whilst substantial rainfall occurs in the growing season, most falls in spring. The region’s soil is deep red, decomposed granite clays impregnated with basalt. Showered with trophies and medals and praise from the media, McWilliam’s Barwang range has already carved an impressive reputation.
The Laira Vineyard was established in 1893 in Coonawarra’s famous terra rossa heartland
It is today widely regarded as one of the region’s best plantings of Shiraz. With Shiraz the only wine grape planted in Coonawarra from 1900 to 1950, the variety has played an important role in establishing Coonawarra’s international reputation as Australia’s pre-eminent red wine region. McWilliam’s Wines is today one of the largest landholders in Coonawarra, with almost 300 hectares of mainly cabernet sauvignon and shiraz vines. In recent years, the company has extended the Estate to include the 165 hectare Station Block and 100 hectare Kirkgate vineyards  The Yarra Valley – located just 50kms from Melbourne – is one of Australia’s premier cool-climate wine growing regions. It experiences consistently cool to mild weather, which allows for the slow, even ripening of fruit and produces long-lived wines of the highest quality. Lillydale's two vineyards, Morning Light and Sunnyside, were among the first to re-establish in the Yarra Valley in 1976. McWilliam’s award-winning Lillydale Estate range – which is overseen by McWilliam’s Chief Winemaker, Jim Brayne - exhibits classic cool-climate characters.
"Plant a six-inch nail in this soil, water it and in a year you will have a crowbar." So said John James McWilliam when he arrived in Hanwood in 1913. The development of the Riverina region as a major wine producing area was primarily due to the foresight of the McWilliam family. The Riverina, and Hanwood in particular, was an area John James McWilliam – the son of McWilliam’s founder, Samuel McWilliam – had identified earlier as having the potential to service the growing domestic and export wine markets. McWilliam’s Hanwood winery is distinguished by its barrel-shaped cellar door tasting room, and the large array of old bottles and winery memorabilia displayed in a 17 metre-long museum in the shape of a bottle.
Matthew McWilliam, son of Regional Director Max McWilliam, makes the famous McWilliam's Cream Sherry at the Robinvale Winery in the heart of the Sunraysia District of Victoria. Matthew and his staff welcome you to their charming Cellar Door to taste the full range of McWilliam's portfolio.
The underlying strength and success of McWilliam's Wines for more than six generations has been its belief that wine is made in the country - cultivated and crafted by people with skill and tradition who live and love the vine - not through acquisitions and mergers in corporate boardrooms. Wines are made by people. Great wines are made by the McWilliam family
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