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2008 LANDTREE CABERNET SAUVIGNON

South Eastern Australia is the largest and most productive winegrape growing region in Australia. With a wide range of terroirs, it contributes a diversity of style & character. This wine displays concentrated flavours of blackcurrant and plum with deep colour and intense aromas. The wine will reward patience and will undergo tertiary development over time.

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2013 LANDTREE CABERNET SAUVIGNON (Rosie Edition)

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2013 LANDTREE CABERNET SAUVIGNON (Stella Edition)

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2008 LANDTREE MCLAREN VALE SHIRAZ

McLaren Vale is a premium wine region just south of Adelaide. It boasts a mild climate with maritime influences and a commitment to sustainable environmental practices. This luscious wine shows extravagant depth and character. The deep red hues are complemented by richly developed Shiraz muscularity. Generous fruit length and breadth with a velvety consistency and lingering finish will please the most discerning palate.

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2012 LANDTREE LANGHORNE CREEK SHIRAZ

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1998 SEMILLON/SAUVIGNON BLANC

Tasting Notes
This wine is subtle yellow with green hues and brilliant clarity. The bouquet is characterised by a delicate blend of green apples, white peaches and honeyed pears, with an underlying Sauvagnon Blanc leafy herbaceousess. The palate is austere and well structured, with mouth filling Semillon varietal nuances of straw and freshly cut grass. The wine has an impressively long crisp green passionfruit finish.
Cellar Life: 0-6 years.

Winemaking
The fruit for this wine was picked at night, and treated very gently during the winemaking process. Each component of the blend was kept separate, utilising specific techniques to bring about varietal definition and complexity. The components were then blended, clarified and bottled.
Current release

1998 PARTIALLY OAKED CHARDONNAY

Tasting Notes
The wine is crystal-clear with an enticing mid-straw colour and lime hues. The bouquet is an intense mixture of tropical fruits including mango skin, ripe peach and syrupy pineapples with a dusty oak, almond and bread like complexity. The wine is full bodied and intensely flavoured with an inconspicuous spicy oak background, excellent fruit weight and balanced acidity.
Cellar life: 0-5 years.

Winemaking
Special techniques were utilised in a deliberate attempt to provide complexity yet approachability for those who prefer fruit freshness to predominate in their Chardonnay wines. Around ninety percent of the wine was fermented without the influence of Oak. A combination of oxidative handling, lees stirring, warm ferments, partial Malo Lactic Fermentation, and fermentation in French Oak barriques were used to introduce subtle complexities into the blend.
Current release

1998 PINOT CABERNET

Tasting Notes
The wine colour is mid crimson with raspberry hues.Strawberry, cherry and chocolate mint aromas emanate from this unique blend. This wine possesses an approachable and luscious Pinot Noir mouth feel, firm Cabernet tannins, elegant cinnamon oak and a lively flavoursome finish.
Cellar Time: 0-5 years

Winemaking
This wine has been designed for those who enjoy the intricacies of the Pinot Noir variety yet also enjoy the full bodied tannic structure of Cabernet. The blend is made up of 61% Pinot Noir, 26% Cabernet Sauvignon and 14% Cabernet Franc. Two thirds of the blend was matured in French Oak barriques to introduce subtle complexity without detracting from the fruit freshness of the style.
Current release

1998 RESERVE SAUVIGNON BLANC

Tasting Notes
While young this wine will remain almost transparent with bright green tints, but with time will transform into a deep autumn yellow. Whilst somewhat restrained in it’s youth, the aromas of this wine are a complex blend of sliced capsicum, green apples, peaches, fresh cream rose buds and a hint of fresh bread. The striking feature of this wine is the palate viscosity and mouth filling varietal intensity, which combines with a mineral complexity unique to it’s terroir. The natural composition of the grape was exceptional in 1998, providing the wine with a long, lively and warming finish.
Cellar Life: 0-10 years.

Winemaking
The wine was made from the best parcels of Estate fruit employing very cold tank fermentation, ageing on lees and reductive winemaking. This wine was then blended with a small proportion of wine fermented and aged in French Oak Barriques.
Release October 1998

1997 CHARDONNAY

Tasting Notes
The wine is a mid golden yellow with green hues.The bouquet is a sensuous blend of stone fruits, limes and roasted nuts with an underlying backbone of mineral complexity. The palate is a mouthfilling blend of tropical fruit, toasty French Oak, lively citrus acidity and a long chalky finish.
Cellar time: 0-7 years.

Winemaking
Fruit from the Estate was harvested at night and kept very cool to retain varietal intensity. A combination of barrique fermentation in French Oak and fermentation in stainless steel was employed in making this style. Techniques such as lees stirring and malolactic fermentation were also utilised to introduce complexity into this full bodied wine.
Release October 1998

1997 CABERNET MERLOT

Tasting Notes
The appearance of this wine is a deep rich crimson with violet tints and notable viscosity.Aromas of plums, cherries, eucalyptus trees and coffee like complexity emanate from this vintage.A soft sumptuous texture, fine dry tannins, unobtrusive oak supported by earthy sweet fruit fullness and a lively finish characterise the palate.
Cellar life: 0-10 years.

Winemaking
Grapes were picked from the Estate at a sugar level of around 13 degrees Beaume with excellent ripe flavours. The wine was fermented on skins and pressed after a period of extended maceration. The wine was then pressed and matured in French Oak barriques for a period of twelve months, blended and then bottled. The wine was not filtered prior to bottling.
Release October 1998

1997 BOTRYTISED SEMILLON

Tasting Notes
The wine colour is a lustrous intense gold colour with orange and honey tints. The bouquet is that of raisins, dried apricots and orange marmalade with floral notes of jasmine and hints of smoky flint-like complexity. The palate is a honeyed, luscious mouthful with uncommon intensity and an acidity which harmoniously balances the botrytised sweetness.
Cellar life: 0-10 years.

Winemaking
The extremely old style of wine is most commonly associated with the right bank Sauternes region near the famous city of Bordeaux in the south west of France. In this region Semillon is one of the endemic varieties. Over many years vignerons found that under certain climatic conditions this fruit would become infected with a specialised fungus known as Botrytis Cinerea. The thin skin of this variety made an attractive target for the organism. This fungus would gradually suck the moisture from the exposed fruit concentrating all constituents and leaving raisin like berries on the bunches. When this fruit was pressed and fermented, the result would be a lusciously sweet yet refreshing wine which was extremely viscous and intense in flavour. Baldivis Estate has produced an Australian version of this style.
Current release

1995 CABERNET RESERVE

This wine is a vibrant deep red with purple overtones. The noise is quite closed as yet with obvious oak and promise.
The palate is warm and smooth with quite drying tannins and subtle hints of liquorice and aniseed. It has generous mouth-filling viscosity and structure with lingering creaminess.
Aged in 100% new French Oak barrels it has completed eighteen months in wood prior to bottling and is designed for long-term ageing.