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Howard Park Great Southern Riesling 2024

April 20, 2025by vinonotebook 1 Comment

Grapes again for this vintage come from Howard Park’s Great Southern vineyards at Mount Barker (Mount Barrow Vineyard) and Porongurup (Gibraltar Rock vineyard). Stainless steel ferment for purity. Nic Bowen […]

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Castle Rock Estate a&w Riesling 2024

December 25, 2024by vinonotebook Leave a comment

Forget the lower case “a&w” this is Castle Rock Estate’s icon Riesling, named in honour of the founders Angelo and Wendy Diletti. Hand harvested from best rows of fruit. Whole […]

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Castle Rock Estate Diletti Riesling 2023

December 25, 2024by vinonotebook Leave a comment

A fairly recent addition to the line up of Rieslings from CRE. Rob Diletti gets his family name on the label and gets to have some fun in the winery.  […]

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Castle Rock Estate Porongurup RS21 Riesling 2024

December 24, 2024by vinonotebook Leave a comment

RS21 stands for Residual Sugar 21. With 21 grams per litre of residual sugars in the wine. Fermentation stopped early (yeasts, responsible for fermentation eat sugar and produce alcohol). While […]

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Castle Rock Estate Porongurup Riesling 2024

December 24, 2024by vinonotebook Leave a comment

The mainstay of Castle Rock Estate’s Rieslings since 1986. All estate fruit that is machine picked from a blend of all 6 Riesling blocks. Only free run juice used from […]

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Castle Rock Estate Skywalk Riesling 2024

December 24, 2024by vinonotebook Leave a comment

Named after a local geological feature. Entry level but no means a lesser wine. Utilising some of the medium pressings from each Riesling block (machine harvest) rather than just free […]

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Howard Park Jeté Grand Vintage 2019

December 22, 2024by vinonotebook Leave a comment

The 2019 release sees a Chardonnay dominant blend (74%) and only 26% Pinot Noir. The fruit coming off the Mount Barrow vineyard in the Mount Barker sub-region of Great Southern […]

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Howard Park Jeté Rosé NV (2024 Release)

December 22, 2024by vinonotebook Leave a comment

This release, based from the 2021 vintage sees a blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. From Howard Park’s Mount Barker vineyard. Tiraged in December 2021 and then disgorged in batches, […]

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Howard Park Jeté Premier Brut NV (2024 Release)

December 22, 2024by vinonotebook Leave a comment

The base vintage here is 2021 with a blend of 47% Chardonnay, 43% Pinot Noir and 10% Meunier. Some parcels matured in new oak with select batches going through malolactic […]

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Howard Park Petit Jeté Blanc de Blancs NV (2024 Release)

December 21, 2024by vinonotebook Leave a comment

100% Chardonnay here from the highly regarded Howard Park Wines and Burch family. 2022 vintage sees most of the base wine. Some new oak for maturation and some parcels underwent […]

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