“Balgownie Estate Bendigo - Best Additional Cellar Door Experience (Glamping) Bendigo”
— Gourmet Traveller WINE Best Cellar Door Awards, 2020
“Glenwillow Wines - Best Small Cellar Door Bendigo”
— Gourmet Traveller WINE Best Cellar Door Awards, 2020
“Gold Award Byronsvale Estate Shiraz 2017”
— Victorian Wine Show, 2019
“Sutton Grange Winery Best Large Cellar Door”
— Gourmet Traveller WINE Best Cellar Door Awards 2021
“BlackJack Wines Best Tasting Experience”
— Gourmet Traveller WINE Best Cellar Door Awards 2021
“2018 Black Wallaby Shiraz | Top Gold Medal, Best Shiraz of Show and Best Wine of Show ”
— 2021 Daylesford Wine Show
“2018 Black Estate Shiraz | GOLD medal Category: Shiraz and Viognier, 2018 and older ”
— 2021 Victorian Wine Show
“Balgownie Estate Centre Block Shiraz 2017 This is what mod Australian Shiraz is about – ripeness, unmistakable generosity of flavour, but also delivered with a sense of shape and purpose”
— The top 20 Shiraz of August 2020, Andrew Graham, Australian Wine Review
“Melanie Chester’s arrival has seen good wines become even better Sutton Grange Winery Australia’s Top Ten Dark Horses”
— 2021 Halliday Wine Companion Awards
“Has come through with flying colours BlackJack Vineyards 2016 Mr Ramoy”
— 2021 Halliday Wine Companion Awards - 95 points
“2017 Sutton Grange Estate Syrah shows black cherry, spices and oak on the nose, with a suggestion of licorice. A firm backbone of tannins gives structure but there’s enough fruit to match it. Ripe plums, mulberries and fresh blackcurrants backed by a solid frame of oak. There’s plenty of power and drive to the finish”
— Gourmet Traveller WINE, 2020
“BlackJack Wines - Star Cellar Door Bendigo”
— Gourmet Traveller WINE Best Cellar Door Awards, 2020
“Sutton Grange Winery - Best Large Cellar Door Bendigo”
— Gourmet Traveller WINE Best Cellar Door Awards, 2020
“Bronze & Silver Byronsvale Myers Creek Shiraz 2017”
— Victorian Wine Show | Rutherglen Wine Show, 2019
“Silver medal GilGraves 2018 Field Blend”
— Winestate Magazine 2019
“Black Wallaby Wines 2017 Albino Blend Best White Wine other than Chardonnay”
— Daylesford Wine Show 2019
“Killiecrankie Wines Best Red Wine aged 6 years or more for their 2013 Killiecrankie Shiraz + Most Successful Exhibitor
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— Daylesford Wine Show 2019
“Sutton Grange Winery Top Wineries of Australia 2019”
— The Real Review
“Balgownie Estate - Cellar Door with the Best Food, Bendigo/Heathcote region.”
— Gourmet Traveller Wine's Best Cellar Door Awards, 2019
“The colour is bright, setting the scene for a medium-bodied wine that has a complex palate full of savoury and spicy characters running through the long finish and lingering after taste”
“Excellent crimson-purple; a powerful, intense, black-fruited shiraz that exudes flavour from every pore, but is light on its feet...the finish reaffirms the quality of this wine”
“…full of rose petals and spice, immediately grabs attention; the palate is crisp and bone dry, with savoury complexity snuggling up with the rose petals”
— Harcourt Valley Vineyards Heathcote Rose 2015, Rating 95, Halliday Wine Companion 2017
“…The wine takes volume of flavour and gives it a nudge, and does so with a masterful sense of control, even poise. It’s firm, rich and warm…”
“…In a word: beautiful. Rich, but silken, awash with pure, dark-berried flavour but admirably aided by savoury inputs and a sheer coating of creamy oak…”
“Impressive from the outset. Violet and mint notes head straight into sweet, luscious blackcurrent. It tumbles over itself to impress but remains firm and tidy to close...”
“Matured in new French oak for 12 months. ...vitality and freshness on the very long and finely structured palate.”
— Harcourt Valley Vineyard, Single Vineyard Old Vine Bendigo Shiraz 2014, Rating 96, Halliday Wine Companion 2017
“Trophy for Best Cabernet goes to the Balgownie Estate 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon. ”
— Balgownie Estate 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon, Daylesford Wine Show 2016
“Best Wine of the Daylesford Wine Show 2016 awarded to Water Wheel Vineyard’s 2014 Memsie Homestead Shiraz.”
— Water Wheel Vineyard, 2014 Memsie Homestead Shiraz, Daylesford Wine Show 2016
“The Past President’s Trophy for Best Mature Red Wine awarded to Killiecrankie Wines 2010 Shiraz.”
— Killiecrankie Wines 2010 Shiraz, Daylesford Wine Show 2016
“A Double Gold Medal. This is rated above a Gold Medal and holds the highest accolade at our show.”
— Melbourne International Wine Awards 2015
“...a classic Australian interpretation of a time-honoured blend featuring intense dark berry fruit with a touch of charry oak.”
— 2015 Winewise Small Vigneron Awards
“...an impressive cabernet with a full range of blackcurrent, olive, bramble and earthy flavours.”
— James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2016 Edition
“Hums with flavours, rattles with tannin, delights with perfume. Six years old and singing a melodious song.
An enthralling drink now, as it shall remain for many years to come.”
— Rating 96, James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2016 Edition
“...the vintage (and possibly the extra year in bottle) has produced the most elegant Sandhurst Ridge wine to date.
Hand-picked, open-fermented, basket-pressed to French barriques for 19 months.”
— Rating 95, James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2016 Edition
“Richness and character. Sturdy flavours of plum, earth and peppercorn meet the prettiness of violet and sweet oak.”
— Rating 95, James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2016 Edition
“Estate-grown, hand-picked and matured for 15 months in new and used French oak.
...the very good colour and depth to the fruit bode well for the future.”
— Rating 95, James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2016 Edition
“The bouquet and palate are extremely complex, with a wonderful array of spicy, savoury, peppery overtones to the blackberry and plum fruit.....it is also very elegant and carefully detailed.
This will always be a great wine with food. Top value, too.”
— Rating 96, James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2016 Edition
“Deep purple-red; the ultra-fragrant bouquet doesn’t warn you of the wines formidable powder, but just when you think this may be too much, comes the realisation that the palate is beautifully balanced, and there is almost limitless supple black and red fruit under the power. Great now, it will become even greater with a couple of decades under its belt.”
— Rating 96, James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2013 Edition
“A gently aromatic Bendigo blend with less overt viognier influence than past years. Inviting berry aromas have floral, spice and oak touches. It tastes juicy and intense with soft tannins in perfect balance.”
— Ralph Kyte-Powell, The Age - Epicure
“Dominic and Krystina Morris have plenty of experience with tempranillo on the Iberian Peninsula and it shows. Liquorice, cherry, mint and sarsaparilla cordial aromas lead into a savoury palate with a long liquorice-scented aftertaste.”
— Ralph Kyte-Powell, The Age - Epicure
“A top-notch Bendigo shiraz viognier blend that avoids the eucalypty traits of some central Victorian reds. Instead, it offers complex, elegant aromas of raspberries, glace cherries, spice and milk chocolate. The palate follows through smooth and seamless, medium bodied and succulent in flavour, with a sinewy back-bone of fine tannins that should support some bottle age. First-class Victorian regional wine. Wine of the week.”
— Ralph Kyte-Powell, The Age - Epicure - Uncorked
“...proclaims its varietal character from the first whiff of the bouquet through to the elegant finish. A mix of crushed herbs and citrus leaves is woven through the sour cherry aromas & flavours, the light bodied palate having considerable length.
Great food wine - good with any Mediterranean food.”
— James Halliday, Wine Companion Magazine
“Deep purple-red; the ultra-fragrant bouquet doesn’t warn you of the wines formidable powder, but just when you think this may be too much, comes the realisation that the palate is beautifully balanced, and there is almost limitless supple black and red fruit under the power. Great now, it will become even greater with a couple of decades under its belt.”
— Rating 96, James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2013 Edition
