Willespie Wines, Margaret River, Western Australia - The Home of Great Cabernet Sauvignon
Winemaker and owner is Marian and Kevin Squance, family owned, estate grown grapes. This vineyard is tucked in between Cullens and Mosswood, two very high profile wineries. The terroir is therefore perfect for producing some of the best Cabernet Sauvignon wines in Australia.
Willespie Vineyard (above) - click for a larger picture
1998
Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% added merlot too. Soft, subtle, plumy ripe fruit
which is the perfect accompaniment to soft game or a leg of lamb on Sunday
Lunch!
February 2006 Decanter Western Australian
Cabernet Sauvignon awards
4 stars 16.75 points
Oz Clarke: " Rich, mature, blackcurrant nose with Autumn undergrowth. An
attractive, powerful blackcurrant and sloe palate, loads of flavour. Up to 5
years"
Price: £17.50
2000
Verdelho.
The flagship white wine. Complex with added plus of bottle age,
which is rather unique for Verdelho, since normally drunk young. Salty and
nutty on the finish with a hint of melon.
Price: £10.95
For awards and terroir please see www.willespie.com.au
Semillon
2001
Mr Whirly says
“A fine example of cool climate Semillon from Australia, so different from its more famous relatives in the Hunter Valley. This wine is oaked in French Oak for a short time and needs a little air before pouring. Like the Verdelho 2000 has a great minerality, with a gooseberry pie nose and palate with an amazing smoky bitter finish with hints of Capsicum, leaf mould, forest floor and mushrooms.”
Keith Marshall of the Dew Pond Restaurant in Hampshire accompanied this wine with a salad of oak smoked salmon with a Carpaccio of cucumber and dill and achieved the perfect match!
Alcohol 12.5 %.
Price: £9.95
Cabernet
Sauvignon 1999
Mr Whirly says
“The 1998 has sadly sold out and I was depressed for a week! Then I eventually grew the courage to taste the new 1999 vintage and I was over the moon. The 1998 was an epic vintage, never to be re-produced possibly, but this wine is growing into something pretty special too. Typically Autumnal berries with hints of braised red cabbage, sloes, Plums and Spearmint. Decant, since it is unfiltered and enjoy with butter flied leg of lamb marinated with garlic, rosemary and salt and loads of good virgin olive and slam it on the Barbeque this summer!"
Alcohol 13.5%
Price: £15.95
Riesling 2005
- Mr Whirly says
- “This is a big, citrus and lime Riesling very different from a Clare valley Riesling and for a 2005 is a pretty serious wine. It’s unusual to have a Riesling from Margaret River and as usual the Willespie Family have come up trumps!”
Alcohol 13.5%
Price: £9.95
Prices...
(all prices are per bottle and ex vat.
Unless stated the bottles are 750ml)
Whilst Whirly wine will endeavour to maintain prices
at the same level we reserve the right to change the prices of the wines
without given notice. This will invariably be due to the fluctuation of
currency rates and therefore beyond our control
Wines will be delivered, where possible, within 48 hours but this cannot be guaranteed. The majority of deliveries throughout the UK will be charged at a set rate of £9.95 plus VAT but this depends on the number of cases ordered and exactly where the delivery is to in the UK. Please ask for delivery rates at the time of ordering. Delivery from the “ Whirly Van” will be charged at £7.50 plus VAT.
Whirly wine reserves the right not to sell any wine to anyone who it suspects of being less than 18 years old