Every year in the Swan Valley tells its own story. Rain, heat, floods and the timing of the first pick all leave their mark on the wine. Here are our vintage reports, written from the vineyard, year by year.
2023 Vintage
What a vintage. A wet winter and mild spring gave way to a gentle summer, letting flavours and sugar levels build slowly for one of our best seasons.
2022 Vintage
Our most challenging vintage ever. Record heat, Covid isolation and a picking team out of action, yet the wines still look excellent.
2019 Vintage
One of the mildest summers in memory, ripening two weeks late and giving lighter, more elegant whites and reds looking exceptionally good in barrel.
2018 Vintage
An unusually cool season with a long, perfect ripening and no rain. Potentially a once in a lifetime vintage, and we harvested every grape.
2017 Vintage
It was shaping up as the Swan Valley’s best ever, until the Swan River broke its banks and flowed through the vineyard for a whole week.
2016 Vintage
One of the earliest harvests on record, after the lowest winter rainfall in fifteen years. Small berries, intense flavours and a five day heatwave.
2014 Vintage
Good winter rains and a cool growing season, then a hot week in January brought the earliest ever pick. Excellent quality with good yields.
2013 Vintage
A relatively cool growing season with late December rain. Yields were down, particularly on the whites, but the wines look fantastic.
2012 Vintage
Vintage began on 20 January with Chardonnay for our Sparkling. Rain kept changing the picking plans, but the Merlot and Shiraz came in beautifully.
2011 Vintage
The driest winter on record had us worried, but humid January weather and no extreme heat produced fruit with exceptional colour and concentration.
2010 Vintage
An early start, then the weather eased and ripening slowed, giving the 2010 whites a wide range of fruit flavours and the reds great colour.
2009 Vintage
Hailed as one of WA’s finest. Mild growing conditions, soils drenched by the previous winter’s flood, and reds with great colour and rich fruit.
