Duke’s Vineyard:
New Releases
Duke’s Vineyard is back at Lamont’s Cottesloe for the new release of their Rieslings and Pemberton Pinot!
Hosted by Ben Cane, Owner/Winemaker
Sunday August 17
Lunch: 12-3pm, 12 Wines 4 Courses. $155
Masterclass: 4-6pm, 12 Wines with Kate Lamont nibbles, $85
Dinner: 6.30pm. 12 Wines & 4 Courses $155
Duke’s Vineyard &
James Halliday Awards Context:
A Tradition of Excellence
Duke's Vineyard is a family-owned, boutique winery that has achieved many outstanding accolades over a 20+ year history including being awarded Best Australian Wine of the Year in 2019 for the 2017 Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling by James Halliday’s Wine Companion. We are noted as a Top Winery in Huon Hooke’s Real Review, were awarded Best Riesling of WA in 2022 for the 2022 Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling, and have been one of James Halliday Top 100 Wineries and a Red 5 Star winery since 2013, placing our vineyard among "truly the best of the best." (Duke’s Vineyard)
…Moreover, at least one wine included in each of the 2016-2021 six James Halliday’s Top 100 articles - and 11 in total … against the combined rest of the wine industry. In the James Halliday Top 100 2016… the Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2016
In the Top 100 2017 edition… the Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2017
In the Top 100 2018 edition… the Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2018
In the Top 100 2019 edition… the Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2019 & the Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz 2018
In the Top 100 2020 edition… the Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2020 98 points & The First Cab 2019 98 points
In the Top 100 2021 edition…The Morrisey 2018, Magpie Hill Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2018, Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling 2019 & the Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz 2018
…& in 2022 The Tiny Duke’s Vineyard had 2 Cabernet Sauvignons amongst the top 30 varietal Cabernet Sauvignons in the James Halliday Wine Companion 2022 - despite the Porongurup region not being known for Cabernet Sauvignon.
Quite extra-ordinary!
The Wine List & Menu TBC
On Arrival
2025 Single Vineyard Riesling (NEW RELEASE)
1st Course
2025 Magpie Hill Riesling (NEW RELEASE)
2021 Magpie Hill Riesling
From a single vineyard, whole-bunch pressed and fermented solely in tank to preserve the pristine freshness endemic to the rieslings from the area. A super-floral nose leads into a tense and citrus-driven palate. The acidity is saline and omnipresent, curling and flicking around the fruit, shaping it all through the long finish. This has already developed and grown so much in the bottle between this glass and the last (a couple of months prior), that it surely has a very long road ahead of it. White pepper, lime flesh and laser-like precision through the finish. Layered and dappled – gorgeous. Drink by 2041.
97 points and Top 50 Most Popular Wines of 2022 and Special Value Wine - Erin Larkin, Halliday Wine Companion
2024 K2 Riesling (NEW RELEASE)
2022 K2 Riesling
A hyper-intense fragrant bouquet, lifted dried wildflowers, lemon pith, dry straw and dried herb aromas. The wine is tremendously intense and delicate at the same moment; a wonderful mouthful of riesling, scintillating freshness and intensity delivered with harmony and great persistence. Mouth-waterting acidity and tremendous poise.
97 Points - Huon Hooke, The Real Review
2nd Course
2023 Invitational Margaret River Chardonnay
Light lemon-yellow with a fragrant nose of poached apples and grapefruit pith. Medium weight, a textural opening that is richer than the nose suggests. Apple and peach fruit, touch of agave then a nougat note adds a deeper tone. Good length, carried by fine and precise acidity to the finish.
93 Points - Stuart Knox, The Real Review
2024 Pemberton Pinot Noir (NEW RELEASE)
3rd Course
2022 Magpie Hill Reserve Shiraz
Deep-ish red with a good purple tint; the bouquet spicy and cool-grown, elegant and fine, with a medium bodied palate of real elegance and style, fine texture and really refreshing acidity. A seriously lovely wine that is drinking superbly already. Not a try-hard, but beautifully balanced and stylish.
96 points - The Real Review and Ranked #1 of 29 2022 Shiraz from Great Southern
2022 Halo Range The Whole Bunch 'Syrah'
Produced in only used French oak barrels and made with selected, best parcels of shiraz (syrah) from the estate vineyard. This is a lighter weight and refined expression of shiraz, true to its syrah naming in fragrant perfume, silky texture, mineral-laced tannins and dashes of stemmy herbal lift and peppery spice. Gentle, red berry fruitiness is also a motif, with wet slate and game meat savouriness rolled in. It feels layered in sheets, with puckering tannin lending dryness and then a coffee ground and malt-like finish. There's decent structure here, too, with dry fruit and spice hanging off those tannin bones. An intriguing syrah emerges.
93 Points, Halliday Wine Companion
4th Course
2022 Magpie Hill Cabernet Sauvignon
Interestingly this Cabernet is a Barossa clone which contrasts with the Houghton clone in another part of the vineyard. It certainly has created a more robust Cabernet, albeit with the imprint of the cooler climes of the Porongurups. There’s a wild mix of berries evident on the nose with a little oyster shell minerality and light cedar adding another dimension.
95 Points - Wine Pilot
2022 ‘First Cab’ Cabernet Sauvignon
Deep-ish red with a tinge of purple in the meniscus; there is notable oak adding a pecan nut overtone to the elegant tobacco, cedar, kid leather and subtle cassis fruit, the middle is deliciously fruit-sweet before a cleansing, firming, fine-tannin finish that leaves an abiding feeling of harmony. Delicious wine now and appears to have a long and promising future.
95 points, The Real Review
2018 Duke's ‘The Morrissey’ Cabernet/Shiraz
An estate blend of cabernet and shiraz. There's nothing that the human combination of Duke Ranson in and around the vineyard and the skills of winemaker Robert Diletti can't achieve. The breathless flavours, structure and texture of this striking blend are, quite simply, superb. Glistening black cherries, satsuma plum and finely wrought tannins are all on parade.
97 Points - James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion