News and reviews

Our wines have received accolades and high scores from some of Australia's most reputable wine publications, and continue to win awards at boutique and national wine shows.

Reviews

Sheraton Wine Dozen: Scotts Brook Shiraz 2007
Another very good shiraz from Scotts Brook. This one is just ahead of the previous vintage, reflecting a better year. It's finely balanced and delivers its medium-bodied palate with effortless ease. Lovely red berry and spicy fruit characters on the nose and palate with a long focused finish. Thoroughly delicious. The Blackwood region produces some excellent-quality red wine and these guys have been turning out some very good wines in recent years.
About Scotts Brook: A small producer doing things right. The owners' philosophy is to maximise the advantages of their unique terroir to produce intensely flavoured fruit from their low-yielding vines. Fruit is picked on flavour with maximum seed and tannin ripeness. Aiming for elegant, intensely flavoured coool climate varietals with structure and balance. Cabernet sauvignon and shiraz are the strong suits from Scotts Brook.
The West Australian Sheraton Wine Dozen (2009)
Ray Jordan, The West Australian, 1 October 2009 (p3 'Sheraton Wine Dozen: Ray Jordan's Guide to WA's Top Drops' lifout) [More about our Shiraz...]

Scotts Brook Blackwood Valley Shiraz 2007
This is a lovely example of the soft, generous fruit you get from the Blackwood Valley. It has a lifted spiciness with touches of aniseed and a lingering savouriness. Soft palate with fine tannins and liberal vanillin oak. Nicely made wine.
89/100
Ray Jordan, The West Australian, 12 March 2009 (p7 'Fresh' lifout) [More about our Shiraz...]

Scotts Brook Blackwood Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
This is a classy expression of cool climate cabernet from the Blackwood Valley. It was a good vintage down there and the rich yet elegant, and silky character of the fruit is evidence of this. Red berry and light leafy overtones with the oak neatly subordinated.
88/100
Ray Jordan, The West Australian, 12 March 2009 (p7 'Fresh' lifout) [More about our Cabernet Sauvignon...]

Scotts Brook
"Here's a little producer worth seeking [out]... In particular the cabernet impressed me... [A] producer doing things right."
(Ray Jordan's Guide to Wine 2008 p305)

Scotts Brook Sauvignon Blanc 2006
Quite beautiful fragrant and fruity sauvignon blanc showing some lovely tropical fruit aromas with a little herbal gooseberry character. The palate is deliciously appealing with a crunchy vibrant mouth feel. Beaut stuff.
89/100
(Ray Jordan's Guide to Wine 2008 p305) [More about our Sauvignon Blanc...]

Scotts Brook Blackwood Valley Shiraz 2005
Delicate bouquet of spices and plums with a thread of licorice running through it. The palate is packed with bright red fruits, good oak and ripe tannins.
(Winestate Varietal Tasting: World's Greatest Shiraz Challenge II Winestate, Sept/Oct 2007, Vol 30, Issue 5, p113) [More about our Shiraz...]

Scotts Brook Shiraz 2005
Brimming with ripe juicy plum and blackcurrant flavours. Strong bouquet of fruit and toasty oak leads into a fruit-driven palate offering a rich and intensely flavoured mix.
87/100
(Ray Jordan's Guide to Wine 2008 p305) [More about our Shiraz...]

Scotts Brook Blackwood Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2004
A seamless and serious wine. Has a generously flavoured, cedary palate that has great structure and length with plenty of bright, sweet, ripe fruit from beginning to end.
(Wine & Spirit Insider Tasting: New Releases The Wine & Spirit Insider, May/June 2006, Vol 29, Issue 3, p57) [More about our Cabernet Sauvignon...]

Scotts Brook Chardonnay 2004
The colour is pale straw and the nose has hints of peach and melon. The palate is complex, showing the benefit of fermentation in new French oak. Flavours of peach, melon, and lime dominate, with an exquisite soft mouthfeel. Superb with chicken, veal or pasta dishes.
92/100
(James Halliday's 2007 Australian Wine Companion) [More about our Chardonnay...]