Dalrymple Vineyards founder Bertel Sundstrup spent a decade growing and making Pinot Noir in the Pipers River region before ownership of the property passed into the hands of Hill-Smith Family Estates in 2007. The good doctor - along with fellow founders Jill Mitchell and Anne Sundstrup - would be immensely proud of the great work being done there...
Four Winds Vineyard and its cosy cellar door are just north of Huonville in the picturesque Huon Valley. Mild summers and chilly mornings late in the season provide great growing conditions for topnotch Tasmanian Chardonnay.
Max Marriott is making impressive wines in minute quantities in the State's south. Fruit for this wine is sourced from Clarence House Estate, near Rokeby, on Hobart's Eastern Shore. Pinot Blanc has had little to say for itself so far in Tasmania, but this barrel-fermented white sings sweetly, like a bird.
With the approach of summer and the festive season, this is the time of year for good affordable sparkling wine. This non-vintage blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from vineyards in northern Tasmania is a real charmer. Salmon pink in colour, it's very well made, delivering plenty of dry, smooth, mouth-filling flavour in the soft red fruits...
Riversdale Estate in the Coal River Valley lies between the University of Tasmania's radio telescope observatory and Pitt Water. Like Tolpuddle, it's been a star performer with Chardonnay, but in 2014 contract winemaker Alain Rousseau created this superb, late-harvest sweetie. Honey and lime characters abound, their lusciousness balanced by neatly...
In the hands of many winemakers, Pinot Gris - aka Pinot Grigio - can produce very dull drinking indeed. That doesn't apply here. It's rich and ripe in pear flavour, and sits very comfortably on the palate without succumbing to the variety's original sins - low acidity and a certain clumsiness in finish and aftertaste. The only gold medal...
Tasmania's Coal River Valley surprisingly is among the nation's driest wine regions, with annual rainfall seldom exceeding 450mm. The 2016-17 growing season was damper than most, laying the foundations for table wines with tremendous elegance and finesse. This barrel-fermented Chardonnay is dry and intensely citrus, and finishes with very...