Is one of the great Western Australian wine stories:
The extra-ordinary Houghton Cabernet Sauvignon success story - that nobody knows about…
Houghton is the most awarded winery in Western Australia.
In the past three decades alone, Houghton wines have won over 250 trophies and 4,700 medals
at domestic & international wine shows.
On top of that…
The New Jack Mann Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 has just been awarded
James Halliday Cabernet Sauvignon of the Year 2025
Taste 15 Wines with 3 Mini Verticals:
4 x C.W. Ferguson Cabernet Malbec - 2017, 2019, 2020, & 2021
4 x Gladstone Cabernet Sauvignon - 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020
4 x Jack Mann Cabernet Sauvignon - 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021
Including the 2021 Jack Mann - James Halliday’s Cabernet Sauvignon of the year 2025
“This is elegance personified… It's a wine that delivers an experience and visceral pleasure.”
Halliday Wine Companion
Hosted by Senior Winemaker Courtney Treacher
Lunch: Noon-3pm, 18 Wines & 5 Courses $195
Masterclass: 4-6pm, 18 Wines with nibbles $95
Dinner: 6:30pm, 18 Wines & 5 Courses $195 - Sold Out
Sunday September 29th
The Wine List & Menu
1st Course
Houghton Evolution 37 Chenin Blanc 2023, Our Price $TBC
Oh my, we’re on to something here. Chenin blanc has been a part of Houghton from 1937 when Jack Mann created the famous White Burgundy (now White Classic) from Swan Valley Chenin Blanc. This has been made from old vine Margaret River Chenin and is a stunning expression of a variety that continues to reveal new chapters to its playbook. The wine has a smoky citrussy aroma with muted tropical fruits whilst the palate is intense and complex with tremendous depth and persistence. It has a chalky feel with a characteristically fine bright minerally acidity making for cellaring potential.
96 Points Ray Jordan, Winepilot (May 2024)
Pale straw colour. Rich nutty and smoky aromas lift from the glass initially, before melding with stone and citrus fruits – toasted almond, white peach skin and flesh, lemon preserves and charred lemon. Warmth and air unlock some lees derived notes and help it all fill out and come together. There’s a glimmer of salty minerality adding appeal along with some emergent flinty reduction. The palate has a creamy texture cut by grapefruit pith, peach skin and lemon zest before bright acidity cleans and freshens for a long finish. This is a zesty, textural and complex Chenin with lovely defined fruit. Be sure to decant to let it shine.
94 Points Tom Kline, Winepilot (May 2024)
Flavours of lemon-lime juice and zest, lemon cream, cedary oak and spices work across the palate along with a clasp of phenolics yet the core of excellent fruit sparkles. Mouth-watering acidity cleans up the finish. One to watch – as in future bottlings and how this develops.
93 Points Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion (May 2024)
Pale straw and really youthful in the glass. Complex, nutty and lifted aromas of grapefruit pith, struck match, just-ripe white stone fruit and mineral. Pithy, crunchy and layered on the palate. There's a drive of citrus and stone fruit along with snappy acidity and plenty of grippy phenolics. There's lovely weight and mouth-feel and the length is impressive
93 Points Aaron Brasher, The Real Review (May 2024)
Shark Bay whiting, tempura, lemon, fennel
2nd Course
Wisdom Chardonnay 2022, Our Price $35
Beautifully crafted chardonnay demonstrating the virtues of Pemberton as a chardonnay region. The aromas are a mix of vanilla and butterscotch with a little lemon curd complexity. Flavours are intense and concentrated but with an effortless feel about them. Slightly nutty cashew with a spicy lift emerging. Classy wine.
94 Points Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com
Wisdom Chardonnay 2019, Our Price $35
Toasty, rich nose of exotic market spice, nutty oak and ripe stone fruit. The palate is rich and dense, the oak making a major impact on the fruit, but the fruit can stand up to it. A big mouthful of soft, ripe fruit, with salty acidity holding it in check.
93 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Companion (August 2021)
Abrolhos half shell scallops, sambal butter
3rd Course
CW Ferguson Cabernet Malbec 2021, Our Price $62
A rich and plush red with high-quality, fine-grained tannin, ebullient and evocative dark fruit, earth, sweet herb and spicy elements, the palate similarly styled but with more detail of clove, ginger biscuit, oak elements, chocolate and cassis, dried Italianate herbal notes and some briny mineral qualities. Tannins are open-weave yet provide fringes and a gentle sense of succulence, keeping the rich, muscular fruit and spicy oak characters in check. Very seductive to drink, palate-staining and generous yet with a sense of restraint. To be applauded, and drunk with gusto.
95 Points Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion (August 2024)
Deep, bright red-purple colour with subtly floral, berry and green bean cabernet aromas, the palate sweetly fruited and soft textured, with straightforward berry flavours and a sweetness from really ripe fruit. A bold, solid cabernet with a promising future.
94 Points Huon Hooke, The Real Review (July 2024)
CW Ferguson Cabernet Malbec 2020, Our Price $62
The 2020 C W Ferguson Cabernet Malbec is brilliant. Polished tannins protect a core of glistening fruit, with notes of cassis, ironstone, iodine, raspberry, licorice, and brine. This is dark and statuesque but sleek and powerful, too.
It is very good! Excellent
95 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate (July 2023)
It’s an elegant and almost restrained wine showing excellent fruit and oak integration. The thread of chalky tannins and fine oak holds it through to a long-focused finish.
95 Points Ray Jordan, Wine Pilot (May 2023)
The palate is full bodied, powerful, and chock full of sweet oak, dark, plush fruit and sinewy, drying tannins. There’s a touch of soy and meatiness and the acid is bright and brings shape and cut. Needs some time.
93 Points Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
CW Ferguson Cabernet Malbec 2019, Our Price $62
Western Australian Red Trophy, International Wine Challenge 2021
Gold Medal, 95 points, International Wine Challenge 2021
A brooding yet luscious blend filled with blackcurrant and plum fruit and leaving just enough room in the mouth for tannins to make a furtive dash for it. The aftertaste is particularly appealing, as is the length of that aftertaste.
96 Points James Halliday, Wine Companion
Powerful on the palate, thick and quite unctuous, mouth filling black fruits teamed with lashings of creamy oak. The tannins and acidity are doing their best to keep the opulent fruit in check and behaving. This is quite hedonistic gear, built for the long-haul.
95 Points Aaron Brasher, The Real Review
CW Ferguson Cabernet Malbec 2013, Our Price $62
The bouquet offers blackcurrant, plum, tobacco and cedar, the gloriously juicy fruit flavours slipping down the palate and into the finish without any threatening move from the tannins (ripe and well behaved), and the oak (generous, but high quality).
96 Points James Halliday, Wine Companion
Beetroot tart, curd, evoo
4th Course
Gladstones Cabernet Sauvignon 2020, Our Price $85
This might be one of the greatest Gladstones on release that I have tried. Bravo Treacher, bravo.
97+ Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate (July 2022)
It’s a substantial and powerful wine, yet there is elegance and poise that stems from the clever balance of fruit, oak, and tannin.
97 Points Ray Jordan, Wine Pilot (May 2023)
Gladstones Cabernet Sauvignon 2019, Our Price $85
Excellent balance, no sign of green fruit, and can be enjoyed now as much as in 5 years.
95 Points James Halliday, Wine Companion (August 2022)
Gladstones Cabernet Sauvignon 2016, Our Price $85
As always, a high-quality wine with a compelling bouquet and a rich, layered and extremely long palate. The tannins do their duty, and the oak is of high quality. The more you go back to it, the better it tastes.
97 Points James Halliday, Wine Companion (June 2021)
Gladstones Cabernet Sauvignon 2013, Our Price $85
A fitting tribute to Margaret River's father, Dr John Gladstones. A Cirque du Soleil wine, immensely complex, yet feline and sure-footed as it plays with fresh cassis fruit, fine-grained sandy tannins and French oak of the highest quality, rearranging these components again and again.
97 Points James Halliday, Wine Companion (June 2021)
Angus a la minute, green peppercorn butter, leafy greens
5th Course
Jack Mann Cabernet Sauvignon 2017, Our Price $155
Extremely subtle nose and beautiful texture on the palate. Very light dose of powdery dry tannins on the end but only after hugely convincing ripe fruit. So much more than Cabernet, with lots of polish and inputs of dried undergrowth. Juicy. But by no means simple. Long and a glorious slice of Australian wine history.
18 Points Jancis Robinson, jancisrobinson.com (July 2020)
This is a full-bodied cabernet but is so well structured you barely notice. It will only take the first 5 years of a 25+-year life for it to seem medium-bodied.
98 Points James Halliday, Wine Companion (June 2021)
Jack Mann Cabernet Sauvignon 2019, Our Price $155
This is pure cabernet sauvignon, from a deep well of blackcurrant and black olive fruit, and tannins to make sure the wine outlives you.
97 Points James Halliday, Wine Companion (August 2022)
There’s real purpose and drive on the palate, lashings of black fruits, spices and creamy, cedary oak. The tannins are layered, granular and provide fabulous support and structure and the acidity is crunchy and has a real lustre to it. A really sophisticated and incredibly satisfying cabernet.
97 Points Aaron Brasher, The Real Review (March 2022)
The flavour is mouth-filling and concentrated in its intensity. Masses of fine, appropriately firm tannins coat the mouth, all components in harmony. A splendid cabernet that already shows complexity and promises to age superbly.
Jack Mann Cabernet Sauvignon 2020, Our Price $155
This 2020 Jack Mann Cabernet Sauvignon is a supple, full-bodied Cabernet with a bloody countenance and layer upon layer of settled, silty tannin. The wine is powerful and driven, and the oak has been absorbed by the fruit as if it wasn't there.
98 Points Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate (July 2022)
This is one of the most elegant and stylish of any “Jack” yet released yet there is no shortage of engine room grunt The palate Is seamlessly integrated with slightly gravelly but fine tannins working their magic. Of course, it is a pup now, but there is great potential for extended ageing.
98 Points Ray Jordan, Wine Pilot (May 2023)
Jack Mann Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 (New Release), Our Price $155
James Halliday Cabernet Sauvignon of the year 2025
This is elegance personified. So smooth, so luscious, so rich and yet it finds levity and a sense of drive. Inky cassis, lavender and violet floral lift, fancy feeling mahogany and new leather elements, clove spice, bay leaf and faint sea spray characters in the mix. It feels quite tightly wound despite its velvety suppleness and flow, tannins in a web of fine, graphite-like mineral accents delivering tension and poise. It's a wine that delivers an experience and visceral pleasure. Drink now after a lusty decant, but save some for long cellaring, too.
98 Points Panel Decision, Halliday Wine Companion (August 2024)
Maffra cheddar, crostini, quince
About Courtney Treacher:
After earning a Bachelor of Science (Viticulture and Oenology) at Curtin University, Courtney began her career in vineyards in the Perth Hills, Swan Valley, Margaret River at Redgate Wines, and Hunter Valley at Tamburlaine Wines. Courtney joined Houghton Wines in 2004 and has since delivered 20 vintages across Houghton, Swan Valley, and Nannup. In 2020, we proudly appointed Courtney to Senior Winemaker for Houghton Wines.
Courtney enjoys leading a dynamic team and taking on the challenge of making exceptional wines of varied styles under the Houghton, Brookland Valley, Goundrey, Amberley and Moondah Brook ranges. Courtney has judged at many local and national wine shows, and she was a scholar at the prestigious Len Evans Tutorial in 2011. An experience she describes as once in a lifetime.
Courtney has a longstanding passion for winemaking, falling in love with the transformational art behind crafting grapes into wine.
When she is not enjoying a traditional Chardonnay, Riesling or Cabernet, you can find Courtney enjoying photography or travelling to exotic locations. This includes across her home state of Western Australia.
Houghton Context:
Houghton is one of Australia’s oldest wineries, dating all the way back to 1836. Houghton wines is known for its colourful history including tales of pioneer Scots, bandits, and generations of winemaking craftsmanship.
Only four years after the fledgling town of Perth was established, three British Army officers (Thomas Yule, Ninian Lowis and Richmond Houghton) purchased a prime piece of land in the Swan Valley and established Houghton.
We captured the nation’s attention in 1937 when winemaker Jack Mann created Houghton White Burgundy. Now known as White Classic, this is still one of the most popular Australian white wines today.
“The Houghton Wine Company remains the almost anonymous champion of wine quality Vs value in the Australian Wine industry.”
John Jens