Plantagenet Wines Wyjup Collection Release AND 50th anniversary of the first Plantagenet Wines in 1974!
“Picked from the finest parcels of fruit from our estate vineyards, the Wyjup Collection is the best natural expression of the Mount Barker terroir and the attention to detail by our passionate production team.” (Plantagenet)
Taste 18 wines from over 30 years – 1993 to 2023, made up of 9 current releases, & two of Mount Barker’s greatest ever:
The 2018 Tony Smith Syrah & The Lionel Samson Cabernet
7 museum wines from 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2011, 2012 & 2017
Plantagenet are one of a handful of wineries that are repositioning the Mount Barker and Great Southern Regions to that of being one of Australia’s and the new world’s finest wine regions.
"The Wyjup Riesling & Cabernet are marvellous and the Plantagenet range are great value."
John Jens
Hosted by Owner, Tom Wisdom and Chief Winemaker, Mike Garland
Lunch: 12-3pm, 18 Wines & 5 Courses, $145
Masterclass: 4-6pm, 16 Wines with Nibbles, $65
Dinner: 6.30pm, 18 Wines & 5 Courses, $145
The Wine List and Menu
On Arrival
Wyjup Collection Blanc de Blancs 2021, Our Price $44
Fabulous bead and mousse on pouring, fine and persistent. Lifted aromas of stone fruit, nuts, citrus rind and a doughy breadiness. Fine, focused and really smart drinking. A core of lemon and just-ripe stone fruit flavours plies its trade and the pin-point acidity delivers line and length. A very fine blanc de blancs that will age quite gracefully.
93 Points Aaron Brasher, The Real Review (May 2024)
Sourdough, olives
1st Course
Angevin Riesling 2023, Our Price $
From a single vineyard. Aromas of candied mixed citrus peel, lime juice, talc, lychee and faint vanilla. The palate is citrusy and lively, a little juicy with a bone-dry finish. There's a zestiness to the flavours: pink grapefruit, green apple juice, something gently sweet, though that finish is all chalkiness and pucker. Delivers the goods.
92 Points Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion (November 2023)
Wyjup Collection Riesling 2023 (New Release), Our Price $41
This is a first-rate riesling from this special site in a special year. It is expressive, revealing on the palate early and pushing through into its sustained finish. The site is a key part of this wine. Its orientation pushe picking time up to three weeks later than other parts of the vineyard, leading to more hang time, allowing the flavour intensity to build while retaining the essential acid balance. Perfumed lemony lime and floral aromas are pretty and intense. There is a slightly chalky character through the delicate and intense palate. Precise and defined with a bracing acidity contributing to its palate tension. It is a wine that will age beautifully.
95 Points Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com.au
Plantagenet Museum Riesling 2017, Our Price $65
Takes a little time to get into its stride, but there's no stopping it once it gets going, the palate with mouthwatering lemon citrus fruit embraced by minerally acidity, the finish long and convincing.
95 points, James Halliday, The Wine Companion
Plantagenet Museum Riesling 2001, Our Price $65
A smoky, briny and reductive riesling whose faintly spicy, estery bouquet of apple, pear and peach reveals a hint of toastiness. Pleasingly long and mineral, it steadily delivers more fruit and depth of limey, apple-like fruit as it opens in the glass, finishing with lingering flavour and a savoury aspect.
94 points Jeremy Oliver
Abrolhos scallops, nori, tobiko
2nd Course
Wyjup Collection Chardonnay 2022 (New Release), Our Price $75
This is all from the Wyjup vineyard and there is a mix of old and younger plantings, with about 2/3 coming from the 79 planting. It was all handpicked and whole bunch pressed to barrel with full solids. It was stirred monthly with about 40% of the oak new. Thijs is an intense and powerful wine with rich textured fruit. Lemon curd and roasted almond. A small amount of malo naturally happens, adding that extra middle palate weight and lifted complexity. Has a fine mineral threading through with a rich palate mouth feel. The dry savoury finish is perfectly balanced with a funky solids influence.
97 Points Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com.au
Plantagenet Museum Chardonnay 1999, Our Price $85
Torbay asparagus, sambal butter
3rd Course
Wyjup Collection Pinot Noir 2022 (New Release), Our Price $75
This is a powerful wine with structure and finesse, fitting perfectly and snuggly into what we expect from pinot. It’s a combination of clones 777, 114 and 115 and there is around 20% whole bunch with 7 days cold soak. It’s largely indigenous years with a little late fermented seeding if necessary. This is a powerful wine with structure and firmness yet it’s medium bodied and beautifully defined. Has a dry savoury mushroomy character on the palate with a savoury cherry and light raspberry touch. Terrific wine.
96 Points Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com.au
Wyjup Collection Malbec 2022, Our Price $75
The 2022 Wyjup Collection Malbec leads with pink peppercorns and brine, olive tapenade, dried herbs and star anise. In the mouth, the wine is supple, structured by loads of tannin and punctuated by a pervasive musk-stick character. All in all, it's aromatic, succulent, dusty and pretty. It's an interesting wine, sort of beguiling. 14% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.
93 Points, Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate (July 2024)
Mushroom and melted leek tart, fraiche
4th Course
Wyjup Collection Shiraz 2020(New Release), Our Price $75
This was a year that produced fruit and wines of tremendous power and richness. The rich stewed fruit characters on the nose capture the vintage. It’s a combination of Wyjup and Bouverie vineyard fruit and shows a dominant blue fruit and red fruit character on the nose. Soft and supple with a seamless smooth and almost velvety palate with traces of ironstone. Has excellent depth and fruit concentration. Dry chalky ripe tannins yet they are perfectly integrated. Effortless and lingering through its finish.
95 Points Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com.au
Wyjup Collection Shiraz 2019, Our Price $75
Aromas of red cherries, red licorice, rosemary, and black pepper. Medium-bodied with silky tannins. Linear on the palate with the herbal character building as the palate evolves. The fruit at the centre remains fresh throughout.
93 Points James Suckling, jamessuckling.com (October 20220)
Tony Smith Shiraz 2018, Our Price $150
"In the blink of an eye, the new owners have released a wine that pays worthy tribute to Plantagenet founder Tony Smith. It is sourced from the Bouverie vineyard, which was planted back in 1968, making it one of the oldest in the Great Southern. A deep mix of gravelly dark berry with a little edgy graphite and ironstone. A lovely perfumed, spicy note mix greets immediately. The palate is tightly wound yet generous with immense power and concentrated depth of fruit Oak and tannin combination works its magic to hold the line through to a very long finish."
97 Points Ray Jordan, The West 'Red Revival'(August 2021)
Plantagenet Museum Shiraz 2011, Our Price $95
Bright, medium deep red purple; the bouquet is positively perfumed, with spice, pepper and licorice woven through the red fruits, fruits that drive the silky, medium-bodied palate through to its long finish; the oak and tannin management have been exemplary.
95 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion (September 2021)
Plantagenet Museum Shiraz 1995, Our Price $75
Twice cooked lamb, crushed pea, saffron braised tomatoes
5th Course
Aquitaine Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Our Price $34
Deep dark secrets are lurking in this polished and impressive Cabernet. It was a vintage of challenges after a good start. Some late rain came via the end of a cyclone but those with courage to hold on were rewarded as the warm weather returned. Dark chocolate, blackcurrant and black olive all find their way into a complex aromatic mix. Tannins are firm and ripe, adding structure to the core, while the oak has been lapped up by the powerful fruit intensity.
93 Points Ray Jordan, Winepilot (July 2023)
Wyjup Collection Cabernet Sauvignon 2020(New Release), Our Price $75
Beautifully structured and powerful wine from this very early and short vintage. Perfumed blackcurrant and chalk dust over ripe dark plum. It’s an elegant wine of great structure and refinement. Strikes a great balance of fruit, oak and tannin, contributing to a precise and elegant palate feel. Aromatics are quite beautiful. This is cabernet of great style. Love the smooth velvety mouth feel.
97 Points Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com.au
Plantagenet ‘Lionel Samson’ 2018, Our price $150
Certainly Plantagenet’s greatest ever Cabernet Sauvignon - it is just a matter of whether it is the Great Southern’s finest as well?
John Jens
The intention is that this wine will only be released from the best vintages and 2018 was certainly one of the very best. Sourced from the Wyjup vineyard planted in 1971. Leafy, wild fruit aromas with a mix of bay leaf and meaty tobacco and black olive. It's compelling stuff from the outset. The palate has excellent structure, based on the deeply concentrated medium to full-bodied fruit and supported with slick, fine tannins and a neat oak addition. A regal and polished cabernet worthy of a first release."
98 Points Ray Jordan, The West 'Red Revival' (August 2021)
Plantagenet Museum Cabernet Sauvignon 2012, Our Price $TBC
Impressive from the outset and yet never more than medium-bodied. Flavours run through blackcurrant, leather, wood smoke, cloves and bay leaves. Long chains of dusty tannin are a key component. The good die young; the outstanding go on for decades. This has a long life ahead.
96 Points Campbell Mattinson, Halliday Wine Companion (September 2021)
Plantagenet Museum Cabernet Sauvignon 1993, Our Price $75
True blue cabernet style, savoury dried herbs immediately asserting their place alongside the cassis fruit, cabernet tannins doing exactly what is expected of them as they simultaneously dry off and lengthen the finish.
94 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion