Pyrenees winery reviews
Check out wineries in the Pyrenees wine region independently reviewed by wine writers Ben Canaider and Ralph Kyte-Powell.
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This is a cellar door offering much to the wine-loving athlete within us all. The stunning sparkler, Midnight Cuvee (named because it is picked at night when acid levels are high) smells of bread and tastes of pears, and is well-suited to a game of pétanque on the Blue Pyrenees pétanque piste. The blended red, known as Blue Pyrenees Estate, with its firm structure and fruit intensity, will help you get through the pétanque post-mortem over dinner. Chardonnay here can also be quite fine.
Ben Canaider
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Dalwhinnie is one of Victoria's greatest wine estates, making wines that are regional highpoints. A little more isolated than most Pyrenees vineyards, Dalwhinnie nestles under the brow of a hill with lovely views of vineyard and ranges from the modern glass-walled tasting room. Facilities are being expanded to cope with ever-increasing demand for the estate's superb, ageworthy shiraz and cabernet sauvignon, and complex chardonnay, but the hands-on approach of David Jones won't change. The occasional Eagle Shiraz is expensive, but it's a modern Australian classic.
Ralph Kyte-Powell
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Mount Avoca is the second oldest vineyard in the Pyrenees, dating back to 1970. It has that indefinable feeling of having been there forever, with its mature vines and its Mount Gambier limestone cellar door building overlooking the Pyrenees ranges. The local sport, pétanque French-style bowls is played here, with the traditional accompaniment of a glass of wine in hand. Solid red wines are the Pyrenees hallmark, but Mount Avoca also makes a very good range of white wines.
Ralph Kyte-Powell
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Neill Robb's Redbank Winery is a bit of an institution, thanks in part to the vision and hard work of its creator, and the unique personality of its principal wine – Sally's Paddock, a characterful blend of cabernet, shiraz and malbec. This wonderfully rustic cellar door also does a good coffee and a mean ploughman's lunch.
Ben Canaider
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The Pyrenees region is a picturesque part of Victoria, and theres a cosmopolitan feel due to the presence of a healthy wine and food scene. Taltarni has been a part of that scene for decades, originally for its big tannic
reds and its French influences, but more recently for more refined wines of real class. The smartly designed cellar door is a great place to sip, and the Red Earth Café offers contemporary, informal food thats ideal with the
estate's wines.
Ralph Kyte-Powell
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