Excellent Langtons Classification. Winner of Australia's most coveted award, the Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy for vintage 1992, Elderton are one of the nation's great icon winemakers. Elderton's matriarch and principal, Lorraine Ashmead, is the driving force behind one of our nation's most eminent luxury brands and one of the world's great wines. Command Shiraz has established an enviable reputation since the first vintage in 1984, establishing a peerless reputation internationally as a stately new world Shiraz.

Elderton know what it takes to make Australia's best Cabernet Sauvignon, having claimed multiple trophies including the 1993 Jimmy Watson. The Ashmead block has consistently produced small parcels of outstanding quality fruit. Traditionally the wines from this site are blended into the Estate range, however in 1998 Lorraine Ashmead realized the excellence of fruit and released it as a pure single vineyard wine.

The first and final word in world class Barossa Cabernet, aged in a luxurious selection of completely new French oak hogsheads. The Ashmead block is so low yielding that it was almost gutted and re established to more productive plantings. The vines suffer from the notorious Dead Arm disease but yields an extraordinary quality of fruit. Fortunately for the world of wine, Ashmead was retained as an Australian Grand Cru Classe. Elderton are not unfamiliar with ultra Cabernet, having claimed significant trophies including the 1993 Jimmy Watson.

Excellent Langtons Classification. The Hardys flagship, a compilation of the very best barrels of Tintara Shiraz, originally bottled as an annual birthday gift for founder Bill Hardy's grandmother. Eileen Hardy was awarded an O.B.E. for her outstanding contribution to the wine industry. She is fondly remembered as the matriarch of Australia's most prominent winemaking and yachting family. Eileen Hardy Shiraz represents the pinnacle of achievement, a feast of a red wine embracing the tradition of great Australian icon Shiraz, opulent, powerful and seductive.

Outstanding Langtons Classification. From vines averaging sixty years of age, a monopole that has gone from strength to strength, ever since the qabal of distinguished Barossa growers resolved to establish their own label. Previous vintages have won numerous awards and medals on the wine show circuits in Australia and overseas, reiterating E&E's legendary status with the large number of international devotees. At every stage of vinification there is uncompromising attention to detail.

Oscar Semmler added to the family farm in the 1930s, planting new rootstock to make port wine. His son returned from a tour of duty with the RAAF in the 1970s and re-established the site to yield fruit for good red table wines, it remains the heart of Dutschke vineyards. The most structured and mouthfilling parcels of Shiraz grown to the superlative St Jakobi Block are set aside each year for Oscar Semmler. Oscar is the reserve label for Dutschke, a flagship Barossa Shiraz representing the best of vintage from within the elite appellation of Lyndoch.

From the very heart of the greatest Burgundy vineyards, not far from the Route des Grands Crus which drives through the most precious real estate in all France. Parcels of old vine, over seventy years of age and planted to highly favourable clay limestone soils, closely managed to a regimen of rustic agricultural techniques and treated with nothing but fully organic preparations. The sanctity of soil and eloquence of terroir are preserved through a minimalist, old world style of winemaking and extended term in completely new, fine oak barriques.

The wines of Domaine Dugat-Py are the result of an uncompromising endeavour, to achieve the most exquisite harvest from a sacred land and capture the peerless quality of fruit through a timeless, minimalist style of traditional Burgundian vinification. The principles of viticulture as they were practised in centuries past is essential. A horse and plough are employed for any duties which are too demanding for the growers, each vine is treated as an individual and every berry is inspected before introducing to the ferments. A mere hundred dozen are produced.

The vineyards of Vosne-Romanee are inextricably part of the famous intrigues of French history, such was their value in centuries past, that they were traded and fought over by nobility and kings. These elite sites have been subdivided into separate parcels over the generations but the excellence of terroir endures as the source of Pinot Noir without equal, anywhere in the world of wine. Domaine Dugat-Py source fruit from vines seventy or more years of age, to be treated to a traditional Burgundian vinification and eighteen months in the finest new oak barriques.

Vosne-Romanee are the elite of the elite, an opportunity to countenance the most precious soils and eloquent mesoclimes in the world, as expressed and defined by a humbling and uncannily articulate wine. Strict adherence to the timeless principles of healthy, completely natural regimens in viticulture are essential to the ultimate quality of wine. Centuries of viticulture in Burgundy have earned Domaine Dugat-Py the highest respect from devotees and peers alike, Vosne-Romanee Vieilles Vignes represents an entry into one of the world's greatest vineyards.

Just south of Beaune, east of Nantoux and Volnay, the commune of Pommard includes some three hundred hectares of Premiere Cru. The wines of Pommard are best known for their earthy tannins and substantial palates, almost single handedly responsible for the misconception throughout the world of wine that good Burgundy should be a heavier, solidly structured style. La Levriere is five hectares of old Pinot Noir vines, established soon after the second world war, a mere two hundred dozen are made each year.

Nothing means so much to the proprietors of Dugat-Py as healthy vines, clean soil and natural fermentation. They retain some of the finest blocks in all Burgundy, the further pursuit of excellence in winemaking has established a reputation without peer. An accessible introduction into the world of Dugat-Py, fashioned from parcels of hand sorted grapes, picked off biodynamically farmed vines up to seventy years of age, treated to a minimalist old world style of vinification and eighteen months of age in a selection of the finest new oak barriques.

The Climats of Pommard are at the centre of Cote de Beaune, near the very heart of the greater Burgundy region. Domaine Dugat-Py retain a single parcel of old vines at Pommard, seventy years of age and planted to propitious limestone clay soils which yield one of the most precious harvests in the entire commune. The winemaking at Domaine Dugat-Py is faithfully old world in style, crafted to a timeless regimen of bucolic techniques, followed by eighteen months in an extravagant selection of the finest Burgundian oak barriques, almost exclusively new.

Everything made by Dugat-Py originates from estate vineyards, elite parcels across the most precious precincts of La Bourgogne, hand tended by dedicated growers who employ traditional practices of holistic agriculture. Their love of the vine is matched only by their devotion to the sanctity of soil and reverence for mother earth. The coddled block of La Levriere lies at the periphery of Pommard Appellation Contrôlée, old vines up to seventy years or more, it yields an elegant wine supported by big boned tannins and exquisite concentration of fruit.

From fruit picked off five hectares of old vines, established soon after VE Day in 1945. La Levriere is at the very southeast of the ancient commune at Pommard, planted to auspicious limestone clays and managed to holistic, environmentally sustainable land management techniques. The proprietors of Domaine Dugat-Py are descended from a long lineage of vignerons, passionate about the culture of the vine and dedicated to the most meticulous, minimalist vinification techniques, they are revered as much by the most conversant cognoscente as they are by their very peers.

Route des Grands Crus represents the ultimate pilgrimmage for all cohorts of great red wine. It passes through four kilometres of Gevrey Chambertin, on either side can be found an archive of the most illustrious historical vineyards. The invaluable Lieux-dits of Grand Cru Mazoyeres Chambertin are at the very beginning of the trek, on the right side of the Route as you enter from the south. There are only a few growers here but Domaine Dugat-Py remains first amongst equals, powerful and silken textured yet refined, only a few hundred bottles are made.

Less than eighty dozen Dugat-Py Mazoyeres Chambertin are made each year, the block of vine is small and the standards of viticulture are without peer. There are a handful of gifted vignerons who work the Dugat-Py circuit of vineyards, a total ten hectares of elite viticulture, dispersed throughout the most superior quarters in Gevrey Chambertin. The remarkable success of Domaine Dugat-Py is a result of the most meticulous attention to detail, an exclusively biodynamic management of vineyards, followed by an uncompromising standard of excellence in the elevage.

There are many appellations within the greater Commune of Gevrey Chambertin, only the most superior are worthy of the moniker Grand Cru. They all converge in the lower southeast of the town, planted to a gently sloped Shangrila of highly felicitious pebbly clay, alluvial soils, strewn with the shell remains of ancient sea life. The terrains here were recognized as far back as the first century BC, the first quarter of Burgundy ever to be established for viticulture. Dugat-Py treat their precious vines to old world farming techniques which have remained unchanged for centuries.

The remarkably favourable mesoclimes of Gevrey Chambertin were known to the Romans over two millennia ago. They established the first vineyards in Burgundy here during the first century BC. The Dugat family can trace a history of local vitculture since the seventeenth century. One of the most eminent names in the Commune, they treat their fruit to a traditional Burgundian regimen of whole bunch ferments in old fashioned open vats, followed by an extended term of age in completely new oak, under the ancient cellars of the nearby Abbaye L'Aumônerie.

From one of the world's greatest vineyards, the precious Climats of Mazis Chambertin sit right next door to the illustrious and historical Clos de Beze. The highly treasured parcel of Domaine Dugat-Py is somewhat younger, its vines average some seventy years of age and yield less than a hundred dozen bottles each year. Husbanded to the full complement of old world biodynamic farming techniques, a high proportion of whole bunch inclusion and open ferments infuses the intimate charm of a venerated terroir into the finished wine.

The Dugat family have been growing grapes and making wine in Gevrey-Chambertin since the days of the Three Musketeers. Domaine Dugat-Py now own and operate five hectares of the finest Climat in the entire commune. Vieilles Vignes is a bottling of hand sorted Pinot Noir grapes, picked off biorganically managed vines up to fifty years of age, treated to a traditional ferment and eighteen months maturation in completely new oak barriques.

Many of the world's greatest vineyards are situated along either bank of Route des Grands Crus which runs through the heart of Burgundy. Gevrey-Chambertin is one of the most celebrated appellations in the region, it is steeped in history, the eponymous Chateau was occupied as early as the ninth century by Benedictine monks who grew grapes and made wine. Chambertin was Napoleon's favourite tipple and he always brought barrels along with him on campaign. Vieilles Vignes represents the entry level into Domaine Dugat-Py.

The wines of Dugat-Py are made exclusively from estate grown fruit, all of it is picked off closely husbanded vines which are managed throughout the year to traditional, holistic regimens of biodynamic viticulture. There is no wine that's more natural or environmentally friendly. Vieilles Vignes are an accessible introduction into the regal growths of Gevrey-Chambertin, albeit from precious old vines up to fifty years of age. The wines of Dugat-Py are renowned for their sublime elegance, crafted with as little intervention as possible to allow the fruit to speak for itself.

The Dugat family enjoy a peerless reputation for viticulture in Gevrey-Chambertin which dates back to the seventeenth century. A relatively new label in its own right, the prestige of their marque is the result of an uncompromising pursuit of excellence, good old fashioned viticulture and attention to detail from veraison to the final bottling. Vieilles Vignes is picked off an inventory of younger estate blocks, albeit up to fifty or more years of age, treated to a minimalist vinification and extended term of maturation in an indulgement of the finest new oak casks.

The finest in Appellation Gevrey Chambertin Controlee, from pacels of exclusively estate grown fruit, hand picked off an inventory of old vines up to fifty years of age, managed to the complete regimen of biodynamic principles, after a return to the timeless old world techniques in agriculture. Domaine Dugat-Py share a long history and proud tradition with the wines of Gevrey-Chambertin, proprietors of ancient blocks which have been husbanded by the Dugat family for centuries.

The Climat de Les Evocelles is planted to a steep and auspicious, southeast facing slope at the very northwest of Gevrey Chambertin. The vines of Domaine Dugat-Py were established here not long after the second world war, grown to a splendid mix of silty, calcareous clays, they are husbanded to naturally biodynamic viticultural techniques which have remained unchanged for generations. A vivid wine of intense purple fruit flavours, raspberry liqueur characters and mineral spice, supported by the luxury of eighteen months in completely new French oak.

The wines of Gevrey Chambertin are amongst the most prestigious in the world, highly sought for centuries by the most powerful statesmen and profligate capitalists. Even the ancient Celts, Romans and Greeks, all exploited the natural endowments of the region for winegrowing. The proprietors of Dugat-Py share a long history of viticulture with the commune, generations of the Dugat family have tilled the auspicious soils and tended the propitious vines, their estate owned blocks are amongst the most superior parcels on the Cote de Nuits.

Immediately recognizable as a winegrowers paradise, Gevrey Chambertin was the first part of Burgundy to be established to viticulture in the first century BC. The profound intensity and remarkable elegance which characterize the wines of Gevrey Chambertin have made them the favourite of poets and conquerors alike. Sixty five years young, the precious block of estate grown vines at Les Evocelles yields one of the finest harvests in the commune, to be traditionally vinified and aged under the medieval cellars of Abbaye de Aumanerie.

One of the most astute constructs in Appellation Gevrey Chambertin Controlee, from fruit grown to a superior estate parcel, hand picked off vines up to seventy years of age, planted to propitious clay limestone soils along the southeast facing hillside at the very northwest of the commune. Husbanded to completely organic, sustainably biodynamic agricultural techniques, the finished wine is treated to eighteen months maturation in an extravagant selection of exclusively new French oak barriques. A mere one or two hundred are produced each vintage.

The proprietors of Dugat-Py are native to the commune of Gevrey Chambertin, the family of M Dugat have been practising viticulture here since the beginning of the seventeenth century. Fernand Dugat established a new generation of vines immediately after the second world war, they are now fully mature and represent the most superior examples of viticulture within the greater commune of Gevrey Chambertin. The splendid vintages of Les Evocelles are highly prized and excruciatingly rare, a mere one or two hundred dozen are produced each year.

Offering an amazing level of elegance and finesse, supported by the weight of fruit expected from the more stellar Crus of Burgundy, Coeur du Roy is the fruit of an uncompromising pursuit in viticulture and vinification. Dugat-Py are recognized by their peers as the shrewdest and most enlightened Domaines along the Cote d'Or. Up to a hundred years of age, the cosseted vines which contribute fruit for Coeur du Roy yield a remarkable wine of extraordinary intensity and irresistible charm, stately elegance and resplendent bucolic grace.

Grown to the finest bespoke terroirs and crafted to meticulous standards of winemaking, the epics of Dugat-Py are even more remarkable for their term of maturation under the ancient Abbey Aulmnerie of St Benign. Nothing about the wines of Domaine Dugat-Py is less than breathtaking, their stewardship of local vineyards dates back to ancient times. Coeur du Roy 2010 is an intensely concentrated wine, picked off parcels of Gevrey Chambertin Villages vineyard and treated to a minimalist, old world style of ferments, before an extravagant maturation in new French oak.

The spoiled vines of Domaine Dugat-Py can trace their provenance to the most superior sites in La Bourgogne, direct descendants of plantings which have sired the most celebrated wines ever made. Respect for the land and a low intervention approach to winemaking are all that's required to achieve the finest vintages. Received annually by the most resounding critical acclaim from the international press, Coeur Du Roy Tres Vieilles affords every enthusiast an opportunity to experience the great Climat de Gevrey Chambertin.

Bernard Dugat-Py made the conversion to pure and uncompromising biodynamic viticulture in 2003, he has since been rewarded with vintages of the most highly sought wines. The key to success was a return to the farming practices of yore, a meticulous micro management of the soils and the vine. A pristine and holistic approach to farming captures the virtue of terroir in the grapes and retains the essence of Gevrey Chambertin in the bottle, a remarkable intensity of exquisite fruit characters, as underpinned by the stylish, saline marine minerality of the land.

The families of Dugat-Py can trace a history of tending vineyards in Gevrey Chambertin since the 1600s. Even the younger plantings of Coeur Du Roy are up to a century of age, devotedly managed to the soundest principles of biodynamic agriculture. Fruit is all hand picked, meticulously sorted and vinfied in traditional, open cement vats, followed by eighteen months maturation in the finest new oak. Since establishment in 1994, the wines of Domaine Dugat-Py have enjoyed a meteoric rise to status as the most desirable young marques along the Cote d'Or.

Petite Chapelle is a next door neighbour of the illustrious Chapelle Chambertin, three hectares of vine planted to a unique mesoclime, a little further down the slope than its eminent siblings. The tiny parcel of Domaine Dugat-Py is managed to old fashioned biodynamic principles of farming, vines are now fifty years of age and yield a limited harvest of the most exquisite Pinot Noir. The wines of Petite Chapelle are known for their suppleness and finesse, silken in texture and enchantingly perfumed, they articulate a remarkable measure of elegance and grace.

Petite Chapelle lies towards the very southern part of Gevrey, a mere hundred metres from the Route des Grands Crus, right next door to the great Climats of Chambertin. Soils are deep and the vines are envigorated by a windy microclime which encourages the excellent ripening of fruit. Dugat-Py have taken an extra measure to match the optimal terroirs with a completely natural discipline in agriculture, fully organic without the addition of artificial fertilzers or pesticide. The land returns the favour with a hundred or so dozen of the most precious wine.

There are less than four hectares of vine at Petite Chapelle but they are fortuitously planted in the finest soils and share a provenance with the most illustrious neighbours. The growers of Dugat-Py treat their land with a reverence that's remarkable even by Burgundian standards. Every vine is husbanded to old world techniques, aimed at creating an idyllic environment for the realization of the most eloquent fruit. A large proportion of the harvest is included in the ferments as whole bunches, infusing the finished wine with the intimate charm of an auspicious site.

Messrs Dugat command the highest respect from their peerage of Burgundian growers and negociants, vignerons amongst the Premier and Grand Crus of Gevrey Chambertin for centuries, they established Domaine Dugat-Py in 1994. The relatively new label has experienced an extraordinary surge in value and prestige, purely as a result of the estate's uncompromising attention to detail and pursuit of excellence. Petite Chapelle is a small parcel of vine, fifty years of age, very near the illustrious Climats of Chambertin itself, only a hundred dozen bottles are made each year.

At some ten hectares in total area, Lavaux St Jacques is one of the largest and most prolific delineations within the greater Commune of Gevrey Chambertin. Planted to the southerly facing aspects of Combe de Lavaux, the quarter is defined by weathered limestone soils which formed part of a drainage canal into the flood plains at the centre of the Commune. A unique mesoclime of sunnier days for developed esters, followed by cooler night breezes for slower ripening, makes muscular, darkly fruited wines of bucolic savouryness and alluvial minerality.

Gevrey Chambertin represents a breathtaking concentration of the world's great vineyards. The Dugat family have been practising viticulture within this very commune since the seventeenth century. Planted halfway up the side of a gentle arc which defines the elite slope of Cote St-Jacques, the individual Lieu-dit of Champeaux yield wines which are uniquely identifiable, as much by the subtle variations of terroir as the influence of the winemaker. Dugat-Py are respected by peers and enthusiasts alike for excellence and eloquence without peer.

From a small parcel of vines over fifty years of age, planted halfway up the propitious slopes of Cote St-Jacques at the very north of Gevrey Chambertin, the east facing site is perfect for Pinot Noir. A quiet achiever of the Commune, Champeaux yields a wine of extraordinary eloquence, which possesses the capacity to retain its refinement and grace as it ages and evolves for many years. Traditionally crafted and matured in an extravagant selection of completely new oak, a little over a hundred dozen Dugat-Py Champeaux are produced each year.

Halfway up the auspicious slopes at the very top of Appellation Gevrey Chambertin, seven hectares of Champeaux are planted to a mix of marly red brown soils and limestone clays. There are a number of growers but the vines of Domaine Dugay-Py are husbanded to perfection through the use of totally organic vitculture. An exacting vinification, followed by a year and a half maturation in the finest new French oak, under the ancient cellars of Abbaye Aumônerie, achieves a Premier Cru of peerless elegance and exquisite grace.

Champeaux is seven hectares at the very northern perimeter of Gevrey Chambertin, planted to an easterly facing slope of limestone clay alluvials which characterize nature's endowment of the most superior Climats de La Bourgogne. The vines of Domaine Dugat-Py are over fifty years of age, they yield an exceptional quality of fruit by virtue of the dedication and skill accumulated through centuries of family viticulture. M Dugat employs a measure of whole bunch inclusion and open ferments to compliment the excellence of terroir at La Champeaux.

An uncompromising pursuit of excellence is central to the success of Domaine Dugat-Py. Viticulture is indispensably holistic and completely organic, the soil is sacred and the culture of the vine is deeply spiritual. M Dugat adheres to principles of winemaking which have remained unchanged by his family for centuries. Very near the centre of Gevrey, in the older part of town, the cellars of an Abbaye built a millennia ago, are enlisted by Dugat-Py to age vintages of Champeaux Premier Cru in an extravagant selection of the finest new oak barriques.

Roman historian Pliny the Elder tells us that Gevrey Chambertin was the first part of Burgundy to be exploited for winemaking, ancient vineyards have been unearthed which date back to the 1st Century BC. The Dugat family arrrived somewhat later during the seventeenth century, they are respected by an elite peerage of vignerons for the uncompromising standards of excellence which they bring to the wines of Cote-d'Or. This artisanal and meticulous Domaine retains three precious blocks of vine, immediately adjacent to the finest vineyards in Gevrey Chambertin.

The viticultural team at Dugat-Py have taken a one way journey back in time, adapting the environmentally sound farming techniques which would have been familiar in the days of horse and plough. Organic fertilizers and mulches are back on the menu, horses have also been harnessed up for duty among the vines. The quality of fruit achieved from this return to the timeless practices of yesteryear, has made a major contribution to the eminence and prestige of Domaine Dugat-Py. From three blocks of Premier Cru vines, a mere hundred dozen each year.

A bottling of the Premier Crus at Fonteny, Corbeaux et Perriere, three choice blocks of vine, a precious endowment, fifty years of age, planted to the immediate periphery of the most illustrious vineyards on Cote de Nuits. Ancient farming techniques and a minimalist approach to the winemaking, whole bunch inclusions and open fermentations in traditional concrete vats, are essential to the virtue and integrity. A year and a half ageing in a selection of the finest, exclusively new oak, completes an eloquent wine of extraordinary elegance and remarkable finesse.

The grands vignobles de Gevrey-Chambertin have commanded the highest prices for millenia, they were Napoleon's favourite wines and served to parch his thirst during history's most infamous battles. Domaine Dugat-Py retain three small but precious parcels of vine very near the source of Bonaparte's brew, now fully mature at fifty years of age, they yield a mere hundred dozen of the finest Premier Cru in the entire commune. The outstanding provenence of fruit is matched by a peerless measure of skill and meticulous attention to detail by Messrs Loc & Bernard Dugat.

An assemblage of fruit from the Premier Crus of Fonteny, Corbeaux et Perriere, all are fortuitously positioned immediately north or east of the stellar Grands Crus at Les Mazis. These auspicious blocks of vine, half a century of age, are planted at the very heart of Gevrey-Chambertin central, sharing their fences with the most famous and invaluable parcels of Pinot Noir in the world. Such are the stature of Gevrey Chambertin, that Dugat-Py treat their Premier Crus to a term of age under the ancient vaulted cellars at Abbaye de Aumônerie.