Catching Thieves specialize in the vogue contemporary styles which have seen Margaret River wines prevail the world over. The philosophy behind Catching Thieves is to capture and deliver contemporary, vibrant wines with so much style, you'll do anything to get your hands on them! The salubrious soils and balmy climes along Margaret River yield harvests of Sauvignon and Semillon grapes endowed with great intensity. Cool maritime breezes stimulate the vines to concentrate the brisk fruit flavours which, so essential for the Catching Thieves style.

The goal here is to construct a wine of intensity, complexity and great interest on the palate. Ultimately a wine that will evolve in the glass, revealing a variety of flavours, structures and classic Marlborough textures. The focus is on elegance rather than having any one element dominating the subtler characters and undertones. The fastidiously maintained vines produce clean, ripe fruit which translate into a deeply satisfying Sauvignon Blanc. Catalina Sounds is built to contemporary tastes, immensely flavoursome and ready to enjoy upon release.

Pinot Gris is sourced from Ants Nest Vineyard, high up on a ridge overlooking Marlborough's Waihopai Valley, where Catalina Sounds have taken a very hands on role to husbanding vines. The team are devoted to fashioning highly expressive wines that stand the test of being fully approachable when young, whilst carrying the palate weight and quality of fruit to mate with fine faire and develop in the short term. Catalina Sounds exudes bright varietal characters of peaches and nut with the distinctive luscious lychee expression of Marlborough.

For those who like their Chardonnay in the big boned euro style, mesmerisingly layered in complexity and flavour, richly barrel fermented in a high proportion of new French oak, followed by ten months building palate texture and infusing interest as it ages over gross yeast lees. Angelo and Wendy Diletti selected the Castle Rock site in 1981, with a view to creating a range of superlative wines which express the opulence of Albany's magnificent maritime clime. Brimming with stonefruits, meal and brulee, the Chardonnay of choice to accompany white meat recipes, fresh fishes or fowl.

Castello della Sala is situated on a rocky bluff in the Umbrian Apennines, not far from the border with Tuscany. The castle, surrounded by ancient Etruscan towns, midway between Paglia River and the peak of Mt Nibbio, was built in 1350 for Angelo Monaldeschi della Vipera, whose family had accompanied Charlemagne on his visit to Rome in the 9th century. The estate now grows the finest parcels of Chardonnay and Grechetto in all Umbria, vinification techniques remain in the old world, the style of the finished wines however are timeless, opulent and profound.

The team at Castelli can call on precious yields of the most exceptional Chardonnay, the goal being to construct a new world wine that's very much in the style of Grand Cru Chablis. Essential to the task is a judicious component of early picked fruit, wild yeasts, battonage and fermentation on full solids in a high proportion of new French oak. A big boned Chardonnay of creamy acidity and the most stately structure, its myriad of undulating flavours and profound complexity intertwine and evolve around the solid core of exuberant, savoury fruit.

The Rieslings of the greater Porongurup and Mount Barker regions are known for their unassailable structure and penetrating fruit character. They have a style all their own and compare favourably to the classics of Australia's most prestigious appellations. Castelli treat their fruit with an urgency that's aimed at snap preserving the excellence of Great Southern Riesling. Treating the juices with delicacy and respect achieves a marvelous wine of complex floral and stone fruit perfumes, supported by a focused palate of pensive intensity and textural minerality.

Pemberton makes intense Chardonnay, textural and rich in the style of the timeless classics from the grand vineyards of the old world. Fashioned to the luxurious regimens of barrel ferments and lees stirring battonage, Castelli make a big Chardonnay wine of lifted nutty spice complexity, gunflint and minerality, power, elegance and exquisite length, all supported by sound structure and nougaty French oak. Ageworthy if you are prepared to wait, sublime drinking right now alongside the finest white meats, dressed with creamy white sauces, truffles and morel.

The Castelli brothers lead double lives, a curious dichotomy of international jet setting engineers and artisanal winemakers. They can afford to drink the world's finest growths but choose to get themselves dirty amongst the vines. Castelli Bros have spared no expense in adding the most auspicious West Australian vineyards to their inventory of splendid sites. Pinot Gris is a varietal that the Great Southern region grows particularly well, the pick of harvest is treated to an adroit vinification, aimed at preserving the mouthfilling complexity and captivating textural richness.

Fashioned from the pick of fruit, harvested off the superlative Omodei Vineyard at Pemberton. Vinified from the purest free run pressings, treated to extended skin contact, fermented to complete dryness in a selection of seasoned and new, Fontainbleu French oak barriques, on gross solids for optimal textural richness. Castelli have captured the beguiling essence of the drier Loire Valley Fumé Blanc style, something new transpires and evolves with every sip.

Follow the Australian continent's final sunset to the home of Cartwheel. Intrepid winemaking maestro Sam Glaetzer left his beloved Barossa to take his pick of Western Australia's fruit, vineyards which are renowned for producing harvests of the finest Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. A sub tropical climate surrounds the vines, blown by three maritime winds which ensure cool dry summers and wet winters, idyllic for growing the crisp, flavoursome grapes which are destined to be crafted into Western Australia's most popular and refreshing style of white wine.

Margaret River is one of the world's great wine growing regions, renowned for producing exceptional, fully aromatic whites, and tangy, herbaceous Semillon/ Sauvignons. Cartwheel's vineyards enjoy the best of the region's maritime climes typified by long, dry summers and moderate, sultry wet winters. To fully express the unique regional characters of the Margaret River, Cartwheel employs winemaking techniques which permit the fruit flavours to shine right through. Enjoy now and experience the unrestrained zip and vivaciousness.

Best Riesling in the World, Best Australia New Zealand Riesling & Best Museum Class Riesling Canberra International Riesling Challenge. From grapes grown to vines which were the source of Wolf Blass most memorable Rieslings. An exclusively estate grown wine, in the dry Clare Valley style, almost untouched by the winemaker throughout the vinification process.

Capel Vale can lay claim to some of the finest vineyards on the continent, one of the few major family owned wineries in Western Australia. The team's philosophy has always been to deliver intensely fruit driven, complex and powerful, yet elegant wines. Mt Barker yields an extraordinary quality of Riesling, remarkably proportioned, statuesque, chiselled and defined. A single choice clone, grown to parcels of excruciatingly low yielding vines, is crafted into a layered Riesling wine of sublimely perfumed talc, lime and floral notes, its ripe citrus palate complexed by minerality and flint extends to a long, crystalline, crisp Bickford cordial finish.

Capel Vale have been crafting intensely fruit driven, powerful yet elegant Sauvignon Blanc from harvests grown to the finest Western Australia vineyards since 1974. The balmy maritime climes encourage Sauvignon Blanc grapes to develop the requisite qualities for a generously textured palate with firm structure and fine length. Completely unwooded and unoaked, Capel Vale displays revitalizing green bean, snow pea and lantana characters with an underlying minerality.

Crafted from the pick of crop, grown to the finest Margaret River vineyards, Capel Vale displays strong regionality while articulating its pure varietal nature. Climatically unique for such fortuitous maritime climes, the growing seasons encourage Chardonnay grapes to ripen slowly and completely, translating into wines of elegance, tightness and finesse. A combination of new and old world vinification techniques, malolactic ferments and lees stirring, achieves a textural, creamy Burgundy style of West Australian Chardonnay.

Western Australia has enjoyed a long and salubrious experience with Verdelho, renowned as a winegrowing region for a memorable succession of the nation's finest vintages. Capel Vale have made the most of their baronial expanse of vineyards, to find the perfect sites for the establishment of superior Verdelho vines. Made to measure for service alongside whole roast birds, pine nut risotto and fine Al fresco faire, a revitalizing Verdelho wine at its very best, fruit forward and refreshingly unoaked.

Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc have found a perfect home under the favourable maritime climes of Western Australia's premier viticultural precincts. Crafted from the pick of harvests by the award winning Capel Vale team, totally fruit driven and completely unoaked, Debut is remarkable as much for it's marriage of ripe tropical fruit flavours with greener vegetable characters, as it is for it's clean, crisp and elegant styling.

Chardonnay grown to the cooler nethers of southwest Australia can stand alone, unwooded and unoaked, showing lifted aromas of pineapple and melon, nectarines and peach. Vines are stimulated by the unique maritime influence of the coastal regions into yielding grapes which express the hallmark characters that we know and love about west coast Chardonnay. Debut makes the grade, not least for it's vitality and freshness in a vivacious fruit driven styling, but also for its generosity of flavour, contemporary styling and exquisite balance.

Dutch explorer Gulden Zeepaard was not the first tall ship to chart the coast of Western Australia but she did predate Captain Cook by a century and a half. Today, Gulden Zeepaard's logo adorns the label of West Cape Howe. Headquartered within the grounds of their undulating home vineyard at Mount Barker, the West Cape Howe team collate parcels of Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc from across the finer viticultural precincts of the Australian west, for the construct of an intense wine which would unnerve its laureate siblings from across the Tasman.

Originally a coach inn for travellers on the three day journey between Perth and Margaret River, Cape Naturaliste also served as a destination for whale ships taking on supplies of vegetable grown to the valley's rich alluvial soil. A holistic, bio-dynamic philosophy, practised amongst the vines at Cape Naturaliste, yields harvests of grapes which are as natural as those picked off vineyards long ago. A brisk fermentation achieves the clean, fresh palate for which this style is so renowned.

Wallcliffe is a tiny production wine from a unique parcel of soil in the middle of the Margaret River region. The wine represents the vagaries of climate, individuality of site, the complimentary characters of the two varieties and a restrained yet evocative winemaking approach. Wallcliffe is crafted to evolve and to develop different characters and complexity. Treat Wallcliffe to scallops or sticky belly of pork.

Cape Mentelle take a minimalist approach towards this classic Margaret River style of white. The aim is to preserve as much fruit intensity and regional character as possible, whilst achieving a soundly structured, finely balanced wine. Cape Mentelle accentuates the freshness and vitality of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon, enriched by the added complexity and bonus palate weight, delivered through a measure of barrel ferments and a term of age, infusing flavours and texture whilst resting on sedimentery lees.

A universally appealing expression of Margaret River, the immensely popular Georgiana is pure Sauvignon Blanc, fashioned with the emphasis on style, freshness and vitality. Distinctively textural on the palate with bright and revitalizing, crunchy orchard fruit acidity, striking the perfect balance for the consumate summer white. Georgiana loves dining out on piquant Asian cuisine or a fresh Fritto Misto but she's equally content at home with shucked oysters and cheesey melts.

Margaret River has earned a stellar international reputation for the most statuesque and refined Chardonnay. After decades of the most exacting standards in viticulture, Cape Mentelle is richly endowed with a peerless inventory of the most salubrious sites in the most excellent health, vines which yield harvests of Chardonnay grapes bursting with intense flavours. The Cape Mentelle style draws inspiration from traditional methods to produce a wine displaying aromatic complexity over a finely textured mouthfeel and long, clean finish.

Brooks takes its name from the Chapman Brook Vineyard, established 1994 in the cooler southern half of Margaret River, a main source of Chardonnay for Cape Mentelle. This idyllic location, when combined with a restrained use of oak, best captures the freshness and vibrancy of Chardonnay, producing an appealing, generously flavoured fruit driven style, expressing pristine varietal characters, great concentration and intensity while exhibiting splendid balance.

Great Southern runs inland from the coast along Western Australia's nether region. The sibling maritime mesoclimes and warmer inland sites can vary, from something very like those of Margaret River to conditions which may be familiar to winemakers from Geelong. Scotchmans Hill have identified sites with the ideal conditions to deliver Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc grapes displaying brisk fruit characters and requisite varietal qualities. A chic young wine with excellent weight of palate in the essential fruit driven style of a classic dry white.

The generously proportioned, big boned, leesy French oak genre, Dijon Bernard Clones 76 and 95, harvested off fully mature vines, thirty years of age at Charleston in the Adelaide Hills. Grapes are destemmed and pressed for vinification on gross solids before transfer to French oak hogsheads for completion of ferments, in the old world way. Treated to lees stirring and partial malolactic for textural opulence and palate richness, its creamy grapefruit nougat palate will appeal to enthusiasts of the medium to full bodied white meat styles of Chardonnay.

A derivative of Traminer, Savignin and Pinot Noir, Grüner Veltliner was only recently reconsidered as a consequential table wine when it outclassed all comers at a prestigious international competition, against the great growths of Burgundy. Grüner Veltliner is the favourite tipple amongst the bohemian habitants and twilight denizens of Vienna, an animated style of appeal and panache, its piquant white pepper spice and nashi crispness, resolves on a long mineral finish, leaving the palate clean, revitalized and refreshed.

The vintners Canti are one of the most eminent winemakers in all Veneto, a rich pastoral paradise of extraordinary beauty with a long tradition of the very finest wines, their skilled and dedicated team employ a combination of traditional and cutting edge vinification techniques. Canti Pinot Grigio begins with the selection of fruit and pressing of grapes, sourced from an inventory of estate owned properties and vineyards operated by the best growers in all Veneto.