A salient expression of Chardonnay by a rising star amongst Margaret River's most conspicuous new winemakers. The secrets to Flametree's success are access to the best possible fruit and innate skill of the team to create beautifully crafted wines which capture the flavour of the region whence they originate. Choice grapes from exceptional sites have been vinified into a profound wine of oak barrel ferment richness and fragrant custard spice, grapefruits and fig over a framework of delicately integrated quality French oak.

Flametree maintain a close working relationship with the most dedicated Margaret River growers. The driving philosophy is to craft wines which express the quality of fruit and uniqueness of provenance, while striking the balance between early approachability, generous flavour and sound structure. Embers is a mostly Semillon wine, it's drying, slatey mineral palate and bouquet is vitalized by a third of Sauvignon Blanc, which adds ripe tropical fruit with a measure of herbaceousness. Drink now alongside papardelle primavera or fresh crustacea.

The Classic Dry White is an Australian genre of wine that Western Australia can lay claim to establishing, bringing it to the fore of styles that command massive appeal. Full flavoured and enticingly complex, the Classic Dry White requires quality fruit and a deftness at winecraft. Sourced from premium vineyards, Fishers Circle embodies the style and depth of character that Western Australia is famous for. This is definitely a fresh Western Australian catch, perfect for lazy days and breezy nights. So delicious, Fishers Circle Classic Dry White is too good to just throw back.

Western Australia's Chardonnays are typically full-bodied and rich, fig and cashew flavoured, Medocy styled whites, thanks to the maritime winds and Euro-climate of the region. Sourced from premium Western Australian vineyards, Fishers Circle embodies the style and character the region is famous for. A slightly wooded, sumptuously fruited, and easy to enjoy robust white, the Fishers Circle will pull you in with its casual Western Australian elegance, so go on, take the bait and enjoy a Fishers Circle Chardonnay while you nibble.

Chardonnay vines fare exceptionally well in Margaret River, as appropriate shading yields intensely flavoured fruit with excellent natural acidity. The afternoon sea breezes typical of the region, cap the daytime temperatures and produce cool summer nights for which Margaret River is renowned. The balmy climes encourage ripening of the white varieties as flavour ripeness is achieved at lower Baumes with excellent acid retention. Grapes must be picked from midnight to 7am and are processed separately without delay to preserve quality and freshness.

The Margaret River's salubrious maritime climate of mild, wet winters and warm, even summers, produces Sauvignon Blanc that's more tropical in style than the grassy herbaceousness of cooler districts. Margaret River Semillon is generally noted for its thistle/ vegetative qualities and for the weight and structure it carries. Fruit sourced from the cooler Karridale precinct and a very protected site in Wilyabrup coalesce into a unique style of wine which best articulates the exhilarating vitality of the classically dry Margaret River white.

Evans & Tate focus on maximising the quality of their fruit, through a careful selection of site and choice of varietal clone, to produce wines with elegance and intensity, stylish and refined. Metricup Road is made from fruit grown to vineyards located in the central and southern reaches of Margaret River. Assembling fruit from strategically located terroirs constructs a regionally articulate style of Chardonnay, which blends the concentrated stone fruit flavours of central Margaret River, with the finer, more mineral citrus and tight palate structure of the south.

Gnangara has a proud thirty year heritage. Evans & Tate's new look is inspired by the vitality and natural beauty of Australia's most endowed wine growing regions, perfectly styled to enjoy with good food and friends. Gnangara is a bright and fresh, fruit driven and pleasantly drying young white, completely unoaked in contemporary styling.

Discovering an unoaked Chardonnay with full palate and fine textures can be a pleasant surprise.

A highly engaging, finely attenuated accord of Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc. Evans and Tate have gained international renown with their classic Margaret River style of dry white wine. Semillon lends distinctive characters of milk thistle and slate, Sauvignon Blanc contributes a zingy frappe of vegetables, gooseberry and lychee, all contributing to structure and preserving vitality of fruit.

One of Margaret River's transcendent winemakers, Evans & Tate are renowned for their essential, contemporarily styled white wines. A succulent, zippy rendering of Sauvignon Blanc, driven by the freshness of its pure, primary fruit characters. Evans & Tate can call on the slow ripening vineyards to yield crisply flavoured grapes with good natural acids which can be vinified into wines of concentration and finesse. A vitalizing bouquet and palate is embellished by vibrant herbaceous characters, with just the right amount of textural mouthfeel and complexity.

Devil's Lair is a beautifully maintained vineyard which has established an enviable reputation of producing the finest Chardonnay every year. Climate and geology combine to create a unique terroir for a vibrant rendering of Margaret River. An intense expression of Chardonnay, very much in the Devil's Lair style, a subtle yet textural wine that offers a complexity of flavour which evolves and develops in the glass, without any single element dominating.

The sensational Devils Lair is being enjoyed by Australians at every occasion. The essence of Hidden Cave are the resources and contacts of Devil's Lair estate, to collate the finest fruit, to fashion wines which express Margaret River. Richly barrel fermented in French oak and treated to the indulgence of lees stirring battonage for opulence, palate weight and texture. Elegant and generously proportioned, laden with white peach and toasty brioche flavours, brimming with natural grapefruit freshness, its juicy palate defined by exuberance and vibrancy.

Made from the finest Chardonnay grapes in all Margaret River, only ever crafted in the most outstanding vintage years. Fruit is all hand picked and whole bunch pressed into a luxurious selection of one year old French oak barriques for a long, cool ferment and a year's stirring battonage on fine sedimentary lees. A powerful, single vineyard vintage of grand opulence, solid structure and exquisite balance, Devils Lair 9th Chamber Chardonnay claimed Wine of the Year in The West Australian Wine Guide.

Cullen are driven by a passion for purity of fruit and perfect balance in the finished wine. Grapes are picked by hand off vines grown to a strict environmentally friendly philosophy. All wines produced at Cullen are certified as biodynamic, carbon neutral and naturally powered. Cullen vary the ratio of Sauvignon Blanc to Semillon with each vintage according to how the varietals perform. Grapes are individually sorted and fermented to indigenous yeasts, with no acid additions and limited fining, permitting the expression of terroir to have a stronger voice in the glass.

Cullen's splendid Margaret River vineyards are cultivated to represent the purest environment in the world, renowned for white wines of character and charm. Climes are similar to that of Bordeaux and the vines positively flourish. The superlative harvests of Semillon grown to Mangan Vineyard are characterised by their fine linear structure and rich minerality. Land management and vinification techniques for this unique property differ slightly from those employed for white grapes on other sites, each are tailored to allow the influence of terroir to be fully expressed.

Cullen will vary the proportion of Sauvignon Blanc to Semillon according to performance. Picked at healthy levels of baume, crushed and inoculated to mostly indigenous yeasts, a minor component is vinified and matured in French oak, while the freshness and vitality of Margaret River fruit is retained through a course of vinfication in controlled fermenters. Pungent, piercing and linear bouquet, the delicious flavours lead in to a long and particularly fine acid finish. Already drinking very well, will continue to evolve, a good choice today alongside gourmandise style crustacea and the freshest fish.

Kevin John Cullen was a passionate believer in the quality of Margaret River wines and particularly for the potential to achieve one of the world's great Chardonnay growing regions. He established the International Chardonnay Tasting, now in its third decade, to enable the efforts of Margaret River to be compared alongside the best vintages from around the world. Kevin John anticipated that the lessons learned from these comparisons would inspire his winemaking team to optimise the quality of Chardonnay grapes grown to the Cullen estate vineyards.

Australian Test Cricketer Tony Rocket Mann planted Chenin Blanc vines along with his son in the 1990s. Persevering with the Mann family tradition of articulate and sensational wines meant adhering to the strictest principles of organic farming. The propitious Chenin Blanc grapes are wholly hand picked off Rocket's vineyar, whole bunch pressed and treated to a measure seasoned French oak barriques for several months before asssemblage. A beautiful expression of Chenin Blanc with a sense of place, lemon pith, blackcurrant leaf and fresh crunchy pear before a textural, vibrant saline finish.

Clairault are one of the pioneering vineyard wineries of Margaret River. Their aim has always been to create balanced, well structured wines which reflect a unique terroir and the outstanding quality of fruit from a mature site. Semillon in particular is a stand out performer, vinified alongside parcels of intensely aromatic Sauvignon Blanc, into a crisp, clean wine of exciting mineral fruit character, the classic dry Margaret River white, offering immense drink now appeal.

Biological farming is a passion at Clairault, incorporating a mix of organic and conventional farming techniques which place a strong emphasis on soil biology. The achievement is high quality Chardonnay, such low intervention techniques ensure that only the healthiest grapes are grown, achieving optimum flavour for in the final wine. Fruit is picked early morning and pressed, a portion as bunches, oak fermented in a high proportion of French barriques, partial malolactic and nine months maturation, stirred and topped fortnightly before the final assemblage.

Clairault was the sixth Margaret River estate to plant vines, it remains one of the oldest privately owned operations within the premier Wilyabrup appellation. The pristine, undulating property, situated less than four kilometres inland from Cape Clairault peninsula and 120 meters above sea level, is endowed with bountiful creeks, natural springs and some of the oldest native forests in the southwest. The Clairault team take great care of local flora and fauna, mother nature reciprocates, in the form of intensely flavoured Chardonnay with refined balance and exquisite style.

Chestnut Grove has developed a fine reputation for producing one of Australia's best examples of cool climate Verdelho. The growing conditions and excellent soil types of the Chestnut Grove vineyards, produce intensely flavoured, fresh topical characters, and juicy forward drinking wines. Complexity is purely fruit derived in this dashing Verdelho Cuvee, enhanced by a smaller proportion of Sauvignon Blanc, it shows good intensity of ripe tropical fruit, guava, gooseberry, passionfruit and spice. A fruity white with a crisp dry finish.

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.

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.