An effervescent accord between the softness of Barossa Valley Chardonnay and masculine structure of Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir. Treated to the timeless Methode Traditionelle, fermented in own bottle and reposed for an extended term on fine sedimentery yeast lees, its exquisite, creamy mousse presages an overture of cherry, biscuit and boulangerie citron confit characters, a moreish palate which continues to unravel creamy layers of complexity, but at her heart, she is clean, revitalizing and crisp.

From a precocious block of early picked Pinot Noir on the Scarborough estate property at Pokolbin along Wine Country Road. It takes two full days to infuse the ferments with just the right amount of petal pink, fashioned to a style that's certain to engage the palate and beguile the senses. Bright cherries, cinammon apple and red fruit nose, sasafras and rose, strawberries, stalky anise tannin, mace and a sprinkle of cupboard spice, a decidedly savoury style of blush pink wine to accompany creamy white cheese or buttered saute of sole.

Early pioneer Charles Marshall was born in Sydney to convict parents. He discovered an entrance from the ocean into Gippsland lakes where he struck gold. In 1856 Marshall built a store and hotel, transporting stores and passengers aboard his boat, the Sarsfield. The two hectares of vine at Sarsfield, planted between the lakes and wilderness of Victoria's east Gippsland, yield a soft, velvety Pinot of great richness and remarkable depth of flavour.

The Sacred Hill range has claimed countless awards at major national and international competitions, leading reviewers and industry pundits have extolled the exceptional quality and value of this popular and enduring brand. An excellent everyday sparkler endowed with lively creamyness and extravagant biscuit richness, its delicate acidity and finely effervescent fruit characters make it the chiller of choice to accompany natural oysters with a squeeze of lemon and pinch of pepper.

The famous red Coonawarra soils infuse grapes with evocative characters and impart distinctive richness into the wines. Rymill Brut is exclusively Coonawarra, a mostly Chardonnay sparkler with inclusions of Pinot Noir and Meuniere, crafted to true Methode traditionelle, lined with beautiful textures, brimming with opulent aromas and layered with an intensity of flavour. A superb aperitif on its own and a delight alongside fine hors de oeuvres, Rymill Coonawarra stands out as a Brut wine for its effortless exuberance and engaging complexity.

Central Otago is renowned for its stunning scenery of rugged mountains and picturesque lakes. Rockburn is bounded on the west by mountains whose seaward slopes are covered by rain forest, to the east is a barren, moon Iike landscape that receives less than 25mm of rain a year. Situated between these extremes, Rockburn's vines yield a stunning wine, one has only to taste a Gibbston Valley Pinot Noir to be completely won over by its elegantly perfumed nose, lifted violet fragrances and earthy, forest floor sensations on the rich, generous palate.

Each and every vintage presents Robin Brockett with a new challenge, no two growing seasons are the same, a truly great vineyard will take the vagaries of vintage and achieve a harvest that's truly unique. Brockett takes the fruit that's most articulate of terroir and clime, there's never very much of such high standards, enough for just a hundred cases of Bellarine's best. The fruit of Swinburn Vineyard is defined by its dark red fruit pectins, thick skinned cherries and dewy bramble, a curl of cedar oak and twist of the spice mill, a seamless ruby tannin finish.

It was the wave of Swiss pioneers in the 1860s who discovered that the balmy coastal climes and rich loamy terroirs of Bellarine make magnificent wine. The region is now best known for its excellence in viticulture, Robin Brockett takes his pick from the most superior vineyards. Fenwick makes mighty Pinot Noir, a rich and complex style of sweet red rhubarb, strawberries and parched forest fruits, pursing whole bunch notes and savoury stalk, its juicy red berryness over soft well defined tannins, pastoral freshness, sasafras spice and timely oak.

What's to serve alongside a languid luncheon of copious courses and savvy fare? By appointment to her majesty's scrumptious service, we call on two delectable denizens of the dining room. High class habitues of the most discerning hatted restaurant wine lists, generous with flavour, stylish of structure, defined by their effortless poise, elegant perfumes and exquisite balance. The salubrious songsters of Central Otago, Roaring Meg Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris, two great wines that are made for partnering alongside our favourite food and finest friends.

En garde! The illustrious Tim Knappstein has returned with the cut and thrust of Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir. Knappstein hails from a long lineage of great winemakers, he was the first to plant vines at Lenswood in 1981. He still lives amongst the undulating aspects of Adelaide Hills and works with the most dedicated growers. Knappstein has accumulated the experience and skill to put all his efforts to bear on any style of his choosing. Pinot Noir is sourced from some of the eldest and most distinguished sites in the premiere precincts of Lenswood and Piccadilly.

From Pinot Noir picked off choice vines at Charleston and Gumeracha on the Adelaide Hills. Riposte means a quick comeback, reply or retort, in the sport of fencing it is the term for a swift counter stroke. After more than a decade of confusion about the Tim Knappstein name and eponymous wineworks, Riposte was chosen as the appropriate moniker for Knappstein's comeback label. Pinot Noir clones are treated to a minimalist, hands on vinification in the traditional old world way. The Dagger has been finished to a vibrant and rich, earlier drinking style of Adelaide Hills Pinot Noir.

Outstanding quality fruit makes exceptional wine, it remains essential however for the process to work with nature and to allow the wine to evolve at its own pace. Pinot Noir is the most articulate of all, it speaks unabashedly about its provenance and place. Lusatia Park makes an intensely fragrant Pinot Noir, all the winemaker need do is let the fruit repose until ready, unworked and unhurried, moved slowly by gravity. A beguiling wine of humbling candor, velvet textured, radiant, fragrant of bouquet garni, fruits of the forest and fresh planed curls of stalky cedar spice.

The Abbey Vineyard at Tarrawarra, on the corner of Old Healesville Rd and Houghtons Lane, is a specialized, low yielding site which delivers a harvest of the most exquisite Pinot Noir. The choice clone MV6 was planted here in 1993 to highly mineral Humevale silt stones, which contribute to the generosity and balance within the fruit, ultimately the character of the final wine. A stately Yarra Valley Pinot noir of elegance, poise and finesse, endowed with sophisticated perfumes, power and control.

Kangaroo Ground in the lower Yarra Valley has seen the establishment of a number of new vineyards due to some idyllic growing conditions. Enter Redbox, a fragrant Pinot Noir in vibrant new world styling, with a generous but elegant, food oriented, mouthfilling palate.

Emily is a wine to be enjoyed at any time and to celebrate every occasion, Emily is the life of the party! The Redbank spirit commemorates the ingenuity and courage of early Australian settlers. Punished by hardships, searing droughts and flooding rains, these pioneering men and women took up the challenge but never gave up their thirst for relaxation and celebration at every opportunity. Emily is fashioned by the canny girls at Redbank to drink beautifully alongside good company and your favourite fare.

From the highest elevation vineyards in King Valley, up to 860 metres, the chilly climes extend the ripening for full development of crisp, elegant flavours. Treated to an extended term of twenty three months bottle age on sedimentery yeast lees, a choice component is sent to seasoned oak barrels for a course of maturation and added complexity. A finely beaded style of delicate zest perfumes, almond pralines and strawberry over supple rose floral, the palate is finely structured with an underlying core of fresh citrus acidity that drives through to the finish.

Meet the tasty trio that every eager epicure would love to meet, Chardonnay chic, Pinot Noir and Pinot Pink! A half dozen of Scotchman Hill's finest in fuchsia, treated to a relaxed repose on skins for the perfect extract of rakish Rose hues. Swan Bay make the most rejuvenating blush coloured Cuvee, juicy and moreish before a crisp clean, berry cherry finish. Pair off you favourite pink with the duchess of Yarra Valley Chardonnay or the songster of Central Otago Pinot Noir. Three great wines that are made for partnering alongside our most lively luncheons and finest friends.

Pinot Noir has been the shining star of Mornington for decades. Red Hill take the pick of crop, assembling a variety of clones from several choice vineyards across the finer precincts of the Peninsula. Red Hill drinks very well at a young age and is best consumed quite soon after release, if you prefer the vibrant cherry, plum and strawberry fruit flavours in their prime. Red Hill also walks on the wilder side of Pinot Noir, treat her to a spell of breathing to develop the funky country game characters and piquant pastoral savouryness.

Yabby Lake are well positioned to produce the most generously proportioned styles of new world Pinot Noir, vinified to traditional Burgundian techniques. Significant resources have been devoted to developing Yabby Lake's vineyard to the highest possible standard. An assemblage of Pinot Noir clones MV6 and G5V15, clones 114, Pommard and Abel for structure and complexity, the inclusion of a parcel clone 115 imparts layers of elegance, rich fragrant aromas and a long silky palate.

Rahona Valley wines are all produced from a single four acre property within a small valley at Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula. The growing conditions are excellent, deep, well drained red basalt soils nurture the vines, as the cool maritime climes lead to a long, slow ripening period. Oak barrels impart a very important part of the flavour profile, one of the most significant costs each year. The annual visit of the cooper, a few months before harvest, is one of those pivotal occasions that go a long way to setting the style of wine each and every vintage.

A 19th century grazier with a sheep station overrun by rabbits, Mr. MacGregor tried unsuccessfully to reduce the population by catching them and turning them into pies. The locals took up the challenge but the plague continued. Eventually MacGregor decided to plant vines and make a decent Pinot Noir to go with all the pie he was eating. Rabbit Ranch is made to a very soft, fruit forward, low tannin style. Beautifully aromatic, textural with the characteristic Otago richness, clean and endowed with exquisite balance, a wine to be savoured and supped.

Ra Nui stands for Marlborough, the realization of the finest Pinot Noir from a very special terroir. An intense construct, crafted for serious Pinotphiles, Ra Nui reflects choice selection of clone and rootstock, in combination with low yields, sensible oak and rich lees treatments. Grapes are principally sourced from the Ra Nui Summer Valley Vineyard, situated near the town of Blenheim under the lee of Wither Hills. A small, devotedly managed site, planted to Dijon clones 115 and 667, 777 and Abel, yielding low harvests of small berries with concentrated flavours.

Bendigo is a slightly newer viticultural precinct of Central Otago, the largest quartz reef deposit in New Zealand runs directly beneath the vines. Established to industrial mining in 1862, the historic town of Bendigo is gaining new renown, this time for the most cogent and compelling vintages of Central Otago Pinot Noir. Selective pickings, whole bunches and a gentle hand plunge of wild yeast ferments, pressed into French oak barriques for malolactic and age. A generously proportioned and effusive Central Otago Pinot Noir of great texture, substance and complexity.

Central Otago produces the new world's weightiest and most distinctive Pinot Noir. The vinification techniques at Quartz Reef however are very much in keeping with the traditional practices of the old world. Pinot Noir clones 10/5 and 5, 115 and 667, 777 and Abel are all hand picked off a closely planted, steep slope at Bendigo, a small percentage of whole bunches are retained. A week of cold soak and gentle hand plunging of indigenous yeast ferments are followed by maceration and pressing into a selection of seasoned and new French oak barrels for malolactic and maturation.

Provenance was established with the objective of making great wines that exhibit the quality of fruit and terroir from choice vineyards in and around the Geelong viticultural precinct. The most pristine grapes are assembled from the Provenance Moorabool Valley property. A component of the finest Bellarine Pinot Noir from the proven Grassy Point site is included. Parcels from the eminent Pierrepoint vineyard at Henty adds another dimension. A portion from the Sinclair property near Ballarat, grown to ancient ordovician soils at 500 metres contributes wonderful bright fruit.

Prophet's Rock were established in 1999, with a view to finding sites like no other. Rocky Point Vineyard is such a place, planted to some of the steepest blocks in Central Otago, at the rugged southern extremes of Bendigo. The challenging slopes are drenched in the daytime sunshine, as the rough and stony, free draining soils store the invaluable heat, warming the vines overnight. The Pinot Noir ripens earlier on Rocky Point Vineyard, realizing minimal yields of beautifully perfumed, structured yet supple wines which drink brilliantly in their youth.

The Home block at Prophet's Rock hosts a rare mix of soils, schist and quartz clays over a lens of alkaline chalk, all serving to stimulate the auspicious vines. Grapes are all fully destemmed and treated to a minimalist, hands off style of vinification, aimed at permiting the wine to make itself, uninfluenced and unperturbed. A succulent expression of Central Otago at its most exquisite, a jubilee of cherries, mineral and mace, seamless of tannin, graceful and intense. An extremely limited release from a tiny parcel of the most superlative vines, a mere sixty dozen bottles of vintage.

Prophet Rock's Home Vineyard was planted to a north facing terrac, high above the Bendigo Station homestead, to panoramic vistas across river terraces of Cromwell Basin and stoic mountains of Pisa Range. An opportune confluence of soils, aspect and clime translate into harvests of intensely flavoured Pinot Noir. Vinification to a regimen of minimalist handling techniques, a gentle ferment through the action of wild, indigenous yeasts, followed by eighteen months in oak, encourages the wine to make itself and to fulfill the promise of Central Otago's most remarkable terroir.

A joint effort by Prophet Rock's Paul Pujol and Bonnes Mares Musigny maestro François Millet. The most superior parcels of Pinot Noir were selected by Millet from the Prophet's Home Vineyard, a magnificent site on a high elevation, steep glacial terrace at Bendigo. Ferments are plunged only once and moved without any pumps into a sellection of Rémond Allier for a judicious term of maturation. The traditional old world handling techniques meet the excellence of new world fruit, in a pas de deux which defines the sublime elegance of Central Otago Pinot Noir.