Winmark Wines have converted the former Pooles Rock wine storage sheds into their new yet authentic Winmark Cellar Door, ensuring the history of the property is cherished. The space connects the working vineyard with a beautifully designed place to enjoy and showcase the Winmark Chardonnays.
The Winmark Cellar Door opened in June 2020, and is again demonstrating its long held tradition of producing beautiful Hunter Valley Chardonnay.
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We enjoyed perfect harvesting conditions and picked the immaculate fruit for the Winmark 2021 Single Vineyard in the cool of the morning, which we gently pressed to ensure absolute freshness.
We fermented the free run juice and matured the resultant wine in fine grained French Oak for 11 months. Finally, we gently racked and bottled the wine to ensure that we captured the essence of the vineyard.
This wine is pure and inviting from the wonderful lemon colour to the fine and persistent finish. The youthful flavours of white stone fruits and nashi pear supported with soft spices are a delight. However, the journey is only beginning as the wine will evolve beautifully with the benefit of cellaring to reveal layers of toastiness, richness and depth. It will age gracefully yet never lose form.
Enjoy now or cellar with confidence for 8-10 years.
We harvested in the cool night air and respected this superb fruit throughout fermentation and maturation with protective and gentle handling. The resultant wine charms with a striking pale lemon hue, bursting with elderflower and white peach aromas. The palate is juicy and intriguing, with stone fruits and ripe Meyer lemon notes supported with elegant spices. Enjoy now or cellar with confidence for 3-5 years.
The Winmark 2019 Single Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay has been meticulously crafted using only the best select fruit from the vineyard, picked at night and gently pressed to ensure absolute freshness. Post fermentation it was introduced
to the finest French Oak for 12 months. This allowed the wine to express itself, and brings a more complex style to the palate. Aromas of roasted nuts and butterscotch, with depth and layers of expressions of citrus, apple and honey melon with a creamy texture and velvet undertone from the extended lees contact.
This wine will mature beautifully over time.
The 2019 Winmark Rusty’s Run chardonnay is a true example of classic Hunter Valley fruit. The season was ideal for chardonnay being typically warm with low levels of rain aiding a traditional ripening period. The fruit was harvested at night and after going through initial oak fermentation it was left in stainless steel tanks
for the duration until its release in October. The wine shows notes of peach and citrus with a crisp finish brought on by less oak and more emphasis on elegance and balance. It is drinking beautifully now and can be stored for 3-5 years if needed.
The Cellar Door is featured in the recent Hunter & Coastal Lifestyle Magazine and provides an fascinating insight to Karin’s thoughtful process of rejuvenating the property and whu creating memories and experiences for both herself and those visiting Winmark is so important.
“We see our cellar door as being very integrated with the rest of the property, so we would like to encourage our guests to get a bottle of our wine and a little cheese hamper and go for a walk and enjoy the beautiful gardens, the sculptures, sit down next to the majestic Pooles Rock and really spend some time on the property,” Karin said.
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