Top 100 wines of Swan Hill
Discover the top 100 best wines of Swan Hill of Big Rivers as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Swan Hill and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Swan Hill
The wine region of Swan Hill is located in the region of Big Rivers of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Andrew Peace or the Domaine Andrew Peace produce mainly wines red, white and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Swan Hill are Chardonnay, Durif and Zweigelt, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Swan Hill often reveals types of flavors of green apple, citrus or black fruits and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, non oak or blackberry.
In the mouth of Swan Hill is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 8 estates and châteaux in the of Swan Hill, producing 17 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Swan Hill go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian.
News from the vineyard of Swan Hill
Angélus, Léoville Barton join 2021 en primeur releases
Château Angélus 2021 was released this morning (23 May) at €265 per bottle ex-Bordeaux, according to Liv-ex, up by around 2% on the opening price of the 2020 vintage last year. Merchants were offering Angélus 2021 for £3,120 (12x75cl in bond). Decanter’s Georgie Hindle scored Angélus 2021 95 points, praising its ‘exceptional finesse’. She said the wine represents an excellent effort, following a Bordeaux 2021 growing season that presented many weather challenges. This vintage of Angélus contains ...
DBR Lafite CEO Jean-Guillaume Prats to step down
Jean-Guillaume Prats is set to leave the business around four years after being appointed CEO and president of Domaines Barons de Rothschild (DBR Lafite). A DBR Lafite spokesperson said Prats would leave before the end of the year, in order to ‘devote himself to his family business and to consulting’. Group chairwoman Saskia de Rothschild will take over the executive management of DBR Lafite as of December. Prats’ arrival at DBR Lafite was announced in November 2017 as part of a leadership ...
Courvoisier Mizunara: the launch of a collaborative Cognac
Described by Courvoisier as ‘daring’, ‘visionary’ and ‘a first-of-its-kind collaboration’, Courvoisier Mizunara was created by the house’s recently-retired maître de chai, Patrice Pinet, and Shinji Fukuyo, chief blender of Japanese whisky maker Suntory. The project dates back to 2015, when the president of Suntory visited Courvoisier at Jarnac shortly after Suntory took over Beam Global, the Cognac house’s then owner, in a deal worth US$16bn. Pinet expressed an interest in experimenting with miz ...