The Heathcote Winery of Heathcote of Victoria

Heathcote Winery - Cravens Place Sauvignon Blanc
The winery offers 18 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 7 of the estates of Victoria.
It is located in Heathcote in the region of Victoria

The Heathcote Winery is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 18 wines for sale in of Heathcote to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Heathcote Winery wines

Looking for the best Heathcote Winery wines in Heathcote among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Heathcote Winery wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Heathcote Winery wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Heathcote Winery

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Heathcote Winery

How Heathcote Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of yakisoba (fried noodles), cream and tuna quiche or fillet of trout with tapenade and goat cheese.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Heathcote Winery.

  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Viognier

Discovering the wine region of Heathcote

The wine region of Heathcote is located in the region of Central Victoria of Victoria of Australia. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Wild Duck Creek Estate or the Domaine Wild Duck Creek Estate produce mainly wines red and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Heathcote are Cabernet franc, Malbec and Vermentino, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Heathcote often reveals types of flavors of cream, cigar or forest floor and sometimes also flavors of aniseed, pencil shavings or dried fruit.

In the mouth of Heathcote is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins. We currently count 231 estates and châteaux in the of Heathcote, producing 580 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Heathcote go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison).

The top red wines of Heathcote Winery

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Heathcote Winery

How Heathcote Winery wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of oxtail with seed sauce, lamb chops with honey and spices or valencian paella - family recipe.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Heathcote Winery

On the nose the red wine of Heathcote Winery. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Heathcote Winery. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Heathcote Winery

  • 2008With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.19/5
  • 2013With an average score of 4.06/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.06/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Heathcote Winery.

  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Heathcote Winery

Planning a wine route in the of Heathcote? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Heathcote Winery.

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.

News about Heathcote Winery and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Hitting the right note

Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

The word of the wine: Oenologist

Specialist in wine-making techniques. It is a profession and not a passion: one can be an oenophile without being an oenologist (and the opposite too!). Formerly attached to the Faculty of Pharmacy, oenology studies have become independent and have their own university course. Learning to make wine requires a good chemical background but also, increasingly, a good knowledge of the plant. Some oenologists work in laboratories (analysis). Others, the consulting oenologists, work directly in the properties.