The Winery Ballabourneen of Hunter Valley of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud

Winery Ballabourneen - Alexander The Great Shiraz
The winery offers 21 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 167 of the estates of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud.
It is located in Hunter Valley in the region of Nouvelle-Galles du Sud

The Winery Ballabourneen is one of the best wineries to follow in Hunter Valley.. It offers 21 wines for sale in of Hunter Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Ballabourneen wines

Looking for the best Winery Ballabourneen wines in Hunter Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Ballabourneen 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 Winery Ballabourneen wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Ballabourneen

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Ballabourneen

How Winery Ballabourneen wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of cataplana with seafood, berber giblet frying pan or duck casserole with turnips.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Ballabourneen

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Ballabourneen

  • 2013With an average score of 4.35/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.28/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.99/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.91/5

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

  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Pinot Noir
  • Merlot
  • Chambourcin
  • Gamay
  • Gamay Noir

Discovering the wine region of Hunter Valley

The Hunter Valley is unquestionably the best known and most highly prized wine region in NewSouthWales. Its most famous wine style is its distinctive Dry Semillon, while Shiraz, is also long-established. It is also regarded as a pioneer of Australian Chardonnay. Hunter Valley Semillon Semillon was first planted here in the 1830s.

Hunter Valley Semillons are renowned for their ability to improve with age. The better examples develop in bottle for more than 15 years. Classic examples are made simply from early picked fruit and bottled Young, with Alcohol levels between 10 and 12 percent. The wines start out with a fresh, grassy, citrus taste with tangy Acidity.

However they evolve into Golden wines with nutty, honeyed notes and a luscious mouthfeel. Though unoaked and not having undergone malolactic fermentation, they can be mistaken for oaky chardonnays, even by experienced tasters. The valley's relationship with Chardonnay is 100 years shorter, but no less significant. It was here that Australia's first Chardonnay was made – from vines planted by the Tyrrell winery of Pokolbin in 1968.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Ballabourneen

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Ballabourneen

How Winery Ballabourneen wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts such as recipes of traditional pastry flan.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Ballabourneen

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Ballabourneen. often reveals types of flavors of microbio, red fruit.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Ballabourneen.

  • Moscato

Discover the grape variety: Gamay noir

Gamay is a Burgundian grape variety that has existed since the 14th century. For fear of competition with the pinot noir of Burgundy, gamay was finally uprooted and planted in the Beaujolais region, from Mâcon to Lyon. These siliceous and granitic soils suit it perfectly, and it gives its best here. But it is also planted all over France, such as in Lorraine, in the Loire Valley, in Bugey, in Savoie and in Auvergne. Gamay is early and very productive and needs to be limited so that quality prevails over quantity. Short winter pruning of the shoots and high density of vines per hectare are the methods that allow it to produce very fruity, fresh and greedy red wines. Gamay is also very popular in red wine futures, and produces wines from the Beaujolais region with very interesting character and ageing potential. The AOCs Crémant-de-Bourgogne, Mâcon, Anjou, Touraine, Rosé de vallée de la Loire, Côtes-d'Auvergne, Saint-Pourçain, Bugey, Gaillac, Côtes du Luberon... and many vins de pays are proud of it. Today, about 36,000 hectares of Gamay are cultivated in France, including 22,000 hectares in Beaujolais.

The top white wines of Winery Ballabourneen

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Ballabourneen

How Winery Ballabourneen wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or sweet desserts such as recipes of pasta with tuna and tomato sauce, pageot or very simple muffins.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Ballabourneen

On the nose the white wine of Winery Ballabourneen. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or spices. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Ballabourneen. is a powerful.

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

  • Sémillon
  • Chardonnay
  • Verdelho

The word of the wine: Soft

Sweet wine containing between 30 and 50 grams of residual sugar. A sweet wine is made from very ripe grapes but without being affected by botrytis cinerea and without being raisined. This term can also be applied to a dry wine that is smooth and fat in the mouth.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Ballabourneen

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

Discover the grape variety: Verdelho

The white Verdelho is a grape variety that originated in Portugal. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and grapes of medium size. The white Verdelho can be found cultivated in these vineyards: Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, South West.

News about Winery Ballabourneen and wines from the region

Old Vine Charter: Perth’s Swan Valley to preserve historic vines

Old vines from Western Australia’s Swan Valley will be protected in the soon-to-be launched Swan Valley Old Vine Charter (OVC). More than 20 wineries from this historic region, a 30-minute drive from the state capital of Perth, are participating. The programme will see grapevines from 35 to 125 years of age registered and preserved. Participating wineries include Talijancich Wines, Nikola Estate, John Kosovich Wines, Mandoon Estate and Sandalford Wines. While the vines are predominantly Shiraz, ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

The word of the wine: Soft

Sweet wine containing between 30 and 50 grams of residual sugar. A sweet wine is made from very ripe grapes but without being affected by botrytis cinerea and without being raisined. This term can also be applied to a dry wine that is smooth and fat in the mouth.