The Winery Dead Duck of Heathcote of Victoria

Winery Dead Duck - Pinot Grigio
The winery offers 3 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 80 of the estates of Victoria.
It is located in Heathcote in the region of Victoria

The Winery Dead Duck is one of the world's great estates. It offers 3 wines for sale in of Heathcote to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Dead Duck wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Dead Duck

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Dead Duck

How Winery Dead Duck wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of beef carrots, hake fillet with curry or home-made coq au vin.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Dead Duck

On the nose the red wine of Winery Dead Duck. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit, black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Dead Duck. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Dead Duck

  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Pinot Grigio
  • Pinot Noir
  • Shiraz/Syrah

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).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Dead Duck

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 Winery Dead Duck.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Winery Dead Duck and wines from the region

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 ...

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: Basic wine

Dry, still wine intended for the production of sparkling wines (champagne, crémants, etc.). The basic wines undergo a second fermentation in the bottle for the production of carbon dioxide, and therefore of bubbles.