The Winery Downing Estate of Central Victoria of Victoria

Winery Downing Estate - Cabernet Sauvignon
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.
It is ranked in the top 85 of the estates of Victoria.
It is located in Central Victoria in the region of Victoria

The Winery Downing Estate is one of the world's great estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Central Victoria to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Downing Estate wines

Looking for the best Winery Downing Estate wines in Central Victoria among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Downing Estate 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 Downing Estate wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Downing Estate

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Downing Estate

How Winery Downing Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or poultry such as recipes of beef luc lake, tajine with 2 meats and preserved lemons or pastilla with chicken (moroccan pie with brick sheets).

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Downing Estate

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Downing Estate

  • 2004With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2006With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.95/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.94/5
  • 2009With an average score of 3.90/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Central Victoria

CentralVictoria">Victoria, as the name suggests, occupies the middle portion of the state's wine map. It is the most diverse of all Victorian wine zones in terms of the number of wine styles it is capable of producing. Geographically speaking, Central Victoria is a relatively small zone in comparison to its neighbours, in Particular Big Rivers to the North. However the variable landscapes ranging from vast plains to moderately elevated terrains, Dense forests and the slopes of mountain ranges are attributed to the versatility of wine found here.

Unsurprisingly, some of the most recognizable names of the Australian wine industry have their vineyards in Central Victoria. The zone is comprised of several regions and subregions. The large expanse of Goulburn Valley and Bendigo in the flatter northern part of the zone (on the border of NewSouthWales) have a warmer, drier Climate that is conducive to Rich, Heavy styles of wine. Here, Shiraz is king, with Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay providing other options for winegrowers.

The Strathbogie Ranges and Upper Goulburn areas are cooler due to their position among the mountains of the Great Dividing Range, and excel in more aromatic varieties like Riesling and Pinot Noir. Heathcote, on the western edge of the zone, is cooler thanks to the influence of the Mount Camel Range. These topographical variations mean particular grape varieties are suited to specific locations, as suggested by their GIs (Geographical Indications).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Downing Estate

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

Discover the grape variety: Pougnet

Most certainly from the Ardèche, today this variety has practically disappeared from the vineyard. It used to be widespread in the Vivarais region, in the Aubenas and Largentière areas.

News about Winery Downing Estate and wines from the region

A perfect pairing: Madhu’s masala lamb

With culinary inspiration dating back to 1935, our restaurant brand Madhu’s specialises in South Asian cuisine with an East African influence. It’s thanks to the secret recipes handed down across eight decades that we have become caterers for royalty, dignitaries and Asian weddings – and that our original Southall location has been named Best Indian Restaurant multiple times by Pat Chapman’s Cobra Good Curry Guide. Over the past few years I’ve been working on creative combinations to find the pe ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Aromatic

Character of a wine that is particularly expressive and rich in aromas. Some grape varieties, such as Gewurztraminer or Muscat, produce very aromatic wines.