Just like the beauty of the female form - full bodied but not heavy with a silky smooth finish..
James Halliday Wine Companion 2016:
“Bright, clear colour; skilled viticulture and viniculture have paid big dividends: a perfumed, red-fruited bouquet is reflected on the long palate, which surges on the finish and aftertaste; exquisite tannins and overall balance. Rating: 96”.
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is an excellent wine choice when you are not quite sure what to drink. The wine's versatility can complement many dishes. The wine produced from the pinot noir grape is enjoyed today in the same way as it was during the time of the Romans.
Pinot Noir grapes tend to create a lighter coloured wine than that of the full-bodied reds. This lightness, delicacy and subtlety are what attract many people to its complexity and flavours. It has a silky soft texture, making it an excellent wine for both new and connoisseur red wine drinkers.
We wish to present our noble pinot noir wines as a focus on texture and aroma. This wine style embraces the old world and new world styles. A pinot noir of complexity, earthy and forest floor nuances with a subtle to significant fruit driven finish. It is a slightly fuller bodied wine than the old world style and has a restrained silky and velvety full palate throughout.
Care is taken with the choice of the oak, designed to add structural and sensory nuances to the wine. Because of the delicacy of the grape, the oak should not dominate the wine. The oak is of French origin, from central France and is an important element in both the sensory and structural aspects of the wine, however due to the delicacy of the pinot noir grape care must be taken to ensure that it doesn't dominate the wine.
MONS RUBRA Pinot Noir is a wine created in the Burgundian style and is of translucent ruby red colour. It was made to be soft, supple and medium bodied with subtle aromas of cherry, raspberry and strawberry, unfolding into a cedar and earthy forest floor character. The taste is of velvety fruit throughout the palate, which is light to medium
embodied with fine silky tannins, good acid and superb length and persistence. If left to mature it will be earthy and full bodied.
Pinot Noir grapes tend to create a lighter coloured wine than that of the full-bodied reds. This lightness, delicacy and subtlety are what attract many people to its complexity and flavours. It has a silky soft texture, making it an excellent wine for both new and connoisseur red wine drinkers.
We wish to present our noble pinot noir wines as a focus on texture and aroma. This wine style embraces the old world and new world styles. A pinot noir of complexity, earthy and forest floor nuances with a subtle to significant fruit driven finish. It is a slightly fuller bodied wine than the old world style and has a restrained silky and velvety full palate throughout.
Care is taken with the choice of the oak, designed to add structural and sensory nuances to the wine. Because of the delicacy of the grape, the oak should not dominate the wine. The oak is of French origin, from central France and is an important element in both the sensory and structural aspects of the wine, however due to the delicacy of the pinot noir grape care must be taken to ensure that it doesn't dominate the wine.
MONS RUBRA Pinot Noir is a wine created in the Burgundian style and is of translucent ruby red colour. It was made to be soft, supple and medium bodied with subtle aromas of cherry, raspberry and strawberry, unfolding into a cedar and earthy forest floor character. The taste is of velvety fruit throughout the palate, which is light to medium
embodied with fine silky tannins, good acid and superb length and persistence. If left to mature it will be earthy and full bodied.
2006 & 2007 Mons Rubra Pinot Noir
2006 Mons Rubra Pinot Noir:
Mons Rubra is a wine created in the “Burgundian” style, tending toward brick red colour with good clarity this Macedon Ranges Pinot Noir has developed fruit characters of medium intensity with attractive floral notes and good follow through. It has an appealing texture and gentle velvety tannin structure. Care is taken with the choice of the oak, designed to add structural and sensory nuances to the wine. A mature wine from an exceptional vintage allowing integration in the bottle over time and cradled by the invention of the screw cap and drinking well now.
Price: $32.00 SOLD OUT
2007 Mons Rubra Pinot Noir:
Mons Rubra 2007 exhibits the complexity of dark cherry and lighter, red fruit aromas with spice and earth. New world and fruit driven with a deep crimson hue with an elegant finish on the palate of long duration. Great oak integration with good intensity and complexity, this is a classic well aged Macedon Ranges Pinot Noir. Demonstrating the effectiveness and stability of the screw cap and capturing the nuances of a great vintage, this wine has maturity which provides memorable drinking now
Price: $32.00
Mons Rubra is a wine created in the “Burgundian” style, tending toward brick red colour with good clarity this Macedon Ranges Pinot Noir has developed fruit characters of medium intensity with attractive floral notes and good follow through. It has an appealing texture and gentle velvety tannin structure. Care is taken with the choice of the oak, designed to add structural and sensory nuances to the wine. A mature wine from an exceptional vintage allowing integration in the bottle over time and cradled by the invention of the screw cap and drinking well now.
Price: $32.00 SOLD OUT
2007 Mons Rubra Pinot Noir:
Mons Rubra 2007 exhibits the complexity of dark cherry and lighter, red fruit aromas with spice and earth. New world and fruit driven with a deep crimson hue with an elegant finish on the palate of long duration. Great oak integration with good intensity and complexity, this is a classic well aged Macedon Ranges Pinot Noir. Demonstrating the effectiveness and stability of the screw cap and capturing the nuances of a great vintage, this wine has maturity which provides memorable drinking now
Price: $32.00
2009 Mons Rubra Pinot Noir
2009 Mons Rubra Pinot Noir
Deep red in colour this Macedon Ranges Pinot shows complex cherry and light red fruit aromas complemented by some spice and earth characters. The palate is appealing and quite textural with fine tannins, good acid and superb length and persistence.
Price: SOLD OUT 10% discount if purchasing a case
Vintage Sparkling
2004 Vintage Sparkling
Sparkling wine is one of the world’s most celebrated drinks enjoyed during celebrations of all kinds from birth, christenings, birthdays and any other….Madame Bollinger once said:
“I drink it when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes, I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it if I am; otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty."
Our 2004 Mons Rubra sparkling wine has been created in the methode traditionelle style of the Champagne region of Epernay in France where pinot clones are fermented into stunning sparkling wines without the need for adding chardonnay grapes for enhancement. 100% pinot grapes grown from the ancient MV6 clone, this well balanced sparkling pinot is full bodied, creamy and rich and fills the palate with subtle layers of fruit.
Mons Rubra sparkling pinot noir has a perfect balance of the pinot noir grapes having been hand pressed and barrel aged in new French oak before tirage bottling and ageing on lees. It is an elegant, balanced and complex sparkling with a delicate flavour. Intensely aromatic with notes of cherry and raspberries and followed up by an understated elegance which drives the fruit towards a long and lingering finish.
With stunningly fine beads and a delightfully smooth finish it has developed into a wine both fascinating and rare!
Price: $45.00 SOLD OUT
2004 Mons Rubra Methode Traditionelle
This 100% Pinot Noir sparkling was hand pressed, barrel aged in new French oak before tirage bottling and ageing on lees for six years. It is golden in colour with persistent mousse and a super fine bead. It has beautiful yeast complexity including toasted nuts. Demonstrating complex fruit - citrus through to mandarin and following through to the elegant and persistent palate. It finishes with a line of firm but appealing acidity.
2008 Mons Rubra Methode Traditionelle
The noble MV6 clone is used exclusively in Mons Rubra estate wines. This vintage expresses the nuance of European spice from new French Oak and exhibits a little Burgundian earthiness with aromas of bright red fruit, strawberry and cherry. The colour is garnet red with stunning clarity and light. It has a supple and soft long palate and expresses the delicate balance of French oak and silky tannins. It exhibits delicate fine bead.
Estate grown exclusively the ancient MV6 clone, handpicked then cold soaked prior to fermentation in small stainless open fermenters, foot stomped and hand plunged racked off into new French oak including Taransaud for 420 days, then on lees for 3754 days”.
Price: $32.00
2010 Mons Rubra Pinot Noir:
The noble MV6 clone is used exclusively in Mons Rubra estate wines. This vintage expresses the nuance of European spice from new French Oak and exhibits a little Burgundian earthiness with aromas of bright red fruit, strawberry and cherry. The colour is garnet red with stunning clarity and light. It has a supple and soft long palate and expresses the delicate balance of French oak and silky tannins.
Estate grown exclusively the ancient MV6 clone, handpicked then cold soaked prior to fermentation in small stainless open fermenters, foot stomped and hand plunged racked off into new French oak including Taransaud for at least 12 months.
Price: $35.00 SOLD OUT
The noble MV6 clone is used exclusively in Mons Rubra estate wines. This vintage expresses the nuance of European spice from new French Oak and exhibits a little Burgundian earthiness with aromas of bright red fruit, strawberry and cherry. The colour is garnet red with stunning clarity and light. It has a supple and soft long palate and expresses the delicate balance of French oak and silky tannins. It exhibits delicate fine bead.
Estate grown exclusively the ancient MV6 clone, handpicked then cold soaked prior to fermentation in small stainless open fermenters, foot stomped and hand plunged racked off into new French oak including Taransaud for 420 days, then on lees for 3754 days”.
Price: $32.00
2010 Mons Rubra Pinot Noir:
The noble MV6 clone is used exclusively in Mons Rubra estate wines. This vintage expresses the nuance of European spice from new French Oak and exhibits a little Burgundian earthiness with aromas of bright red fruit, strawberry and cherry. The colour is garnet red with stunning clarity and light. It has a supple and soft long palate and expresses the delicate balance of French oak and silky tannins.
Estate grown exclusively the ancient MV6 clone, handpicked then cold soaked prior to fermentation in small stainless open fermenters, foot stomped and hand plunged racked off into new French oak including Taransaud for at least 12 months.
Price: $35.00 SOLD OUT
Introducing our newest addition to our Range the 2013 Pinot Noir
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2013 Mons Rubra Pinot Noir:
The Burgundian forest floor bouquet dissipates into a complex aroma of fragrant clear red fruits of strawberry and cherry complemented by spice and earthy notes. Light and delicately structured the wine expresses supple fruit flavours and the delicate balance of integrated French oak and silky tannins and a rich enticing red fruit on the delicate soft long palate. The wine exhibits a stunning garnet red colour with brilliant clarity. Price: $40.00 (SOLD OUT) |
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2014 Vintage Pinot Noir
This is a bright crimson in colour and displays elegant aromas of cherry fruit, fresh red apples, spicy and earthy characters. These follow through on to the palate which has chalky, fine tannins and fresh acidity in appealing balance. While drinking well now it will improve over the next 4 – 6 years
Price: SOLD OUT Campbell Mattinson’s review in January this year stated: “Mons Meg is a famous canon at Edinburgh Castle. Just one of those things that spring to mind. Balls of iron. Cool and fragrant, with a distinct herbal note offering sage and gum leaf, subtle smokiness, red fruits and light spicy oak. It’s light to medium bodied, built on bright acidity, but carries a modest amount of fine dusty tannin too. Long and tangy finish, with pleasant herbal notes carrying into the aftertaste. It’s kind of tense, and bony, and herbal, but full of character and interest.” |
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2015 Vintage Pinot Noir
2015 was a relatively warm season for the Macedon Ranges, and it’s the warmer ones that tend to be the better here. This wine show sweet, lifter aromatics and strawberry, raspberry and cherry with mushroom and earth characters sitting underneath. This follow onto the palate which shows a remarkable line of acidity with firm yet fine tannins which flow through to the long finish.
Price: $42.00 SOLD OUT James Halliday - Published on 01 Aug 2017. Rated 95 points. 10% whole bunches at the bottom of the fermenter with destemmed fruit on top (whole berries, not crushed), matured in French oak (50% new) for 12 months, 400 dozen made. Very light colour, although the hue is bright; spice and forest nuances underlie the red fruits of the bouquet, in turn faithfully replayed on the seductively silky palate and long finish. Sensitive winemaking of fruit with low level of tannins. Arguably will never be better than it is today, although, of course, it will change with age. |
