Dessert Wine
Muscat
A luscious dessert wine made from our very sweet Muscat grapes picked at semi raisin stage and matured in oak casks. Sip a glass with a wedge of lemon tart, drizzle over ice-cream or enjoy with a soft blue cheese.
$22.50
Fortified Shiraz
Fruit picked from our oldest vines at the semi raisin stage then crushed and matured in small oak casks. Fortified Shiraz is ideal for enjoying at the end of a meal or with cheese.
$28.00
Family Reserve
2007 Old Vine Shiraz
The Swan Valley is one of Australia's oldest wine regions - production of wine started in the 1840's. Along with the Swan Valley's old buildings are also some old vines. The oldest surviving vines at Edgecombe Brothers are the 17 Almeria vines which were planted in 1925. The first Shiraz vines were planted in the 1950s. These are located adjacent to the cellar door in Henley Brook.
Production from these 50 year old vines is approximately 1-1.5 tonnes per year. Some years, as in 2004, the quality of the fruit from these vines was thought to be so good a new wine was created. The Old Vine Shiraz has been aged in new European oak. The quantity is small with only 1020 bottles produced in this vintage. In other years the fruit from these vines added complexity to our cellar door Shiraz.<똼ˊ>
The origins of the Shiraz vines grown were probably from the earliest cuttings brought to Western Australia in the 1840s. The provenance of these vines is thought to be Rhone Valley in France or the Cape region of South Africa.
Generally the life of a vine in a commercial vineyard is 25 years - the overriding reason is vines become uneconomic to cultivate. After about 20 years production starts to reduce due to a combination of reasons
A modern vineyard also uses machinery which is not possible to use with older vines due to them having a more individual and frail form.
There are vines in Australia over 100 years old and still producing fruit. A grape vine can live for centuries.
$64.00
Muscadelle
Brothers Don & Frank Edgecombe settled in the Swan Valley & founded the family vineyard in the 1920s where it has flourished to this day. Central within the Edgecombe Brothers vineyard is a natural wetland called Lake Yakine (Nyungah for Tortoise Dreaming Lake) It is home to Long Neck Tortoises which can be seen sunning themselves or moving numbly through the water.
The grapes for this wine were hand-picked & chosen from some of the oldest Muscadelle vines (locally known as Tokay) grown on the red alluvial soils of the Swan Valley.
The wine is made in open vats, then transferred to small oak barrels and then incorporated into Edgecombe’s solero system. Individually numbered & signed, only 1687 bottles from Edgecombe Brothers Premium Muscadelle have been used to make this limited edition wine.
$68.00
