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Eight Outstanding Wines from a
Variety of Varietals
“One of the stalwarts of the Clare Valley, producing long–lived
Rieslings and Cabernet Sauvignons in classic regional style. The range now includes very creditable Semillon, Grenache and Shiraz. A lovely old stone apple shed provides the cellar door and upper section of the compact winery.”
James Halliday, 2007
Leading the way with Stelvin Closures
screw cap closures
Mitchell Winery was one of the inaugural group of Clare Valley producers to formally adopt the screw cap closure from the 2000 vintage. In eliminating the problems of tainted and leaking corks, consumers can be confident of superior wines with a reliable cellaring future.
Embraced Worldwide
The first port of call for Mitchell wines is the Cellar Door, which is open daily, yet they can be found right across Australia and indeed, in most parts of the wine drinking world.
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Mitchell Wines
EV Olive Oil
Our long family history has us closely linked to the many traditional products of the Clare Valley region and olive oil is just one of those products. Our olive oil can only be purchased from our cellar door.
 Our label is based on an original painting commissioned from our friend and local artist Ela Hardy and the original artwork can be seen in our cellar door.
Stelvin closures
The history of Stelvin closures is strongly linked to the Clare Valley Region, where in 2000, the entire Clare Valley wine region’s winemakers took the unanimous decision to put their white wines under Stelvin closures.
The strength of the region’s brand and reputation for quality premium wines and subsequent consistent show and sales results the region’s success became the beacon for other wine regions in Australia and the world to follow suite.
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WHITE WINES
RED WINES
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Watervale Riesling — style commenced in 1977
Intense aromatic Riesling fruit flavours are the hallmarks of this wine. It has a fine dry palate with a crisp acidity and a long lingering fruit finish. These wines drink freshly and lively when released young but develop beautifully for 5–8 years. The fresh fruit flavours transform into the rich toasty characters for which aged Riesling from this area is renowned, and this wine is consistently one the Clare Valley’s best.
Current vintage 2009
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McNicol Riesling
A single vineyard wine, grown on a stony quartzite hillside at an elevation of 500m. The high elevation means the grapes ripen 2 or 3 weeks later than our Riesling at Watervale. Whereas the Watervale Rieslings are characterised by sweet, ripe lime juice flavours, the McNicol Riesling exhibits a lemon, citrus aroma and flavour with hints of pepper and spice. The colour still has pale green tinges, indicating a slow developing wine with long ageing potential. The palate has exceptional length with intensity and persistence and a fine linear structure.
This vineyard has never been irrigated and no herbicides nor pesticides have been used.
Current vintage 2005
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Noble Semillon
Classic botrytis affected dessert wine displaying characteristic honey and marmalade concentrated sweet fruit balanced by crisp acid on a lingering luscious finish. Time in oak and bottle has matured the wine so it's ready to enjoy upon release.
Current vintage 2006
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GSM - Grenache, Sangiovese, Mourvedre
The Mitchells believe that given the conditions of rocky barren soils, old, dry grown vines and a long ripening period, which their selected vineyards in Clare offer, the fruit develops the flavours and structure for a complex varietal wine. The fully ripened Grenache fruit is fermented on skins from 10–14 days and gently basket pressed to extract full flavour and tannin structure.The glorious essence of Grenache is enhanced with a touch of mourvedre and sangiovese.
The resulting wine is not aged in wood, in order to preserve the complex array of fresh lively flavours of the variety - the black cherry and soft fruit tannins. A wine of great style with both power and finesse.
Current vintage 2005
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Peppertree Vineyard Shiraz
This wine takes its name from the old peppertree which grows in the Shiraz vineyard at Watervale. It is a happy coincidence that the nose and palate of the Peppertree Shiraz show the spicy peppery characters of high class shiraz wines. The grapes are picked at optimum ripeness and fermented on their skins to extract maximum flavours and characters. Careful aging for about 18 months in small French oak barrels adds complexity to the finished wine. The wine is full flavoured and has a soft, almost velvety palate which makes the wine very easy to drink in its youth. The underlying quality and structure of the wine gives it the capacity, however, to mature and improve for many years in the cellar. All in all, this is a wine which shows the virtues of Shiraz as a premium grape variety.
Current vintage 2006
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Sevenhill Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
We made our first vintage of this wine in 1976
Mitchell Cabernet Sauvignon is a classic Clare Valley wine. It shows strong ‘berry’ flavours on the nose, with overtones of dusty new French oak aromas. The palate is very full flavoured and the wine has a firm tannic finish. When seen as a young wine it is the potential of the structure which stands out. The essential ingredients - fruit, oak, acidity and tannins - are present in the right proportions. All that is needed is 5 to 10 years (or more) in the cellar to allow these components to harmonise. The result is an elegant wine of great power.
Current vintage 2004
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McNicol Shiraz
Very dark red, almost black at the centre, garnet at the rim.
Fragrant complex nose, with dark fruits (black cherries, blackberries and dark plums), dark chocolate and smoky/cedary oak; integrated and complete.
Core of firm palate, dark fruit flavours supported by integrated oak and fine tannins. Medium to full-bodied, with a long dry finish that carries its 14.5% alcohol with ease.
Now entering its optimum drinking period, this wine is elegant and classy. The primary fruit flavours of youth have given way to the more complex aromas and tastes of maturity. From an excellent Clare Valley vintage, the wine combines both richness and refinement.
You can drink it now with, say, finely sliced roast beef in its own juices, or allow it to develop further for up to five years, possibly longer.
Current vintage 2001
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Sparkling Peppertree Shiraz
A unique blend of multiple vintages of Peppertree Vineyard Shiraz (often up to twenty years of age) that undergoes a secondary fermentation to provide the bubbles. This seductive wine is both fruity and earthy-mature, with spice and mulberry fruit flavours and a lingering soft foamy effervescence.
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