Combining the vision of our viticulture and winemaking team with original local abstract photography, Ephemerals, of Australian artist Leonie Barton, The Estate Collection celebrates the art of wine across Mudgee’s best known grape varieties.
Nine varieties made in a modern day style that share Craigmoor stories of the past. Listen to the tales and taste the wines that reflect our Mudgee home.
That Warm Night Moscato, it took three months to get the insects off the sheet music
Society’s Mark Pinot Grigio Mudgee pioneered Australian appellation identification
The Source Chardonnay Australian Chardonnay has its roots in Mudgee
The Reply Verdelho Letters of praise spoke volumes
One & Sixpence Rosé The going price for a bottle of Mudgee wine in 1882
The Petition Merlot In 1876, getting an education required putting pen to paper
Bull Paddock Cabernet Merlot The grapes are always redder on the other side of the fence
Fifty Fifty Shiraz Cabernet They decided not to put all their grapes in one basket
Cellar Hand Shiraz One cellar hand in the 70’s famously put his foot in it
Amphitheatre Traminer Wine brings music to our ears
Nestled in the hills edge on the outskirts of Mudgee, Montrose is the region’s pre-eminent winery. Situated at over 500 metres and with soils of ancient red clay loam of volcanic origin, the Montrose vineyards deliver distinctive high quality grapes that with careful nurturing create wines of outstanding varietal character, complexity and balance. Montrose was established in 1974 by Carlo Salteri and Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, Italian engineers with a love of fine wine. During the 1980’s the intensely flavoured and deeply coloured Montrose Shiraz was called “Black” Shiraz by its fans. Over the years it has won numerous awards and accolades and is now widely regarded to be one of the region’s greatest red wines. In the early 1990s Montrose pioneered Australian Chardonnay internationally, having the number-one selling Chardonnay in the USA – a reflection of Mudgee’s early adoption and success with the variety. Meanwhile, Montrose winemakers developed the multi-award winning Stony Creek Chardonnay – noteworthy for its terrific structure and extraordinary ability to age. Today, as the region’s largest winery, Montrose combines traditional winemaking techniques with state-ofthe-art technology and equipment to produce exemplary regional wines under the custodianship of the Oatley family.
