2026
93pts + 5 stars "The inviting bouquet reveals watermelon, red apple, lemon peel, and white flower aromas, leading to a lively palate that's juicy and lingering. Beautifully styled and expressed, making it vibrant and highly enjoyable." - The Wine Orbit
93pts + SILVER - Royal Queensland Wine Awards
2025
Australia's Top Rosé 2026 - The Real Review, Top Wineries of Australia
Top 6 - Australia's Best Rosés 2025 "This wine appeared in the top six wines on the day for both Visser and Baxter. Visser described it as pouring “a gorgeous copper glow. The aromas are gentle but purposeful, with fresh and dried apricot and peach drifting up as if they've been waiting patiently to impress you – and they do. The fruit is pure and clean, nothing overdone – just ripe, golden stone fruit – think ripe peach and fleshy nectarine – doing its thing. The palate follows through with that same balance: rich but not heavy, juicy but not sweet. A lovely line of acidity keeps everything lifted and bright, while the finish leans ever so slightly savoury, adding a grown-up twist to all that fruit-forward charm. It's the kind of wine that feels perfectly poised – not shouting, not trying too hard, just quietly delicious. Like that friend who always knows exactly what to bring to dinner without even asking. Drink it when the sun's still up but dinner's almost ready. It's got enough zip to keep you refreshed, and enough depth to hold your attention – especially with something salty or a little smoky on the side.” Baxter called it “a perfect example of what might happen if Provence rosé and traditional Italian rosato had a baby. It's textural, but clean and fresh, driven but pale in colour, expressive but dry. It blooms with Japanese white strawberry, white grapefruit, ripe Meyer lemon, wild pink flowers, and orange-infused Turkish Delight. The palate is bright, bursting with lychee, Granny Smith apple, white peach and essence of roses – complex and so succulent. It finishes fresh, with a rigid and piercing texture, its austerity softened by a tiny kiss of sugar.”" - Young Gun of Wine, Australia's Best Rosés 2025
95pts "Ultra pale salmon pink hue. Strawberry tart and clotted cream aromatics. Lovely creamy ripe strawberry notes along the palate, with a hint of clove and cinnamon adding character. Acidity is well integrated, keeping it fresh without interfering with the textural enjoyment. The long finish is well built, clean and supple" - Stuart Knox, The Real Review
95pts + 5 stars "NOT YOUR GRANDMA'S Rosé 2025 is a bright, modern rosé that delivers freshness and texture with real confidence. Pale salmon in colour, it looks the part immediately, setting expectations high from the outset. The nose is lifted and aromatic, showing wild pink florals, strawberry, pink guava and a gentle hint of Turkish delight-like perfume. On the palate, the wine is juicy and dry, driven by a clean line of acidity that keeps everything fresh and precise. Grenache brings fruit purity and a subtle impression of mid-palate sweetness, while Mourvèdre adds structure and a lightly savoury finish. Texture is slick and fine, finishing refreshing and mouth-watering, inviting another glass. This is rosé with purpose. Expressive, dry and easy to love, yet carrying buckets of flavour to hold your attention." - Vinomasters
95pts "Pale salmon in colour, it looks the part immediately, setting expectations high from the outset. The nose is lifted and aromatic, showing wild pink florals, strawberry, pink guava and a gentle hint of Turkish delight-like perfume. On the palate, the wine is juicy and dry, driven by a clean line of acidity that keeps everything fresh and precise. Grenache brings fruit purity and a subtle impression of mid-palate sweetness, while Mourvèdre adds structure and a lightly savoury finish. Texture is slick and fine, finishing refreshing and mouth-watering, inviting another glass. This is rosé with purpose. Expressive, dry and easy to love, yet carrying buckets of flavour to hold your attention." - Stuart Knox, The Real Review
93pts + Special Value "A rosé blend of 55/34% grenache/mourvèdre. Light salmon with just a peek of copper and characters of redcurrant, grapefruit, raspberry and lime. Hints of crushed stone, blood orange, almond, clover blossom and a whiff of freshly sliced fennel. Some nice saline acidity and a crisp, dry finish, with light red fruits slowly wafting away. All in all, it's an easy-drinking style. Great value, too" - Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion
93pts "Ideal varieties for a succulent Barossa Valley Rosé, the team have also included a dollop of white varieties from the Eden Valley, for the “X factor”. As I have said elsewhere, my grandmother, wonderful woman that she was, was actually convinced that any hint of alcohol meant eternal damnation so, yes, definitely not my grandmother's Rosé. The palest pink hue here, this is fresh, enticing and focused. We have notes of florals, a touch of muscat, strawberries and raspberries. A pristine style with good energy and impressive intensity, this is both alluring and delicious. A fine line of acidity runs the length. A seriously good Rosé which, for me, is a step up on last year's very fine effort. Enjoy it now and for the next three years. Love it." - SA Wine Guide 2026
90pts "This pale rosé has aromas of sliced strawberries and peaches. It's medium-bodied, soft and fruity. Light mineral hint at the end. Drink now. Screw cap." - James Suckling
2024
90pts + SILVER Medal - Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2024
92pts "I think we can safely say that the name here is spot on. Definitely not. In fairness, my grandmother, rest her soul, thought all alcohol was Satan's soda and would send us to the very hot place without so much as a single genuflection (sadly, she was not alone among my relatives in holding that view). So, definitely not my grandmother's Rosé. The blend is old vine Grenache and Mourvedre, both ideally suited for use in quality Rose. The Grenache was picked early to provide a vibrancy to the texture. The colour is a gentle and alluring pink. The nose is delightfully fragrant with spices, red fruits, strawberries, rose petals and a hint of honeycomb. A touch of lavender and even a hint of Turkish Delight. Clean and fresh with good energy and decent length, this will provide simple but delicious drinking for the next few years (although not for certain members of my family)" - SA Wine Guide 2025
92pts "Incredibly pale hue, even bordering onion skin. Some signature pinkness: Crushed rose petals, powderpuff, Turkish Delight. Hints of musk and red cherries. Peach stone fruit, lemon drop citrus and a herby nuance like strawberry top and capped off with an incredible freshness. Some pink fruit sweet focus for this release that borders on confectionary, before being pulled back into line with fine acidity and a very god presence. I've said it before and I say it again, this is fun…but there's some good quality fruit and winemaking underneath that makes it very good value." - Regan Drew, Vino Notebook
91pts "Earthy notes of wet stones temper the red fruits; rosehip and red cherries. This is not a simple rosé. The nose is interwoven with subtle savoury and sweet notes, a gush of flavour greets you on the palate; watermelon, strawberry and tangy rosehip. Its feathery texture delights: this is a deadly drinkable rosé" - Gabrielle Poy, The Real Review
2023
92pts "Pale salmon in the glass with the lightest of copper washes and notes of blood orange, redcurrant and raspberry alongside hints of wildflowers, stone and dried citrus rinds, while Turkish delight is back in the distance. Savoury and lipsmacking in its delivery on the palate, with plenty of minerally drive and energy, there is a lot to like here." - Regan Drew, Vino Notebook
92pts "Pale salmon in the glass with the lightest of copper washes and notes of blood orange, redcurrant and raspberry alongside hints of wildflowers, stone and dried citrus rinds, while Turkish delight is back in the distance. Savoury and lipsmacking in its delivery on the palate, with plenty of minerally drive and energy, there is a lot to like here" - Halliday Wine Companion
90pts + Silver Medal - New World Wine Awards 2024
2022
GOLD Medal + 95pts "Bright, juicy even and pure. Very light on its feet, elegant but pure" - Royal Adelaide Wine Show
GOLD Medal + 95pts "Pale pink, good fruit ripeness, bright, fresh and silky Soft entry and varietal is distinct, fresh with slightly sweet finish" - Royal Melbourne Wine Show
GOLD Medal + 95pts - New World Wine Awards NZ
93pts "Pale salmon in the glass with notes of redcurrant, raspberry, blood orange and red cherry wrapped in the embrace of some high-toned blossom flourishes along with hints of marzipan and crushed stone and maybe some Turkish delight further in the distance. Snappy and tight on the palate with a touch of tangerine peel and soft spice entering the mixing as the wine finishes crisp and vital thanks to a seam of shimmering acidity. Pretty hard to put this one down" - Halliday Wine Companion
90pts "This is fresh and crunchy with nectarines, pink cherries and rose petals on the nose. Medium-bodied, clean and polished with a delicious stone fruit character and sleek, mineral finish" - James Suckling
2021
GOLD Medal - Melbourne International Wine Challenge
91pts "A light salmon-pink colour. A nose of thyme, raspberry, and fresh pastries. Sweet red fruits on the palate-entry meld into a hint of herbs and supple spices. There's a weight and density that sets this up as a food-friendly style. The acidity is soft yet guides it long." - Stuart Knox, The Real Review
91pts "It's pale copper-orange in colour and it's both spicy and textural to taste. It has a core of raspberry and earth-like flavour with top notes of orange jelly and violet. It's both as refreshing and as delicious as you'd want and hope it to be." - Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
No. 8 in Top 10 (Rosé Category) - Drink Easy Awards 2021
Ranked #5, 92pts - Falstaff Global Rosé Trophy 2022
2019
92pts "Faint strawberry, cherry notes, sweet blood orange characters. Slick texture, good finish, glides and refreshes, everything very gentle and even. Rose 101, maybe a bit more advanced, but has that huge drinkability feel. Right on." - Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
90pts "Bright, light, fresh pink colour with purple tints, the bouquet fresh, clean, brightly aromatic and alluring. The wine is soft and fruity, balanced and shaped to suit a lot of people's palates. A tickle of sweetness is well managed. A lovely everyday rosé. It was obviously very early-picked, but there is no greenness." - Huon Hooke, The Real Review
2017
92pts + Red Star (Value) "In perfect drinking shape. Dry, racy with acidity and flavoursome at once. Raspberry and rosehip with cuts of apple and anise. Gets you in a mind for food." - Campbell Mattinson, Halliday Wine Companion
2016
92pts "A pale pink-salmon colour that excites as much as the flavours of musk, rose hip, raspberries and cherries with lemon sorbet-like acidity and a lick of sweetness to finish." - Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion
2015
91pts "Grenache and mourvedre. Slight spritz. Funk, earth, spice and leather, with cranberry/raspberry fruit crashing over the top. Loads up but then finishes dry. It works." - Campbell Mattinson, Halliday Wine Companion
2014
90pts "69% old vine grenache, 29% old vine mourvedre and 2% gewurztraminer, riesling and weisser herold. Fragrant and fruity, the power of suggestion of the 2% giving some citrus, offset by perceptible residual sugar (7.3g/l), in turn balanced by low pH; the other fruit flavours are in the red spectrum, but not particularly intense." - Halliday Wine Companion
