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Finalist – 2024 Aust. Vineyard of the Year!

The 4th Annual Vineyard of the Year Awards list of Australia’s top winegrowers has just landed landed - and Topper's Mountain is on the list again! The Vineyard of the Year Awards were created in 2020 to advance the regional identity of Australian wine and promote leading edge sustainability and innovation in winegrowing. Award winning wine [...]

2024-03-18T17:15:49+11:00March 18th, 2024|

Topper’s Mountain – a Dark Horse in the 2024 Halliday Wine Companion Awards

If you think you know Australian wine, think again! There’s a winery in the little-known region of New England in northern NSW that is making wines that will blow your mind with their originality and quality. It’s Topper’s Mountain and it has been shortlisted for the 2024 Halliday Wine Companion Dark Horse Winery Award which [...]

2023-07-02T13:50:15+10:00June 28th, 2023|

Hats Down, Glasses Up! Join us for Harvest Feast on 21th May to Celebrate the End of Vintage 2023

The 2023 vintage is (almost over) and it was the better one in comparison to previous two wetseasons. We enjoyed picking squeaky clean fruit and the wines look stunning so far - with a lovely fruit expression, concentration and tension. Definitely worth to CELEBRATE! So let´s get together for our annual HARVEST FEAST and enjoy ourselves in [...]

2023-04-27T12:25:03+10:00April 27th, 2023|

MIGHTY MANSENG – THE CHALLENGE

Words: Dan Traucki Originally published in Wine Business Magazine 02/23 There are two variants of the French native white variety Manseng, as well as a red variant-(of which there is only around 50 hectares in the world). Petit Manseng, which has small, thick-skinned berries, producing excellent, tasty wines and Gros Manseng, which produces bigger berries [...]

2023-03-02T11:39:33+11:00March 2nd, 2023|

Vintage Tinta Roriz is Back! New Releases: Nebbiolo 2017, Tannat 2016, Sparkling 2017

In September we released our whites from the 2021 vintage (see more HERE) which seems to be one of our best white line up in years. Now there's time release some exciting reds like Nebbiolo 2017 & Tannat 2016 as well as new vintage of our traditional method sparkling Pinot Noir/Chardonnay. All these wines are [...]

2022-11-03T13:34:06+11:00November 3rd, 2022|

The Winefront Reviews on Manseng 2021 & Gewurztraminer 2021

Mike Bennie & The Winefront have always appreciated our journey to explore rare varieties and our special terroir. This is much appreciated and much needed as Australian wine industry is still a bit shy to look at the best variety & terroir match still hedging their bets mostly on internationally (and commercially) well-worn grapes. Manseng [...]

2022-10-10T15:49:04+11:00October 10th, 2022|

Topper’s Mountain Vineyard is Young Gun of Wine Finalist 2021!

There are hundreds of wine shows. There are dozens of winemakers awards. Why is that so when the REAL hero is the vineyard, the place, the terroir and the people working hard to help the grapes ripen often against the odds of nature? No awards for them... ...or yes? Young Gun of Wine started to [...]

2022-08-25T10:07:52+10:00August 25th, 2022|

Wine Report part 1: Half Way through the Two Barrel Vintage – WHITES

Rainy and cold vintages are generally considered as not great if not poor but for white varieties it can actually be the other way around given there’s not too much rain resulting in all kinds of undesirable rot esp. botrytis. At Topper’s we make three principal single varietal white wines – Gewurztraminer, Viognier and Manseng. [...]

2022-08-09T13:29:45+10:00August 9th, 2022|

Hats Down, Glasses Up! Join us for Harvest Feast on 19th June to Celebrate the End of Vintage 2022

The 2022 vintage blessed us with abundant rain & humidity thanks to the La Nina driving spring and summer weather for a second year in a row. This time we were better prepared and with a little bit of luck and a great help from our beautiful free draining soil we managed to have a [...]

2022-05-26T13:19:26+10:00May 26th, 2022|

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