Wind your way through Mediterranean vineyards, Michelin-starred restaurants, and art galleries on the Topper's Mountain Wines Mediterranean Wine Tour. October 16th to 31st 2025 Explore the rich wine cultures of Italy, Spain and Portugal, focusing on grape varieties being celebrated in Australia by ground-breaking wineries like Topper’s Mountain Wines. This elevated experience of food, wine [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Way too often we recently started our vintage reports with a note ‘a vintage to forget’. Well, nature hasn’t been very kind to us in the last few years. After we had lost whole 2019 crop to bushfire we had to fight massive drought in the 2020 and then the 2021 arrived with so much [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
