Halliday’s outstanding 2019 reviews of our partners

By Lou | November 22, 2018
A close up of four full champagne glasses however only two glasses including the stems but not visible to the top of the glass are fully visible in the foreground with a bottle of Vasse Felix sparkling white wine in the background

Margaret River Tours are very proud of our partnerships with some of the Margaret River Wine Region’s most popular wineries. The latest James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion 2019 has awarded many of our partners with glowing reviews for their top tier wines. The Halliday Wine Companion is widely regarded as the industry benchmark and his…

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Rosé style in focus

By Lou | February 7, 2018
A man's hand with a chainlink bracelet is holding a bottle of rose and is pouring wine into a glass which sits on the back corner of a white table and two pink hibiscus flowers with leaves behind the base of the glass. The background is deep blue wall

Rosé is not a variety of wine, but rather a style of wine. So what is a rosé style wine it and how is it made? Rosé is produced from red grape varieties and made in the same way as red wine, but with less grape skin contact. Rosé can be made in various ways,…

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What are wine ratings and do they matter?

By Lou | January 13, 2018
A woman wearing a black shirt looking intently with a red wine tasting in her hand and a man in the foreground wearing a light blue collared shirt smelling a red wine tasting at the Leeuwin Estate cellar door

What exactly are wine ratings? Over the years a number of systems have been tried and tested in an attempt to rate a wine in a way that will inform consumers about the quality of a wine. Ratings are used to compare wines and also helpful as a method of describing the characteristics and cellaring…

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50 Years Young

By Lou | January 4, 2018
A black and white image of Tom Cullity the original vigneron at Vasse Felix wearing a black beret and black rimmed glasses, knee length gum boots, baggy black pants and a white shirt He is standing alongside and in front of rowsof some very small grape vines and one of them he is holding a growing runner up to a wire. The soild is very gravelly and peppered with weeds. In the background there are some large eucalyptus trees that border the fledgling vineyard. It is said that at the time Tom was aged 43, a frequently used iconic image when visually demonstrating thehistory of Margaret River wine region

Farewell 2017 – the year we celebrated 50 years of commercial winemaking in Margaret River. As we await the ripening, picking and pressing of the 2018 vintage in the Margaret River Wine Region, I thought it might be of interest to reflect on the history of the region so far. In 2017 Vasse Felix celebrated…

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