Tasting Notes
This is probably one of Australia’s most underrated white wines. A unique blend of Chardonnay and Marsanne, you get beautiful stone fruits on the nose with some saffron and vanilla playing in the background from some second and third-use oak on the Chardonnay. Weighty but not rich - this is the perfect wine for anyone that loves that whites coming out of the Maconnais. - Aaron C.
Warekilla. The Wurundjeri name could translate as "Happy Place". Or "Place of Changing Winds".
Robert Walters searched for almost five years trying to find a site for his warekilla. He eventually settled on the place, Bullengarook on the southern foothills of Mount Macedon, to establish Place of Changing Winds. Years of experience in the wine trade and visits to the best sites and winemaking practices around the world all culminated in Rob's decision to put down roots around Macedon. The changing winds create a high diurnal difference in temperature, embraced by the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir fruit. Their vines are grown at extremely high density, ten times the norm, to encourage a community or single body of the plants as they develop their collective canopy, and dig their vines deep through the gravelly soils in search of water and nutrients, anchoring them against the wind. Fruit is low-yielding.
And as is the nature of the wind, Warekilla was not the only place to keep Robert grounded; Place of Changing Winds sources fruit from Heathcote for their two cuvées of Syrah and their Marsanne.
| Product Type | Wine White Blends |
| Volume | 750ml |
| Country | Australia |
| Region | Victoria |
| Winemaking Practices | Minimal Intervention |
| Vineyard Practices | Organic/Biodynamic |