The Swan Valley's Mediterranean climate allows winemakers to grow and produce a remarkably wide range of wine styles, from sparkling through to fortified. Very few wine regions can achieve this level of diversity.

Plan a visit to one of our many cellar doors to meet the makers and taste some of these regional specialties.

REGIONAL WINE STYLES

The Swan Valley's warm Mediterranean climate allows for a remarkably wide range of grape varieties to be grown and wine styles to be produced, from sparkling through to fortified. Very few wine regions can achieve this level of diversity.

SPARKLING WINES

Using traditional Méthode Champenoise, the same method that produces Champagne in France, Swan Valley winemakers are producing delicious, creamy sparkling wines using varietals such as Chenin Blanc and Shiraz.

CHENIN BLANC

The Swan Valley’s most widely planted white grape variety. This region crushes around a third of Australia’s Chenin Blanc. Swan Valley winemakers produce some of the world’s finest examples of Chenin Blanc — crisp, dry styles with ability to age, as well as sparkling and sweet wines. Known for its delicate floral aromas, apple-like flavours, and zingy acidity, Chenin Blanc pairs beautifully with food.

VERDELHO

Verdelho thrives in the Swan Valley’s warm climate, producing crisp, dry wines with tropical notes. Some of the world’s best Verdelho is made here. The luscious liqueur Verdelho is unique to this region, due to the ability of this varietal to ripen late and attain high sugar levels.

ROSÉ

Light in style, fresh and floral, rosé is perfectly suited to Western Australia’s climate and lifestyle. Swan Valley rosé is typically made from Grenache, Tempranillo, or Shiraz.

GRENACHE

First planted in the 1860s, historically local winemakers used Grenache to produce world-class fortified wines. Today, Grenache is one of Australia’s most exciting varietals, making Swan Valley old vine Grenache highly valued. Used to create on-trend lighter bodied, easy-drinking dry reds and rosé, it's suited to shared styles of eating.

SHIRAZ

The Swan Valley’s warm climate Shiraz rivals those produced in Australia’s best-known wine regions - plush, medium to full-bodied, and full of delicious dark fruit flavours. Renown for softness and length, supple and drinkable young, with the ability to be greater with time.

FORTIFIED WINES

Generations of Swan Valley winemakers have crafted exceptional fortified wines for decades. Often blended from multiple vintages, these fortified wines are among the most unique and complex produced anywhere in the world. Swan Valley winemakers produce vintage fortified, tawny, apera, and liqueur styles - rich, luscious wines made from Shiraz, Verdelho, Pedro Ximenez, Grenache, Muscat, and more recently, Touriga Nacional.

EMERGING VARIETALS

Swan Valley winemakers are having success with plantings of new varietals suited to the climate, our lifestyle, and the foods we like to eat - including Touriga Nacional, Arinto, Montepulciano, Nero d’Avola, Fiano, Mencia, Petit Verdot, Sangiovese, Tempranillo, Vermentino, and others.