About Centennial Vineyards

Centennial Vineyards is located at Bowral in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. It is a cool-climate vineyard where the vines ripen slowly in the cold temperatures, producing fruit that is balanced and displays great colour and aromatic qualities and has a high acidic content. This, in turn, makes the wines crisp, with long palates and the wines age well.

They have a philosophy of low yield, high quality growing practices, which give up fruit that make excellent full-bodied red and white styles that present great colour and elegance, with a solid structure.

They work closely with their growers, who have a complete understanding of what the people at Centennial Vineyards want from their fruit for their Reserve range. They use fruit from other cool climate vineyards, such as Orange and Hilltops to blend with their own unique style of estate-produced wines.

They have aimed their development towards single vineyard wines in order to display their individual characters. The vineyard is blessed with a wonderful mix of good climate, great soil, lying on a slope, adequate rainfall, enough sunlight to ripen the grapes and the cool temperature to slow things down.

The more they learn about viticulture the more they want to innovate.  They replaced the Merlot for Albariño in 2005, a wine from the cool regions of Spain that has a bouquet of almonds, peaches, apples, a hint of citrus and flowers. They also added clones of Pinot Noir and planted Pinot Gris and Tempranillo.

Sparkling wines also feature strongly in their portfolio, with Pinot Meunier planted in 2005. This sits happily beside their estate-grown Méthode Champenoise.

Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Rondinella, Corvina, Barbera, Albariño, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Riesling, Sangiovese, Sauvignon Blanc, Shiraz, Tempranillo, Verdelho and Viognier are the varieties available at their Cellar Door. So, do yourself a favour and come and visit this great winery.