Mount Barker

Fruit from Capel Vale's Mount Barker vineyard follows the long history of producing award winning wines, beginning in 1986 when the Capel Vale Riesling was awarded the Australian National Dry White Champion - the first Western Australian wine to win this award. The vines on this property are over 30 years old and produce fruit of great intensity and complexity.

The vines, over thirty years old, produce fruit of great intensity & complexity.

Situated on an extension of the Porongurup Range, the vineyard covers some of the oldest rocks and soils in the world. The soils here consist of laterite, sand and degraded and weathered granite. The low fertility of these leached soils, combined with the region's long, cool ripening conditions, produces highly concentrated flavours in the grapes.

Mount Barker is once again a true cool climate region in Western Australia and in some years it is April before harvest begins. Rainfall generally falls throughout winter and spring, with significant thunderstorms during summer. One of the most important aspects of these region’s climate is the regular afternoon cloud cover that further reduces the intensity of solar radiation.