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Local Winter Wine Paddle
Explore the Scotchmans Hill and Cornelius wines featured in your Local Winter Wine Paddle at Apollo Bay Hotel.
2025 Scotchmans Hill Pinot Noir
A complex and alluring bouquet of red plums and dark berries with spice, sweet sappy notes, and refined oak complexity. The palate is juicy and long with raspberries, plums, and sweet cherries. This is complemented by spice, earthy notes with a sappy mid palate and cedar oak finish. The all-round structure of the wine is seamless with silky tannins delivering a beautiful balanced wine.
2023 Scotchmans Hill Shiraz
A vibrant and complex wine showing lifted red fruits, leading to dark plums with hints of white pepper and French oak spice. The palate is juicy, medium bodied, elegant and flowing with dark fruits, spice and fine integrated tannins. A long, balanced finish that is seamlessly rounded out with the very best French oak. This Shiraz will provide great drinking now and for many years to come.
2022 Scotchmans Hill Cabernet Sauvignon
Lifted blackcurrant and crushed leaf aromas with cedar oak, supported by firm tannins and a structured finish.
2018 Cornelius Norfolk Pinot Noir
The bouquet is alluring and exotic with perfumed fruits of cherries and plums. Spice, earthy undertones with sappy whole bunch characters round out the wine. The palate is rich and complex with plum and cherry fruit, sappy whole bunch notes dominating the mid palate which flows through to a savoury oak finish. Juicy acid and ripe firm tannins deliver overall power and structure to the wine.
2018 Cornelius Strathallan Syrah
An opulent bouquet of blueberry and dark cherry fruits with spice, pepper and chocolate notes. The palate is rich with dark fruits and cherries, pepper notes and a hint of earthiness. The mid-palate has chocolate flavors with autumnal notes flowing through to cedar and gun smoke oak on the finish.
Delve deeper into the wines on offer with Chief Winemaker Robin Brockett and discover what sets Scotchmans Hill and Cornelius apart — from regional character and winemaking approach to the distinctive styles behind each label.
Scotchmans Hill Pinot Noir vs Cornelius Pinot Noir
Discover the difference between Scotchmans Hill Pinot Noir and Cornelius Pinot Noir, and what sets each wine apart in style, structure and expression.
Scotchmans Hill Shiraz vs Cornelius Shiraz
Discover how Scotchmans Hill Shiraz and Cornelius Shiraz compare, as Chief Winemaker Robin Brockett explores the regional character, winemaking approach and distinctive style behind each wine.