Enjoy an informed and friendly tasting with the owners and learn about their wines. The vines, planted in 1978 on rich red volcanic soils, produce premium cool climate wines with extraordinary depth and complexity of flavour.
Get together with some friends and experience the ambiance of the setting with a BBQ or picnic under our magnificent oak trees that overlook the vineyard, with orchards and Mount Dandenong in the background.
Wines Produced
Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot, Merlot, Rosé and Riesling.
2016 FIVE OAKS MERLOT $40
The 2016 Merlot carries on in our tradition of producing elegant and rich smooth Merlots, very similar to the 2013. Reflecting our fantastic, finest ever 2016 vintage, this medium-bodied Merlot displays dark berry aromas and flavours, complemented by spicy nuances derived from 18 months maturation in French Oak barrels. It is lovely to drink now and to at least 2032.
2018 FIVEOAKS 40th ANNIVERSARY CABERNET SAUVIGNON $40
Bottled in July 2019 this Cabernet Sauvignon celebrates the 40th anniversary of the planting of our vineyard in 1978. The grapes for this wine were hand-picked on 29 March 2018, crushed the same day, inoculated with a cool-fermenting Bordeaux isolate yeast and then fermented over 14 days. The wine was subsequently matured for 15 months in tight-grained, one-year-old French oak barrels. It has as an imposing presence now, exuding classic cassis and dark berry fruits with a firm underlying tannin backbone. Many will enjoy this youthful wine now. Yet it is a wine for the long haul that will mellow and develop complexity over the next 5-6 years into a seamless wine typical of Five Oaks' Cabernets of the past 25 years.