Meerea Park

Frequently Asked Questions

How many cases do you produce each year?

It is very vintage dependant, but usually between 8,000 and 10,000 cases. Since most of our wines are single vineyard wines we cannot increase the quantities in very low yielding years like we have been experiencing of late.

What do you consider to be your best wines?

Our 'Alexander Munro' wines are our flagship wines and represent the best parcels of Semillon, Shiraz and Chardonnay fruit we receive into the winery each vintage.

What is the best wine you have ever made?

A difficult question to answer as there have been may very good wines, but a personal favourite is the 1998 'Alexander Munro' Shiraz which at nearly 10 years of age now is still youthful and has decades in front of it.

Having said that, the 2005 'Alexander Munro' Shiraz is every bit as good and has all the hallmarks for very long term cellaring.

What have been the top Hunter vintages recently?

There have been many. For semillon '94, '97, '99, '04, '05 and '06 have been great. Shiraz was great for '98, '00, '03, '05, '06 and very recently '07.

Latest News

2010 Australian Wine Companion

01 Aug 2009

James Halliday, in his 2010 Australian Wine Companion has again awarded us a prestigious 5 Red Star ranking. This is given to wineries who have maintained their 5 Star rating for at least 3 consecutive years. James defines the ranking as;

“Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity”.

Our highly rated wines are as follows:

2006 ‘Alexander Munro’ Shiraz—95
2004 ‘Alexander Munro’ Semillon—94
2006 ‘Terracotta’ Shiraz—94
2008 ‘Epoch’ Semillon—94
2004 ‘Terracotta’ Semillon—93
2008 ‘Hell Hole’ Semillon—93
2006 ‘Hell Hole’ Shiraz—93
2007 ‘XYZ’ Shiraz—92

2009 Winewise Small Vigneron Awards

18 Jul 2009

The 2004 'Alexander Munro' Semillon was awarded Top Gold medal in class 8 (Hunter Valley Semillon 2005 and older) and then was awarded the TROPHY for the BEST SEMILLON.

In the same class, the 2004 'Terracotta' Semillon was awarded a Silver medal.

In class 55 for Shiraz (All other regions and blends), the 2008 Shiraz (Hilltops/Hunter) won Top Gold.

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Latest Releases

2008 'XYZ' Shiraz

2009 'XYZ' Chardonnay

2009 'XYZ' Semillon

2009 'Alexander Munro' Chardonnay

2009 Verdelho

2004 'Terracotta' Semillon

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Latest Reviews

"Today, Meerea Park's wines are some of the finest in the region, in fact the whites are some of the best of their type in the country".

Tim White - Australian Financial Review - 14th August 2009

"The Hell Hole name refers to the hot, dry country that is the Hunter Valley. Rhys Eather has packed a lot of fruit into this '09: plenty of lime and lemon citrus, even grapefruit on the palate. Great texture and a sparkling crisp acid finish." 93 points.

Nick Stock - Wine 100 - February 2010

2009 'Hell Hole' Semillon

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