Mr Barval Fine Wines

Star 4.8 (68 Google reviews)
Cellar door opening hours have changed for the Winter months. Mr Barval is now open Thursday - Sunday from 11am to 5pm. Or, if you are visiting Mon - Wed, tastings are available by appointment. Mr Barval tastings include a cheese board and a cellar tour with the fee redeemable on purchase.

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Mr Barval Fine Wines

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Monday - Sunday: 11:00 AM until 5:00 PM
Coming from Margaret River you will head south down Caves Road. Our gateway is past the Redgate and Caves Road intersection 2km on the left side. Follow the tree lined driveway to the cellar door and winery on the hill.
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The smallest production winery on the most stunning location in Margaret River. Join husband and wife team at Mr Barval Fine Wines for a glass of wine or two overlooking the Calgardup lake. Create a gourmet platter with their selected local cheeses and produce or bring your own picnic.
The philosophy behind their wines and driving their decisions for them is a very classical and traditional one. They are focused on the classic varieties of Margaret River – Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay. They are aiming to produce the wines in a very traditional, old world manner to allow for their own individual voices to be heard most clearly, not to be the bearers of a heavy winery fingerprint. Purity of fruit, balance, elegance and delicacy. These are all focus points for their production. Doing everything possible to achieve fruit quality at harvest as close to perfection as possible is the cornerstone of their fine wines. They work with leading growers located on favourable vineyard sites and do everything they can to ensure the fruit that arrives at the winery is in optimum condition.

So what does this mean exactly?
It means that they only work with indigenous yeasts which arrive on the skin of the grapes and bunches from the individual vineyard where they were harvested and then are encouraged to ferment those very same grapes. Through using the traditional technique of making a petit cuvee where a crate or two of perfect bunches, with not a blemish on them, are selectively harvested a week or so prior to harvest and crushed, in this case by hand, and a small and strong ferment begins. This highly active indigenous yeast ferment is added to the rest of the grapes when they arrive at the winery and allows for a sometimes slow to initiate wild ferment to begin far more rapidly. To more practical matters, all of their fruit is processed in a basket press. This is the gentlest way of pressing grapes as there is no tumbling of stalks and skins involved which can extract harsh elements from the grapes themselves. The white grapes are all basket pressed as whole bunches with no destemming occurring at all. The resulting juice, whilst being lower in yield than if you were to destem the fruit, runs from the press truly bright and clear and is immediately transferred to barrels for ferment.

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Mr Barval Fine Wines

7087 Caves Rd, Margaret River WA 6286, Australia

Reviews

Star 4.8 (68 Google reviews)
Deb O'Dwyer 19 March 2022

After many visits to the Margaret River region and visiting dozens of different wineries, I had never been to this winery. Stopped in today and was blown away by the fantastic wines and people. We were given a rare behind the scenes insight by Tom and can truly say he is a very intuitive and successful wine maker. An experience not to miss if you get the opportunity.

Alexis Gerard 07 February 2023

An amazing moment in an amazing place, a great presentation of the winery by the staff. The different types of wine were well explained and the cheese platter perfectly suited the tasting. Definitely a place to visit 👌

Anders Egdal 20 April 2023

This is hands down the best winery experience we have ever had - and we have tried a lot 🙂 Exceptionally good wine with a true authentic manufacturing process. Service there by the staff was second to none and the views are beautiful! I usually never do reviews but I had to do for this one! Thank you so much Rob and Candice 🙂

Arron Forrester 28 February 2023

The generosity of service, enthusiasm and beautiful location make this place worth while. The wine is not for myself or my wife. Lovely place to sit but I’m glad they had a tasting fee rather than buying a wine I considered fairly unpleasant.