Our passion in winemaking is to make wines which coat your tongue with an unctuous silky smooth voluptuous flavor which lasts forever - a velvet glove.

We measure this quality on the Marquis Fruit Weight scale. For a wine to be included in Velvet Glove, it must score 95% or above. To score this highly, the grapes must come from a very special vineyard, must be grown according to the Marquis Vineyard Watering Programme, and then must have that blessing from above - a favorable growing season.

In 2006 we were lucky enough to have all three, the magical Gateway Vineyard, Toby Bekkers (McLaren Vale Viticulturalist of the Year) and Daniel Libovich looking after the watering, and the God of the weather on our side.

We have, in the past, had 4 wines which have scored 99 points from Robert Parker Jnr. In our Mollydooker grading tastings we rate this wine higher. The Mollydooker 2006 Velvet Glove is quite simply the best wine we have ever made.