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Fraser Gallop Estate is a single-vineyard estate in Wilyabrup, Margaret River, founded by vigneron Nigel Gallop. The vineyard was planted in 1999 and the first vintage followed in 2002. Over the twenty-five years since, the wines have been recognised by the critics and competitions that matter most. These are the highlights.

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179reviews of 95 points and above
20scores of 97 points and above
11thIWSC Top 50 Wine Producers 2025
5 red starsHalliday Wine Companion

Awards & honours

A register of distinction

Trophies, medals and rankings from Australian and international competitions.

  1. 2009

    Decanter World Wine Awards

    Trophy, World’s Best Bordeaux Blend

    Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon 2007

  2. 2011

    Margaret River Wine Show

    Wine of Show

    Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon 2009

  3. 2020

    Decanter World Wine Awards

    Best in Show, 97 points. One of six Australian wines to win Best in Show that year

    Parterre Chardonnay 2018

  4. 2022

    James Suckling

    Top 100 Wines of Australia

    Palladian Chardonnay 2021

  5. 2022

    Halliday Chardonnay Challenge

    Gold medal

    Palladian Chardonnay 2021

  6. 2023

    Decanter World Wine Awards

    Gold medal, 96 points

    Parterre Chardonnay 2021

  7. 2024

    International Wine & Spirit Competition

    Gold medal, 96 points

    Parterre Chardonnay 2022

  8. 2024

    James Suckling

    Top 100 Wines of Australia

    Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

  9. 2024

    Matthew Jukes

    100 Best Australian Wines

    Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

  10. 2024

    The Real Review and The Wine Advocate

    25th Anniversary vertical tasting, back to the first vintage in 2002

    Parterre and Palladian, 2002 to 2022

  11. 2025

    IWSC Top 50 Wine Producers

    Ranked 11th among the world’s wine producers

    Fraser Gallop Estate

  12. 2025

    West Australian Good Food Guide Wine Awards

    Top 25 Wines of Western Australia

    Parterre Chardonnay 2023

  13. 2026

    The Wine Advocate

    Australian new releases report, up to 97+ points

    Palladian Chardonnay and Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

In the critics’ words

What the critics say

This is one of Australia's finest Cabernets, year in year out, showing sophistication, finesse and delicacy alongside transparency of place.
Erin Larkin, The Wine AdvocatePalladian Cabernet Sauvignon 2022, 97 points
This 2020 Palladian is the best, finest, most magical, most alluring Palladian release I have ever tried. It is off the charts.
Halliday Wine CompanionPalladian Chardonnay 2020, 97 points
It's ethereal, a word I cannot remember often using for a cabernet.
James Halliday, Halliday Wine CompanionPalladian Cabernet Sauvignon 2015, 97 points
This elevates Fraser Gallop into rarefied air.
Ray JordanPalladian Chardonnay 2021, 97 points
This Western Australian example stood out for its sheer assurance and class, as well as for the intelligence of its approach.
The judges, Decanter World Wine Awards 2020Parterre Chardonnay 2018, Best in Show
A beautiful wine that speaks of the vineyard.
DecanterParterre Chardonnay 2023, 97 points

Reviews of 95 points and above

The cellar book

Every review and competition score of 95 points or more, from 17 critics and publications, across 63 wines and vintages. Grouped by wine, newest vintage first.

Palladian Chardonnay44 reviews of 95+ · 7 vintages · up to 98 points

The estate’s pinnacle white. Gingin clone, hand-picked, wild-fermented in new French puncheons.

2023 Palladian Chardonnay

  • 97+pts
    The 2023 vintage in Margaret River will go down in history as one of the greatest white wine vintages this state has ever seen.
  • 95pts
    Some really complex aromas here of grapefruit pith, nettle, white flowers, oyster shell and a nutty, cashew lift.
  • 95pts
    Delicious now, this also should evolve gracefully over many years in bottle.
  • 95+pts
    There’s no denying the appeal, even if a lot of flavour comes from winemaking inputs – as in the spicy, cedary and classy oak plus creamy, nutty lees.2027 Halliday Wine Companion

2022 Palladian Chardonnay

  • 97pts
    Immediately strikes with the greater intensity and more focused precision which is part of the linear structure of this wine.
  • 96pts
    Silvery, fine and silky; a wine for Chablis fans. River pebble minerality, crushed blanched almond and toasty oak laced with spice.Margaret River report, 2024
  • 96pts
    It’s full-bodied, buttery and delicious, with lively, bright acidity. Intense.
  • 96pts
    Tight and powerful, high intensity of citrus fruit at the core, bound by a searing acidity that will take time to loosen its grip.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 95pts
    The Palladian style of Chardonnay is glassy, pristine and eminently classy.
  • 95pts
    The 2022 Palladian Chardonnay is incredibly tightly coiled right now. I wondered why I gave this wine 95 points, when some of the other wines have warranted higher scores, and this is a brilliant vintage.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 95pts
    Very tight and bound, grapefruit, and lemon rind, so tight and flinty, latent complexity and lime zest, lots of grip and texture and very long with it
  • 95pts
    Light colour with an oak-driven aroma, the palate likewise reserved and youthful, dry and lean, with nervy acidity, tension and subtlety and promising to build more character and richness with time.
  • 95pts
    Full bodied, richly flavoured, yet the palate is enerfised by electrifying acidity, finishing long and precise.2025 Halliday Wine Companion

2021 Palladian Chardonnay

  • 97pts
    This is marvelous— produced in a vintage that was challenging for many (cool, poorly timed weather events) but successful for the balance.
  • 97pts
    The fine delicacy and precision of this high-class chardonnay are evident from the get g-go.
  • 96pts
    Great length and finishes with a clarity that has you clamouring for more
  • 96pts
    The complex bouquet of white flowers provides a confident start.
  • 96pts
    It lingers long, It’s persuasive. Classy with a capital C
  • 95pts
    Power and intensity. Showing some age complexity.
  • 95+pts
    Intense and concentrated, flinty with some creamy gloss, tangy preserved lemon flavours, green apple, tight and very long.
  • 95pts
    Complex. Persistent and very nicely composed.Top 100 Wines of Australia 2022

2020 Palladian Chardonnay

  • 97pts
    This 2020 Palladian is the best, finest, most magical, most alluring Palladian release I have ever tried.
  • 96+pts
    It is complex and ripe, and the palate shows a superb phenolic richness and sapid fruit core.
  • 96pts
    It’s lean, but powerful, bursts with mixed citrus and pear skin flavour, bright with firm flinty grip, and a superb long finish, all lime zest and spicy honey biscuits.
  • 95pts
    Light, bright colour and an intense spicy aroma, which owes a lot to high-class oak barrels.
  • 95pts
    This steps right up the scale in terms of intensity and power with ripe lemon and pineapple fruit aromas and flavors, as well as peach and wet stone.

2019 Palladian Chardonnay

  • 97pts
    It unfurls deep and long into the palate and lingers for an eternity
  • 96pts
    It was cool and wet but generally well-handled in the vineyards and responsible for wines that are poised, detailed and aromatic.
  • 96pts
    White peach and saline acid are the defining characters here. On the palate, the flavours extend and unfurl into all the far reaches of the mouth and mind; fine chalky phenolics serve to grip and convince a second and third sip.
  • 95+pts
    Looks like 2019 is a very good vintage for MR Chardonnay, though it seems very much a ‘line and length’ vintage over ‘Flavour Town’.
  • 95pts
    This top-tier chardonnay has very attractive restraint, married with underlying complexity.

2018 Palladian Chardonnay

  • 97pts
    The wines have showed that in bottle, in their power, grace and balance.
  • 97pts
    The 2018 Palladian Chardonnay is incredibly powerful and much fresher/lighter/finer/tighter that the 2017 tasted alongside.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 96pts
    The structure is tight, intense and focused, with impressive length and refinement.
  • 96pts
    Intensity. Focus.
  • 96pts
    A textbook chardonnay of great class
  • 96pts
    This beautifully balanced and very long wine has Granny Smith apple, white peach and nectarine all contributing.
  • 96pts
    Amazing power and intensity here25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024

2017 Palladian Chardonnay

  • 98pts
    The bouquet has some smoky nuances, but wow, it gives no warning of the incredibly pure, intense and long palate, grapefruit and white peach locked in an eternal embrace
  • 97pts
    Acid is powerfully driving this wine to match the fruit intensity. Goes forever and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 96pts
    A beautiful, very refined and complex wine. The bouquet shows low-level sulfides, smoky oak aromas and rich fruit.
  • 96pts
    A very composed and complex chardonnay that has attractive, white-peach and lemon aromas with gently flinty complexity.
  • 95pts
    The 2017 Parterre Chardonnay hails from a cool wet vintage (not as cold nor as wet as 2006, but on the same track), and the wine is nutty, tightly coiled, fresh and herbal, with saltbush and bay leaf, lemongrass and scraped vanilla pod.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 95pts
    Medium-bodied, intense fruit backed with tasteful spicy oak, gently chalky texture, a bit of sunshine pineapple and vanilla on a long crisp finish.
Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon35 reviews of 95+ · 11 vintages · up to 97 points

The pinnacle red. Houghton clone cabernet from the same rows each year, matured in new French oak.

2023 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 97+pts
    The 2023 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon is silky, fresh, detailed and texturally so smooth.
  • 96pts
    The palate offers lightness and brightness on what is normally a hefty variety, thanks to silky fine tannins and exceptional balance.
  • 95pts
    Mid-weighted, elegant, focused and fine. There's a core and drive of briary dark fruits, spice, nutty oak and a woodsy earthiness.
  • 95pts
    Florals and fruit dance the line between pretty and elegant, serious and structured for the long haul.
  • 95+pts
    Palladian is often built for the long-haul. It's a structured, stately wine and, while this vintage will age brilliantly, it’s approachable and perhaps shows more restraint.

2022 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 97pts
    This is one of Australia's finest Cabernets, year in year out, showing sophistication, finesse and delicacy alongside transparency of place.
  • 95pts
    There's some fairly complex and lifted aromas of cassis, dried herbs, bramble, mulberry, black olive, iodine and pot-pourri.

2021 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 95pts
    The nose is fresh and perfumed, giving aromas of blackcurrants, orange rind, potpourri and dried herbs.Top 100 Wines of Australia 2024

2020 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 97pts
    Made as an elegant and stylish wine with a precision and medium weight structure that is so impressive.
  • 96+pts
    This is chewy and lithe, elegant and fine, a pleasure to drink. It feels really good in the mouth.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 96pts
    All the hallmarks of a long-lived wine combined with immediate appeal, lovely aromatics and beautiful fruit.2025 Halliday Wine Companion
  • 96pts
    Tannins are finely grained and powerful, allowing that fruit weight to run very long and remain focused and driven25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 95pts
    Complex aromas of bramble, blackberry, wild thyme, violets, mulberry and a lift of leafiness.
  • 95pts
    Composed and elegant. Just opening up.

2019 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 97pts
    There’s power in spades, but it delivers with finesse and stylish refinement.
  • 96pts
    It's beautifully textured and structured.
  • 95pts
    The 2019 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon has the three P's to success: poise, perfume and precision.
  • 95pts
    Kind of nutty too, and has something of a ‘Super Tuscan’ quality about it, though don’t mind me, with plum/cherry and new leather rolling on a finish that’s long, closing with chamois-like tannin.
  • 95pts
    There’s plenty of flavour packed into this from ripe fruit and cedary oak, yet it remains just shy of full bodied and the palate is far from unwieldy.

2018 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
    The length of flavour is astoundingly long: enduring and persistent, it allows the fruit to promenade across the tongue, showing every feather and facet.
  • 96+pts
    Balanced and powerful, it has lovely fine acidity, ductile and chewy sandalwood tannins and longevity in spades.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 95pts
    Complex aromas of lead pencil, tobacco, blackberry, cigar box, dried herbs and brambles.
  • 95+pts
    Winemaker Clive Otto is a good fellow, though likely doesn’t suffer fools gladly, which probably leaves me in a precarious state.
  • 95pts
    Big tannins are a match to the fruit intensity so it builds tension and drive to a very long finish25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024

2017 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
    The palate has a beautifully deep, ripe and concentrated delivery of plush, long and fine tannin.
  • 95pts
    Looks great now but should age well for a decade or so
  • 95pts
    The cooler vintage has birthed herbal wines of complexity - of which this is both.

2016 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
    Only medium-bodied, itself a rare example in top class cabernet.

2015 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 97pts
    This has an extraordinarily long finish and aftertaste, built on varietal purity.
  • 96pts
    Beautiful smelling wine. All the violets, sweet dark fruit, tobacco and cigar box, spice, nougat.
  • 96pts
    This has elegance, refinement and vitality aplenty, and the fruit does all the talking.
  • 95pts
    Shows intensity and composure. Such a powerful yet fresh wine.

2014 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
    It is complex and layered aromatically, while the palate is silky and almost chalky in its outlay of tannin and fruit.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 95pts
    This wine looks at an early stage in its live and while its gaining complexity, I’d say it has a way to go in its long evolution.2014 vintage retrospective, ten years on

2013 Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 95pts
    Great length and precision to the long finish25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
Parterre Chardonnay39 reviews of 95+ · 15 vintages · up to 97 points

The estate’s signature chardonnay and two-time Decanter World Wine Awards honouree.

2024 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 96pts
    The palate is glossy and finely textured, with a long line of starlit acidity, crystalline fruit and juicy succulence.
  • 95pts
    2024 was a tough year in Western Australian, on account of it being both hot and dry, and true to the elegant/composed style of this house, neither of these compounding challenges are evident in the glass.
  • 95pts
    There’s a level of detail to this, keeping it in a classy spectrum.2027 Halliday Wine Companion
  • 95pts
    Another excellent wine from Fraser Gallop, showing the finesse and delicacy of the chardonnay style that has evolved here over several years.

2023 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 97pts
    Delightful fruit sweetness – delicate and pure with sea salt from the core of the fruit.
  • 95pts
    This is a wine that succinctly exhibits the Fraser Gallop Estate style of restraintand poise, from a superb vintage.
  • 95pts
    Juicy, lime, a pixelated grip, sandstone maybe, a bit of raw energy to this wine, plenty of crunch and a lime margarita thing happening, with a finish of excellent length.
  • 95pts

2022 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 96pts
    A tantalizing bouquet of nutty aromas leads to a palate bursting with white grapefruit and juicy peach skin upheld by a graceful acidic backbone.
  • 96pts
    The acidity remains true to the house style here, which is verging on austere, certainly incredibly juicy, penetrating and spicy.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 95pts
    Well balanced with good body and crisp freshness. Pink grapefruit and salty lime appear at the succulent lengthy finish.
  • 95pts
    savoury complexing notes adds interest, lovely ride.
  • 95pts
    Ethereal and understated with sublime lemon zest and grapefruit characters and a focused drive of mineral and saline tightness adding to its charms.
  • 95pts
    The palate sings with fruit intensity and tightly strung Gingin acid, both of which bode well for time in the cellar.Margaret River report, 2024
  • 95pts
    A riper vintage has only added more fruit definition to an otherwise savoury and superfine wine.2025 Halliday Wine Companion
  • 95pts
    It's a precise and elegantly crafted wine with a steely minerally core.

2021 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 96pts
    Silky luxurious mouthfeel, with a mellow texture. Pithy finish.
  • 95pts
    Couple this with the cooler year that was 2021, and we are met by a wine with poise, precision and finesse in spades.
  • 95pts
    Mostly, it’s mouth-watering, flinty, fine and exceptionally long. Wonderful wine.
  • 95pts
    It results in a beautiful defined elegant chardonnay. Has a lift of cut pear and citrus with a slight nutty melon combination.

2020 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 95pts
    Yeah wow: this is textural, rich and creamy, but it has sublime balance and poise.

2019 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 95pts
    This drags the substantial fruit characters over the palate and through into the long finish.

2018 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 97pts
    On the palate, the wine is soft yet poised; it has great innate flavour complexity without any sense of strain, labour or effort: a deft and seamless mouthful which nonetheless impresses by its finishing complexity.
  • 96pts
    A fresh fruit-driven bouquet introduces a palate that flows without interruption to the finish and aftertaste.
  • 95pts
    The aromas are nutty and the palate intense and refined, the flavors long and highly appealing, with fresh acidity.
  • 95pts
    Many produces in the region made their best wines in 2018. So, on the nose, this wine leads with orange blossom and Pink Lady apple, cinnamon cassia, scratched citrus and lashings of sea salt.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 95pts
    Medium-bodied, so even and fluid, delivering ripe lime and melon flavour with quiet authority, oak layered in neatly, fresh and flinty, tight and juicy on a long finish.
  • 95pts
    It’s still emerging but has intensity and very attractive flavor. Long, lingering finish with frisky acidity and real tension.
  • 95pts
    Acidity is super fresh, it lifts and drives, only now just starting to relax its grip but still offering amazing length25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024

2017 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 96pts
    This is a first class Margaret River chardonnay with a proven track record.

2016 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 95pts
    The palate is equally good, and despite the initial richness on the palate, there is a nice line of acidity that runs through the wine keeping it perfectly balanced and composed.

2015 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 96pts
    It’s probably the immaculate viticulture that is most responsible, but you also get the feeling the winemaking team don’t push the envelope any further than they are totally comfortable with, the most obvious outcome the extreme purity the…
  • 95pts
    The wines from Fraser Gallop appear to have hit another plane of elegance and refinement.

2014 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 95pts
    The bright, light straw-green colour sends the right signal of an ultra-crisp chardonnay that races along the palate and into the lingering aftertaste, oak doing it’s duty and no more.

2013 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 96pts
    Acidity is driving, lively and powerful, ensuring phenomenal length and tension even at 11 years of age.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 95pts
    Beautiful. The phenolics are sleek, and the acidity is penetrating and piercing, which I do love this producer for.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024

2012 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 96pts
    Mid-gold, vibrant hue; the extremely youthful and unevolved the bouquet offers spicy oak, nectarine, grapefruit and struck flint aromas; the palate is tightly wound, with racy, laser-like acidity, charry oak and fine fruit slowly expanding…

2011 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 95pts
    Savoury oak spice linger underneath and a touch of honeyed development adds character and complexity.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024

2004 Parterre Chardonnay

  • 96pts
    This is gorgeous, silky and fresh, a beautiful wine, and it's aging incredibly gracefully.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon42 reviews of 95+ · 15 vintages · up to 97 points

A Bordeaux-style cabernet made from the first vintage in 2002 to today.

2023 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 95pts
    Refined, focused and quite elegant, with a drive of briary dark fruits, florals, spice and a cedar lift.
  • 95+pts
    As with many of the 2023 reds, this will hold very well for a long time.

2022 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 95pts
    So long on the finish, with great length and persistence. An excellent expression of Wilyabrup terroir with harmonious integration of all elements.
  • 95pts
    The finish is firm yet vibrant, with savoury undertones and a buoyant structure that lingers delightfully.
  • 95pts
    Really complex aromas of dried herbs, bramble, blackberry, dark cherry, olive tapenade and a woodsy earthiness.
  • 95pts
    The tannins are powdery and chewy and gorgeous. Really pleasurable.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 95pts
    This is ready to enjoy now but will obviously garner more complexity in time.2027 Halliday Wine Companion
  • 95pts
    So it's a classic Bordeaux blend, and shows elements of that sinewy, minerally tannin profile that you might expect.

2021 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
    Very impressive length. This sings.Margaret River report, 2024
  • 96pts
    A beautiful Parterre this wintage. Its hearty with violets, mulberries, fresh herbs with rolled tobacco and some nori, even blueberry muffin of all things, plus cedary oak.2025 Halliday Wine Companion
  • 95pts
    There’s lovely weight, brightness and purity on the palate. Dark fruits, nutty, charry oak, spice, textured, chewy tannins and bright acidity are all weaving their magic.

2020 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
    This is predominantly cabernet but smaller percentages of petit verdot, cabernet franc and malbec contribute.
  • 95pts
    The palate is mid-weight, beautifully balanced and pure. Cassis, mulberry, blackberry, cedar and wild thyme are all at play.
  • 95pts
    It’s medium bodied and wonderfully savoury with powdery tannins and great length.

2019 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
    A beautiful wine, with a proven track record for graceful ageing. This vintage will be no exception.
  • 96pts
    The bouquet is perfumed with red flowers and cassis, the finish long and elegant.
  • 95pts
    The wine is elegantly formed and medium bodied, with fine, supple tannins and lovely balance.

2018 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
    Assured and poised, with hints of truffle within the spiced dark fruits and brambly berries.
  • 96pts
    Supple intensity, concentration of flavour without a gram of weight, the length of flavour possessed only by very healthy, perfectly ripe and balanced grapes.
  • 95pts
    Sporting a slightly different label now, with the house in a fetching sort of purple.
  • 95pts
    Yet, despite all the power and intensity it retains a poised elegance that is so appealing.

2017 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 95pts
    Great flavour and harmony, balance and length. This is uncannily Bordeaux-like, St-Émilion for my money.
  • 95pts
    Elegance and purity are its watchwords.
  • 95pts
    Elegant and controlled Cabernet Sauvignon from this cool vintage.

2016 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 97pts
    The balance and mouthfeel are exceptional.

2015 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
    A lovely medium weighted wine, all the fruit and savoury elements melding seamlessly along a backbone of ultra fine but persistent tannins that carry it incredibly long25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 95pts
    Deep-ish ruby with tinge of purple, the aromas are dried herbs and earthy/tobacco fruit development, a touch of briar, the palate medium bodied, with savoury flavours and fine, gentle, powdery tannins.
  • 95pts
    Fruit all hand-picked, separated into several batches with different winemaking techniques applied.

2014 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
    It adds up to a complex and complete wine of supreme elegance and refinement.
  • 95pts
    The wine is beautifuly flavoured and intense in the mouth, poised and elegant with tight, refined structure and good persistence.

2013 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 97pts
    Still bright crimson-purple; a totally delicious and stylish Bordeaux blend; the bouquet is fragrant, the medium to full-bodied palate swoops high and low with cassis, spice, bay leaf, cedary oak and beautifully detailed tannins – and only…
  • 97pts
    A refined and highly classy cabernet which also has a little petit verdot, merlot, malbec and cabernet franc to complete the classic Bordeaux blend.
  • 96pts
    A brilliant cabernet scented with red fruits, rose petals, violets and crushed leaves.
  • 96pts
    What a beautifully balanced wine this is. Super.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024
  • 96pts
    The best cabernet yet from this consistent winery, it has a few percent of petit verdot, merlot, malbec and franc thrown in.
  • 96pts
    Lovely density of black fruits with olive tapenade and wood shaving complexities building this wine into a very long and complex experience.25th Anniversary vertical tasting, 2024

2012 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
    It has considerable attitude, with crisply detailed and framed flavours that progressively gain velocity as they move across the palate towards the emphatic, balanced, finish.
  • 95pts
    Supremely balanced with grainy and slightly powdery graphite-like tannins.

2010 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 95pts
    So perfectly balanced, it will likely be drunk long before its natural best-by date.

2009 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 96pts
  • 96pts

2007 Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon

  • 95pts
Parterre Semillon Sauvignon Blanc12 reviews of 95+ · 8 vintages · up to 96 points

Barrel-fermented, textural and built to age.

2022 Parterre Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

  • 95pts
    A bright, gently flinty and nutty white showing complex notes of flint, grapefruit, hazelnuts and lemongrass on the nose.

2020 Parterre Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

  • 95pts
    Very fresh with some gently savory complexity. The palate has such zesty, fresh lemon flavors with a taut, linear feel.
  • 95pts
    Even if appealing in youth such an oak-aged style generally needs time to settle and chill out.
  • 95pts
    One of the best, most complex exapmles of this belnd in Margaret River.

2019 Parterre Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

  • 95pts
    From the cool ‘19 vintage, this wine presents salivating graphite and wet-slate characters both on the nose and palate, intermingled with white stone fruit, sweet green sugar snap pea and pink grapefruit.

2018 Parterre Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

  • 96pts
    The bouquet is layered and complex, the palate pushing flavours at kinetic speeds, taking hold of the mouth in an instant.
  • 95pts
    It’s tight and youthful, a little closed, but light and dry, crisply clean and balanced, with good concentration.
  • 95pts
    It's light and dry, clean and crisp and balanced. The finish is lip-smacking with acid - very refreshing.

2016 Parterre Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

  • 96pts
    With age, the tense reverberations of a youthful white settle down into a perfectly balanced, more substantial, and more viscous wine.

2015 Parterre Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

  • 95pts
    Its complexity extends from the first whiff trough to the finish and aftertaste, deriving in part from the spread of fruit flavours (citrus, tropical and white peach) and the carefully managed oak.

2014 Parterre Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

  • 96pts
    This wine has a siren blaring ‘get out of my way’, it’s first up flavours of lemon/lemon zest/bitter lemon ricocheting around the mouth, barrel ferment inputs of minor consequence, as is the oak.

2010 Parterre Semillon Sauvignon Blanc

  • 96pts
    Nearing full development of flavours at 13 years of age, showing a rich complexity and, while it will cellar longer, why would you wait?
Estate and specialty wines7 reviews of 95+ · 7 vintages · up to 95 points

Cabernet Merlot, Chardonnay, Malbec, Ice Pressed Chardonnay and Rosé.

2022 Rosé

  • 95pts

2021 Cabernet Merlot

  • 95pts
    An appealing claret-style red, as in its not too big, not too light but just right.2025 Halliday Wine Companion

2020 Chardonnay

  • 95pts
    Extremely classy effort.

2018 Cabernet Merlot

  • 95pts
    Oh so easy - simply grow the grapes, pick when ripe, crush and ferment, mature in French oak, wait for the synergy, bottle when ready.

2018 Ice Pressed Chardonnay

  • 95pts
    The grapes were frozen for 5 days then whole-bunch pressed, the skins and ice discarded, the juice was cold-settled for another 5 days, then transferred to barrel for a slow fermentation with 155.6g/l residual sugar retained before…

2018 Malbec

  • 95pts
    The Clare Valley, Langhorne Creek and Margaret River share what is often regarded as a second-rate variety, its best use as a blend component.

2017 Cabernet Merlot

  • 95pts
    It's no more than medium-bodied, but is packed with silky flavours of cassis, plum and tapenade.

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Questions

About the estate’s recognition

What awards has Fraser Gallop Estate won?

Fraser Gallop Estate has won Best in Show at the Decanter World Wine Awards (2020, Parterre Chardonnay 2018) and the World’s Best Bordeaux Blend trophy at the 2009 Decanter World Wine Awards for its Parterre Cabernet Sauvignon 2007. It was ranked 11th in the IWSC Top 50 Wine Producers in 2025, holds a five red star rating from the Halliday Wine Companion, and has received gold medals at the Decanter World Wine Awards, the International Wine & Spirit Competition and the Halliday Chardonnay Challenge.

Which Fraser Gallop wines are the most highly rated?

The Palladian Chardonnay and Palladian Cabernet Sauvignon are the estate’s top wines. The Palladian Chardonnay 2017 received 98 points from James Halliday, and both Palladian wines from 2023 received 97+ points from Erin Larkin of The Wine Advocate. The Parterre Chardonnay 2018 was named Best in Show at the 2020 Decanter World Wine Awards with 97 points.

How many 95+ point reviews has Fraser Gallop Estate received?

Fraser Gallop Estate has received 179 reviews and competition scores of 95 points or more across 63 wine vintages, including 20 scores of 97 points or above.

Where is Fraser Gallop Estate?

Fraser Gallop Estate is at 493 Metricup Road, Wilyabrup, in the Margaret River region of Western Australia, about 20 km north of the Margaret River township.

Who makes the wine at Fraser Gallop Estate?

Ellin Tritt has been head winemaker since 2024. She joined the estate in 2017 and worked under Clive Otto, who was head winemaker from 2006 to 2024. Vigneron Nigel Gallop founded the estate, planting the vineyard in 1999. The first vintage was 2002.

What does Fraser Gallop Estate make?

Single-vineyard wines from 20 hectares of dry-grown vines in Wilyabrup, chiefly chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon, across four ranges: Palladian, Parterre, Innovation and Estate.

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Images, tasting notes, technical sheets and interviews with head winemaker Ellin Tritt and vigneron Nigel Gallop are available on request.

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Fraser Gallop Estate, 493 Metricup Road, Wilyabrup WA 6280

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