Gourmet Traveller Wine: Star Cellar Door 2013 & 201420 April 2014

Originally published in Gourmet Traveller Wine in April 2013 and in April 2014. View a PDF of the original article. 

Cupitt’s Winery is a regional showpiece. The cellar door is in an old sandstone creamery which dates back to 1851. The adjacent Vine- yard Kitchen has been built in sympathy with the additional benefit of a cool underground cellar. Views over the small family vineyard, the shimmering Burrill Lake and the distant Budawang Ranges complete the picture perfect scene.

Behind this beautifully integrated enterprise is a dynamo, Rosie Cupitt. She’s a trained horticulturalist who ran a food-oriented pub in Bowral (with husband Griff) and took gourmet garden tours to France before re-skilling with an oenology course at Charles Sturt and then planting this small family vineyard. Not all the fruit comes from the home vineyard but the NSW-only wines are clearly labelled as such.

Enjoy a ploughman’s platter, olives, dips and breads at the cellar door or go the whole hog at the Vineyard Kitchen with fresh local seafood and Griff ’s Angus beef. This is a truly family affair with Rosie and Griff’s three (adult) children each taking a meaningful role.

OUTSTANDING WINE:

2012 Cupitt’s Shoalhaven Sauvignon Blanc, A$26