The Red Tail is named after the local Red-tailed black cockatoo which is found often on the Whicher Ridge winery. The birds are beautiful with their recognisable red tail feathers. Sparkling Shiraz is not so common in WA but here we have one that shows all the hallmarks of a classic style. There is plenty of cassis, dark spices and pepper coming through with trademark christmas cake tones. The wine has plenty of depth on the palate with a light bead and lingering chewy tannin. Safe to say this will be recognised for years to come as well.

Whicher Ridge is located in the seaside town of Busselton, two and a half hours drive from Perth, along the stunning Geographe Bay. Aside from extremely long jetties and the ideally flat but still painful Ironman course, Busselton is part of the emerging wine region of Geographe. The region gets its name from the ship that Nicolas Baudin sailed on when he was mapping the coastline of Australia. Neil and Cathy Howard are the delightful team that run Whicher Ridge with a focus on classic West Aussie varieties like Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc. Both have many years of experience working across Australia in the wine industry before coming to the conclusion that Western Australia is a great place to call home and settled on their ideal vineyard in 2003. The winery sources fruit from their estate as well as from Margaret River and Great Southern with their flagship wines being Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and a complex Sauvignon Blanc.