Crafted for the Cellar: Levantine Hill’s Most Collectible Current Vintages
Some wines are made to be enjoyed in the moment, while others are crafted to evolve and reveal their full potential over time. At Levantine Hill, our most remarkable wines tell a story of vintage, terroir, and patience - showcasing balance, structure, and enduring elegance. Exceptional vintages arise from ideal weather conditions, distinct vineyard microclimates, and low yields that concentrate flavour and character, creating wines with remarkable depth and cellaring potential.
Meticulous winemaking ensures these wines express their unique heritage. It is this careful crafting that allows them to age gracefully, gaining complexity, softening tannins, and revealing layered nuances over decades. In this guide, we present a selection of our most cellar-worthy current releases - each a testament to time, place, and the promise of a legacy.
Special Edition Samantha’s Paddock Mélange Traditionnel – 2018
Wine Makers Notes
This seventh vintage of our flagship signature red blend epitomises our commitment to honour and reflect the finest examples of the classic Cabernet Sauvignon-based wines upon which our region’s enviable reputation was forged and cemented. The palate is powerful yet poised, with fine tannins and extraordinary length.
Why It’s Collectible
Through meticulous wine making and employing traditional Bordeaux varietal blending (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot) paired with careful oak maturation and slow evolution in bottle. This internationally award-winning vintage manages a balance that few wines accomplish. The Real Review’s Stuart Knox stating that it sits in with the great cabernets of the world and awarded the wine 98 points.
Suggested Cellaring Window
15+ years - A wine that will reveal deeper complexity and elegance, built for long-term evolution and depth.
Melissa’s Paddock Syrah – 2018
Wine Makers Notes
Melissa’s Paddock, our smallest block, is a tribute to the finest Hermitage examples of the Rhône Valley, bottled as “Syrah” to reflect its refined structure and savoury, spiced nuances. This flagship single-vineyard Syrah captures the unique character of its site, with the 2018 vintage benefiting from a calm, extended growing season typical of the Yarra Valley's hallmark conditions. Rated 97 by Wine Reviewer and 97 by The Real Reviewer.
Why It’s Collectible
Rated 97 by both Winer Reviewer and The Real Review, this vintage was handcrafted from an assemblage of 13 distinct small batches, with a touch of whole-bunch fermentation and 16 months in French oak, this Syrah reflects both meticulous technique and expressive terroir.
Suggested Cellaring Window
10+ years – this is a collectible vintage designed to evolve gracefully over more than a decade. Approaching its prime now, this Syrah can be enjoyed and savoured within a shorter time frame.
Estate Pinot Noir – 2021
Wine Makers Notes
From the exemplary 2021 Yarra Valley vintage, which was characterised by minimal crops and tiny berries with abundant tannin, this is one of our most beguilingly complex and savoury projections of Pinot Noir. The palate backloads with an accumulation of fine-grained, seamlessly integrated tannins married with a fine line of natural acidity and complexing stalk influence. The wine confidently pushes through the full length of the palate to a sweeping lingering finish.
Why It’s Collectible
Rated GOLD and 95 points by Halliday Wine Companion, this vintage is a standout in a stellar year. It captures the essence of cool-climate Pinot with structure to reward cellaring.
Suggested Cellaring Window
10+ years – This Pinot Noir will continue to unfold gracefully over the next decade, rewarding patient cellaring with enhanced nuance and depth.
Estate Mélange Traditionnel Blanc - 2020
Winemakers Notes
This wine draws its inspiration from the time-honoured Bordelaise tradition of blending multiple compatible and complimentary companion grape varieties to construct a wine greater and more profound than the singular expression of its individual parts: A complex and aromatic wine that is crafted for ageing.
Why It’s Collectible
Awarded GOLD at the 2025 London Wine Competition, this long textured and weighted with pithy and saline fine lines wine will do nothing far from bolster any collector’s cellar. Flavours of gremolata, gold kiwi fruit and ginger snap make this the perfect pairing for any celebratory meal.
Suggested Cellaring Window
15+ years – This wine is innately food friendly and is meticulously crafted for long-term enjoyment and complexity.
The Cornerstones of a Distinguished Collection
Each of these wines is more than a reflection of vintage and terroir - they are thoughtfully composed expressions of time, place, and purpose. Crafted with precision and patience, they are built not only to endure but to evolve. Whether enjoyed now or cellared for years to come, these bottles offer a rare opportunity to experience the unfolding beauty of Levantine Hill’s most exceptional releases. For the discerning collector, they represent a legacy - wines to savour, to share, and ultimately, to remember.
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