Colombard White Wine Variety In Australia

Colombard is a white wine variety that is used extensively in the Charente region of South Western France, mainly for material to be distilled for Cognac, a role it shares with Ugni Blanc aka Trebbiano

But it has a wider role in South West France where it is often used for blended wines. It is also quite popular in California and South Africa.

In Australia, Colombard is the fifth ranking white variety in terms of volume produced, but almost all of the wine is sold as generic cask wine.

The attraction of varieties like Colombard is that they are capable of producing heavy crops of grapes. Under these conditions it is inevitable that the resulting wine will lack flavour and body.

The exception perhaps is Primo Estate whose La Biondina Colombard is highly regarded. This further reinforces the point that many varieties with a reputation for producing large volumes of ordinary wine, with care and skill in the vineyard and winery, can be capable of producing interesting wine.

Wineries Using Colombard In Australia

• Angoves Winery Riverland
• Australian Old Vine Wines Riverland
• Banderra Estate Central Ranges Zone
• Carn Estate Murray Darling
• Chateau Champsaur Central Ranges Zone
• De Bortoli Riverina
• Deakin Estate Murray Darling
• Gin Gin Wines Queensland Coastal
• Jaengenya Wines Goulburn Valley
• Norse Wines Queensland Coastal
• Nyora Vineyard and Winery Gippsland
• Piromit Wines Riverina
• Primo Estate Adelaide Plains
• Red Tail Northern Rivers Zone
• Rimfire Vineyards Darling Downs
• Rodericks South Burnett
• Rossiters Murray Darling
• Salena Estate Riverland
• Salisbury Winery Murray Darling
• Sand Hills Vineyard Central Ranges Zone
• Sarabah Estate Queensland Zone
• Steels Creek Estate Yarra Valley
• Stuart Range Estate South Burnett
• Sweet Water Hill Wines Sunshine Coast
• Terrel Estate Wines Riverina
• Trentham Estate Murray Darling
• Whiskey Gully Wines Granite Belt

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