Tasting Notes

Looking for a special wine, port or wine cocktail to savour and linger over? Or perhaps a gift for someone special, a unique locally made souvenir?

de Brueys tropical fruit wines are made on site using traditional winemaking techniques and meet wine industry standards for clarity and stability. Wines are matured for up to twelve months before sale and all products are sealed by corks.

More wines and port wine are continually being added to the range.

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Tropical Fruit Table Wines

Mango Wine

Deliciously different with Asian curries and seafood dishes.

Be prepared for the explosion of flavours as the enticing vanillin and floral tastes combine to give the drinker an experience to remember. A gorgeous golden colour highlights the Mango nuances on the nose. The wine is ready to enjoy now, however those who choose further cellaring will reap the rewards.

Produced from our own golden, sun ripened Kensington Pride mangoes, small batch fermentation and craftsmanship in the winemaking process has resulted in a mango wine rich in fruit flavours whilst maintaining balance and drink-ability.

Lychee Wine

Ideal with white meats and salads, Chinese cuisine and cheese platters. This wine is a crisp, medium sweet with a refreshing, pleasant lychee fruit character that finishes with a long palate. This wine teases the senses with its spicy character and its gentle complexity. It is refreshing and very easy to enjoy.

The property's lychee trees help supply the fruit for the wine. The Chinese brought lychees to the FNQ goldfields in the late 1800's. They were called lychee nuts because the skin was purposely dried out and the fruit hardened by the sun as a means of drying them.

Passionfruit Wine

BEST DRY WINE — 2011 Australian Fruit Wine Awards

A medium/medium sweet wine best served chilled with chicken and seafood, Thai and other spicy Asian dishes.

The distinct tropical characteristics of the passionfruit provide the wonderful experience of crisp, intense, fragrant, aromatic flavours on the palate and a delicate aftertaste, while remaining refreshing and light – a beautifully balanced wine.

The Panama Red passionfruit is preferred in the wine making process and is sourced locally. Both pulp and seeds are fermented in the wine making process.

Rainforest Wine (from a native bush cherry)

Delicious with pasta, freshwater crayfish and smoked salmon, this medium red wine is exclusive to de Brueys.

A tropical native fruit of Far North Queensland, the existence of this fruit is a well kept secret. Harvested annually from wet coastal areas in the wild, it also thrives in our orchard. As with all bush tucker, the fruit is slightly tart to the taste, resulting in a crisp style wine.

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Tropical Fruit Ports

Swagman Port

Deep tawny red in colour, there are complex spicy/cedary overtones to the ripe plum of the bouquet, which unfolds into a luscious mixture of plum and prune on the intensely flavoured palate; expert winemaking has avoided over-extraction.

Containing a number of tropical fruit wines which have been blended and fortified, it is pleasant, soft bodied and incredibly easy to drink.

Pirates Treasure

What a treasure! Taste decadent chocolate, followed closely by the rum, as you indulge your tastebuds. Feel it warming all the way down. The Pirates of the Caribbean had nothing like this! Drink it on the rocks, or over crushed ice with milk!

Flagship Coffee Elixir

2009 Australian Fruit Wine Awards

In 2007 the top of the range Flagship Coffee Elixir was launched. The idea came from wanting to produce a top of the range coffee port wine, using the local Mareeba coffee.

This very smooth, aromatic port wine glides onto the palate and lingers there.

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The Temptation Range of Cream wine cocktails

Tropical Temptation

2009 Australian Fruit Wine Awards

Why not produce a luscious, creamy wine cocktail? It was quite a challenge however, and many trials and experiments over a period of two years resulted in Tropical Temptation, a first for the North Queensland wine industry. cream, combined with the taste of the tropics.

Tropical Temptation cream is heaven sent! Made from an exquisite blend of forbidden tropical fruits, this is luscious splendour at its best. Unwind, relax and escape as you indulge and enjoy the aromatic, lingering bouquet, followed by a truly superb taste of tropical paradise.

So, what fruit is in it?.....Well, we're afraid we can’t tell you that, as it’s a firmly kept secret!!!

Coffee Temptation

Mareeba is becoming so well known for its coffee and our new Coffee Temptation cream wines offers a combination of roasted, buttery coffee flavours intermingled with a silky-smooth honey cream that you will love. Its body is round and rich, and its finish resonates sweetly. Our Coffee Temptation beans are so dark, and so well roasted, that when we blend it with the cream; we achieve a taste that they speak of in heaven.