News and Reviews

@the3winesmen have shared their wine tasting notes for our 2009 UMAMU Estate Sauvignon Blanc Semillon & 2010 UMAMU Estate Sauvignon Blanc Semillon, Margaret River.  Sit back and enjoy... 2009 - this is how you feel after finding the best seat at the party. You're relaxed. People are getting around you and you don't have to do a thing. People are talking and you're just taking it all in. Kick back. You earned that spot. Now chill. 2010 - this is your younger mate at the party who is trying to replicate you but he's like a Meerkat. He's a bit...

Here is this week's vertical tasting with Colin by the Sauvignon Blanc vines planted in 1987.  We have curated a mix six with two bottles of each of the three vintages specially for you - explore how our SBS grows up and develops. 2019 is now balanced and released for its youth and freshness.  2016 is still a young wine for us at UMAMU, integrated with lots of horsepower. 2009 is just glorious on its own or with food.  It is all grown up and ready to go.

Hope your festive season was a gift.  We are so thankful for the gift of time, connection, friendship, love, joy and appreciation.  Wishing you all that has meaning to you this 2021.  Thank you bulanlifestyle for our friendship, moments together and creating this video for us.    

Hoping you are well and enjoying life getting back to a new rhythm.   Over the past several weeks during lockdown, I have been enjoying a writer’s circle held by Jo Parfitt, whom I had the pleasure of meeting about five years ago.  One of the participants Lesley wrote a beautiful poem called the “The Harmony of Life”. In her poem I felt a real sense of reflection and immediately resonated with it and knew that I must share with you, please see below.   UMAMU is about reflecting the unique balance that is relevant to each and every one of us,...

Hope you are well. For those in our community who live in Western Australia, I hope everything is ok after the wild storm and winds.  We were on tenterhooks awaiting news from Col at the vineyard.  Thankfully so far so good - we are feeling relieved and grateful for the news. This week we thought that it would be fun to continue the journey of talking about our pillars.  Last time we touched on the teachings of Aunty May and how her love of all things Bordeaux have been imprinted onto us at UMAMU.  At UMAMU we like to live and breathe Balance.  Everything...

Hoping that you have had a good week.  With restrictions easing, how does it feel for you?  For us, it has started to feel very noisy!  More to process and deal with.  But having had the time to lockdown, declutter and reset, it allows us to take a breath of fresh air journeying into the new ease up. Meanwhile, happily, we celebrated my Aunty May’s 95th birthday this week.  A large part of our story goes to Aunty May and she continues to be a huge inspiration.  Our family had the pleasure of meeting Aunty May in the eighties when I...