96 POINTS - Gold Medal Winner in McLaren Vale Wine Show 2023!

Gold (96 points) — Australian Alternative Varieties Wine Show 2023

A bold Sicilian variety that's found a softer, more refined home in McLaren Vale. 

Tasting Notes

• Aroma, Beautiful pretty nose of red currants, red cherries combining with lifted floral and spice notes.

• Palate, A gorgeous medium bodied red with crunchy red currant fruits, combining with layers of spice and minerals. It's medium bodied and full of life, with a gorgeous dry spice-laden finish.

• Food Pairing, Rustic gourmet pizza with salami, basil and semi dried tomatoes.

• Drinking window, now to 2028

• Region, McLaren Vale

Winemaking Notes

The grapes have quite complex flavours in the vineyard with nice earthy and spicy notes. We aim to preserve these with minimal intervention in the winery. After a 10 day ferment on skins, the wine was transferred to older French oak barrels to preserve the fruit characters.

Fruit was picked in the early morning to retain freshness and retained as whole berry. Fermented on skins for 7 days in an open fermenter using wild yeasts. Once fermented to dryness, fruit was pressed off skins and transferred to older French oak puncheons and hogs heads. No new oak was used.

Alcohol, 14.5%

Vegan friendly

The Small Batch Release (SBR) wines are our winemaking playground, much like a test-kitchen where we can experiment with smaller ferments and hone our craft on these different and exciting grape varieties.

As delightful as these small batch wines are, there isn’t enough to share, so our wine club members get first access.