Hello friends!
Another winter is gone! The soil is warm, the days are growing longer, the vines are in full flowering mode, and we're thrilled to introduce our Spring Collection!
Spring is the time for our lighter wines and they are ready to brighten up your glass.
Alex is back from his vintage in Jura, where he worked had an amazing time with Lulu Vigneron with an occasional stint with Philippe Chatillon, another Jurassic wizard! Alex brought back a plethora of new insights into winemaking and wine appreciation, as well as some insights about how to strike a balance between the art of work and the art life. We can’t wait for the next harvest and use this inspiration in our next vintage.
Upon return, main focus was directed towards readying the wines for the Spring Release in time, et voilà! The wines are ready!
In agriculture, every year is different. This time, we have a bit less wine than usual, but we hope and believe we cover for the quantity with quality.
If you are in Melbourne - please join us at Calypso Party an amazing opportunity to try our wines, along with many others. We would love to see you there!
Please check out the new wine packs we have curated for you in the store!
If you would like any other pack or selection, please don't hesitate and reach out with any question or request or suggestion, we love hearing from you!
To celebrate the new season, please enjoy 10% any order over $150 with the code HappySpring10 !
We're super excited to present you the our Spring 2024 release!
Thanks so much for your continuous support!
With love,
Alex & Galit
Thoughts about sulphur addition in winemaking
Life is full of surprises. An interesting one recently happened to us when one of Adelaide’s wine professionals told us they’d run into individuals who doubted our sincerity with regard to not adding SO2 to any of our wines, as they “look suspiciously clean”.
We do take that as a compliment, but we would encourage the sceptics to have any of our wines made since 2015 analysed for sulphur dioxide - it only costs 12 dollars and that will rule out any doubt.
Just like anything else, making good wine without additives takes skill and experience. It is a higher-risk game, with deep pitfalls on the way, but avoiding them is exactly what natural winemakers aim to do. And once that’s the case, the benefits are immense: vibrancy, complexity, and brightness. To add to the point, we disagree that our wines taste conventional. Making unique wines and having our individual fingerprints are half the point.
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Autumn New Release!
Greeting Friends,
All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey, which means it's time for our Autumnal wines!
We have just finished the 2024 vintage, which was relatively uneventful (gotta get one of those from time to time!), short and sweet.
We are now fully focussed on 3 vineyards - Ernst's Sellicks Hill vineyard is NASAA Certified Organic, Lansdowne Vineyard in Forreston is certified "In Conversion", and Burnton Ridge in Mt. Torrens is not yet certified, but has been managed organically for the last 8 years. We are immensely happy that we are at a point where not only are the vineyards managed organically (which has been the case for a long time), but also there is a long-term commitment and/or certification in place in all of them.
The last of 2023 wines are very nourishing and are a bit of a mix: some are lean and tight, while others rich and giving. They are indeed a true reflection on the unusual vintage the 2023 was. There is a new wine that we'd never thought we'd make, but here we are, having made and beyond ecstatic about it (see below)!
Full details are Here. To purchase please email us with your order, contact details, and shipping address. We will follow with payment details and shipping info shortly.
* 10% off offered on all 12 bottle purchases (mixed cases are most welcome).
* Flat rate shipping - $15 anywhere in Australia.
Please don't hesitate and contact us with any thought/question!
As always, thanks so much for your continuous support!
With love,
Alex & Galit
Fresh Spring Wines!
Hello friends! Happy Spring!!
6 months since our Autumn release have gone by fast, and here we are with our first offerings from the 2023 vintage!
The vintage was slow and lasted what seemed like forever, but, that resulted in great things happening at the winery.
Due to the longer ripening time, the wines are full of flavour, ending with alcohols that are generally very low, which we do see as a bonus.
Ernst’s Shiraz from Sellicks Hill is now NASAA Certified Organic, and Lansdowne Vineyard is the next project. We are very excited about going down this path and will keep you all updated with the process.
As with Sellicks Hill, in all of our vineyards the farming is done according to organic principles. It involved additional work and thoughtful planning in the wet season that we’ve had, but it's an approach we are gladly committing to. As part of this goal to sustainability and the highest fruit quality, we are working with lower yields and therefore, smaller cuvées, but we are beyond happy with how the wines turned out.
As in previous releases, our wines are made from 100% grapes and nothing else.
Find all details of the new wines here.
As always, thanks so much for the support!
With love,
Alex & Galit
Autumn 2023 release
Hello friends!
Vintage 2023 is done and boy, that was a long one. Burgundian, as they say. Rainy and cold in a supposedly hot and arid country. We’re sure El Niño will strike back soon, but in the meantime, things took a while to ripen, the weather kept challenging us, but the good news is that the fruit looks beautiful!
Since a few years ago our primary winemaking goal has been to balance drinkability and stability, finesse and precision, but the ultimate goal remained the same: bringing excitement, curiosity and joy. We strongly believe these wines will deliver exactly that.
Smaller-than-usual quantities, but a few wines to choose from!
This time we have an oxidative Chardonnay in addition to the usual autumnal suspects.
Our Autumn release are all single vineyard wines, meant to amplify the vineyards and the vintage, our most refined bunch.
Find all the details <<here>>
As always, thank you for your ongoing support!