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

Spring 2021 Wines

Hello friends,

What a vintage it was. What a year. Another roller coaster, quite trying for most. Hopefully, we are slowly getting out of the woods. In the meantime, trying to celebrate what we can!

As said, what a vintage! Finally, a very good crop year, which allowed us to make a bit more wine this time around! Quality didn’t disappoint, either. In fact, we couldn’t be happier with how the wines turned out. We were able to keep the alcohols low, with most wines being in the 10’s and the 11’s %ABV and still are full of flavour, which is what we strive for.

There is a new cuvée this vintage - Hearts will Repair, a couple of old ones that made a comeback, as well as all the usual spring suspects and 3 Pét Nats, all disgorged.

We’re so happy to report that finally, quantities are more generous with a bit more wine than usual this year which is fantastic!

In the other news, we’ve started the organic certification process for Ernst’s Sellicks Hill vineyard, and are hoping to be able to do the same with all the other vineyards eventually, one step at a time.

Hope everyone is keeping well and enjoying the warmer weather outside!

Have a look at the new wines here >>>>

Big love,
Alex&Galit

Photo: Ben Macmahon

Autumn Release 2020

Hello friends,

What a time to be alive.
We hope everyone is well and you are all keeping firstly healthy and not less importantly - sane and smiling during you-know-what. What a crazy ride 2020 is shaping to be.
We started the year with what we thought would be an unforgettable season of fires only to proceed into the total chaos of a new pandemic.
As there is so much going on, it's really hard to know where to begin, or how to proceed.
Vintage for us, like to many others around us and all over Australia, has been challenging. For those who've read our newsletter from Autumn 2019, you might recall we called the previous vintage "character building".
What should we call this one? Our adjectives game is really not up to the current stream of events...
We are definitely among the very lucky ones - our house was far from the fires and all of the vineyards we work with remain mainly intact and mostly healthy.
We had to make some adjustments to our vintage plans as the yields were very low comparing to what we'd wished for but we are very grateful for all the fruit we did manage to get and the very hard work put into the vineyards by the growers.
The combination of low crops to begin with and the fires we've had made it a very low-yielding one. On top of that, the grape ripening pattern was unlike anything we've ever seen, with unprecedented acidity. We expect (cross our fingers for) some of the acid to precipitate in barrels over the winter and some to soften as a result of malolactic fermentation, but it does look unusually acidic at the moment.

Not all is sour though! We are also immensely lucky to be surrounded by the best bunch of people who make everything sweeter. First and foremost is James Madden of Scintilla Wines who is an endless source of support, fun and beer. You are the absolute best!! 💖. Also, the invaluable help from Howard, Nikki and Chris “The Muscles” Loth, who all came to help James but found themselves helping us and listening to Alex’s awkward jokes, made the vintage a lot easier than it would have been otherwise. We love you guys! SMOOCH!

Now that Vintage 2020 is behind us, 2020 pet nats are already in bottle, waiting to fizz up and be subsequently disgorged, it's time to let the last of 2019 wines out. 6 wines from Vintage 2019 are ready just when, coincidentally, we're starting to see the light in the end of the tunnel, and could potentially raise a glass to that! And with that, please welcome our 2019 Autumn release wines!

Stay safe,
Big hugs,
Alex&Galit

The Big Reverb of Australia’s Lo-Fi Wine Movement

So grateful to be part of Eric Asimov NYTimes’s article about the current state of lo-fi/natural wine in Australia.

Thanks so much Eric for making it to our little corner of the world and for your thoughtful words. It was a real pleasure to catch up, taste and chat.

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📷 Daniel Marks

The Other Right in Russia

Alex is going away for a little family visit in his home town of St. Petersburg, Russia and while there jumped on the opportunity to unleash some untamed wines about town.

If you ever wanted to know how Natural Wine sounds in Russian here's your chance! 😉 
Alex talked natural wine, wine research, and general non sense over at Big Wine Freaks and you are welcome to join the Russian fun in the video below.

Cheers for connecting the dots James and huge thanks for making it happen and sharing the love Julia and Real Authentic Wine!! 💞