Stats
- Grapes: 100% Gamay
- Vineyard: Eureka Vineyard
- Vine Age: Planted early 2000s, grafted in 2018
- Soil Type: Ironstone and quartz over clay
- Viticulture: Sustainable - practicing organic
- Fermentation: Native — open-top fermenter (100% whole-cluster)
- Skin Contact: 13 days
- Aging: 8 months in neutral oak
- Alcohol: 12.8%
- pH: 3.41
- Total Acidity: 6.5 g/L
- Total SO2: 50 ppm
- Total Production: 285 cases
Tasting Notes
A aromatic wine, delicately invigorating yet imbued with newfound balance of spice and fruit this vintage thanks to the whole-cluster regime. It has lovely red cherry fruit and potpourri notes, plus a touch of black pepper at the back of the throat. It finishes with lingerings of freshly tilled earth and an almost saline quality on the palate.
Press & Reviews
James Suckling
91
"So characterful and bright, offering ripe raspberries, cherries and blueberries, together with fragrant blue flowers and flinty minerality. Medium-bodied with vivid acidity and ripe, crunchy and fresh red and blue fruit. Delicious. Drink now. Screw cap."
- James Suckling
- James Suckling
The Wine Front
92
"A 100% whole bunch, 100% wild ferment, 100% gamay wine from Eureka vineyard in Woodside, Adelaide Hills. Eureka and bonza and onya, no doubt.
It’s light and fresh, jubey and juicy, sloshes around the palate nicely, some crisp edges, lots of sappy red cherry, a bit of white pepper, some green herbs, a touch of preserved beetroot, cranberry tang too. It’s a fun drink, a little spritzy on entry as well (gets shrugged off), lively, bright therefore and generally just a barrel of fun, per se. Nothing too cerebral, but well made, good fruit, great thing to guzzle."
- Mike Bennie
It’s light and fresh, jubey and juicy, sloshes around the palate nicely, some crisp edges, lots of sappy red cherry, a bit of white pepper, some green herbs, a touch of preserved beetroot, cranberry tang too. It’s a fun drink, a little spritzy on entry as well (gets shrugged off), lively, bright therefore and generally just a barrel of fun, per se. Nothing too cerebral, but well made, good fruit, great thing to guzzle."
- Mike Bennie