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Worlds Apart

2025

‘Hope Forest’

Sauvignon Blanc   |   Adelaide Hills - Australia
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About

‘Hope Forest’ is not a location in GOT’s Westeros but is an overlooked sub-region of the Kuitpo sub-region within the Adelaide Hills. It is the most southerly tip of the Hills sitting atop the Willunga Hill leading into McLaren Vale.  The climate is much cooler than the area immediately north into the Hills and much drier and cooler than the Vale to the south.  Louis adores this area for the lengthy hang time and lower than usual sunshine that often strips Sauvignon Blanc of its Sauvignonness. 2025 came fast and furious as it was a warm and very dry season that compounded many varieties ripening at once with an early harvest.  Louis loves the concentration of fruit, but with optimum picking time retains bright acid.

The biodynamically farmed Brackenwood Vineyard remains the source for this wine.  The fruit was hand-harvested and crushed by non-stemmed. After 72 hours, the juice was pressed off the skin and was sent back to open-top bins to complete spontaneous fermentation. Once completed, the wine went to netural French oak for six months of aging with a heavy amount of battonage early on for added texture and weight, and ML occurred naturally. The wine was then bottled with just a small sulfur addition and sterile filtration. No fining.

Stats

  • Grapes: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
  • Vineyard: Brackenwood Vineyard (Hope Forest)
  • Vine Age: 24-years-old
  • Soil Type: Ironstone and quartz-riddled clay
  • Viticulture: Practicing organic
  • Fermentation: Native – open-top fermenter (whole-bunch crushed)
  • Skin Contact: 3 days
  • Aging: 6 months in neutral French tonneau
  • Alcohol: 13.3%
  • pH: 3.34
  • Total Acidity: 6 g/L
  • Total SO2: 120 ppm
  • Total Production: 297 cases
  • SRP: $29.99

Tasting Note

Sauvignon Blanc relieved of its expected obligation to persona.  Tropical fruits and overt grapefruitiness are avoided with a focus on quieter tones of white peach, just ripe pineapple, dried apricot, fresh ginger and wild herbs – all woven together by a subtle savoriness shaping the wine structure and complexity.  The short time in barrel softened the edges without diminishing the wine’s vitality, creating a wine of lovely texture, exuberant energy, and effortless drinkability.

Press & Reviews

The Wine Front

91

"Barrel time for Adelaide Hills sauvignon blanc finery. Super drink. Refreshing and cool, enough slide to texture and depth of faint savouriness to take you into somewhere fun and good. Leads with just-ripe stone fruit, just-ripe pineapple, dried apple and gingery notes, a side step for the variety that feels pleasing and interesting by the sip. A riff of barely there green herbal things lending an anchor to more expected things the only tell. Rates high on the guzzle scale."
- Mike Bennie
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