Normans Chais Clarendon Adelaide Hills Chardonnay 2021

Normans Wines is one of Australia’s oldest and most respected winemakers. For 160 years, since Jesse Norman planted his first vines in Adelaide,Normans has built a reputation for premium varietal wines of elegance and finesse. The Flagship wines of Normans, the Chais Clarendon range, comprise a Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz and Chardonnay. 

Serafino Goose Island McLaren Vale Sauvignon Blanc 2023

The Sauvignon Blanc fruit was harvested in the cool of the night in order to preserve the delicate fruit characters. The fruit were destemmed, chilled and gently pressed into stainless steel vessels. The juice was allowed to settle clear and then racked for a long cool fermentation. The wine was then stabilised abd filtered in order to retain the brightness and freshness in flavours. 

The Colonial Estate Expatrie Barossa Valley Semillon 2022

Sourced from an old vine vineyard in southern Barossa valley we picked in early hours of morning transported to winery to crush destem and then ferment the juice in stainless steel tanks at low temperatures. Post ferment the wine was settled, fined, and lightly filtered then bottled.

Kopparossa Coonawarra Reserve Chardonnay 2022

The winemaker has carefully selected individual batches to create this outstanding wine from the highly acclaimed Coonawarra region in South Australia. 

Middle Earth Nelson Pinot Gris 2021

Mild winter temperatures resulted in a slightly earlier budburst for us on the Wai Iti terraces for the start of the 2020-21 growing season. Spring was cool and unsettled through until early December, but we were spared damage from frosts that bit at the region in October. Flowering was less than ideal with prolonged wet and cool periods affecting most varieties. We were lucky a second time, experiencing no damage from the Boxing Day hail storm that brought isolated catastrophic damage to crops around the region. The flowering conditions also resulted in small berries, light bunches and ultimately reduced yields. January brought warmer weather and drying winds throughout February. These moderate conditions resulting in restrained sugars and the retention of bright, clean acidity. A suitably challenging season which has again delivered wonderful wines. Expect vibrancy, balance and concentration from our 2021 wines! 

Beautifully ripe Pinot Gris was hand harvested from the Moutere over the last week of March. Each pick, whole-bunch pressed yeilding delicate juice with excellent acid retention and light phenolics. A small parcel from our home block on the plains was machine harvested in the cool of early morning. The juice enjoyed a short soak on skins prior to pressing for more intense phenolic extraction and development of flavour precursors. Once separated, the juices were cold settled for several days prior to racking. Low solids juice promoting purity of varietal aromatics during ferment. We had two stainless steel ferment tanks in which we recombined the hard press juice component with the mother juice. A yeast was chosen on its ability to impart mouthfeel and emphasise varietal character. The ferment dynamics were carefully controlled enabling the yeast to sing, drawing out the characters otherwise hidden in the juice matrix. The ferments were arrested with just a lick of residual sugar and promptly racked off gross lees. 10% of the young wine going to seasoned barrels with the balance to fresh tanks. The fine lees were stirred through the wine monthly in both barrels and tanks, slowly and carefully building body and texture into the wine. The tank and barrel components were married in late August and the wine carefully prepared for bottling in early October 2021.

Shanahans Evergreen Eden Valley Riesling 2021

The Riesling is sourced from a single vineyard in the cool climate, high altitude region of Eden Valley in the Barossa ranges. The grapes were individually picked out in the vineyards for their exceptional quality and picked separately to the rest of the vineyard. To ensure the grapes were harvested at optimum flavour and acid balance, the ripening of the grapes was monitored with regular berry tasting in the lead up to picking, then harvested in the cool of the night. After crushing and must chilling, the free run juice was drained and clarified with minimum skin contact. This juice was then cool fermented between 13 – 15C with selected yeast to enhance the delicate Riesling flavours. The wine was bottled with a screw cap closure to retain the pristine aromas and flavours.

Ready to be enjoyed now and will have a great lifespan which will enable it to be drunk over the next 10 years for those that enjoy aged style Riesling.