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"Perched high above the Barossa, the Eden Valley can be a precarious but highly rewarding place in which to grow grapes. This single vineyard, at 550m above sea level is hauntingly beautiful. Home to the majestic wedgetail eagle, the soils composed of pink quartz and ironstone, provide a formidable substrate in which the vines takes a tenuous hold.
Our fruit is sourced from one low yielding block in Joel Mattschoss’ Mengler’s Hill vineyard. The fruit is hand-picked and transferred to the winery. 20% of the total weight is placed in whole bunches in a concrete egg while the balance is crushed and placed on top. A spontaneous fermentation with no physical extraction aims to capture the rugged beauty of the vineyard while preserving the energy and vitality that are the hallmarks of our style. A brief post fermentation maceration is followed by pressing to French oak of which approx 20% is new.
Intense, tightly coiled and vital, this wine is like a great orator. Every component measured and well timed, the tone lifts and falls, all the while building emotion and resonance. Tension and excitement builds and leads through to a memorable finish. Oh, and it tastes amazing!"
Top Wine of the Tasting & 98/100, David Sly, Decanter, April 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"The nose is pretty, with violets and a blackberry hedge in the morning mist, like a subdued French perfume – all nuance and suggestion rather than an overt statement. The fruit speaks with the same understated confidence, coming from a single vineyard in Eden Valley. There are measured blackberry, biting tart blackcurrant and cranberry high notes, all drawn taut into a long savoury finish. A grand, handsome wine, elegantly constructed."
93/100 Gary Walsh, The Wine Front, January 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"Kirsch, lavender and aromatic dried herbs, dried roses, brittle dark toffee richness and biscuit spices. It’s just into full-bodied, perhaps has some of that Eden Valley syrupy and tinned corn character to fruit, and baked raspberry, but also black olive and sage, a fine chalky grip to tannin, finishing saline and savoury, with excellent length, albeit slightly warm on the finish."
