Region: Barossa Valley

Variety: Viognier

What's in the glass: The grapes were harvested in the cool of the night on March 14^th.  They were then destemmed to an open top fermenter.  It was treated like a red wine with hand pump-overs morning and night to circulate the fermenting juice through the skins extracting flavour and subtle tannin/phenolics.  The must was entirely wild yeast fermented with absolutely no additions.  The wine was on skins for 9 days with ferment temperature ranging up to 25 degrees Celsius.  At dryness the must was drained and the wine was filled to seasoned French oak hogsheads.  It underwent natural malolactic fermentation in barrel and was matured for 11 months on lees prior to racking for bottling with zero additions, bottling as 100% grapes.

Farming: Biodynamic

Vegan Friendly: Yes