Our Winemaking Philosophy is very simple.
Our winemaking is about respecting the fruit, allowing wild yeasts to ferment the wines with no other additions.
When it comes to the wines, it is a team effort. All of the hand work done on our sites is done by the family. Harvest is a joint operation with growers and their children as we try to capture the special ambience of each site.
Our Wines
Our Process
- Harvesting
- Pressing
- Fermentation
- Aging
- Settling and Bottling
Having found the great sites, the winemaking begins in the vineyard.
Once we decide the fruit is at its best, it is all hands on deck. As a family it is a joint effort to harvest all the fruit by hand. This allows us to control every aspect of the harvest. Fruit is carefully selected and is then transported to the winery in fully insulated bins as whole bunches.
Our winemaking process reflects the simple but ancient practices of making wine without the use of chemistry and additives.
This careful management allows us to use no Sulphur additives at any time during fermentation. Some bunches will be selected to be pressed as whole bunches and some will be crushed to give some skin contact to the juice before being pressed in our basket press.
Once pressed the juice is carefully transferred to barrel where it is allowed to begin a natural fermentation without any additives.
The healthy grapes have their own wild or native yeasts that will allow the juice to ferment naturally if allowed to do so. We allow this natural process to take place over several weeks until the juice has fermented into wine.
Most of our wines are aged in barrels ranging in size from 600L to 225L. Some of these Cigar shaped barrels are specially imported from France to give the signature to our Fortissimo Sauvignon Blanc. The wine will rest in the barrel for 8-11 months gaining complexity.
Up to this point we have not made any additions to our wines. If the wines need to have a small addition of Sulphur we will do so at this point. We select from the various barrels the parcels we want for each wine and blends are assembled in tank. We then assemble and leave the wines to “marry” as all the complex parts come together.
Instead of filtering the wines, we allow them to settle naturally, before bottling the wines on-site, undisturbed and unfiltered.
Buy our Wines
As well as being available to order online from our Shopify Store which you find a link to bellow. You can also find many of our Wines at selected wine bars and restaurants.