SHE’S READY TO ROLL, NEW VINTAGE 2026 CHILLED RED HAS OFFICIALLY LANDED X
Crunchy. Vibrant. Sassy.
This is very much petit verdot, but it's wearing its party dress and ready for anything. This can be chilled, drunk by moonlight or in the finest crystalware.
Best paired with calling in sick on the first sunny day of Spring.
In a sniff: red berries. blood orange. lilac.
In a word: sassy (like the gal that made it)
In a tune: Get A Move On! - Mr Scruff
The wine is all about crunch and sizzle. High gluggability, a chillable red of verve and energy with fine, silty tannin, brisk, blood orange acidity, tart red plum and red berry fruitiness and a scree of dried herbs, salt bush and aniseed going on underneath. A thirst-quenching red wine, well balanced, great energy and the DNA of the variety, though out of its usual guise, is all here.
nerdy details
A new vineyard this year, both exciting and nerve wrecking for a winemaker… Will it behave the same? Will it be better? Grown by Jeff Flint and his sidekick hound Coco at the beautiful Wirrega vineyard right at the northern edge of the Limestone Coast. 2026 vintage was VERY cool and late, so that little bit of warmth was absolutely critical to get this late ripening variety over the line.
In terms of winemaking… this is where the sass comes in. Petit Verdot is a VERY dark skinned grape, and the goal to turn it into a light crunchy chilled red can be a little bit of a challenge. The grapes are hand picked, and then locked up under CO2 cover to undergo carbonic maceration (more on that later…)
Pressed to old oak to finish fermentation and have a short rest, then off to bottle just in time for you to enjoy a bottle in the Spring sunshine!
SHE’S READY TO ROLL, NEW VINTAGE 2026 CHILLED RED HAS OFFICIALLY LANDED X
Crunchy. Vibrant. Sassy.
This is very much petit verdot, but it's wearing its party dress and ready for anything. This can be chilled, drunk by moonlight or in the finest crystalware.
Best paired with calling in sick on the first sunny day of Spring.
In a sniff: red berries. blood orange. lilac.
In a word: sassy (like the gal that made it)
In a tune: Get A Move On! - Mr Scruff
The wine is all about crunch and sizzle. High gluggability, a chillable red of verve and energy with fine, silty tannin, brisk, blood orange acidity, tart red plum and red berry fruitiness and a scree of dried herbs, salt bush and aniseed going on underneath. A thirst-quenching red wine, well balanced, great energy and the DNA of the variety, though out of its usual guise, is all here.
nerdy details
A new vineyard this year, both exciting and nerve wrecking for a winemaker… Will it behave the same? Will it be better? Grown by Jeff Flint and his sidekick hound Coco at the beautiful Wirrega vineyard right at the northern edge of the Limestone Coast. 2026 vintage was VERY cool and late, so that little bit of warmth was absolutely critical to get this late ripening variety over the line.
In terms of winemaking… this is where the sass comes in. Petit Verdot is a VERY dark skinned grape, and the goal to turn it into a light crunchy chilled red can be a little bit of a challenge. The grapes are hand picked, and then locked up under CO2 cover to undergo carbonic maceration (more on that later…)
Pressed to old oak to finish fermentation and have a short rest, then off to bottle just in time for you to enjoy a bottle in the Spring sunshine!
