2023 Amphora Ferment Sauvignon Blanc with the cloudy juice transferred

with the cloudy juice transferred to mostly 500L French oak barrels for wild fermentation

To preserve the wine’s precise acid line

The Cabernet grapes were handpicked from the Tokar Estate vineyard

destemmed and gravity fed to a stainless steel fermenter with a sprinkling of stalks added for an extra layer of tannin

medium bodied Yarra Cabernet full of black current fruit and violets

2023 Amphora Ferment Sauvignon Blanc with the cloudy juice transferredI'm loving this wine at the moment. The super bright green fruit was hand picked from Lone Star Creek Vineyard in the Upper Yarra whole bunch pressed. The cloudy juice was chilled and transferred to a couple of 800L Spanish clay Amphora (see photo) for fermentation and maturation on yeast lees before bottling unfiltered. But how does it taste? The nose is limey and chalky with a little passionfruit. It's fresh, pure and has a slight "desert earth"