2021 Moorak Yacca Paddock Vineyards Riesling

WINEMAKER: Jordan Hein
REGION: Adelaide Hills, SA
VARIETAL: Riesling
VITICULTURE: Sustainable

By blending in some extended maceration, skin contact of the same fruit, there’s an addition of texture; some acid-intrigue. Plus spending some time in oak, for a rounded body, and a slightly more concentrated flavour. Figured it was a welcome point of difference, a more unique offering, in an already saturated Riesling market. A left-field Riesling, starting with a classic foundation at it’s core. The acid contrasting a creamy texture a bit oxidative — it made more sense that way.

From scratch, a literal few tonnes of grapes in 2018, Jordan Hein created Moorak Wines — named as an ode to his birthplace, the small town of Moorak, in South Australia. A first-generation winemaker, from self-study, experimentation and learning from experience, Jordan further developed the label to encompass his own stylistic approach of winemaking techniques. Experimenting and researching more varieties and regions in an ever developing portfolio of unique and considered wines. Currently situated in McLaren Vale, the winery is a minimal carbon-impact facilitiy, completely off grid, using Solar power, rain water and bore water, throughout production. These are an important elements of Jordan and Moorak’s ideology towards minimal intervention winemaking, and as low impact as possible to the land itself. Jordans ethos — to focus on manipulating the environment of the wine, rather than the wine itself.