2021 Shobbrook Sammion

Named after my long time friend Sam our 2016 Sammion is back on the streets. Fermented with whole clusters before being squeezed and put into ceramic eggs to finish and age through the end of autumn and winter. Like the Giallo this wine is bottled with fine lees and will show some cloudiness in the glass. If this is a problem for you then you could always drink in the dark.

Such lovely old vines ranging from 60 to 105 years old, these vines have balance and you can see it in the glass. Lovely acidity from Semilion with the length coming from the old vines. The yellow orange clay under the 800mm of sand gives width throughout the mid pallet.

Alongside the likes of James Erskine (Jauma) and Anton van Klopper (Lucy M), Tom Shobbrook is one of the most important figures in Australian natural wine. "After 12 years of growing grapes and making wines on our farm in Seppeltsfield things have come to an end. We now have 2 hectares of vines in Flaxman Valley which will give us some fruit in the harvest of 2019. It won't be much but it will be very exciting to taste fruit from the vines we grew from cuttings in our nursery at home. We will eventually end up with around 5 hectares of vines and a mixed orchard of fruit and nut trees. The Farm sits at 540 meters above the ocean. The soils are old and acidic consisting of sandy loam over yellow orange clay. The sandy loam profile is scattered with rose quartz while the clay layers have shadows of mica."

Varietal: Semillon

Region: Barossa Valley, SA

Viticulture: Organic/Biodynamic