2023 Scintilla Noontide Macération

WINEMAKER: James Madden
REGION: Adelaide Hills, SA
VARIETY: Sauvignon Blanc
VITICULTURE: Organic/Biodynamic

50/50 whole bunch (top) / de stemmed (bottom) to open top vats for primary fermentation. Pressed to old French barrels aged on fine lees for 10 months. Wildly aromatic! Tropical in a good way. Yellow stone fruit fresh lemon acidity and subtle phenolics make this a very refreshing and quenching style of orange wine. Sometimes restraint can bring out the best in a wine and I feel this has been achieved here. Banger!

Sommelier-turned-winemaker James Madden has worked with the likes of James Erskine (Jauma) and Tom Shobbrook. He now shares a shed in the Basket Range with Alex Schulkin (The Other Right) to produce his own minimal intervention wines. All grapes are organic and/or biodynamic, handpicked and processed by shovel & fork. Wines are transferred by siphon using gravity, unfined, unfiltered and always zero adds.