2023 Aristotelis Ke Anthoula Sparkling

WINEMAKER: Tony Zafirakos & Maddie Park-Neilson
REGION: Riverland, SA/South Pambula, NSW
VARIETY: Albariño, Riesling
VITICULTURE: Organic

Sparkling 2023 is made from Albariño and Riesling grapes from the sandy red soils of the Riverland, picked a little on the earlier side presenting lemon squash zippy goodness, opening up to ripe golden peaches.

The ferment saw a mix of direct press along with some whole bunches crushed and allowed to macerate for a day or so, before being gently basket pressed to old oak for primary fermentation and bottled to finish fermenting in bottle, giving the wine a light sparkle. | For us, Sparkling is an amazingly versatile pét nat due to the crisp acid line cutting through the creamy texture of the lees which brings beautiful length and complexity.

Aristotelis Ke Anthoula started as a family pastime. Having migrated from rural greece in the early 80s, Aristotelis and Anthoula longed for the feeling of home so they started making their own wine in a garage in the beachside suburbs of Sydney. From the beginning, all their wines were made entirely by hand (and foot) using only grapes, with no additives, no filtration or fining and no pumps or machinery.

All fruit is hand harvested and farmed with care. Our wines are still crafted from grapes alone with the aid of very little machinery. They are carefully made by hand and laboriously fussed over to extract maximum flavour and ensure they are high quality and stable. Natural, wild yeasts are used for fermentation, and there are no chemicals or preservatives added at any time. All of our wines are unfiltered and unfined and to this day we have never added (nor had a need for adding) any sulphur to our wines.