2022 Aristotelis Ke Anthoula Mandarin

WINEMAKER: Tony Zafirakos & Maddie Park-Neilson
REGION: South Pambula, NSW
VARIETAL: Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc
VITICULTURE: Organic

This wine used to be called ‘Orange’ but Wine Australia put their foot down to make us change the name (courtesy of Orange NSW being a protected name). After suggestions of uninspiring alternatives, such as ‘amber’, we decided not to put a name on the label at all.

On first sip it’s immediately bright and zippy, loaded with tingles of stone fruit and citrus, the mid palate has tonnes of texture with hints of butterscotch cut with a pleasing flinty finish that gives it incredible length and precision.

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.