Adlib
2025 Adlib Drinky
$51.00
Description
WINEMAKER: James Hopkins
REGION: Barossa Valley, SA
VARIETY: Grenache Noir
VITICULTURE: Organic/Biodynamic
Handpicked ten days after Palais. Yep, it’s the same block, same fruit.
Hand sorted thirty percent of the whole bunches into one tonne red tub fermenters. Thirty percent whole bunch. Seventy percent whole berry. Wild fermented in open one tonne red tub. Hand plunged twice daily. Seven days on skins, only. Basket pressed to stainless steel tank to finish primary fermentation. Racked to seasoned french barriques. Topped with seventeen percent whole bunch direct pressed Grenache (Palais). Elevage for seven months on fine lees. Blended in October ’25.
Single dose of 40ppm SO2 added post malolactic fermentation.
No fining. No filtration. No further additions of any kind.
Bottle in November ’25.
102 dozen bottles filled.
Drinky’s got leap! Pretty nose of fresh pomegranate. Black raspberry. A little jube. Cherry stone. Crushed stones. A fleck of crème pâtissière.
This is primed for chilling: tense and juicy. Pomegranate returns. Black plum. Life Savers Blackcurrant PastillesTM. Ultra light, chalky tannins. Very more-ish.
2025 Adlib Drinky
$51.00
SPÖN PICKS
SPÖN Bottle Shop & Wine Bar: Made for Discovery
A 50-seater wine bar; Inspired by the charming, drink-in bottle shops hidden throughout the cobblestone streets of Europe, explore a rotating world of natural, organic, rare & vintage wines, and craft beers sourced from Australia and across the globe.
Born in Newtown
Nestled in the vibrant heart of Newtown – We created SPÖN as a cozy neighbourhood bottle shop and wine bar that feels relaxed, welcoming and distinctly its own. Creative, a little gritty, a little playful and always full of something new & unexpected — just like Newtown.
A bottle shop with a bar problem.
SPÖN - a discovery-led hybrid bottle-shop/Wine bar experience. Browse the shelves, grab a bottle and drink it at the bar — or pull up a stool and explore a daily rotating board of over 15+ distinct wines being poured by the glass. SPÖN is built around drinking what interests you.
Come curious. Leave with a new favourite.
We don’t tell you what to drink. You don’t need to know your varietals, regions or vintages, and you certainly don’t need to pretend you do. Tell us what you like, hate, what you’ve tried or curious about — we’ll take it from there. Sometimes the best bottle is the one you didn’t know you wanted.