2025 Jean Bouteille Ruckus

WINEMAKER: Jean-Baptiste Courdesses REGION: Barossa Valley, SA VARIETY: Semillon VITICULTURE: Organic | Old vines Sémillon, about 90 years old, from Jeff Traeger’s organically farmed vineyard in Vine Vale, East of the Barossa. There the vines grow on deep sand over clay soil with optimum diurnal temperature. | The Semillon grapes are picked by hand & the whole bunches are tipped into a stainless tank to undergo a week of carbonic maceration. The bunches are then foot-stomped to release the juice, stop the carbonic effect on the aromatic & undergo a 3 months infusion on its skin. | Once pressed the wine is transferred to French barrique and a puncheon to undergo a 9 months of elevage. Hand made & bottled on site in our Basket Range winery without any fining nor filtration | [After accumulating years of experience from various fermentation, farming & hospitality work around the world, Jean-Baptiste Courdesses started in 2019 to hand make wines exclusively from organically farmed grapes, focus on regenerative practices & made naturally without any additions, fining nor filtration but only grape juice. Our small scale winery is based in Basket Range, Adelaide Hills. We farm our vineyard according to a strict organic method & purchase fruits from like-minded trusty viticulturist to craft wines only from the highest quality grapes. Based on intuitive reaction & natural instincts decisions, our wines reflect the landscape & the character of the grape varieties only permitted by a farming respectful of the environment, the fauna & flora.]