MV Scintilla Forever Still

WINEMAKER: James Madden
REGION: Adelaide Hills, SA
VARIETAL: Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir
VITICULTURE: Organic/Biodynamic

4 year old solera barrel of Flo’s Fizz Pet Nat. Each year some is taken to make this wine then replaced with the new season blend to age a further year. Blended to fill an old french oak puncheon, bottled mid summer.

This cuvee replaces Forever Young. We felt the process of carbonation through bottling the following season disguised the tensile complex nature that excited us about this project. On the surface its fun pink wine. A little time in glass reveals a very layered and complex drop. Honey, walnuts and porridge. Poached rhubarb acidity.

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.