2021 ‘Tonimbuk Granite’

Calling this a wine doesn’t quite reflect what this is, it is more a reflection of a place and an attitude towards protecting and representing a particular plot of Earth. The 'Tolone’ block is the other small vineyard on Dane and Hannah’s farm and is planted mainly to Riesling. It has some Chardonnay interplanted within it and these plants are only evident later in the season when the slightly different shape of the leaves is recognisable to the trained eye. Dane believes the skins of any fr...Read More...

Calling this a wine doesn’t quite reflect what this is, it is more a reflection of a place and an attitude towards protecting and representing a particular plot of Earth. The 'Tolone’ block is the other small vineyard on Dane and Hannah’s farm and is planted mainly to Riesling. It has some Chardonnay interplanted within it and these plants are only evident later in the season when the slightly different shape of the leaves is recognisable to the trained eye. Dane believes the skins of any fruit hold some of the information and story of the place, the soils, and the weather that it is exposed to. It is a dainty 9% alcohol but you wouldn’t know it – it has incredible structure and presence. Dane and his wife Hannah make wines in Gippsland that feel like they reach up and touch the sky, bringing down soft handfuls of clouds with them. You may recognise their other label, Momento Mori; Nikau is their estate fruit release. Their wines feel like they walk around barefoot, free. They are wines made by people who have innate respect for the living and what exists around us. 

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