Vintage
2018
ABV
13%
Wine Type
White
Wine Style
Still
Wine Description
The fruit for this wine was grown at the Hill Smith Vineyard at Woodside in the Adelaide Hills. Our approach was to celebrate this special parcel of fruit, not force it into a preconceived style. Grapes were hand-picked and whole bunch pressed, and the juice went straight to French oak puncheons for wild fermentation on full solids. The resulting wine underwent partial (spontaneous) malolactic fermentation before being lees stirred for nine months to build texture, interest and complexity. This pale-straw-coloured wine displays ripe citrus and white stone-fruit characters, with flinty minerality, nougat and creamy yeast flavours from the lees, and subtle French oak and spice.
Winemaker's Bio
As Winemaker Adam Barton tells it, he first discovered the magic of wine while working in the Hunter Valley, in a glass of 1965 Lindemans Hunter River Burgundy. After studying Oenology at the University of Adelaide, he embarked on a winemaking career that so far spans two decades and three continents, with work in McLaren Vale, Coonawarra, the Barossa Valley, Western Australia, the south of France and California’s Central Coast.
Adam’s winemaking approach for Atlas Wines is typified by careful curation and nurturing of the highest-quality grapes, the utmost care and attention to detail, and minimal intervention.