Vintage
2022
ABV
11.5%
Wine Type
Red
Wine Style
Still
Wine Description
This summer, give yourself permission to chill... your light red! Made from juicy, handpicked Old Vine Barossa Grenache + Mourvèdre and hand-crafted with minimal intervention = the ultimate CHILLABLE red. Cool fermented with whole bunches. Unfined = Vegan friendly! Grandma never tasted a red like this!
Accolades
2021 Vintage:
Top 30 "Deep Dive of Australia's Best Chilled Reds"
- Young Gun of Wine
91pts "A grenache mourvèdre concoction for chilling is obviously a very good thing. It's packed with red cherry and juicy plum fruits with a touch of blood orange, some bunchy spice and amaro and another whole bunch of "pourmeanotherglassness". Great fun drinking. We need more of these styles."
- Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion
91pts " It’s a smashable red that tastes just smashing. It’s made with Barossa grenache and mourvedre and it’s kind of mid-coloured and mid-flavoured, if that makes sense; it’s not rose-like but it’s not full-bodied either, its cherry-plum-earth-anise characters running friskily through the palate, offering just-enough texture and decent-enough depth to keep everyone happy. Great style of wine, and well executed."
- Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
91pts " A bright and juicy red with aromas of peppercorns, raspberries, cherries, cinnamon and oranges. Soft and supple, with a medium body and a rounded, fruity and delicious finish. Cool fermented whole bunch grenache and mourvedre."
- James Suckling
Winemaker
Daniel Chaffey Hartwig + Huon Fechner + Theo Engela
Winemaker's Bio
Born in the Barossa's Eden Valley of German heritage, Daniel Chaffey Hartwig felt a natural pull to winemaking. As a child, the Barossa’s back blocks were his adventure playground. School holidays were spent picking grapes before working the tasting bench at Penfolds, folllowed by a career as a wine broker and creative consultant. Chaffey Bros represents the fruition of a long dream to ply his family's trade in his beloved Barossa.
Brother in-law, Theo Engela, fled a career as a government economist to join Chaffey Bros to work on "the business-side-of-things" but falling into the winemaking vats, so to speak, before too long. Theo loves the opportunity wine gives to pull multiple passions into one creative endeavour.