Serenade Sparkling Pet Nat Grenache 2021

In a big family like ours, singing is something we can always agree about. Our Serenade Sparkling range tells the story of Cath, Laura (my grandmother) and Mary Starrs who shared this love of music with us. Just like a bottle of wine share, each son can be linked to an event in our life and the special memories and feelings it brings. Sing like no one is listening. This single vineyard and estate grown sparkling wine is medium salmon pink in colour and is elegantly lifted with pink musk stick, rose petal and lemon rind aromatics. Grapefruit, crunchy apple and oatmeal characters in a fine spritz, leading to a beautifully weighted palate offering fleshy texture and complex flavours, finishing lingering and pleasingly dry. Grapes are crushed and held in press for 4 hours to extract colour and flavour and cold settled. Fermented slowly with 2% solids at cool temperatures to provide structure and mouthfeel on the palate. The wine is bottled before fermentation is complete to produce a Petillant Naturel style Rose Sparkling which is not disgorged prior to release.

Sheridan Alm (Viticulturalist) and Armand Lacomme (Winemaker)

Sheridan Alm is a skilled viticulturalist and engages a low input and regenerative approach to growing wine to improve the health of the land for future farming generations. Passionate about the sustainable use of the natural resources on which Starrs Reach Vineyard relies, Sheridan was recognised at the Australian Women in Wine Awards as Viticulturalist of the Year in 2019 and also received the honour of Riverland Wine Industry Person of the Year in 2022. The wines at Starrs Reach Vineyard are hand crafted by the talented Armand Lacomme - a Senior Winemaker at McLaren Vintners. Armand now calls Australia home after growing up in South Africa and studying Viticulture and Oenology at Stellenbosch University. Aligning with the values of Starrs Reach Vineyard, Armand is committed to a sustainable and minimal intervention approach to winemaking, allowing the wine to tell the story of the land on which it is grown.