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More than just a Smidge

For those who really love wine, Smidge makes something truly beautiful singularly enjoyable & uniquely memorable. Be part of something special.

Smidge is the vision of celebrated winemaker, Matt Wenk. Join his journey as he breaks the rules of  a modern first generation winery by developing a signature style that is both enjoyable & memorable with a provenance & character that only comes from championing each step from the berry to the bottle.

Smidge Wines:
Proud to be a Five Red Star Winery

A Red Five Star Winery is one of the highest accolades possible for an Australian winery. It is awarded by the James Halliday Australian Wine Companion, the country’s most prestigious wine reviews. To be eligible, a winery must be regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity, have had at least two wines rated at 95 points or above, and had a five-star rating for the previous two years. Smidge Wines is proud to have been a Red Five Star Winery consistently since 2017.

Featured Wines

In 2023, with a cool vintage, a section of our estate Shiraz in Willunga, with low sugar and good flavour, 600kg was hand picked and processed into three small ferments of 200kg each.  Three levels, 0%, 25% and 50%. Ferment temperature was allowed to peak at 28C, plunged twice per day and total time on skins was 19 days.

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$350.00
/ 3 x 750ml
SKU: 23SWTSH3PK
 

95 Points "Really youthful, purple and deeply-coloured in the glass. The aromas are all about dark fruits and then there’s dried herbs, sage, black olive, licorice and a cool graphite edge. Flavours are rich, layered and mouthfilling. Plenty of mulberry, dark cherry, anise and spice, there’s a lushness to the fruit but there’s ample savoury, structured and complexing tannin that gives the wine real definition, length and seriousness. A really delicious wine 01 MAY 2021" Aaron Brasher The Real Review

"A grand man in stature and personality with a commanding presence and cheeky humour he was passionate, unstoppable, generous to the core, and according to many ahead of his time. It seems appropriate that our Mclaren Vale Shiraz shares many rich characteristics of this great man whose memory remains a legend among us Smidge Wines are a tribute to the small things in life that make it all worthwhile" - Matt Wenk

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$48.00
/ 750ml
SKU: 19WLGGMVSH06MV
 

Sold Out - 2025 Release Available July 2025

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$35.00
/ 750ml
SKU: 22HDHDMVGV06MV
 

"From the subregion of Tatachilla, planted on clay punctuated with ironstone, over a limestone substrata. Hand-picked fruit, no adds and fermented wild in open fermenters. 28 days on skins, all up. 18 months in used French wood. Unfiltered. A great colour: explosive in terms of its pulpy, inky opacity and purple edges. It almost glows! Possibly the finest iteration of this wonderful variety in Australia to date. Everything about it makes me smile. Black-fruit allusions, smoked meats, iodine, ample florals and best of all, a broad dissection of the rich palate by ferruginous tannins: burly, gritty and shaped to draw saliva to ready one for the meal ahead.

- Ned Goodwin, Halliday Australian Wine Companion Feb 2021 95/100

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$48.00
/ 750ml
SKU: 20WLUMMVMP06MV
 
 

A beautifully made wine that is textural, impeccably detailed and undeniably salubrious. Plenty in the tank.  ned Goodwin MW  Published 31 March 2021

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$110.00
/ 750ml
SKU: 18AKAKMVCB06MV