Smidge Wines

In the glass, this wine is pale straw and is lifted and vibrant with lemon, white peach and florals, coupled with subtle straw, herbs and honeydew melon. The fresh palate is full of lemon curd, with the white peach and honeydew continuing through the palate. The vibrant, focussed acidity carries the flavoursome palate maintaining great freshness and giving persistence.

Bright. Generous. Effortlessly enjoyable.

A vibrant fine bead sparkling that strikes the right balance between flavour and finesse—equally at home as an aperitif or alongside your favourite dishes.

Pale lemon-straw in the glass, it offers up expressive aromas of white peach and nectarine, with just a hint of brioche in the background. The palate is full of flavour yet beautifully poised, with ripe stone fruit at its core, mouth-watering acidity, and a creamy mousse that carries through to a long, softly sweet finish.

Crafted for those who appreciate a fizz, without the fuss.

On skins for 15 days, with a fermentation lasting 9 days. The fruit was handpicked and destemmed only, while the must had no acid adjustment and went through with a wild fermentation. Upon pressing, both the free run and pressings were combined and after racking off gross lees, the wine was matured in two 2-year-old French barriques. The 2021 vintage was cool and dry and the wine had a certain subtlety about it, so it was French oak all the way! After spending 11 months in oak, the wine was lightly fined and bottled unfiltered.

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

"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