2018 Adelina Nebbiolo, Adelaide Hills

For a number of years Adelina have been working with an exciting parcel of Nebbiolo fruit from the Bowe Lees vineyard at Woodside. The Bowe Lees-Loveys vineyard lies 390 metres above sea level and was planted between 1998 and 2002.

Col McBryde fills in the winemaking specs thus: fruit was handpicked and crushed to fermenter; then 95 days on skins! Post pressing, the wine was racked to large format French oak for 14 months for (indigenous) malo and maturation. The earlier bottling is designed to catch as much primary charm as possible, and boy does it work; in the pantheon of Australian Nebbiolo, Adelina now sits somewhere near the top.