Summary: The Hero wines are hand-crafted from the best quality fruit sourced from premium vineyards across South Australia, including McLaren Vale and the Barossa. With meticulous handling in the vineyard and winery, the pristine fruit will have less exposure to anything harmful that may normally require the addition of preservatives. Our wines are crafted to be brightly coloured, exotically fragrant, full-flavoured and critically, they sing without the addition of preservatives. Perfectly suited to many cuisines, these wines are also crafted to ensure they are suitable for Vegans. 

Winemaking: Made without the use of any preservatives. Hand picked over night during cool temperatures to preserve delicate fruit characters. Pressed directly off skins and fermented in stainless steel tanks with temperature control. A long cool ferment for approximately 10 days. The wine was left on yeast lees for two months before bottling early to maintain freshness.

Vintage 2023: Early cool weather and some rain early spring has set the region up well for the warmer than usual period running up to harvest time. The wines show terrific colour and phenolic ripeness and a fine natural acidity delivered in 2023. 

Tasting Note: Crisp nashi pear and white floral aromatics. The palate is crisp with lemon peel, green apple and honeysuckle flavours followed by a saline minerality that leaves you wanting more! Pair with grilled snapper fillets and a squeeze of lemon! 

Winemaking: Healthy and problem free fruit is selected in the vineyard  and then picked in the cool of the night and then rushed to the nearby winery for a fast and focused vinification. Fermentation is cool in a closed static fermenter before a short maturation on lees and bottling. 
 
2023 Vintage: The winter and spring prior to the 2023 vintage was generally a little wetter and cooler than what is usual, delaying the start of vintage and meaning some extra care was required through the growing period. Whilst the vintage was indeed later than usual, there were some really beautiful parcels of fruit that benefited from being grown in sites where the slower ripening simply enabled flavour ripeness to be achieved with character & balance.

Tasting Note: Light in colour, this is a soft Pinot Noir with raspberry, cherry, mixed spices, and a subtle earthy note. There's real Pinot Noir character evident making it very flavoursome and moreish. Dark fruited with soft tannins and perfect on its own or with food, particularly less gamey type meats and spring vegetables.

Tasting Note: Dark garnet in colour displaying attractive red fruit aromatics with a pronounced raspberry note showing earthy and gentle spice notes. This is a fresh easy drinking style bottled immediately to capture the essence of the variety. On the palate it's bright with fruit purity showing a good intensity and balanced by cleansing acids. Pair with medium rare steaks and crispy potatoes