A new, and lighter, side to Barossa. A blend of older plantings of Grenache with newer plantings of drought-resistant Cinsault, a variety more commonly seen in the Languedoc, and in France sometimes called ‘the Pinot Noir of the south’, due to its light and slightly earthy character.

This is a gorgeously pale, soft and drinkable red, with minimal tannins and only 12% alcohol. Notes of raspberry, strawberry and cherry, and hint of almond.

Wayne Ahrens and Suzi Hilder wanted to make small batch, low intervention wine, without using systemic chemicals. So they quit their secure jobs with large wine companies and founded Smallfry Wines, initially planting a site from local seedlings in Eden Valley between 1994 and 1998.

In 2007 they bought an 18 hectare estate with old, ungrafted, biodynamic vines in Vine Vale, Barossa, which had been tended for the previous 52 harvests by Ken Schliebs, and been in Ken’s family since the 1850s.