If you’re new to Trousseau, it’s a variety more often found in France, in the Jura, and in Spain, where it’s unflatteringly known as Bastardo. 

This example if more Jura style, lightly extracted, low in alcohol, and best served lightly chilled. There’s tangy red fruit here – raspberry, cranberry and sour cherry, with floral hints of violets and hibiscus, underpinned by a mushroom-y earthiness, which is softened by a herbal quality – something like mint or lemon balm.

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.