Sauvignon Blanc from Forreston, in the Northern quarter of the Adelaide Hills, grown organically by the Cameron family at Lansdowne.
It’s a slow & long growing season in Forreston, with some very cold nights which help to retain some great acid. We quickly fell in love with Sauvy from this block. This time round the fruit had 5 days on skins, before being racked & pressed into 2 old barriques, a new Jura oak puncheon, a 900L egg & a stainless steel tank.
After finishing ferment in oak/egg/tank, it was rested on lees for a further 10 months & bottled in January of 2023.

Slow Lane is a small winery ran by Federica Marzetti & Dom Smith, based 15 minutes south of Mount Gambier, South Australia (Dom’s hometown).

Slow Lane was based in McLaren Vale for six years, where they were both making wine & working in different vineyards, but something was pulling them down here.

All of the signs were there: Australia’s two youngest volcanoes (Mount Gambier & Mount Schank) only 10 minutes apart, the influence of limestone, healthy rainfall, a very cool climate & incredible diurnal range.
Eventually we pulled the trigger. Federica, who’s been living in Australia since 2020 after leaving Italy, was somehow convinced to shift her life again to Mount Gambier to explore the grape growing & winemaking potential down here.