Old vines Sémillon, about 80 years old, from Jeff Traeger’s organically farmed vineyard in Vine Vale, East of the Barossa. There the vines grow on deep sand over clay soil with optimum diurnal temperature. The Grapes are picked by hand & the whole bunches are tipped into a stainless tank to undergo a week of carbonic maceration. The bunches are then foot-stomped to release the juice stop the carbonic effect on the aromatic. The tank is then closed until pressing three months later.


Once pressed the wine is transferred in old French barrique to undergo 8 months of elevage without ouillage bottled on site in our Basket Range winery without any fining nor filtration.

Jean-Baptiste Courdesses is crafting unfined, unfiltered and 100% whole-bunch fermented wines, with no or minimal sulphur, packaged in locally made bottles. His project, Jean Bouteille Wines, is firmly planted in the belief that winemaking should be a harmonious extension of nature, and that wine can be an elixir. Uniquely all his wines are made using 100% whole-bunch, with no fining, no filtration, and no sulphur or 20ppm sulphur maximum