The Eddy Shiraz comes from a vineyard planted by Dave's family over 30 years ago in Hope Forrest, making it one of the southern most vineyards in the Adelaide hills. The vines sit at 390 metres above sea level and are planted on a SE aspect on gravelly silty loam over some clay before weathered pre Cambrian sandstone and quartzite. Aiming to capture perfume and acid, it's a short time on skins (12 days), mostly kept in tank. Planted amongst the vineyard remains the odd semillon vine, which continues to add a wonderfull freshness to this wine. Bottled with minimal SO2 and rested for over a year before release.

Saep Wines is the Adelaide Hills-based project of longtime wine-grower Dave Gartelmann. Dave is a great farmer that embraces all things organic and biodynamic and the wines he makes have superbly detailed finesse coupled with inherent drinkability. Alongside his own winemaking project Dave grows fruit for winemakers such as Gentle Folk, Jauma, Brackenwood and Das Juice. All vineyards in Saep are organic, sustainable and respected with Dave using techniques such as grazing sheep over winter and compost addition to his approach.

The Saep project started for Dave in the early 2000’s where he would make small amounts of exciting plots from his own and managed vineyard sites. Dave makes several micro-cuvees each year out of the shed at Brackenwood Vineyard in Hope Forrest. All wines are wild fermented with nothing added other than a pre bottling sulphur in small amounts.