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About Adelina
We are a small vineyard and winery in the Springfarm sub-region of Clare, set amongst one of the most historically relevant winery and vineyards in Australia.
We run our farm with organic principles. The plantings of well established Shiraz, Grenache and Pedro Ximenez, some dating back to the turn of the 20th century and recent plantings, of Shiraz, Mataro and Malbec are NASAA certified.
We also work with a very small group of grape growers in Clare and the Adelaide Hills whom grow fruit for our non-estate wines. The winery is rustic in a sense of mod-cons and mechanisation, where the most elaborate piece of equipment would be the coffee machine.
At present we’re focusing our efforts on the vineyard, unfortunately tastings are not available. The equation is blissfully straightforward:
A cool and dry vintage
+ low yields
+ Adelina
= wines with pristine fruit and beautiful natural acidity.
The upside is arguably the finest set of Adelina Rieslings to date, and a pair of wines naturally true to site. The downside: with yields even lower than in 2020, this year’s release will not last long. We know of Col McBryde’s love of tension, so it’s no surprise that his ‘21s are mouth-wateringly precise and classically structured. The vintage has also bestowed the kind of depth and purity of fruit that makes these wines so delicious straight out of the gates.
While it’s only about a fifteen-minute drive from Watervale to Polish Hill River, these two sub-regions produce distinctly different wines. As Col puts it, Watervale’s red loams produce wines with more up-front fruit, zest and lime; while Polish Hill River’s slate and limestone-rich soils result in wines that are leaner and more restrained.
Again, volumes are super-low this year so if you would like to secure a parcel of either wine, please let us know sooner rather than later!polish hill river riesling.
