Blind Corner Quindalup Pinot Grigio Orange 2021 (12 Bottles) Margaret River

by Fine Wine Cellars

$350.00 GST Included

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

93% Savignon Blanc 7% Chenin Blanc.

Sourced from the Blind Corner Quindalup vineyard and selected like-minded organically farmed partners in the Margaret River wine region. Soils are predominantly sand over pea gravel with a granite base.
Ben and Naomi Gould dreamt up Blind Corner whilst living in an old red builders van. They attempted to visit every surf break and wine region in Western Europe. Upon arriving home they set to work on their small 4Ha vineyard, making wild wines down in their shed. This journey has positioned Ben and Naomi as leaders in Margaret River in both regenerative farming and minimal intervention or ‘natural’ winemaking.

Using native yeasts & no other additions aside from minimal sulphur in some wines (none added, for their Pétillant, Field Blend, Fortified & Qvevri wines). Whilst the aim was to grow grapes & make wine as naturally as possible the end result has also increased the biodiversity on their land and created a place where their children could crawl in the dirt, pick fruit from the vines and playing in the vegetable patch with the chickens and fruit trees.

Fast forward 15 years and Ben & Naomi now run 20Ha of certified Organic & Biodynamic vineyards, built a (legal) winery and certified bottling line, are raising two young boys & Pippy the dog, adopted a 30-year-old French son (also known as employee #1, Simon), employed Neko the vineyard cat along with some other just as important staff members: Alistair, Candi, Katie , Jules, Kirsty, Jess and Janie! Wrangled Leroy and his flock of hippie chicks, plus re-homed a million or so of Simon’s bees. They continue to stick to their aim of working sustainably, promoting transparency and minimising outside influences.

This blend uses Sauvignon Blanc & Chenin Blanc, then blends them in a rolling wild ferment. Skins are left in through the process to add tannin tang and a wonderful mouth texture. The result is a cloudy, yellow/orange-coloured wine that tastes like rainbows and textured like sun. We blend this bit with 3 x neutral wild ferment vessel action and add a teeny dash. Like teeny. Of some estate grown Cabernet to bring it home and makes your eyes understand what your tongue is trying to tell you.

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About Blind Corner

“Organics, Biodynamics, making wine with no additives… Like many people, our journey to wine was through hospitality. Naomi surfed & snow-boarded around the world and I worked in bars & on farms. I remember how fit I was back then…

One day my Dad bought a vineyard, a proper one, and he asked me to help. Together we built a winery on it with the family. Then 10 years later it sold. Immediately Naomi & I started thinking about our very own vineyard.

If we started something, we wanted our kids to be able to play around in the dirt without us worrying. We wanted them to be able to pick fruit off of the trees and put them straight into their mouths without a care in the world.

A van trip to Europe, touring around every vineyard and surf break we could pack in, opened our eyes to what winemaking could be. We saw that you can use old-world techniques and blend them with new-world knowledge to create more natural wines. I think about that trip every week.

It’s taken a long time to get things right – nurturing new vines & testing techniques.

As we’ve grown, we’ve bought another vineyard within the region, now with our own bottling line, allowing us control more of the process. Although this crazy machine controls us all sometimes

The extra space has meant we’ve been able to add a Biodynamic vegie garden onto the property to help feed us and others, Bee-hives to keep us in honey, and free-range chooks to scratch out the bugs in the vineyard.

We don’t always get things spot on (who does?)

But we are are proud to pour our wines to good people, letting them know our steps and mis-steps along the way.

Enjoy. And leave the world a better place than when you arrived.

Ben & Naomi, Joe & Harry. + Simon, Paul, Al, Mark, Pippie, Hippie chicks and Winston”

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