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SALVIS GRATIA* (meaning ‘Saving Grace’) is a small-batch labour-of-love, carefully hand harvested from some of the last remnants of the Madeira Semillon clone in the Barossa, planted by the Fechner brothers in 1983. SALVIS GRATIA* is an exciting addition to our ‘Barossa Nouveau’ series joining our established Old Vine Grenache stars Pax Aeterna and Lux Venit* Rosé. This series is all about championing these remnant Old Vine varietals that have always been special, but have sometimes fallen off the radar as new varietal fads come and go.
Like PAX and LUX, SALVIS is made in a minimal intervention style – hand harvested, gently whole bunch pressed, 25% completed ferment and matured in new sirugue french oak puncheon. SALVIS GRATIA* is a sublime, zesty, elegantly opulent expression of Barossa Semillon… it’s an absolute ripper!
Ranked #7 of 55 The Real Review Top Rank
“Ultra-pale lemon and lime hues shine brightly through the glass. Waxed lemon and short crust pastry aromas. Light to medium in weight with beeswax, lemon zest and a touch of sherbet showing as it floats across the tongue. Good length and drive with bright yet supple acidity carrying it long to a crisp, dry finish with an attractive phenolic crunch.” – Stuart Knox
93pts “Pale colour. Lifted exotic aromas; lemon curd, papaya, nectarine, tonic water, honey and subtle flinty overlay. Round and expressive with lemon curd, nectarine and tropical fruit notes. Wonderful mid-palate viscosity, creamy/lacy textures and an appealing honeyed acid line. Drink now and over the next couple of years.” – Andrew Caillard MW, The Vintage Journal
93pts Silver “Light straw tones of Meyer lemon, spent yeast, honeysuckle, soft spice, lemon butter, clotted cream, crushed stone and white flowers. Textural, creamy and gloriously lemony with a swoop of gingerbread, roasted cashews and whey. Such lovely slinky drinking with a briny acid line that sets the saliva glands working and screams for a roast chook.” – Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion 22nd May 2023
About Chaffey Bros Wines
We craft our handmade wines from a number of epic low-yielding vineyards nestled among the pristine Barossa + Eden Valleys in South Australia.
We are brothers-in-law Daniel Chaffey Hartwig & Theo Engela …part perfumiers, part historians and part mad scientists.
Our wine philosophy is New Wave Barossa…Soil up. Aromatic. Textural. Unadulterated. Unfined (naturally vegan)
