LATTA Vino Headwaters Nebbiolo 2022 (12 Bottles) Ballarat, Vic

by High Hopes Wine

$473.00

AUSTRALIA WIDE SHIPPING INCLUDED

Long before Landsborough Valley grenache was trendy, Nebbiolo from the Malakoff vineyard was a name that was popping up regularly around town. The Latta family have been working with Cameron and Robert John—the father and son team who run this site—since the early Eastern Peake days. Owen has been making wines from the site now for over a decade, with recent harvests often producing two wines.

The 2022 Headwaters is the second release and as in previous years, it is the longer maceration, more structured iteration than the already released and sold out Elusive nebbiolo. With two harvest dates over the course of a month, the various parcels are fermented in open concrete fermenters with almost no whole bunch.

The wine is gentle pumped over twice daily, with extended maceration of the various picks of 3, 4 and 7 weeks respectively. The ferments are basket pressed to 500 litre puncheons and 600 litre demi-muid’s for 12 months elevage. Estate bottled in July 2023, with a small SO2 addition.

Category:

Description

About LATTA Vino

Eastern Peake is a leader in boutique wines, selling exclusively to restaurants and niche retailers nationally. With the brand new function/tasting room at the Vineyard, we welcome you to experience Eastern Peake wines in absolute surreal surroundings.

Eastern Peake Vineyards are set on a small plateau at Coghills Creek in the Ballarat Highlands some 25 km from Ballarat. A dramatic backdrop of a rugged granite outcrop of Mt Bolton, namely ‘Eastern Peake’ is to the west of the vineyard, creating the stunning view seen from the property. The east the vineyard overlooks the Mammaloid Hills of the Creswick Plains, named by Major Mitchell during his epic trail.

The Eastern Peake Vineyard was established in 1983, the first plantings being 8 acres of Pinot Noir followed by 4 acres of Chardonnay in 1991. In 1994 the decision was made to establish a winery and cellar door facility at Coghill’s Creek. The winery was completed in time for the 1995 vintage.

High Hopes Wine

High Hopes Wine Company is a wholesaler, importer and distributor of good drinks. 

In 2011 a couple of guys, Ned Brooks and Joel Amos, each with a viticulturalist as a parent, bonded over a shared background in wine and a good feeling about where a niche of the wine industry was headed: the questioning of the status quo mass-produced big wines (or Big Wine) in favour of a more natural style of winemaking and grape-growing. Brooks & Amos was born, a small agency business. Many of the Australian producers we met and whose wine we loved were just starting out too.  

Fast forward to today and Brooks & Amos has evolved into High Hopes Wine Company – now with Ned Brooks solely at the helm. The producers we work with remain some of the truest characters in the business. They’ve entrusted us with sharing their stories and ~ literally ~ the fruits of their labour and we’re proud to connect them with some of Australia’s best restaurants, bars and retailers. 

Our product list is not encyclopaedic, ticking off one of each varietal or region. Nor is it dogmatically ‘natural’. Just a healthy respect for the grapes, the earth they’re grown from, and the craft of the vigneron. It’s what interests us, the things we want to drink.