Description
About Thistledown Wines
Thistledown Wine Company work with a unique blend of unrivalled fruit sources and the experience of both the New and the Old Worlds, lent by our 2 Masters of Wine. We craft wine of subtlety, texture and detail – wines a long way down the path to perfect balance.
Best known as one of the leaders of the contemporary Grenache movement, Thistledown Wines make small batch Grenache, Shiraz and Chardonnay from McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley and the Adelaide Hills. Alongside Wild & Wilder Wines, benchmark regional varietals and Mediterranean blends, and Millions Suns, sustainably certified wines from The Riverland, we produce world class wines with quality, value and sustainability at their core.
We love
Experimenting and trialling from our base in the beautiful Adelaide Hills, working on the basis that if we haven’t made one mistake each vintage, we haven’t been trying hard enough!
We craft
We are perfectly set up to deal with the multitude of small batches that we receive.
We pick fruit on the way up rather than the way down so that we can do as little as possible to make the best wine. We’re slowly gathering the very best selection of Grenache sites in Australia.
We support
We source our fruit from many of the best sites in the iconic regions of South Australia. We work closely with growers who, like us, want to see the character of their vineyard as faithfully portrayed in bottle as possible. Over a period of time, we have gained access to sites that we only dreamed of in the early days, and feel privileged to be able to craft wines from Australia’s viticultural history.
