When one thinks of the great waterways of the world, the mind conjures up such rivers as the Nile, the Amazon, the Torrens... no one ever thinks of the mighty Boggy Creek. Yet what an achiever it is. Sure it may not be wide or rapid, but this brook, bourn, runnel, rill, whatever you want to call it, has made its own mighty mark on the wine industry, by slowly over geological time, splitting the lava flow that formed Whitlands in two. And there it flows, between the two towering viticultural goliaths of the Whitlands ridges, just admiring its own handiwork. However, that's not all, this unassuming tributary of the King River has also sprung its own gold seam, with the beautiful Cavicchiolo Vineyard sitting either side of its banks. And it's here that we were lucky enough to secure a small parcel of Arneis.
Site: Cavicchiolo Vineyard, King Valley, Victoria. . Deep red volcanic soils. Traditionally farmed conventionally but recently moved to sustainable viticulture.
Production: Processed in the shed on the Whitlands vineyard. Run through the de-stemmer and only very lightly crushed into 1000L ferment tubs. Plunged once in the morning and once in the afternoon on a daily basis, for gentle extraction during fermentation. Pressed incrementally over a two week period after a week on skins for an average maceration time of 2 weeks. This gave us a range of different versions and profiles of the same wine in the final blend. It then went through partial malo during its 5 months in barrel before being blended and racked. Bottled unfined and unfiltered with a sulphur addition at bottling.
