2024 is James’ favourite vintage so far, making wine under his Scintilla label. His reports are of a blissfully “stress-free” growing season and harvest, with disease pressure low and slow and very easy ripening of fruit across the board. This comes to us as no surprise, with other friends in the area having already released beautiful suites of 2024s and many similar reports coming in of a great, cool season conducive to healthy ferments and delicious, balanced wines.
We’ve come to expect a very high standard from Scintilla but in 2024 the quality really is soaring. This comes from Tatachilla in the McLaren Vale, and was made in terracotta vessels, resulting in an expression of the variety which is quite primary and youthful in its texture and fruit – less crystalline and oxidative than many from the Jura – with flavours of fresh-cut green apple and pear and some more savoury aromatic nuance of genmaicha tea. True to the variety, it is abundant in freshness, concentration and power.
This would be quite spectacular with a number of lighter Japanese vegetable and seafood dishes served with rice.
2024 is James’ favourite vintage so far, making wine under his Scintilla label. His reports are of a blissfully “stress-free” growing season and harvest, with disease pressure low and slow and very easy ripening of fruit across the board. This comes to us as no surprise, with other friends in the area having already released beautiful suites of 2024s and many similar reports coming in of a great, cool season conducive to healthy ferments and delicious, balanced wines.
We’ve come to expect a very high standard from Scintilla but in 2024 the quality really is soaring. This comes from Tatachilla in the McLaren Vale, and was made in terracotta vessels, resulting in an expression of the variety which is quite primary and youthful in its texture and fruit – less crystalline and oxidative than many from the Jura – with flavours of fresh-cut green apple and pear and some more savoury aromatic nuance of genmaicha tea. True to the variety, it is abundant in freshness, concentration and power.
This would be quite spectacular with a number of lighter Japanese vegetable and seafood dishes served with rice.
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