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Blind Corner 2021 Spring Release
About
Organics, Biodynamics, making wine with no additives...
Like many people, our journey to wine was through hospitality.
Naomi surfed & snow-boarded around the world and I worked in bars & on farms. I remember how fit I was back then...
One day my Dad bought a vineyard, a proper one, and he asked me to help. Together we built a winery on it with the family. Then 10 years later it sold. Immediately Naomi & I started thinking about our very own vineyard.
If we started something, we wanted our kids to be able to play around in the dirt without us worrying. We wanted them to be able to pick fruit off of the trees and put them straight into their mouths without a care in the world.
A van trip to Europe, touring around every vineyard and surf break we could pack in, opened our eyes to what winemaking could be. We saw that you can use old-world techniques and blend them with new-world knowledge to create more natural wines. I think about that trip every week.
It’s taken a long time to get things right - nurturing new vines & testing techniques. As we’ve grown, we’ve bought another vineyard within the region, now with our own bottling line, allowing us to control more of the process. Although this crazy machine controls us all sometimes.
The extra space has meant we’ve been able to add a Biodynamic vegie garden onto the property to help feed us and others, bee-hives to keep us in honey, and free-range chooks to scratch out the bugs in the vineyard.
We don’t always get things spot on (who does?) but we are are proud to pour our wines to good people, letting them know our steps and mis-steps along the way.
Enjoy.
And leave the world a better place than when you arrived.
Ben & Naomi, Joe & Harry
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Tasting Notes
2021 Blind Corner Pinot Grigio
Variety
Pinot Grigio 100%
Ingredients
Grapes and minimal sulphites
Soil
Sand over pea gravel with a granite base
Farmed
Naturally farmed grapes with less than 60ppm SO2 as only addition
Notes
This small run of Pinot Grigio was hand-picked and wild skin- fermented - 10 days on skins, like a red wine. It was then foot- crushed and hand-plunged, before going into oak barrels for 3 months to finish ferment. The deep red colour is a result of the young vines’ tiny bunches and, therefore, high skin to juice ratio. This is a lovely example of this genre with chinotto-like orange round notes as well as hints of red fruit / pomegranate and smoky finish with a cleaning twist of grip.
2021 Blind Corner Petillant
Variety
Chenin 99%, Shiraz 1%
Ingredients
Grapes
Soil
Sand over pea gravel with a granite base
Farmed
Naturally farmed grapes with less than 60ppm SO2 as only addition
Notes
Like unicorn tears filtered through weaves of angel hair, this Petillant might be hard to make, but the results are what myths are made of.
Sweet in taste and pastel in colour, it makes a hot day cool and a cool day life at the beach.
First, we take the pressings portion of the Chenin and wild- ferment it in barrels. Then we freeze a bucket of Shiraz juice for good measure as well.
Once dry, or really really close, we immediately add more juice, blend the barrels and bottle. This way the wine keeps fermenting, but finishes in bottle,trapping the CO2 trying to escape and making it bubbly.
2021 Blind Corner Governo SB
Variety
Sauvignon Blanc 100%
Ingredients
Grapes and minimal sulphites
Soil
Sand over pea gravel with a granite base
Farmed
Naturally farmed grapes with less than 60ppm SO2 as only addition
Notes
Like Sauvignon Blanc smuggled from an exotic bazaar, this wine has a familiar taste, but with added characters of blackcurrant flower, mandarin and Morrocan spice.
To make our new and improved Governo blend, a portion of grapes are hand-picked early and air-dried, before wild fermented 'on skins'. The remaining grapes are basket pressed and wild-fermented in old French oak, stainless steel and a concrete egg. These batches are then combined and lees stirred occasionally for 7 months, prior to bottling cloudy to maintain a nice orange hue.
The result is a taste that goes beyond what you normally expect from Sauvignon Blanc, transporting your mood to far-flung lands.
2021 Blind Corner Sangiovese
Variety
Sangiovese 100%
Ingredients
Grapes and minimal sulphites
Soil
Sand over pea gravel with a granite base
Farmed
Naturally farmed grapes with less than 60ppm SO2 as only addition
Notes
A lot of great things have originated in Italy - Renaissance art, the jacuzzi, and succulent Sangiovese. We pay tribute to that awesomeness in our own take on this classic wine, grown the organic way in Western Australia.
This Sangiovese is made from just 8 rows of Italian vines, grafted with excellent Brunello clones. The grapes were all foot crushed, hand plunged and basket pressed to make an easy-drinking red that’s soft on the palate, while maintaining a heavenly body much like Michelangelo's David.
Enjoy in the hot tub wearing a Versace swimsuit, picking delights from your favourite antipasto plate. Maybe put some INXS on the radio too, just for that added Aussie spice.
2021 Blind Corner Chardonnay Aligoté
Variety
Chardonnay 95%, Aligoté 5%
Ingredients
Grapes and minimal sulphites
Soil
Sand over pea gravel with a granite base
Farmed
Naturally farmed grapes with less than 60ppm SO2 as only addition
Notes
Like your favourite comedian, this wine has a wonderfully dry delivery and flavourful punchline that will send your tastebuds into the giggles. It’s Chardonnay base offers a full-body mouthfeel, with the Aligoté adding citrus notes for a subtle tang.
It is made from a single block of wild-fermented Chardonnay, which is slowly being overtaken by Aligoté grafts, all wild fermented in barrel and rough filtered to bottle, keeping the wine as close to the vineyard as possible. Easily the best (ahem, only) Chardonnay Aligoté from Margaret River in the last 100 years.
2021 Blind Corner Piquettes
Variety
Yellow: Air-dried Sauvignon Blanc skins Pink: Pinot Grigio skins
Red: Chenin Blanc & Shiraz skins
Ingredients
Grapes, rainwater, hope
Soil
Sand over pea gravel with a granite base
Farmed
Naturally farmed grapes and rainwater
Notes
Waste not, want not. And if you can make a thirst- quencher in the process, it's even better. Piquette, Lilipet, Baby Petillant. Made from grape skins that would usually have gone straight to waste, and good, clean Quindalup rainwater. With a little bit of bottle fermentation magic and a mother earth label by local artist Jen Thomas we have a low-alcohol, fruity, adult fizzy drink.
Piquette comes in three flavours: Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio and everyone's new favourite blend, Chenin Blanc & Shiraz. It's very limited quantities and only available in a mixed 6 pack or mixed dozen.
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