Vintage: 2019Yarra Valley, VIC ALC: 13.0% Gamay on, game on. Don’t let the shy opening fool you. This one opens up with the unstoppable honesty of your mate after one too many. Cherries and raspberry on the nose with a velvety medium bodied palate. A delivery from Rising makes any day feel like a reason to celebrate. Sat in the aptly named Christmas Hills in the Yarra Valley, their wine is small batch done right. Small parcels of delicious fruit, carefully chosen. We can’t help but admire the quiet way these guys go about each expression, it’s pure passion at play. For winemaker Anthony Fikkers, less is more when it comes to intervention. And after a hop, skip and jump across Italy, France, Germany and the Hunter Valley, 13 years later, he’s ready to share his passion for cool-climate goodness with anyone willing to slurp away.
