The Bard Sauvignon Blanc 2023 – DOZEN

The Bard range celebrates the work of Australia’s best known lyric poet John Shaw Nielsen who was raised in the cottage on the Hollick Neilson’s Block vineyard. Revered by his peers in the world of literature, Neilson was born in Penola in 1872, and it is thought that much of the imagery in his poems was conjured up during his childhood experiences in the swampy bushland around Coonawarra.

The fruit for this Sauvignon Blanc comes from our Wilgha vineyard. The decision of when to harvest was based on flavour, once the fruit had ripened into the spectrum of sub-tropical passionfruit characters. Picked early in the cool of the morning to protect the intensity and purity of aromatics, the fruit was crushed, destemmed and pressed without delay.