Sonnyboy 2024
Sonnyboy 2024
Our juiciest orange wine. Sonnyboy has garnered cult status and for all the right reasons. Now available for a limited time only.
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"Splash it in the glass and it's a hive of activity. Green mango, pineapple cake and barbecued peach get you in the mood. It's juicy with well-balanced acidity. An attractive skinsy appeal drives the textural profile with a flash of ginger adding a fine spice to a long tail."
Steve Leszczynski, Qwine – 10 December 2023
93 points
MORE INFO
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What it's like
Tropical fruits, low tannin and a punchy acidity. Think the orange triangle ice blocks you had from the school canteen.
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SERVING SUGGESTIONS
Cold, without food on a sunny day at the beach. Or BYO to your favourite Chinese restaurant and order some spicy chilli xo noodles and a garlicky cucumber salad.
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Varieties
Zibibbo & Vermentino – these varieties love their warm climate, don't require a lot of water to grow and give us those beautiful fruit juicy flavours.
What makes our wine unique?
NO additives, ever
The higher quality the wine, the less additives will have been used in the winery. We just take that idea another step further and use nothing at all, relying simply on the best quality fruit and the finest artisanal methods.
Our wines contain no:
Sulphur dioxide, potassium sorbate, added yeast, citric acid, tartaric acid, yeast mannoproteins, activated carbon, ammonium bisulphite, ammonium phosphates, bentonite, copper sulphate, diatomaceous earth, egg white, gelatine, hydrogen peroxide, dimethyl dicarbonate, polyvinyl polypyrrolidone (PVPP), silicon dioxide, perlite, calcium carbonate, grape concentrate, gum arabic, erythorbic acid, potassium sulphites, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, added tannins.
Just grapes.
no filtering, no fining
Filtering and fining are methods used to speed up wine's natural clarification process. We find it also aggressively strips out flavour and texture.
We prefer to give each wine the time it needs. Sometimes there might be a light haze or a small amount of sediment at the end of the bottle – both normal things in a healthy wine, providing nutrition and protection for it.
wild fermentation
All our wines are wild fermented, which means only the microbes in the air and on the grape skins themselves ferment our wine, giving a wonderful spectrum of flavours.
No added yeasts, enzymes or other nasties are used for assistance in fermentation.
vegan friendly & gluten free
Ever seen the words "may contain traces of fish, dairy and eggs" written on a wine label?
These additives are used as fining agents, to help clarify wine (see above).
We don't add anything to our wines at any stage, so rest assured that all our wines are 100% vegan friendly and gluten free.
zero sugar
All our wines are fermented until fully dry and tested at the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) to make sure they have zero sugar left prior to release.
preservative free
Sulphur is an allergen that is used in the preservation of many food and beverage products.
It is considered mostly harmless in wine, especially those that employ small amounts. Usually higher quality wines use the least.
Here are some figures for the numbers people out there:
- in Australia, the legal limit is 250mg/L
- the international natural wine fair, Raw Wine, uses 50mg/L as its upper limit, while the Vin Méthode Nature designation in France uses 30mg/L
- the legal threshold whereby it must be on the label in most countries is 10mg/L
- many in the wine industry will (falsely) claim that sulphites at the above levels are naturally occurring in wine. Every one of our wines get tested by the AWRI – we have never had one come in at anything over 4mg/L
Why stop at a little? We don't add any sulphur at any stage of wine production, resulting in happy, vibrant, living wines.
WINE MADE WITH LOVE
All our wines are carefully made by hand with little machinery. They are laboriously fussed over so the result is high quality and stable, eschewing the need for added sulphites.