Das Juice - Red, McLaren Vale, Australia (2021)

TASTING NOTES

A super juicy light red with dark blue fruit and featherweight tannins. Rethink Australia!

All grapes were hand picked and whole bunch carbonic macerated for two weeks before being pressed to tank for a slow natural ferment.

Finished with a small sulphur addition prior to bottling. 

Das Juice is a project started by Lo-Fi Wines, an Australian-based fellow importer and distributor. Behind the brand are Tom Sheer and James Audas, sommeliers with extensive experience in the wine industry, including at Noma in Copenhagen.

With a strong commitment to sustainability in the vineyard, a focus on low-intervention in the cellar and a passion for good drinking in the glass, their ultimate next step was to launch their own line of wines. After a couple of years of testing, and with help from winemakers across Australia, Tom and James launched a complete range from sparkling to red this vintage.

The resulting wines are made with as little tinkering as possible; all wines are fermented naturally and spend 5-6 months on solids in tank, without any pumping or punching to respect the grapes. All wines remain unfiltered and unfined, with just a small dose of sulphur at bottling as the only addition.