The palate is light and snappy, with flavours of sour cherry and raspberry. The tannins are soft and ever so silky, yet the wine is held together by a lovely drying, savoury acidity. Overall a fruitful, delicate wine with a balancing savoury quality, best enjoyed in its youth.

When is Australian wine at its best? Arguably, when it is made in the way that Bondar do things. What does that mean? It means small scale operations using prime Australian soils, a lot of close attention, love, and willingness to experiment, and with a foot in the Old World approach to fine viticulture, but with eyes firmly on the future of Aussie winemaking, and Aussie wine identity. The result is a stunning portfolio of wines, which are not only helping to define what Adelaide Hills wines can be in the 21st century, but which are also rewriting the rulebook on which grape varietals work best in this exciting collection of terroirs. Bondar is the brainchild of Andre Bondar, who spent many of his younger years trotting the globe, figuring out what he liked when it came to wines, and checking out how things were done in some of the best wine locations on earth. He worked as a winemaker in both McLaren Vale and France’s Rhone Valley, and while the wines he makes today have clear influences from both sides of the planet, he and his winemaking family give his collection of bottles a character that is entirely their own.