The 'Silent Waters' Pinot Noir from Elysian Springs is a pretty special wine, not only supple and round, but jam-packed with red fruits and dark baking spices. The Adelaide Hills provides a great birthplace for high-quality Pinot Noir, giving warm days and cool nights to set up gentle growing seasons for the grapes. The fine floral and lifted fruit characters of this wine are a testament to their home. The spices in the wine come both from judicious use of French oak, but also from the use of some of the whole bunches of the Pinot - that is, using the stems as well as the grapes in the ferment! This technique adds a slight pepperiness and some lemongrass/herbal notes. Overall, the wine is round, softly textured and filled with bright red fruit. Great stuff.

Drinking great wine always feels like a little slice of heaven to us, so discovering an Adelaide Hills winery named after the ancient Roman idea of paradise feels more than a little fitting. Elysian Springs was established on the edges of the Eden Valley back in 1980, when the Seppelt family decided to up sticks from the city, and head out into the stunning rolling landscape of Adelaide Hills to get down to the serious but oh-so-idyllic business of winemaking. They decided to set up their operation as a close as possible to the source of the River Torrens, the spring waters of which eventually flow into Adelaide itself, and which lend their grapes a real sense of terroir and plenty of character. The Seppelt family knew that they’d stumbled across a deeply special plot of land, where their Shiraz, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Sauvignon Blanc vines could flourish. As such, they have striven since the founding of their winery to stick as closely as possible to natural winemaking methods and approaches. Biodynamic and organic techniques sit side by side with other traditional approaches to viticulture, resulting in a portfolio of delicious wines which are the absolute essence of this singular region. With such a passionate winemaking family working hard behind the scenes, one of Australia’s finest water sources feeding the vines, and carefully tended grapes of supreme quality going into every bottle, it’s hardly surprising that the result is - in a word - heavenly. The 'Silent Waters' Pinot Noir from Elysian Springs is a pretty special wine, not only supple and round, but jam-packed with red fruits and dark baking spices. The Adelaide Hills provides a great birthplace for high-quality Pinot Noir, giving warm days and cool nights to set up gentle growing seasons for the grapes. The fine floral and lifted fruit characters of this wine are a testament to their home. The spices in the wine come both from judicious use of French oak, but also from the use of some of the whole bunches of the Pinot - that is, using the stems as well as the grapes in the ferment! This technique adds a slight pepperiness and some lemongrass/herbal notes. Overall, the wine is round, softly textured and filled with bright red fruit. Great stuff.