Sailor Seeks Horse 'Small Wonder' Pinot Noir 2023

The Small Wonder vineyard (formerly Goaty Hill) is up in the Tamar and one of only a very few organically certified vineyards in Tasmania. They were certified for the 2023 vintage. Not the easiest place to be organic either as it can be quite warm and wet up there. We are now the only winemakers they sell fruit to.

Our reasons for doing it were that it would offset the low and temperamental yields at our place, mitigate the risk of a single vineyard source and provide a counterpoint of the warmer Tamar vs the coolth of the Huon. Interestingly the wines seem to have our stamp on them. Last year's SW releases were quite skinny due to having to be picked quite early but these are from a very low yielding year (to the point they were hesitant to offer us fruit) up in the Tamar and so have more intensity but also that savoury edge that we get from our place. Winemaking was more similar to the way we treat our own wines - longer in oak, wild ferments, etc. Paul, Sailor Seeks Horse.