Some Young Punks Lust Collides Mataro, Thomas Block, McLaren Vale

Description

Some Young Punks epitomise the best of New Australia.  The punks consist of  Col McBryde (voted Australia’s Young Gun Winemaker of the Year), Jen Gardner (self confessed nerdy yeast expert) and thirdly Nic Bourke. Like most amongst the new breed of interesting, young winemakers in Australia they aren’t moved by porty Shiraz and seeks instead a sense of place and restraint the wines, influenced by the best of the Old World and the New. Col McBryde is  as unimpressed by flash-in-the-pan medal-winners that are short on provenance as he is by being hide-bound to the Old World, and carves his own niche. Yet being media savvy and having a sense of humour allows this ironically quietly-spoken but earnest bunch to market themselves outrageously and to bring a fresh approach to labelling. Expect to see increasingly alarming label sported by increasingly interesting and wholly unique wines. This single vineyard Mataro is from the Thomas Block vineyard in the McLaren Vale which has loam on clay soils and is run according to biodynamic principles. There are only 524 cases of this wine made. The wine spends between 14 and 25 days on skins and uses indigenous yeast during fermentation. The wine is then pressed to oak for malolactic fermentation and matured for 14 months in French oak barriques. Vegan and Vegetarian friendly. The Lust Collides label is based on a specially commissioned artwork by Tomer Hanuka and is part of the SYP Live and Rare series.