Scary Gully has a fine boned line from the shallow rocky soils its grown on high up in Forest Range. The wine is all about the minerality with hints of lime, fennel seeds, alpine herbs and white peach. Its driven, it’s distinct, it’s one of the great sites in the Adelaide Hills. Sadly, the yields from 2024 were minuscule and there are limited bottles, but the resulting wine has length and drive we have not seen before from this site
Vineyard: Scary Gully, Forest Range
Planted: 1984
Clones: Entav 84
Elevation: 620m
Aspect: SW
Soils: quartz rubble of siltstone, sandstone and clay
Vinification: whole bunches were pressed into to tank for settling overnight before racking off solids to barrel. The wine spent 11 months in French and Austrian oak, 20% new, before racking to tank for three months and bottled.
Harvest date: 29 March 2024
Bottled: 23 May 2025
Alc: 13.2%
pH: 3.36
TA: 5.7 g/L
Production: 1455 bottles