Well before minimal intervention became a catch-cry, Andrew Wardlaw had dropped the additives and turned down the winemaking influence in his wines. Wardlaw is a smart, determined winemaker with an edginess, reflected in what he makes. His father was a winemaker and he was raised in the Barossa Valley. His [...]

This is another winsome wine from Edenflo. The red wines of Edenflo have such an even flow, even when they come ribbed with tannin as this one does. It tastes and feels like grapes in their natural environment, allowed to follow their own trail. This is fleshy, gently jubey, red [...]

A wine producer of great character and quality often overlooked or set amongst the shadows, it’s great to see the wines gaining ground in The Big Cities of Australia – organic farming underpins things, low intervention winemaking follows. Catch winemaker enquiries via – Andrew Wardlaw edenflo6@gmail.com  This is a wonderful thing [...]

Eden Valley, gravity flow, Edenflo. Andrew Wardlaw started making wine from the Eden Valley in 1996 when he was just 21 – plucking berries from their bunches in his living room, fermenting them in the laundry with some help from an electric blanket – and while a good deal has [...]

New producer for me from an affable (via email) chap/winemaker, Andrew Wardlaw. I don’t know a lot about the wine, so had to revert simply to the glass in front of me. It is naturally fermented and ‘minimal intervention’, by Andrew’s description. Andrew will swing up Sydney-way, later in the [...]

Eden valley blend of riesling (67%) and gewürztraminer. 60 dozen only. Some skin contact, basket pressed, gravity racked, fermented naturally and matured in 4-year-old oak. Gewurztrainer vines (at Springton East) are 20 years old; riesling vines (Springton North) are 80 years old. Tart, textural, tasty and tense. This tastes of [...]