Santolin Wines

Product Description

“At the end of the day, we’re making wines we like to drink. We make them small and we make them interesting.”

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Additional Information

You may not have heard of Adrian and Rebecca Santolin - a couple of young(ish), driven, lo-fi Australian winemakers with a growing legion of admirers. They make small batch, highly awarded, heart driven wines at their winery in the Yarra Valley. Adrian makes the wine, Rebecca does everything else.

After working at other wineries for many years, in 2012 they decided to throw caution to the wind. Against all advice, they took their saved house deposit and bought one barrel, one tank and two tonne of pinot noir, and started doing things their way. Their 2013 Yarra Valley Chardonnay was awarded the ‘Best New World Chardonnay’ trophy at the Hong Kong International Wine Show and ‘Best International Chardonnay’ trophy at Decanter Asia. Things got off to a flying start and continue to flourish.

Santolin Wines are known for their minimal intervention approach. Foot-stomping and hand-plunging are employed in the Santolin single-vineyard pinot noirs to gently extract colour from the grapes. These wines age in a mix of new and aged 100% French oak barrels and mature in bottle before released to achieve maximum complexity. Their Cosa Nostra wines are an exploration of Adrian’s Italian family history and their obsession with beautiful Italian styles. Their Little Saint wines are affordable luxury in a bottle, made to seamlessly fit into any occasion or setting.