Press & Accolades

67awards - TexSom Award for Best Global Wine Communicator in Short-Form Writing - Raquel has been long listed for her published writing: A Vestige to Tempranillo - Winners announced: Sept 2026

95 pts from Katrina Butler, Wine Companion for 2024 Pinot Gris - This is glorious gris. It sees 100% barrel fermentation, 50% mlf and has an eight-month rest in 10% new French oak. The resultant wine is layered, with baked peach cheeks and mascarpone spooned atop, accompanied by honeysuckle and ripe pear. Flint and sun-sweetened apricots, too. And there also, a zingy line of acidity, sprinkled like sherbet throughout, breaking up the richness and evoking a sense of glee. It's textured, long and brilliant, making it a versatile choice for cross-seasonal drinking. Beautifully made.

95 pts from Katrina Butler, Wine Companion for 2024 Chardonnay - From organically grown fruit, 100% barrel-fermented; 50% went through mlf; matured in French oak for 12 months (25% new). Richly golden in the glass with flinty characters of struck match, hay, white stone fruit, apple blossom, lemon curd and grapefruit pith. There's a saline element and a lovely hint of white pepper that plays in staccato across the fruit, revitalising and energising the palate.

94 pts from Katrina Butler, Wine Companion for 2023 ‘Trilogía’ Amphora GSM - A GSM from Beechworth? Say what? This is a plummy and rich blend of grenache, shiraz and monastrell. The wine sees no oak influence and is aged entirely in amphora, resulting in a wine of beautiful texture and fruit purity, with a vein of mineral tension. It's velvet over silk, a subtle friction to its chalky tannin, a mesh of ripe black fruits and dried fig, with a fired earth and bark-like presence existing beyond the surface, almost subterranean. It's raw yet knit together. Pure pleasure.

95 pts from Katrina Butler, Wine Companion for 2024 Albariño Blanco - 60/40% albariño/chardonnay. Whole bunch, wild fermented in amphora, where it stayed for 10 months prior to bottling. Scents of freshly peeled ginger, fenugreek and white stone fruit with lime zest sewn in. It's textural and saline with enduring length. The thought of drinking it cold evokes kicking off your summer sandals, sitting outside on a balmy night under festoon lighting and worrying only about which salty snacks to pair it with.