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When the founders of Bass & Flinders Distillery on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula started making brandy in 2009, they decided not to call it brandy. Instead, they described their ambitious new product made from local chardonnay and matured in fine oak barrels, Ochre, as an “aged grape spirit”.
At the time, co-founder Bob Laing told me this was because Australian brandy suffered from a terrible image problem. Too many people, he said, thought of brandy as cheap, low-quality and old-fashioned.
“We’ve come a long way since then,” says Holly Klintworth, daughter of Bass & Flinders co-founder Wayne Klintworth, and now head distiller. “When we started we were one of the first of the modern-day craft distillers. People were challenged by the whole concept of premium local spirits. Now things are different, there’s a thirst for premium products and much more knowledge.
Posted on April 14, 2021
ST. HELENA, Calif., April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Naturalis Wines – a new line of wines made from 100 percent certified organic grapes – today announced its debut with Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. These gluten-free, vegan-friendly, non-GMO wines are bottled in eco-minded lightweight glass and available nationwide for $14 SRP. This line from the fifth-generation Angove winemaking family is the latest to join the Angove Family Winemakers portfolio, imported by Trinchero Family Estates for more than 15 years. My family has been making wines for 135 years, and organic farming has been a critical part of our story and our leadership here in Australia for many decades, said Richard Angove, joint managing director for Angove Family Winemakers. Naturalis wines are the purest take on our family s organic grape growing and winemaking, and we couldn t be happier to expand our partnership with Trinchero Family Estates to bring them t