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This wine displays a wonderful balance of fresh acidity and textural interest from fermentation in both oak and tank. Ripe stone fruit characters flow seamlessly across the palate.
Meet the Pir
Variety: Chenin Blanc from the Blewitt Springs district of McLaren Vale.
Summary: This wine displays a wonderful balance of fresh acidity and textural interest from fermentation in both oak and tank. Ripe stone fruit characters flow seamlessly across the palate.
Tasting Note: White peach, red apple and flint show on the aroma with cinnamon adding complexity. The palate is a textural delight with a great depth of flavour – time on ferment lees has provided an attractive creamy character to the wine. Use of French oak provides a touch of astringency on the finish. A rounded and complete wine, crisp acidity cleans the finish and provides great length.
Goes With Food: A rich baked salmon dish with green herb sauce would complement the palate roundness of this wine.
Goes With Cheese: A triple cream Camembert will match the body of this wine and complement its flinty aspects.
Goes With Music: Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting On You)
Goes With Life: A great way to finish off a flight of white wines before moving on to the reds, but the body of this wine gives it tremendous versatility.
Vegan
Serve At: 10-12 degrees Celsius.
When to Drink: Ready to drink now but will continue evolving through to 2030.
ABV%: 13.2%
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Our original Grenache. A wine that has been with us from the very beginning.
Some wines are simply part of the range.
Confluence is part of who we are.
It brings together fruit from some of the remarkable vineyards we work with across McLaren Vale - predominantly Blewitt Springs, with a touch of Clarendon - to create a Grenache that is complex, aromatic and beautifully drinkable.
And if you want to understand why we're so obsessed with Grenache, this is a pretty good place to start.
Meet the Confluence
Variety: Grenache Noir
Region: McLaren Vale - Blewitt Springs & Clarendon
The wine: Complex, aromatic and food friendly, but fantastically drinkable. It evolves in your glass, building layers of fruit and savoury character while retaining beautiful structure and length.
And then there's that signature Aphelion savoury finish.
The vineyards: 80% Blewitt Springs fruit from Brini, Hickinbotham and Plaisted's vineyards, with 20% Clarendon fruit from Hickinbotham.
It's a genuine confluence of sites - different vineyards, different expressions, brought together to create something greater than any one parcel could achieve.
The winemaking: 30% whole bunch fermented in stainless steel and small concrete open-top fermenters, then matured in 1,500L Drunk Turtle cocciopesto, seasoned French 2,800L foudre and demi-muid oak. Bottled in February 2026.
What does it taste like?
Vibrant red with purple hues in the glass.
At first there's a savoury core of olive and briar. Give it some air and crunchy raspberry and cranberry begin to emerge.
Then the palate opens up: Satsuma plum, wild strawberry and fine sandalwood, held together by fine tannins that give the wine exemplary length.
There's real intensity and concentration here — but never heaviness or cloying sweetness.
It's the kind of wine that rewards you for paying attention, but doesn't require you to.
Pour a glass.
Let it breathe.
Take another sip.
You'll find something new.
Goes With Food
Pan-seared duck.
The spice and body of the duck make a beautiful match for the wine.
Goes With Cheese
A quality Camembert or washed-rind cheese brings out the wine's mushroom characters without overwhelming its delicate structure.
Goes With Music
Nick Cave – Jubilee Street
Goes With Life
Out for a fancy dinner or aperitivo on the back deck.
When to Drink
Ready to drink now.
But if you have the patience, this is one to put away.
The 2025 Confluence has the structure, concentration and tannin to continue evolving through 2035.
Serve at 18°C.
The Aphelion Way
Unfiltered
Unfined
Vegan
14.0% ABV
A little something worth knowing...
We've only made 1,100 half-dozens and 100 Magnums of the 2025 Confluence.
So if Confluence sounds like your kind of Grenache, don't wait too long to make it yours.
Choose a 6-bottle pack or 12-bottle case and discover the 2025 Confluence.
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Emergent Mourvèdre 2022 has a special place in our hearts.
This is our last vintage of a straight varietal Mourvedre.
Once relegated to second or third billing as a blending partner, Mourvèdre is finally emerging as a delectable wine itself. And rightly so.
Well suited to the Mediterranean climate of McLaren Vale, it is a stunning medium bodied wine with a morish savoury edge of olive leaf and mushroom, sometimes leather.
Aromatic dark fruit means the Aphelion Emergent Mourvèdre is easy to sip and savour by itself while being bold enough to enhance your meal.
Variety:
Mourvèdre from from a single vineyard in White’s Valley, McLaren Vale.
Summary:
A beautiful mix of savoury characters and dark black fruits. Complexity builds in the glass.
Tasting Note:
The aromatics of this wine jump out the glass with sage, cherry spice and fresh almonds. Powdery tannins provide a canvas for the flavours that wash across the medium bodied palate, and bright acidity keeps the wine fresh and vibrant. Our 2021 Mourvèdre has a very long finish and persistent drive with an elegant fruit profile.
Goes With Food:
Very food friendly due to its savoury characters – try with duck rillettes and fresh crusty bread. (We love Little Acre Foods Duck Rillettes!)
Goes With Cheese:
An aged Pecorino would match the body of the wine and complement it’s acidity and spiciness.
Goes With Music:
Vance Joy – Lay It On Me
Goes With Life:
When the inspiration strikes to try something a little left of centre.
Serve At:
16-18 degrees Celsius.
When to Drink:
Ready to drink now, but will continue evolving through to 2030.
Vineyard:
Sourced from the Lacey family vineyard in the White’s Valley sub-district of McLaren Vale. The vineyard block is tiny, around three acres and the fruit is hand-picked.
Winemaking:
The hand-picked fruit was fermented with 25% whole bunches with the remaining destemmed. After pressing the wine was matured in seasoned French oak puncheons before blending and bottling in February 2021.
Vegan | Unfiltered | Unfined
Production: 85 dozen produced under screwcap.
Accolades:
94 points Ned Goodwin – 2022 Halliday Wine Companion
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Tendance Shiraz 2020 is our Aphelion take on the workhorse of McLaren Vale - Shiraz.
Tending more Rhone in style, Rob seeks out elegance, aromatics, spice and savouriness.
Variety:
Shiraz from two bordering vineyards on McMurtrie Road in the heart of McLaren Vale.
Summary:
A fruit forward wine with good structure and balance showing a finesse that McLaren Vale Shiraz rarely displays.
Tasting Note:
Inky purple with a deep core, violets, brambles and mulberries combine with wood spice on the nose and palate. Savoury notes of olive, cracked coffee, cedar and green herbs add complexity. The wine displays good length on the palate and a supple texture in its medium to full bodied frame.
Goes With Food:
The structure of the wine will work well with red meat dishes – venison and roasted vegetables would be a particularly good match.
Goes With Cheese:
An aged gouda (especially a lightly smoked version) will complement both the fruity and savoury aspects of this Shiraz.
Goes With Music:
Radiohead – Pyramid Song.
Goes With Life:
Bring this one out when main course is served – it won’t shy away from medium to full bodied dishes.
Serve At:
18 degrees Celsius.
When to Drink:
Ready to drink now, but will continue evolving through to 2035.
Vineyard:
Single cordon trellising and careful hand pruning resulted in low yields and intense flavour in the fruit.
Winemaking:
The two vineyards were picked a week apart in mid-March. The first vineyard’s fruit was destemmed and fermented to dryness before being gently pressed and sent to neutral French oak to mature. The second vineyard was fermented in two batches; one was pressed to a brand-new Dominique Laurent French oak 600L puncheon, the second was kept on skins for four months to impart savoury complexity before pressing to large format (600L) French oak. The parcels were blended prior to bottling in November 2019.
Unfiltered | Unfined | Vegan
Production:
300 dozen produced under screwcap.
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