2023 Ochota Barrels ‘The Price of Silence’ Gamay, Adelaide Hills, Australia

Gamay held a special place in Amber & Taras heart and so did hardcore punk music. Both of those things combine here with one of the finest new world (or any world) Gamays named after one of their favorite Aussie hardcore bands. The fruit for The Price of Silence originally came from an incredible nearly 40-year-old vineyard but unfortunately that site succumbed to the devastating wildfires in the Hills in 2020. Amber and Taras had worked with the Eureka Vineyard in Woodside prior as it was a component of Texture Like Sun. There is less visible granite in the soil here than the previous site but that doesnt take anything away from the perfumed aromatics and bony structure of this wine.

The fruit was hand-harvested and placed into small half-ton fermenters. Half of the grapes were fermented whole-bunch carbonic for three weeks and the other half fermented entirely whole-cluster but open top with gentle hand plunging for roughly a week. The lots were basket-pressed directly to 500L French puncheons where the wine aged for five months.