Do you see parallels between art and winemaking, things like composition, timing or the way they both capture light and atmosphere?

Yeah, I do see a lot of parallels with art and winemaking.

Mostly it's about making the essence of something, capturing the essence of something, and how that can be a fleeting moment.

Like making a photograph, for example, it's capturing a fleeting moment.

Winemaking can be, in a sense, the same.

You're capturing a moment in time from a site and putting that into the bottle and that will never be the same again.

So I see comparisons in that sort of respect.

Is that right?

How do you

build that liveliness in the glass? I like to think that that comes from a range of different places.

Part of it comes from techniques in the cellar.

I think the majority comes from sight.

Choosing to get fruit from Mount Gambier where you've got a coastal southern ocean influence, amazing retention of acid that's always going to give you that brightness and the acidity which Riesling holds really well.

In the cellar, I allow my juice to oxidize in the press tray and at that point before fermentation.

And I think what that does is that it allows the layers and more complexity in the wine later on.

What's the story behind that wine?