Phillips Brook Vineyard | Albany

Wragg Road | Mount Barker

Shepherd’s Hut | Porongurup

Use of selective harvesting allowed for some pre-pressing skin contact time. Free Run cut at 480L/T juice filtered prior to cool ferment with German Riesling yeast. Pressings were hyper-oxidised and fermented in old French barriques. The precise fermentation of the free-run juice and the hyper-oxidising of the pressings ensures that only minimal fining is required.

Another great year for Riesling in the Great Southern – not as warm as 2024 but definitely in the riper spectrum for Riesling. This wine displays the usual Great Southern focus and racing natural acidity (pH 3.05/ TA 7.8g/L) providing the fine boned structure for the ample fruit flavours to glide over. Packed with limey goodness, zesty grapefruit and high floral and lemon sherbet notes. The palate length and integration is spectacular, a confident cellaring prospect for 10 years or more.

The term Dokta Nova is a bit of a play on words relating to some of the famous German Rieslings, with the prefix Dr Often named after the owners being medical doctors, but more often referring to the believed medicinal benefits of Riesling. Hence the Queen Victoria quote on the back of the bottle - “a good Hock keep off the doc”.

This wine is our new (Nova) take on classic German-style Rieslings – our favourite style.