'Heads Nor Tails' Greco 2024

A$37.99

The 2024 vintage was one of the most challenging yet exhilarating I had experienced, with healthy yields and good quality and plenty to go around. I jumped at the opportunity to work with a new white variety from an existing grower. Until 2024 I had only taken red varieties from the Heathcote region and I theorised that the Greco grape could have potential in this climate and soil.

Fruit was harvested later than all the other whites and kept cold on skins overnight before being transported to the winery. The grapes were pressed and the juice settled before being transferred to the best 500L French oak barrels for fermentation and allowed to complete malolactic fermentation. The wine was held on lees for almost seventh months until it was racked and bottled without fining or filtering.

Like several white varieties from Italy (Grechetto, Grecanico etc.) the name of the Greco grape is believed to have come from its place of origin - Greece. The well-known phrase “it’s all Greek to me” comes from a line in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and still has the same meaning of unfamiliarity and/or an inability to understand. “To make neither heads nor tails” is a phrase of similar meaning and thus the name of this wine is a reference to this.

The 2024 vintage was one of the most challenging yet exhilarating I had experienced, with healthy yields and good quality and plenty to go around. I jumped at the opportunity to work with a new white variety from an existing grower. Until 2024 I had only taken red varieties from the Heathcote region and I theorised that the Greco grape could have potential in this climate and soil.

Fruit was harvested later than all the other whites and kept cold on skins overnight before being transported to the winery. The grapes were pressed and the juice settled before being transferred to the best 500L French oak barrels for fermentation and allowed to complete malolactic fermentation. The wine was held on lees for almost seventh months until it was racked and bottled without fining or filtering.

Like several white varieties from Italy (Grechetto, Grecanico etc.) the name of the Greco grape is believed to have come from its place of origin - Greece. The well-known phrase “it’s all Greek to me” comes from a line in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and still has the same meaning of unfamiliarity and/or an inability to understand. “To make neither heads nor tails” is a phrase of similar meaning and thus the name of this wine is a reference to this.

Huon Hooke - The Real Review
”Deep golden yellow, a very forward colour. The wine is bright in the glass but the bottle has a sediment of brown lees on the bottom, so it's best not shaken up. The bouquet is rich and layered, very evolved and loaded with honey, poached stone-fruits, grilled pineapple, dried mango aromas. The wine is full flavoured and richly textured, ample and broad but not blowsy. Possibly skin fermented; certainly unfiltered, and a very good example of the style. A delicious glass of wine.” 92 points

Jeni Port - Wine Companion
“A new discovery and adventure awaits with the southern Italian variety, greco (bianco), now calling Heathcote home. Aromas and flavours are immediate and ripe in yellow peach, nectarine and melon with light orange blossom notes and musk. Warm, generous, almost honeyed, and creamy, it coats the mouth in flavour.” 88 points