IMPORT GROCKE WINES T/A EPEROSA WINES

Eperosa is a small family owned winery located in the sub region of Krondorf in the Barossa Valley, South Australia. We have two estate vineyards that are run organically alongside our off grid, solar powered underground winery. Our wines are firmly entrenched in the vineyard and forms the basis of our motto 'wines built from the dirt up'. We follow organic principles in our farming to create living soils that support healthy grapevines with resilient, flavoursome fruit. Our intervention in the vineyard comes with balanced hand pruning, shoot thinning, bunch thinning and mechanical weeding. The fruit is all hand picked and hand sorted.

Our wine making is along traditional methods where we endeavour to capture the true characters of the vineyard. Our aim is to harvest fruit that is balanced, vibrant and flavoursome requiring little or no additions. The fruit is hand sorted into small open fermenters and the whole clusters gently foot stomped. The ferments are hand plunged and/or rack and returned daily with no temperature control. They typically stay on skins between 18-30 days before being basket pressed into a mix of new and seasoned French oak ranging in size from 300 - 1650L. The wines are aged for 8-18 months (depending on the cuvee) on lees where malolactic fermentation runs its natural course. The wines are carefully hand racked and are neither fined nor filtered. A conservative level of sulphur is added prior to bottling.