I asked Joch to give me his vintage report for 2020 and this is what I got verbatim and straight from the horse’s mouth; ‘Looked like a bastard of a year; hot and dry and then it rained in late January and early February and a cool change moved in, which continued through to February and March and these conditions finished everything off nicely. There were tiny yields and so in reality 2020 ended up only a bitch of a year, not a bastard.

Puritan is a very simple wine to make as there are very few ingredients - just grapes, really. We pick the Shiraz grapes when they are nice and ripe (sugar ripe and flavour ripe, not always the same thing), crush the grapes and then ferment them in small open fermenters, then transfer the wine to stainless steel tanks (no need for oak barrels as Puritan is completely unoaked.) Once the wine has gone through secondary fermentation (malolactic fermentation) we bottle it immediately. Puritan is our interpretation of a youthful Spanish ‘Joven’ style wine, only made with Shiraz.

• The Real Wine Review (Huon Hooke)

  Vibrant purple from core to rim. Super fragrant nose of just-baked blueberry pie. The palate is super-fresh, slippery blue fruits, bakery notes and lavender bounce around on a trampoline of vibrant acidity. Nice flow into a reasonable length finish. Fun and easy drinking. Note: Organic and no additional preservatives. Puritan in name but not in the glass
  90/100
  17 FEB 2021

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