Commune of Buttons, Syrah Grenache 'Sable' Blewitt Springs 2023

Producer: Commune of Buttons
Region: McLaren Vale, South Australia
Varietals: 60% Syrah, 40% Grenache
Viticulture: Organic
Category: Red Wine
Size: 750ml

Jasper Button, a second generation winegrowers from South Australia’s Basket Range, never really intended to make wine himself. A chef by training, he spent much of his life cooking throughout Europe and surfing, but found himself home among his family’s organically grown vines in 2013. There, a meeting with Anton van Klopper of Lucy Margaux who came to purchase some fruit gave Jasper and his sister Sophie the idea of taking a crack at making wine. Jasper partnered with van Klopper at the seminal restaurant the Summertown Aristologist and joined a loose affiliation of South Australian natural wine makers, including Jauma and Ochota Bottles. “We were playing around with grapes,” Jasper says. “I didn’t really know what to expect. We had 20-year-old vines, and I wanted to find success with those vines. I wanted to make something out of the property. I didn’t come back with an ambition of making wine at all; it wasn’t really about that; it was about finding an economic solution for a really lovely farm.”

This is the first vintage of this wine and working with this site. The vineyard is in Blewitt Springs at the southern end of the GI overlooking McLaren Flat to the south. There is only sand under foot here and this is seen for at least two meters into the subsoil. It is managed by Fiona Wood and contains 6 hectares of 80-year-old Syrah and Grenache vines. The Syrah and Grenache were hand harvested on the same day 6th of March 2023. The fruit was hand sorted and destemmed into 500 litre fermenters and chilled down for several days. The grapes were then transferred to a 2500 Jarrah fermenter where fermentation took place over 3 weeks. The wine was aged in fibreglass tank for 10 months before bottling. Unfined and Unfiltered, 20ppm SO2 after malo.