Thistledown, Nebbiolo, Bowe-Lees-Lovey Vineyard, Adelaide Hills, 2018

This wine is unique in that if you miss out now you’ll never get another chance. Bowes-Lees-Loveys vineyard was amongst those destroyed in the devastating bushfires that ravaged the Adelaide Hills in December and Thistledown have released this limited edition Nebbiolo produced from fruit grown there, with 100% of the profits going towards those impacted by the fires.

The wine itself is an incredibly pure expression of the cultivar with notes of sour red cherry, oregano, thyme, wild garlic, rose petal and tar yet it possesses a richness and viscosity that define its character as being thousands of miles from Piemonte, undeniably Australian, undeniably a Unicorn wine.