Billy Button Gruner Veltliner 2024

Jo Marsh is not a box ticker. She embraces every task with great expectation and seeks out the path less travelled. With a focus on alternate varietals, Jo produces an astounding array of wines, which, including cellar door only wines, comprises over 20 different varietals, some in miniscule quantities. Working closely with local growers, Jo has helped to breathe new life into this tiny wine region, and shine a light on the breadth and depth of the grape varietal variation that we have in Australia. Jo follows no rule book, she believes in doing what’s best for the wine, polishing and perfecting, highlighting the fruit and sculpting the palate so the wine flows through the mouth with texture and interest.

Primarily grown in Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Grüner Veltliner thrives in cool climates making it a fitting variety for the Alpine Valleys.  With a relatively young history in Australia (the first commercial example was released in 2009 by Lark Hill in the Canberra District), the variety has seen promising growth in regions such as Adelaide Hills, Eden Valley, Tumbarumba and parts of Tasmania.

A ripening period of clear days and cool nights has produced a delicate wine with wonderful natural acidity and pristine varietal characters. 

Fruit was machine harvested to achieve some skin contact before pressing.  Once pressed the juice was cold settled, racked off gross lees and inoculated with selected yeast.  Fermented in stainless steel, the wine was then sulphured soon after going dry and left on yeast lees until bottling.  Bottled July 2024 .

Intense aromas of green tropical fruits.  A delightful fusion of lifted kiwi, guava, feijoa and green melon precede a plush and full palate. Textural and fruit driven, the same green tropical fruit salad qualities are forefront. Balanced acidity and wonderful length.

Optimal Drinking Window – now to 2034

Vineyard:             63% Antonello Vineyard, Buffalo Creek

                           37% Greenacres Vineyard, Merriang South

Region:               Alpine Valleys

Alcohol:               13.1%

Winemaker:         Glenn James, Melissa Fettke and Jo Marsh