Aphelion Welkin Sparkling Chenin Blanc 2021 Hunter-and-Bligh If you're curating a backbar

If you're curating a backbar with intention or gifting someone with a taste for the refined

There's no rawness

subtle vanilla liquor

It's like the final scene in a slow-burn Western - no explosions

with cool citrus

Aphelion Welkin Sparkling Chenin Blanc 2021 Hunter-and-Bligh If you're curating a backbarAphelion Wines, run by winemaker Rob Mack and Louise Rhodes, specialises in smallbatch wines that reflect place. For their 2021 Welkin Sparkling they source Chenin Blanc from a single vineyard in the cool Kuitpo district of the Adelaide Hills. Grapes are gently pressed and the juice ferments in neutral French oak barriques, then the base wine rests on its lees for about five months. Secondary fermentation occurs in a pressurised tank via the Charmat