Wildflower Brewing & Blending - Playing with Fire

Australian Wild Ale made for the 2019 Terroir Project Festival conceptualised and hosted by Firestone Walker Brewing Company. A fermentation of golden wort with and by hand harvested Semillon bunches from Tyrrell’s Estate in Pokolbin, NSW. This beer was made in a similar way to the previously released, 'Touched by the Side of the Sun' whereby we shoved a whole lotta freshly picked Semillon grapes into a single 500-litre puncheon barrel in January of 2019, topped the barrel with our Gold wort and allowed the wort to be fermented solely by the native yeast on the grapes. The beer fermented with and macerated on the grapes for 8 months in barrel before it was transferred off the grapes for bottling in September 2019 and conditioned in bottle for another 8 months before release. We didn’t add any of our house culture or any foreign yeast other than what was residing on the skins of the grapes at harvest. The aromas open with creamy lemon, memories of dandelion fields and a skinsy, earthy element to finish. The palate is clean, dry and compact with the base Gold beer bridging well into the more vinuous notes. More reminiscent of Semillon wine than St Florence 2019: Semillon.